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The structure of complex images

Ray, Robert B.

The structure of complex images

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The structure of complex imagesby Robert B. Ray.
Author:	Ray, Robert B.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xii, 259 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Motion picturesHistory.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40631-8
ISBN:	9783030406318$q(electronic bk.)

The structure of complex images
Ray, Robert B.

The structure of complex images[electronic resource] /by Robert B. Ray. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xii, 259 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave close readings in film and television. - Palgrave close readings in film and television..

Part I: Film Studies and Its Problems -- 1. Movie vs. Screen: The Great Divide in Film Studies -- 2. The Automatic Auteur, or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism -- Part II: Cinephilia, Cavell, and Description-as-Method -- 3. Cinephilia and Method -- 4. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies -- Part III: Movie Star Performance -- 5. The Mystery of Movie Stardom -- 6. Vertigo: Why Doesn't Scottie Recognize "Madeleine"? -- 7. Notes on Fred Astaire -- Part IV: Memory Theaters -- 8. Memory Theaters: Casablanca and Breathless -- Part V: The Structure of Complex Images -- 9. The Cukor "Problem": David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story -- 10. The Structure of Complex Images: Abbas Kiarostami's Tickets.

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as "acting"? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism's celebration of the movie director's authority with the camera's automatism? Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions? After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies. Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers close readings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Regle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets.

ISBN: 9783030406318$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-40631-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

176200
Motion pictures
--History.

LC Class. No.: PN1993.5.A1 / R397 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4309

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