The Figure in FilmAn application of the classical figures of speech to the criticism of the motion picture. The author defines and illustrates each figure by literary analysis, then presents the filmic analogies. The occurrence in film of fantasy, allegory, and abstraction are also discussed. |
Contents
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Figures of Likeness | 53 |
Repetition | 55 |
Simile | 71 |
Metaphor | 86 |
Figures of Sequence | 183 |
Motion | 185 |
Montage | 205 |
Specific Areas of Use | 239 |
Sound | 241 |
Inner States | 265 |
Less Common Uses | 313 |
Minor Figures | 315 |
Anadiplosis or the CarryOver | 102 |
Figures of Contrast | 119 |
Antithesis | 121 |
Hyperbole | 130 |
Figures of Omission | 137 |
Ellipsis | 139 |
Metonymy | 162 |
Synecdoche | 173 |
FantasyAllegoryAbstraction | 332 |
List of Books Cited | 349 |
Notes | 358 |
Glossary | 371 |
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Alfred Hitchcock anadiplosis approach Basil Dearden camera Charles Chaplin clock close close-up comes D. W. Griffith dance dark David Lean dead death diegetic director dissolves door dream dress Eisenstein ellipsis Emeric Pressburger enters eyes face falls feelings feet figure film filmic fingers floor frame François Truffaut Fritz Lang girl give glass goes going ground hand head hear heard husband Ingmar Bergman Julien Duvivier killed leap leaves legs light London looks Masaki Kobayashi mask meaning metaphor metonymy Michael Powell montage mother movement moving night nondiegetic passing person picture play repetition rises runs says scene screen seen shadow shown side simile Sir Carol Reed sits slowly soldiers someone sound speak stands stops story street synecdoche takes tells things train turns viewer voice walks wall watching wife window woman words
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