Reading Hollywood

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-903364-01-7
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 198 g

Reihe: Short Cuts

This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the ambiguity of offscreen space and spectatorship (how an audience reads an unseen but inferred setting), and the use of spatially disruptive cinematic techniques such as flashback to construct meaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Settings: Geography, Architecture, Decor
2. Dramaturgical Spaces: Onstage and Offstage, Public and Private
3. Cinematic Spaces: Background and Foreground, Onscreen and Offscreen
4. The Space of the Spectator: Diegetic and Non-Diegetic, Virtual and Real
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Thomas is reader in film studies at the University of Sunderland, UK and a member of the editorial board of Movie.