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Novak, Phillip.

Interpretation and film studiesmovie made meanings /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Interpretation and film studiesby Phillip Novak.
Reminder of title:	movie made meanings /
Author:	Novak, Phillip.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xi, 252 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Motion picturesPhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44739-7
ISBN:	9783030447397$q(electronic bk.)

Interpretation and film studiesmovie made meanings /
Novak, Phillip.

Interpretation and film studiesmovie made meanings /[electronic resource] :by Phillip Novak. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xi, 252 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Part I: The Difference a Reading Makes: Interpretation as the Absent Center of Film Studies -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary and Film Studies -- Chapter 2: Getting beyond the Obvious: Griffith's Way Down East -- Chapter 3: Seeing the Picture and Not Just the Frame: Nelly as Subject in Carne's Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) -- Chapter 4: Making the Future "Different": The Politics of Nichols's The Graduate -- Chapter 5: Artistic Solutions to Sociological Problems: Seeing (with) Giuliana in Antonioni's Il deserto rosso (Red Desert) -- Chapter 6 Summary: The Work of Film Studies: An Analysis of Four Journals -- Chapter 7: In Defense of Reading Films -- Part II: Watching the Detective: Readings of Three Films -- Chapter 8: Vision and Revision in Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Chapter 9: The Chinatown Syndrome -- Chapter 10: Making Meaning in and of Christopher Nolan's Memento.

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies-that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith's Way Down East, Marcel Carne's Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols's The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie) The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski's Chinatown and Christopher Nolan's Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.

ISBN: 9783030447397$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-44739-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

181377
Motion pictures
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PN1995 / .N68 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4301

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