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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies
Robert B. Ray
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Paperback. In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time? Num Pages: 184 pages, 21 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray Foreword by James Naremore Challenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies. In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. The cinema, this theory suggested, turns on photography's automatism, the revolutionary fact that for the first time in human history a perfect representation of the world can be produced by accident. Moreover, the camera's gaze has the potential to transform ordinary ... Read more
How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Robert B. Ray Foreword by James Naremore Challenges accepted ideas about film and cultural studies. In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. The cinema, this theory suggested, turns on photography's automatism, the revolutionary fact that for the first time in human history a perfect representation of the world can be produced by accident. Moreover, the camera's gaze has the potential to transform ordinary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253214386
SKU
V9780253214386
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About Robert B. Ray
Robert B. Ray, Director of Film and Media Studies and Professor of English at the University of Florida, is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema 1930-1980 and The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy. He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, and Opposite Sex.
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