A grammar of murder : violent scenes and film form / Karla Oeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oeler, Karla.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder in motion pictures.

Murder in mass media.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)--History and criticism.

Thrillers (Motion pictures).

Detective and mystery films--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Reexamining works by such filmmakers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene's intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of t

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Murder and Montage

Part Two: Murder and Genre

Conclusion: Hitchcock's Aerial Views

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612445699

9781282445697

1282445693

9780226617961

0226617963

OCLC:

593226308