Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Essays
- The “I” of the camera
- 1 Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema
- 2 D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies
- 3 Judith of Bethulia
- 4 True Heart Griffith
- 5 The Ending of City Lights
- 6 The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West
- 7 Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image
- 8 Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera
- 9 Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas
- 10 Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
- 11 Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby
- 12 The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game
- 13 Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood
- 14 To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel
- 15 Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia
- 16 Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema
- 17 The River
- 18 Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock
- 19 North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film
- 20 The Villain in Hitchcock: “Does He Look Like a ‘Wrong One’ to You?”
- 21 Thoughts on Hitchcock's Authorship
- 22 Eternal Véritées: Cinema-Vérité and Classical Cinema
- 23 Visconti's Death in Venice
- 24 Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings
- 25 The Taste for Beauty: Eric Rohmer's Writings on Film
- 26 Tale of Winter: Philosophical Thought in the Films of Eric Rohmer
- 27 The “New Latin American Cinema”
- 28 Violence and Film
- 29 What Is American about American Film Study?
- Index
Notes on the Essays
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Essays
- The “I” of the camera
- 1 Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema
- 2 D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies
- 3 Judith of Bethulia
- 4 True Heart Griffith
- 5 The Ending of City Lights
- 6 The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West
- 7 Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image
- 8 Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera
- 9 Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas
- 10 Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
- 11 Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby
- 12 The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game
- 13 Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood
- 14 To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel
- 15 Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia
- 16 Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema
- 17 The River
- 18 Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock
- 19 North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film
- 20 The Villain in Hitchcock: “Does He Look Like a ‘Wrong One’ to You?”
- 21 Thoughts on Hitchcock's Authorship
- 22 Eternal Véritées: Cinema-Vérité and Classical Cinema
- 23 Visconti's Death in Venice
- 24 Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings
- 25 The Taste for Beauty: Eric Rohmer's Writings on Film
- 26 Tale of Winter: Philosophical Thought in the Films of Eric Rohmer
- 27 The “New Latin American Cinema”
- 28 Violence and Film
- 29 What Is American about American Film Study?
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The 'I' of the CameraEssays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics, pp. xxix - xxxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003