Film hieroglyphs : ruptures in classical cinema / Tom Conley, with a new Introduction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conley, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture plays--History and criticism.

Motion picture plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors-Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini-tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Hieroglyphs Then and Now; Introduction; 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauvé des eaux; 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street; 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower; 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma!; 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan; 6. The Human Alphabet: La bête humaine; 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9927-5

OCLC:

476120203