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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1995 P438e 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000163602

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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