Classical projections : the practice and politics of film quotation / Eleni Palis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palis, Eleni, author.

Contributor:

Heyne Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Quotations are a standard way that the humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation are standard for citing evidence and invoking and interrogating authority in both literary and scholarly writing. However, film studies has yet to seriously examine how moving images can quote one another, convening interaction and creating new knowledge across time. Classical Projections offers'film quotation'as a new concept for understanding how preexisting moving image fragments are reframed and re-viewed within subsequent films. As a visual corollary to literary quotation, film quotations embed film fragments in on-screen movie screens. Though film quotations have appeared since silent cinema, Classical Projections focuses on quotations of classical Hollywood film--mainstream American studio production, 1915-1950--as quoted in post-classical Hollywood, roughly 1960 to present. This strategic historical frame asks: how does post-classical cinema visualize its awareness of coming after a classical or golden age? How do post-classical filmmakers claim or disavow classical history? How do historically disenfranchised post-classical filmmakers, whether by gender, sexuality, or race, grapple with exclusionary and stereotype-ridden canons? As a constitutive element of post-classical authorship, film quotations amass and manufacture classical Hollywood in retrospective, highly strategic ways. By revealing how quotational tellings of film history build and embolden exclusionary, myopic canons, Classical Projections uncovers opportunities to construct more capacious cultural memory.

Contents:

Introduction: Theorizing Film Quotation

1. Quoting Genre and Creating Canon

2. Film Quotation and the Oppositional Gaze

3. "D-​I-​Y" Quotation and Created Appropriation

4. Film Quotation and Visual Sovereignty

5. Foreign and Domestic Film Quotation

6. Cinephilic Pilgrimage and Authorial Scandal

Appendix: An Annotated List of Film Quotation

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Heyne Memorial Fund .

ISBN:

0197558178

9780197558171

0197558186

9780197558188

OCLC:

1268205767

Publisher Number:

99993543233