The death of classical cinema Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli
"The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers - Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Vincente Minnelli - and the films they made during the decline of the trad...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press
cop. 2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
The SUNY series, horizons of cinema. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b41196934*spi |
| Sumario: | "The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers - Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Vincente Minnelli - and the films they made during the decline of the traditional Hollywood studio system. Faced with the significant challenges posed by alternative art cinema and modernist filmmaking practices in the early 1960s, these directors responded with films that were self-conscious attempts at keeping pace with the developments in film modernism. These films - Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Hitchcock's Marnie, and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town - were widely regarded as failures at the time and bolstered critics' claims concerning the irrelevance of their directors in relation to contemporary filmmaking. However, author Joe McElhaney sheds new light on these films by situating them in relation to such acclaimed modernist works of the period as Godard's Contempt, Fellini's La dolce vita, Antonioni's Red Desert, and Resnai's Last Year of Marienbad. He finds that these modernist films, rather than being diametrically opposed in form to the work of Hitchcock, Lang, and Minnelli, are in fact profoundly linked to them."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xiv, 255 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 213-248) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781429413664 9780791468876 9780791481110 9780791468883 |
