The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey.
The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey.
The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
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G 2020/5940
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English
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Physical content
xxi, 405 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Publisher's note --
Foreword /
James Harvey --
On Gil Perez /
Diane Stevenson --
Preface --
Introduction:
John Ford's rhetoric --
Cinematic tropes --
Melodrama and film technique --
Coda: Of identification.
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Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, H...
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The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film / Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/5940
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74VKadA7b5rA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadA7b5rA
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ISBN
0816641331 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780816641321 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0816641323 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780816641338 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
791.43015
MMS ID
991024321518002626
