Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form /

Pippin, Robert B., 1948-

Filmed thought : cinema as reflective form / Robert B. Pippin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020. - 271 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : col. ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I Cinema as reflective form -- Cinematic reflection -- Cinematic self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Moral variations -- Section II Moral variations -- Devils and angels in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her -- Confounding morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III Social pathologies -- Cinematic tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: can "life" itself be "false"? -- Love and class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV Irony and mutuality -- Cinematic irony: the strange case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- Passive and active skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V Agency and meaning -- Vernacular metaphysics: on Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- Psychology degree zero? the representation of action in the films of the Dardenne Brothers.

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Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

PN1993.5.U6 / P57 2020