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Film modernism / Sam Rohdie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rohdie, Sam, 1939-2015, author.
- Series:
- Manchester Film Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book consists of 50 categories arranged in alphabetical order centred on film modernism. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects, juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework. The categories refer to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably thereby to classicism. The book is more in the way of questions and speculations than answers and conclusions. Its intention is to stimulate not simply by the substance of what is said, but by the way it is said and structured. Most attention is given to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nicholas Ray, Alain Resnais, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles. The apparent arbitrary order and openness of the book, based as it is on the alphabet is indebted to Jean-Luc Godard's interrogation of History and of film history especially true in his stunning Histoire(s) du cinema.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Allegory
- Ambulation
- Archive
- Arrangements
- Authorship
- Bodies
- Bricolage
- Characters
- Classicism
- Colour
- Contradiction
- Desire
- Destructuring
- Drama
- Duplication
- Elsewhere
- Film Noir
- Frame
- History
- Images
- Immediacy
- Inertia
- Insufficiency
- Investigations 1
- Investigations 2
- Language
- Levels
- Masquerade
- Melodrama
- Minimalism
- Mise en scène
- Modernity
- Montage 1
- Montage 2
- Museum
- Myth
- Narrative
- Networks
- Nowhere
- Pop
- Portraiture
- Randomness
- Realism
- Realities
- Reproduction
- Returns
- Theatre
- Time
- Truth
- Vertigo
- Voyages
- Writing
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784996062
- 1784996068
- 9781526104151
- 1526104156
- 9781784996680
- 1784996688
- OCLC:
- 981671528
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