The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film /
Perez, Gilberto, 1943-
The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey. - xxi, 405 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379) and index.
Publisher's note --
Foreword / James Harvey --
On Gil Perez / Diane Stevenson --
Preface --
Introduction: John Ford's rhetoric --
Cinematic tropes --
Melodrama and film technique --
Coda: Of identification.
Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. The Eloquent Screen shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus. --
9780816641338 (softcover) 0816641331 (softcover)
2018046160
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Subjectivity in motion pictures.
Metaphor in motion pictures.
Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
Cine--Filosofía
Subjetividad en el cine
Cine--Historia y crítica
PN 1995 / P438e 2019
791.4301/5
The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey. - xxi, 405 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379) and index.
Publisher's note --
Foreword / James Harvey --
On Gil Perez / Diane Stevenson --
Preface --
Introduction: John Ford's rhetoric --
Cinematic tropes --
Melodrama and film technique --
Coda: Of identification.
Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. The Eloquent Screen shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus. --
9780816641338 (softcover) 0816641331 (softcover)
2018046160
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Subjectivity in motion pictures.
Metaphor in motion pictures.
Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
Cine--Filosofía
Subjetividad en el cine
Cine--Historia y crítica
PN 1995 / P438e 2019
791.4301/5