Film moments : criticism, history, theory / edited by Tom Brown & James Walters.

Other author Brown, Tom, 1978-
Other author Walters, James (James R.)
Other author British Film Institute.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2010.
Descriptionxii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Film criticism.
Motion pictures--History.

Contents Shadow play and dripping teat : The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Tom Gunning -- Between melodrama and realism : Under the Skin of the City (2001) / Laura Mulvey -- Internalising the musical : The Band Wagon (1953) / Andrew Klevan -- The visitor's discarded clothes in Theorem (1968) / Stella Bruzzi -- Style and sincerity in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) / James Walters -- The moves : Blood (1989) / Adrian Martin -- The properties of images : Lust for Life (1956) / Steve Neale -- Two views over water : action and absorption in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) / Edward Gallafent -- Making an entrance : Bette Davis's first appearance in Jezebel (1938) / Martin Shingler -- A narrative parenthesis in Life is Beautiful (1997) / Deborah Thomas -- The end of summer : Conte d'été (1996) / Jacob Leigh -- Enter Lisa : Rear Window (1954) / Douglas Pye -- Opening up The Secret Garden (1993) / Susan Smith -- A magnified meeting in Written on the Wind (1956) / Steven Peacock -- "Everything is connected, and everything matters" : relationships in I [heart] Huckabees (2004) / John Gibbs -- The Ending of 8 1/ 2 (1963) / Richard Dyer -- Haptic vision and consumerism : a moment from Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924) / Thomas Elsaesser -- Visions of sound in City Lights (1931) / Charles Barr -- "Entertainment and dystopia" : Maurice Chevalier performs Avec le sourire (1936) / Tom Brown -- Music, crime and the gaze : La Bête humaine (1938) / Ginette Vincendeau -- Thunder and lightning : Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation / Rick Altman -- Hearing, fearing : the sonic design of suspense in Cat People (1942) / Helen Hanson -- "I've seen him take his knife -- " : The Searchers (1956) / R.J. Ellis -- Another story : myth and history in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) / Pam Cook -- A sculptural moment : the epilogue to Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971) / Mark Broughton -- Star Wars (1977) : back and forth in time and space / Jonathan Bignell -- Between freedom and confinement : music in The World (2004) / Claudia Gorbman -- Performance, with strings attached : Team America's (2004) snub to the actor / Alex Clayton -- Éloge de l'Amour (2001) : moments in time / Alison Butler -- Contested endings : interpreting The Piano's (1993) final scenes / Barbara Klinger -- Mourning, loss and trauma, and the ambiguities of proper and improper desire in Exotica (1994) / Elizabeth Cowie -- Stepping out of Blockbuster mode : the lighting of the beacons in The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (2003) / Kristin Thompson -- Dorothy's dream : mindscreen in The Wizard of Oz (1939) / Bruce F. Kawin -- Looking on and looking the other way : Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the racialised ethics of spectatorship / Michele Aaron -- Working through the body : textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006) / Lisa Purse -- "I wasn't expecting that!" : cognition and shock in Alien's (1979) chestburster scene / Jonathan Frome -- The inflection of a dream in Scarlet Street (1945) / George M. Wilson -- Judy's plan : a reading of the "Flashback" sequence in Vertigo (1958) / William Rothman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011456748
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Joyner General Stacks PN1995 .F4597 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold