The Analysis of Film
Autor Raymond Bellour, Constance Penleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2001
"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes scribbled in the dark or published shot breakdowns that are often overgeneralized or even inaccurate, it is refreshing to be confronted with such scholarly work, characterized by a genuinely attentive eye and a punctilious observation of detail. This long-awaited collection, gathering Bellour s ground breaking studies into one volume, will surely be a crucial source of inspiration for future generations of film scholars." Peter Wollen, Bookforum
The Analysis of Film brings together Raymonds Bellour's now classic studies of classic Hollywood film. It is at once a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollywood film, Hitchcock's work The Birds, Marnie, Psycho, North by Northwest and the role of the woman in western representation. But, finally, it is a book about cinema itself and the love for cinema that drives the passion for analyzing the supreme art form of the twentieth century.
Bellour creatively reworks the ideas and methods of structuralism, semiology, and psychoanalysis to unravel the knot of significations that is the filmic text. The introductory chapter sketches out a history of the way the close analysis of film developed. And then, beginning with a study of the Bodega Bay sequence of The Birds, the book goes on to examine every aspect of that singular critical practice, "the analysis of film."
The book is also a model of how to write about the intricacies of film narrative, shot by shot, sequence by sequence, while addressing larger contextual issues of subjectivity, desire, and identification in Western cultural forms. A new, final chapter on D. W. Griffith's The Lonedale Operator brilliantly demonstrates that the dynamics of repetition and alternation that Bellour discovered to be the heartbeat of Hollywood narrative film were already there in nascent form at the beginnings of cinema."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780253213648
ISBN-10: 0253213649
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 520 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0253213649
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 520 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States
Cuprins
Preface by Constance Penley; A Bit of History1. The Unattainable Text; 2. System of a Fragment (on The Birds); 3. The Obvious and the Code (on The Big Sleep); 4. Symbolic Blockage (on North by Northwest); 5. To Segment/To Analyze (on Gigi); 6. To Enunciate (on Marnie); 7. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion (on Psycho); 8. To Alternate/ to Narrate (on The Lonedale Operator)Notes; Works by Raymond Bellour; Index
Recenzii
"No serious student of film should miss the great work collected in this volume. . . the essays in this collection remind the reader what a brilliant film analyst Bellour was. . . . it is for the Hitchcock analyses that this book will be most valued." Choice"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes scribbled in the dark or published shot breakdowns that are often overgeneralized or even inaccurate, it is refreshing to be confronted with such scholarly work, characterized by a genuinely attentive eye and a punctilious observation of detail. This long-awaited collection, gathering Bellours ground breaking studies into one volume, will surely be a crucial source of inspiration for future generations of film scholars." Peter Wollen, Bookforum
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Bellour's classic studies of Hollywood film