The 'I' of the Camera: Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics

William Rothman

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The 'I' of the Camera

Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics

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William Rothman, University of Miami

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 2003
Online ISBN:: 9780511616600
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616600

Series:: Cambridge Studies in Film
Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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The 'I' of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. In a series of eloquent essays examining particular films, filmmakers, genres and movements, and the 'Americanness' of American film, Rothman argues compellingly that movies have inherited the philosophical perspective of American transcendentalism. This second edition contains all of the essays that made the book a benchmark of film criticism. It also includes fourteen essays, written subsequent to the book's original publication, as well as a new foreword. The new chapters further broaden the scope of the volume, fleshing out its vision of film history and illuminating the author's critical method and the philosophical perspective that informs it.

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Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Foreword to the Second Edition
pp xi-xviii

Preface to the First Edition
pp xix-xxvi

Acknowledgments
pp xxvii-xxviii

Notes on the Essays
pp xxix-xxxii

The “I” of the camera
pp xxxiii-xxxiv

1 - Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema
pp 1-10

2 - D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies
pp 11-16

3 - Judith of Bethulia
pp 17-28

4 - True Heart Griffith
pp 29-43

5 - The Ending of City Lights
pp 44-54

6 - The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West
pp 55-66

7 - Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image
pp 67-73

8 - Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera
pp 74-86

9 - Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas
pp 87-95

10 - Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
pp 96-109

11 - Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby
pp 110-121

12 - The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game
pp 122-138

13 - Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood
pp 139-157

14 - To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel
pp 158-166

15 - Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia
pp 167-176

16 - Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema
pp 177-205

17 - The River
pp 206-220

18 - Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock
pp 221-240

19 - North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film
pp 241-253

20 - The Villain in Hitchcock: “Does He Look Like a ‘Wrong One’ to You?”
pp 254-262

21 - Thoughts on Hitchcock's Authorship
pp 263-280

22 - Eternal Véritées: Cinema-Vérité and Classical Cinema
pp 281-297

23 - Visconti's Death in Venice
pp 298-303

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