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Breaking the Glass Armor
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Description
Thompson's analyses are thus refreshingly varied and revealing, ranging from an ordinary Hollywood film, Terror by Night, to such masterpieces as Late Spring and Lancelot du Lac. She proposes a formal historical way of dealing with realism, using Bicycle Thieves and The Rules of the Game as examples. Stage Fright and Laura provide cases in which the classical cinema defamiliarizes its own conventions by playing with audience expectations. Other chapters deal with Tati's Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and Play Time and Godard's Tout va bien and Sauve qui peut (la vie).
Although neoformalist analysis is a rigorous, distinctive approach, it avoids extensive specialized vocabulary and esoteric concepts: the essays here can be read separately by those interested in the individual films. The book's overall purpose, however, goes beyond making these particular films more accessible and intriguing to propose new ways of looking at cinema as a whole.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
420
Release Date:
1988-08-01
Publication Date:
1988-08-21
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0691014531
ISBN13:
9780691014531
Weight:
679 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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