The material ghost : films and their medium / Gilberto Perez.
The material ghost : films and their medium / Gilberto Perez.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N791.43015/27
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English
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xi, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Film and Physics -- 1. The Documentary Image -- 2. The Narrative Sequence -- 3. The Bewildered Equilibrist -- 4. The Deadly Space Between -- 5. The Meaning of Revolution -- 6. Landscape and Fiction -- 7. American Tragedy -- 8. History Lessons -- 9. The Signifiers of Tendernes...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
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Maryland
Date Published
1998.
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From the silent era, he explores the work of Keaton and Chaplin, Griffith and Eisenstein, the haunting anxiety of Murnau's Nosferatu and the epic lyricism of Dovzhenko's Earth. From the classic era of sound cinema, he discusses the searching realism of Jean Renoir and the memorable westerns of John Ford, Bunuel's corrosive documentary Land without...
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The material ghost : films and their medium / Gilberto Perez.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [417-448) and indexes.
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N791.43015/27
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74VM4zljeyGA
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0801856736 (alk. paper)
9780801856730 (alk. paper)
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791.43015
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991001415389702626
