Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film - Rilegato

Gallafent, Edward

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1137022183 ISBN 13: 9781137022189

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Riassunto

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Edward Gallafent teaches Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director (1994), Astaire and Rogers (2000) and Quentin Tarantino (2006). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the online publication Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.

Contenuti:

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Letter from an Unknown Woman
2. Inscription and Erasure in All This, and Heaven Too
3. Of Lessons and of Love: The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
4. Into The Wild: The New Unreadable America
5. The Reader: Embracing Reading, Denying Writing
6. Conclusion: The Intimacy of Writing
Bibliography
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137022183
• ISBN 13: 9781137022189
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 142