Film Analysis - Bert Cardullo

Film Analysis

A Casebook

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2015
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-118-92699-4 (ISBN)
85,28 inkl. MwSt
Film Analysis: A Casebook offers an accessible introduction to film analysis through close readings of 25 historically significant films from around the world.




Features a geographically diverse selection of films and directors, with representation from 20 different countries
Covers many of the central films treated in today’s cinema courses, and the issues raised about them
Provides students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills
Supplemented with film credits, images, and bibliographies; director filmographies, a glossary of film terms, and suggested topics for writing and discussion

Bert Cardullo is a retired professor of Film Studies who taught for thirty–five years in the United States as well as Finland and Turkey. A former film critic for the Hudson Review in New York, Cardullo is also the author, editor, or translator of numerous books, including Stage and Screen: Adaptation Theory from 1916 to 2000 (2012), Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (2008), In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art (2004), and Bazin at Work (1997).

Preface vii
Chapter 1. F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922, Germany) 1


Chapter 2. Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937, France) 12


Chapter 3. Carl–Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (1943, Denmark) 23


Chapter 4. Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (1946, Italy) 34


Chapter 5. Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953, France) 42


Chapter 6. Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954, USA) 52


Chapter 7. Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte (1954, France) 60


Chapter 8. Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top (1959, England) 69


Chapter 9. Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960, Italy) 80


Chapter 10. Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light (1962, Sweden) 91


Chapter 11. Jiøí Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia) 98


Chapter 12. Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967, USA) 108


Chapter 13. Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978, Australia) 120


Chapter 14. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Germany) 131


Chapter 15. Shohei Imamura’s Vengeance Is Mine (1979, Japan) 140


Chapter 16. Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Yaaba (1989, Burkina Faso) 151


Chapter 17. Aki Kaurismäki’s The Match Factory Girl (1989, Finland) 158


Chapter 18. Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou (1990, China) 166


Chapter 19. Sergei Bodrov’s Prisoner of the Mountains (1996, Russia) 174


Chapter 20. Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry (1997, Iran) 186


Chapter 21. Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Canada) 197


Chapter 22. Jean–Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s The Son (2002, Belgium) 209


Chapter 23. Carlos Reygadas’ Battle in Heaven (2005, Mexico) 217


Chapter 24. Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective (2009, Romania) 226


Chapter 25. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Turkey) 236


Film Credits and Directors’ Filmographies 248


Topics for Writing and Discussion 269


Glossary of Film Terms 275


Bibliography: Film Analysis 281


Index 284

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.3.2015
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 516 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-118-92699-4 / 1118926994
ISBN-13 978-1-118-92699-4 / 9781118926994
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