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Interpretation and Film Studies = Movie Made Meanings /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Interpretation and Film Studies/ by Phillip Novak.
Reminder of title:	Movie Made Meanings /
Author:	Novak, Phillip.
Description:	XI, 252 p. 15 illus., 10 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Motion pictures. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44739-7
ISBN:	9783030447397

Interpretation and Film Studies = Movie Made Meanings /
Novak, Phillip.

Interpretation and Film StudiesMovie Made Meanings /[electronic resource] :by Phillip Novak. - 1st ed. 2020. - XI, 252 p. 15 illus., 10 illus. in color.online resource.

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 Christopher Nolan’s Memento.

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well. .

ISBN: 9783030447397

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-44739-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

562481
Motion pictures.

LC Class. No.: PN1993-1999

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4301

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