Gallafent Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-02219-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallafent, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Letter from an Unknown Woman 2. Inscription and Erasure in All This, and Heaven Too 3. Of Lessons and of Love: The Man who Shot Liberty Valance 4. Into The Wild: The New Unreadable America 5. The Reader: Embracing Reading, Denying Writing 6. Conclusion: The Intimacy of Writing Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Gallafent teaches Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director (1994), Astaire and Rogers (2000) and Quentin Tarantino (2006). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the online publication Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.