The Structure of Complex Images

ISBN-13: 9783030406332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 259 str.

Robert B. Ray

Spis treści

Part I: Film Studies and Its Problems.

1. Movie vs. Screen: The Great Divide in Film Studies.

2. The Automatic Auteur, or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism.

Part II: Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method.

3. Cinephilia and Method.

4. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies.

Part III: Movie Star Performance.

5. The Mystery of Movie Stardom.

6. Vertigo: Why Doesn’t Scottie Recognize “Madeleine”?.

7.  Notes on Fred Astaire.- Part IV: Memory Theaters.

8. Memory Theaters: Casablanca and Breathless.

Part V: The Structure of Complex Images.

9. The Cukor “Problem”: David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story.

10. The Structure of Complex Images: Abbas Kiarostami’s Tickets.

O autorze

Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA.  He is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: 1930-1980, The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy, How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies, The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, and Walden X 40.  He is also a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, Opposite Sex, and Wide Awake.