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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Book

In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays ...Read More

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    Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time? What do the French Impressionists have in common with the Sex Pistols? How did Douglas Sirk's critically ignored melodramas become "subversive critiques of bourgeois ideology"? In taking up these and other provocative questions, Robert Ray challenges certain ideas about film and cultural studies, while arguing for a mode of writing about the movies and experimental art that would respect the abidingly mysterious effect of their images and sounds.

  • 0253214386
  • 9780253214386
  • Robert Ray
  • 1 June 2001
  • Indiana University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 184
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