Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema

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At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film—examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another.Conley hypothesizes that major directors—Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini—tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design attesting to a hidden rhetoric and to configurations of meaning that cinema cannot always control.Tom Conley is Lowell Professor of romance languages and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. Among his books is The Self-Made Map , as well as translations of The Fold by Gilles Deleuze and In the Metro by Marc Augé, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Paperback

Release: January 28, 1991

ISBN 13: 9780816649709

Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema

Tom Conley

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Pages: 296

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Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema

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