When the lights go down and the film starts to roll, we give
ourselves over to the magic of movies. But as George Toles
observes, what we experience in this house of light may strike
closer to home than we imagine.
In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a
psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between
sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Reflecting a
literary critic's and professional screenwriter's ongoing love
affair with cinema, each essay plunges the reader into the
experience of one or more films, inviting us to ponder the nature
and implications of that experience. Toles considers a wide variety
of film experience, from Frank Capra to the Coen brothers to Alfred
Hitchcock.
However escapist a trip to the movies might be, says Toles,
there is no escaping some version of "home" in every film
experience. Toles examines important homes -- from the cottage in
Random Harvest to the foreboding Bates house in Psycho -- to
suggest that the house of film is a frame we long to enter in the
spirit of homecoming but one that we cannot possess any more
securely than the lost home of our beginnings. As film study marks
a return to art-centered criticism, A House Made of Light breaks
new ground in its assessment of the creation -- and enjoyment -- of
movies.
General
| Imprint: |
Wayne State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series |
| Release date: |
September 2005 |
| First published: |
August 2001 |
| Authors: |
George Toles
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
376 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8143-2946-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
Film theory & criticism
|
| LSN: |
0-8143-2946-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780814329467 |
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