The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey.

By:

Perez, Gilberto, 1943-

Contributor(s):

Harvey, James [prologuista]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]Description: xxi, 405 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780816641338 (softcover)
0816641331 (softcover)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.4301/5

LOC classification:

PN 1995 P438e 2019

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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. --

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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. --

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