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The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (Paperback, 2006)

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    Book Title
    The Death of Classical Cinema
    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Topic
    Video Direction & Production, Movie Direction & Production, Movie History & Criticism
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United States
    ISBN
    9780791468883

    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    STATE University of New York Press
    ISBN-10
    0791468887
    ISBN-13
    9780791468883
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    50936186

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    269 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Name
    Death of Classical Cinema : Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli
    Publication Year
    2006
    Subject
    Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
    Type
    Textbook
    Subject Area
    Performing Arts
    Author
    Joe Mcelhaney
    Series
    Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1 in
    Item Weight
    13.5 Oz
    Item Length
    9 in
    Item Width
    6 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Scholarly & Professional
    LCCN
    2005-036236
    Reviews
    This is a brilliant work that restores my faith in film studies. McElhaney's sweeping command of film history and theory, his nuanced formal analyses, and his stately and sustained argument result in a book that I already find indispensable in my own teaching., A sharp, erudite, and sensitive mind, wholly committed to the cinema, is here at work. At a time when the idea of the film director as 'auteur' is making a comeback, McElhaney's perspective will no doubt emerge as crucial for the necessary critical realignment between the performativity of Hollywood as a studio system and the achievements of its outstanding masters.
    TitleLeading
    The
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Grade From
    College Graduate Student
    Illustrated
    Yes
    Dewey Decimal
    791.4302/33092273
    Table Of Content
    List of Illustrations Introduction: Writing the History of Classical Cinema 1. Dr. Mabuse, The Cliché: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 2. Fascination and Rape: Marnie 3. Staging the Death of the Director: Two Weeks in Another Town Conclusion: Or The Death of Cinema Is No Solution Notes Index
    Synopsis
    A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema. The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers-Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Vincente Minnelli-and the films they made during the decline of the traditional Hollywood studio system. Faced with the significant challenges posed by alternative art cinema and modernist filmmaking practices in the early 1960s, these directors responded with films that were self-conscious attempts at keeping pace with the developments in film modernism. These films-Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Hitchcock's Marnie, and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town-were widely regarded as failures at the time and bolstered critics' claims concerning the irrelevance of their directors in relation to contemporary filmmaking. However, author Joe McElhaney sheds new light on these films by situating them in relation to such acclaimed modernist works of the period as Godard's Contempt, Fellini's La dolce vita, Antonioni's Red Desert, and Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad. He finds that these modernist films, rather than being diametrically opposed in form to the work of Hitchcock, Lang, and Minnelli, are in fact profoundly linked to them., A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema., The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers--Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Vincente Minnelli--and the films they made during the decline of the traditional Hollywood studio system. Faced with the significant challenges posed by alternative art cinema and modernist filmmaking practices in the early 1960s, these directors responded with films that were self-conscious attempts at keeping pace with the developments in film modernism. These films--Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Hitchcock's Marnie, and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town--were widely regarded as failures at the time and bolstered critics' claims concerning the irrelevance of their directors in relation to contemporary filmmaking. However, author Joe McElhaney sheds new light on these films by situating them in relation to such acclaimed modernist works of the period as Godard's Contempt, Fellini's La dolce vita, Antonioni's Red Desert, and Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad. He finds that these modernist films, rather than being diametrically opposed in form to the work of Hitchcock, Lang, and Minnelli, are in fact profoundly linked to them.
    LC Classification Number
    PN1998.3.H58M37 2006

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