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Grammar of Murder
Karla Oeler
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Description for Grammar of Murder
Hardcover. The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. This book argues that such images, or absent images, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Num Pages: 384 pages, 187 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Reexamining works by such film-makers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene's intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that murder plays ... Read more
The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Reexamining works by such film-makers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene's intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that murder plays ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226617947
SKU
V9780226617947
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About Karla Oeler
Karla Oeler is associate professor of film studies at Emory University.
Reviews for Grammar of Murder
"Karla Oeler exhibits a lively, searching, and penetrating intelligence. In A Grammar of Murder she takes a fresh and illuminating look at various representations of violence - their form as well as their content - in films ranging from the Soviet montage school to Jean Renoir, from classical Hollywood to the work of such mavericks as Stanley Kubrick and Jim ... Read more