Interpretation and Film Studies: Movie Made Meanings

ISBN-13: 9783030447410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Phillip Novak

Spis treści

Part I: The Difference a Reading Makes: Interpretation as the Absent Center of Film Studies.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary and Film Studies.

Chapter 2: Getting beyond the Obvious: Griffith’s Way Down East.

Chapter 3: Seeing the Picture and Not Just the Frame: Nelly as Subject in Carné’s Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows).

Chapter 4: Making the Future “Different”: The Politics of Nichols’s The Graduate.

Chapter 5:  Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems: Seeing (with) Giuliana in Antonioni’s Il deserto rosso (Red Desert).

Chapter 6 Summary: The Work of Film Studies:  An Analysis of Four Journals.

Chapter 7:  In Defense of Reading Films.- Part II:  Watching the Detective: Readings of Three Films.

Chapter 8: Vision and Revision in Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Chapter 9: The Chinatown Syndrome.

Chapter 10: Making Meaning in and of Chrstopher Nolan’s Memento.

O autorze

Phillip Novak is Associate Professor in the English department and the Department of Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York.  He has published articles on both film and literature in PMLA, Criticism, Journal of Film and Video, and elsewhere.