Screen Writings - Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics (Hardcover, New)

'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time. Implicitly theoretical as much as it is unashamedly practical, this book is a model not only of text analysis, but also of the enlightened deployment of cultural studies in the service of film study. The book includes re-considerations of such classic films as 'I vitelloni', 'Grand Illusion', 'Winter Light', and 'Tokyo Story'; it features genre examinations of the war film ('Flags of Our Fathers' and 'Letters from Iwo Jima'), farce ('Some Like It Hot'), the road film ('The Rain People'), the New York-centered movie ('Manhattan'), and avant-garde pictures that privilege narrative ('3-Iron' and 'Eternal Sunshine of the Classic Mind'); and 'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' concludes with a searching investigation of the rise of the New American Cinema during a tumultuous decade and social change - from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

General

Imprint:	Anthem Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Authors:	Bert Cardullo
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84331-837-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	1-84331-837-7
Barcode:	9781843318378

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