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The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (Paperback, 2006)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- 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
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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