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Title

Film analysis : a Norton reader / edited by Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky.

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Geiger, Jeffrey.
• Rutsky, R. L.

Description

xvii, 1134 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Fifty essays on fifty films--by a who’s-who of film studies. Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films--each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping them to hone their own writing. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms.--Publisher website.

Subject

• Motion pictures

Genre/Form

Motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895-1897), Lumière Brothers / Karin Littau -- A trip to the moon (1902), Georges Méliès / Tom Gunning -- The birth of a nation (1915), D.W. Griffith / Daniel Bernardi -- The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene / Paul Coates -- Nanook of the North (1922), Robert J. Flaherty / Jeffrey Geiger -- Sherlock Jr. (1924), Buster Keaton / Hal Gladfelder -- Battleship Potemkin (1926), Sergei Eisenstein / Bill Nichols -- Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang / R.L. Rutsky -- Un chien andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí / Tom Conley -- It happened one night (1934), Frank Capra / Richard Maltby -- Modern times (1936), Charlie Chaplin / Charles J. Maland -- Osaka elegy (1936), Mizoguchi Kenji / Joanne Bernardi -- Bringing up baby (1938), Howard Hawks / S.I. Salamensky -- The rules of the game (1939), Jean Renoir / Christopher Faulkner -- Stagecoach (1939), John Ford / Matthew Bernstein -- Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles / James Naremore -- Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz / Dana Polan -- Meshes of the afternoon (1943), Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid / Juan A. Suárez -- Double indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder / Gaylyn Studlar -- Rome open city (1945), Roberto Rossellini / Marcia Landy -- Bicycle thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The red shoes (1948), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger / Ian Christie -- Rashomon (1950), Kurosawa Akira / Aaron M. Kerner -- Singin' in the rain (1952), Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly / Jane Feuer -- Tokyo story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro / David Desser -- Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock / Elizabeth Cowie -- Seven samurai (1954), Kurosawa Akira / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray / Neepa Majumdar -- The seventh seal (1956), Ingmar Bergman / Marilyn Johns Blackwell -- The 400 blows (1959), François Truffaut / Alastair Phillips -- Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard / Richard Neupert -- 8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli -- 2001: a space odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick / Robert Kolker -- The godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola / Jon Lewis -- Ali : fear eats the soul (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Shohini Chaudhuri -- Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski / Steve Neale -- The last supper (1976), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Gilberto M. Blasini -- Taxi driver (1976), Martin Scorsese / Cynthia Fuchs -- Ceddo (1977), Ousmane Sembene / Philip Rosen -- Peking opera blues (1986), Tsui Hark / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau -- Yeelen (1987), Souleymane Cissé / N. Frank Ukadike -- Do the right thing (1989), Spike Lee / Sharon Willis -- Close-up (1989), Abbas Kiarostami / Hamid Naficy -- To sleep with anger (1990), Charles Burnett / Valerie Smith -- Raise the red lantern (1991), Zhang Yimou / Shuqin Cui -- Daughters of the dust (1991), Julie Dash / Anna Everett -- Pulp fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino / John Haynes -- All about my mother (1999), Pedro Almodóvar / Paul Julian Smith -- In the mood for love (2000), Wong Kar-wai / Gina Marchetti -- Caché (Hidden) (2005), Michael Haneke / Kevin Sherman -- Film analysis : approaches and strategies.

ISBN

• 9780393923247 (paperback)
• 039392324X (paperback)

LCCN

^^2013016108

OCLC

• 843010370
• SCSB-10513009

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library