Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time. Implicitly theoretical as much as it is unashamedly practical, this book is a model not only of film analysis, but also of the enlightened deployment of cultural studies in the service of cinema study. |
Contents
The Gangster Manhattanites | 3 |
Back to the Future or the Vanguard Meets the Rearguard | 23 |
Flags and Letters Men and War | 49 |
Some Like It Hot Reviewed | 61 |
Switching Genres or Playing to the Camera | 73 |
The Case of I vitelloni | 103 |
Winter Light and Autumn | 115 |
Words Images | 127 |
The Art of Ozu Remembered | 149 |
The American Art Cinema | 161 |
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