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The "I" of the camera: essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics

William Rothman
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword to the Second Edition (page ix)
  • Preface to the First Edition (page xix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxvii)
  • Notes on the Essays (page xxix)
  • 1 Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema (page 1)
  • 2 D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies (page 11)
  • 3 Judith of Bethulia (page 17)
  • 4 True Heart Griffith (page 29)
  • 5 The Ending of City Lights (page 44)
  • 6 The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West (page 55)
  • 7 Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image (page 67)
  • 8 Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera (page 74)
  • 9 Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas (page 87)
  • 10 Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (page 96)
  • 11 Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby (page 110)
  • 12 The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game (page 122)
  • 13 Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood (page 139)
  • 14 To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel (page 158)
  • 15 Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia (page 167)
  • 16 Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema (page 177)
  • 17 The River (page 206)
  • 18 Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock (page 221)
  • 19 North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film (page 241)
  • 20 The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?" (page 254)
  • 21 Thoughts on Hitchcock's Authorship (page 263)
  • 22 Eternal Vérités: Cinema-Vérité and Classical Cinema (page 281)
  • 23 Visconti's Death in Venice (page 298)
  • 24 Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings (page 304)
  • 25 The Taste for Beauty: Eric Rohmer's Writings on Film (page 321)
  • 26 Tale of Winter: Philosophical Thought in the Films of Eric Rohmer (page 325)
  • 27 The "New Latin American Cinema" (page 340)
  • 28 Violence and Film (page 348)
  • 29 What Is American about American Film Study? (page 358)
  • Index (page 381)
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521527248 (paper)
  • 9780511188572 (ebook)
  • 9780521820226 (hardcover)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Film
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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