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Description for Film Modernism
Hardback. An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, ... Read more
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784992637
SKU
V9781784992637
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Ref
99-15
About Sam Rhodie
Sam Rohdie was Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Central Florida -- .
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