In search of cinema : writings on international film art / Bert Cardullo ; foreword by Richard Gilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cardullo, Bert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Reviews.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. But In Search of Cinema does not neglect the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Of Films, Critics, and Chronicity

First Principles

Focus On Iranian Cinema

Writing About Iranian Cinema

A Girl and Two Women

Blood and Cherries, Snow and Dust

Mirror Images, or Children of Paradise

Angels beyond America

The Children Are Watching Us

Women and Children First

Europe, The Americas, And Beyond

Carry Me Home

The Happiness of Your Friends and Neighbors

Getting Straight

Stones and Roses

Hot and Cold, or Seasons Change

All about My, Your, Their Mother

Of Virgin Suicide, Human Bondage, and Male Indulgence

The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence

Aberdeen on the Adriatic

Form, Genre, Oeuvre, And Other Arts

Wooden Allen, or Artificial Exteriors

Latter-Day Bergman

Notes on Film Genre

Notes on Film Form

Theatre and Fiction into Film: Notes on Two Paradigmatic Scenes, One Metaphoric Fiction, and An Omnibus Adaptation

The Preemptive Image

Further Reading

Selected Directorial Filmographies

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86183-2

9786612861833

0-7735-7190-6

OCLC:

929120776