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Wit's end : making sense of the great movies / by James Combs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Combs, James E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Appreciation.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Sociological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a study of the "Great Movies," that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities-film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts-to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit's End, the author attempts to "make sense" of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conce...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-362).
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-2469-0
- OCLC:
- 827209239
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