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Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenbaum, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Edición:Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. CLASSICS
  • Fables of the Reconstruction: The Four-Hour Greed
  • Fascinating Rhythms: M
  • The Color of Paradise: Jour de fîte
  • Backyard Ethics: Hitchcockâ€?s Rear Window
  • Songs in the Key of Everyday Life: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • A Tale of the Wind: Joris Ivensâ€?s Last Testament
  • Kira Muratovaâ€?s Home Truths: The Asthenic Syndrome
  • The Importance of Being Sarcastic: Sátántangó
  • Blush
  • The Ceremony
  • Thieves
  • True Grit: Rosetta
  • II. SPECIAL PROBLEMS
  • Malickâ€?s Progress
  • Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville, with an Afterword: NashvilleMixed Emotions: Breaking the Waves
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
  • The Sweet Cheat: Time Regained
  • James Benningâ€?s Four Corners
  • Overrated Solutions: Lâ€?humanité
  • The Sound of German: Straub-Huilletâ€?s The Death of Empedocles
  • Beyond the Clouds: Return to Beauty
  • Reality and History as the Apotheosis of Southern Sleaze: Phil Karlsonâ€?s The Phenix City Story
  • Is Ozu Slow?
  • The Human Touch: Decalogue and Fargo
  • III. OTHER CANONS, OTHER CANONIZERS
  • Life Intimidates Art: Irma VepStanley Kwanâ€?s Actress: Writing History in Quicksand
  • Critical Distance: Godardâ€?s Contempt
  • Remember Amnesia? (Guy Maddinâ€?s Archangel), with an Afterword: Ten Years Later (Please Watch Carefully: The Heart of the World)
  • Ragged but Right: Rivetteâ€?s Up Down Fragile
  • Critic with a Camera: Marker on Tarkovsky
  • Riddles of a Sphinx: From the Journals of Jean Seberg
  • International Harvest: National Film Histories on Video
  • International Sampler: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Not the Same Old Song and Dance: The Young Girls of RochefortFlaming Creatures and Scotch Tape
  • Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites
  • IV. DISPUTABLE CONTENDERS
  • Back in Style: Bertolucciâ€?s Besieged
  • The Young One: BuÃ"uelâ€?s Neglected Masterpiece
  • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Kubrickâ€?s Eyes Wide Shut
  • The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Under the Chador: The Day I Became a Woman
  • Chains of Ignorance: Charles Burnettâ€?s Nightjohn
  • Good Vibrations: Waking Life
  • Hell on Wheels: Taxi Driver
  • Meat, John, Dough: Pretty WomanTashlinesque
  • Weird and Wonderful: Takeshi Kitanoâ€?s Kikujiro
  • *Corpus Callosum
  • V. FILMMAKERS
  • Mann of the West
  • Otto Preminger
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Exiles in Modernity: Films by Edward Yang
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien: Becoming Taiwanese
  • The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer
  • Samuel Fuller: The Words of an Innocent Warrior
  • The Mysterious Elaine May: Hiding in Plain Sight
  • Visionary Agitprop: I Am Cuba
  • The Battle over Orson Welles
  • License to Feel: Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Neon Bible