Make Believe in Film and Fiction : Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling / by K. Kroeber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Literature.

Motion picture authorship.

Literature--Philosophy.

Film and TV History.

Screenwriting.

Literary Theory.

Local Subjects:

Film and TV History.

Literature.

Screenwriting.

Literary Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.

Contents:

Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/ Watching Murder

Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures

Inside and outside Somebody Else's Fantasy

Make Believe Is Always a Story

Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe

Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture

La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination

Madame Bovary: Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption

Rashomon and Wuthering Heights

Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General

Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon

Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon: Afternoon

Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation

Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World

Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9786611369842

9781281369840

1281369845

9781403983220

1403983224

OCLC:

560469812