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The life of mise-en-scène : Visual style and British film criticism, 1946-78 /

The Life of Mise-en-sc{grave}ene offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period. It reclaims an often-ignored or misrepresented history, including: the concept of film poetry in the journal Sequence, changing attitudes in Sight and Sound du...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibbs, John, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Life of Mise-en-sc{grave}ene offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period. It reclaims an often-ignored or misrepresented history, including: the concept of film poetry in the journal Sequence, changing attitudes in Sight and Sound during the 1950s, and the battle over the significance of film style which raged between a number of small journals and the national press in the early 1960s. It examines 'the British school first associated with Movie in the '60s' -- which, in Adrian Martin's words, is enjoying a 'widespread, international revival' -- but also other critical movements, more hazily remembered. It explores the role of Mise-en-sc{grave}ene in melodrama criticism, and considers what happened to detailed criticism as major theoretical movements emerged in the 1970s. In doing so, it provides a vital context for the contemporary practice of style-based criticism and challenges received notions of critical history, developing our understanding of a range of other key debates and concerns in the study of film.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-260), filmography (pages [261]-267), and index.
ISBN:9781526103130
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.