{"product_id":"9783030406301","title":"Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Close Readings in Film and Television\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRay, Robert B.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries.  Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world?  How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice?  What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”?  How do movies like \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreathless \u003c\/i\u003estore the film and world histories of their generations?  How can we reconcile \u003ci\u003eauteurism\u003c\/i\u003e’s celebration of the movie director’s authority with the camera’s automatism?  Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions?  After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies.  Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers closereadings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as \u003ci\u003eLa Règle du Jeu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt Happened One Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt’s a Wonderful Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHoliday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Story\u003c\/i\u003e, Casablanca, \u003ci\u003eBreathless\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTickets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2020-05-10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030406301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-40631-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 259\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45417863938188,"sku":"9783030406301","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030406301.jpg?v=1776619470","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030406301","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}