The time of the crime : phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Italian film / Domietta Torlasco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torlasco, Domietta, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery films--Italy--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery films.

Time in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Time of the Crime explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies, using an approach that combines psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and aesthetics to redefine the task of film criticism.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Scene of the Crime; "X Marks the Spot"; Blow-up: Returning to the Scene of Perspective; The Passenger: Vanishing; 2. Desiring Death; Intermittence; The Night Porter: The Metamorphosis of the Crime Scene; The Detective and the Witness; 3 Seeing Time; Skins of Color; Oedipus Rex: The Depth of the Crime Scene; The Face and the Landscape; 4. Twilight; The Line and the Labyrinth; The Spider's Stratagem: The Truth of the Crime Scene; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804786775

0804786771

OCLC:

817886442