The a rhetoric of film Perez, Gilberto 1943- creator Harvey, James prologuista text bibliography mnu 2019 monographic eng

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xxi, 405 pages ; 23 cm Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. The Eloquent Screen shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus. -- Publisher's note -- Foreword / James Harvey -- On Gil Perez / Diane Stevenson -- Preface -- Introduction: John Ford's rhetoric -- Cinematic tropes -- Melodrama and film technique -- Coda: Of identification. Gilberto Perez ; foreword by James Harvey. Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379) and index. Motion pictures Philosophy Subjectivity in motion pictures Metaphor in motion pictures Motion picture plays History and criticism Cine Filosofía Subjetividad en el cine Cine Historia y crítica PN 1995 P438e 2019 791.4301/5 9780816641338 (softcover) 0816641331 (softcover) 2018046160 DLC 181204 20230411090807.0 20767314 eng