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Rashna Wadia Richards - Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood - 9780253006882 - V9780253006882
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Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

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Description for Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood Hardback. Challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.

Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253006882
SKU
V9780253006882
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About Rashna Wadia Richards
Rashna Wadia Richards is Associate Professor and T. K. Young Chair of English at Rhodes College.

Reviews for Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood
Rashan Wadia Richards's Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood both treats and is itself the product of the author's cinephilia, that fervent, devotional, sometimes rabid love for movies once professed by critics such as Susan Sontag and the New Wave devotees of Cahiers du cinema. As Richards traces, this cinephiliac passion was to be suppressed by the sober film theorists ... Read more

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