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Montage (Cinema Aesthetics) by Rohdie, Sam is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Montage (Cinema Aesthetics) about?
Montage Enters Into A Dialogue With The Cinema, Probing And Playing With Its Language Of Motion And Stillness, Continuity And Discontinuity, Constraint And Openness, Time And Duration. Comprised Of A Series Of Elegantly-written And Intellectually Vibrant Essays, Sam Rohdie’s Book Carefully Expresses His Ideas And Arguments In A Manner Free From The Complexities Of Contemporary Theory And Cultural Criticism. As Much A Book Written With The Cinema As About It, Montage Explores Associative And Comparative Possibilities In The Films Of Directors Such As Takeshi Kitano, Jean Renoir, D.w. Griffith, Howard Hawks, Lev Kulsehov, Sergei Eisenstein And Alfred Hitchcock. It Offers New And Fascinating Perspectives On Mise En Scène, Framing, Shots, And Narrative Variation. In Combining The Sensitive Analysis Of Film Forms And Structures With An Awareness Of Their Historical And Artistic Relation To Other Art Forms, It Also Elucidates An Appreciation Of Montage Aesthetics That Is Attentive To The Influences Of Photography, Painting And Other Arts. Montage Is A Book That Will Enrich Our Ways Of Seeing, Understanding, And Enjoying The Cinema.
Who reads Montage (Cinema Aesthetics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rohdie, Sam
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526141699
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Photography, History, Arts
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