Research Catalog

Title

In search of cinema : writings on international film art / Bert Cardullo ; foreword by Richard Gilman.

Author

Cardullo, Bert

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 351 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the territory of a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a scholar-theorist. With elegance, clarity, and rigour, he offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals. The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain. The book covers the best recent films from major film-producing nations like the United States, France, and Italy and includes retrospective pieces on the careers of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen as well as several essays on the interrelationship between film form, or film genres, and drama and the novel, the two forms from which the cinema continues to draw a wealth of its material.

Subjects

• Films
• Motion pictures
• Electronic books
• Cinéma > Histoire
• Cinéma > Comptes rendus

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• Motion pictures
• Films.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-330) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: Of Films, Critics, and Chronicity / Richard Gilman -- Introduction: First Principles -- PART ONE: FOCUS ON IRANIAN CINEMA -- 1 Writing about Iranian Cinema -- 2 A Girl and Two Women: On Panahi's The White Balloon (1995, Iran) and Dugowson's Mina Tannenbaum (1994, France) -- 3 Blood and Cherries, Snow and Dust: On Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Canada) and Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry (1997, Iran) -- 4 Mirror Images, or Children of Paradise: On Makhmalbaf's The Apple (1998, Iran) and Panahi's The Mirror (1997, Iran) -- 5 Angels beyond America: On Majidi's The Children of Heaven (1997, Iran) and Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels (1998, France) -- 6 The Children Are Watching Us: On De Sica's The Children Are Watching Us (1943, Italy) and Majidi's The Color of Paradise (1999, Iran) -- 7 Women and Children First: On Panahi's The Circle (2000, Iran) and Ramsay's Ratcatcher (1999, Scotland) -- 8 Carry Me Home: On ZhangYimou's The Road Home (2000, China), Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Iran), and Rossellini's Europe '5 (1952, Italy) -- PART TWO: EUROPE, THE AMERICAS, AND BEYOND -- 9 The Happiness of Your Friends and Neighbors: On LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors (1998, USA) and Solondz's Happiness (1998, USA) -- 10 Getting Straight: On Lynch's The Straight Story (1999, USA) -- 11 Stones and Roses: On the Dardennes' Rosetta (1999, Belgium) and Schrader's Affliction (1998, USA) -- 12 Hot and Cold, or Seasons Change: On Rohmer's Autumn Tale (1998, France) and Assayas's Late August, Early September (1999, France) -- 13 All about My, Your, Their Mother: On Zambrano's Solas (1999, Spain) and Waddington's Me, You, Them (2000, Brazil) -- 14 Of Virgin Suicide, Human Bondage, and Male Indulgence: On Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (2000, USA), Gitai's Kadosh (1999, Israel), and Doueiri's West Beirut (1998, Lebanon) -- 15 The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence: On Ozon's Under the Sand (2000, France) and Tsai's What Time Is It There? (2001, Taiwan) -- 16 Aberdeen on the Adriatic: On Moland's Aberdeen (2000, Norway) and Moretti's The Son's Room (2001, Italy) -- PART THREE: FORM, GENRE, OEUVRE, AND OTHER ARTS -- 17 Wooden Allen, or Artificial Exteriors: On the Film Career of Woody Allen -- 18 Latter-Day Bergman: Autumn Sonata as Paradigm -- 19 Notes on Film Genre: On Stagecoach (1939, USA), The Organizer (1963, Italy), The Cameraman (1928, USA), Psycho (1960, USA), and In Which We Serve (1942, UK) -- 20 Notes on Film Form: On General della Rovere (1959, Italy), Just Before Nightfall (1971, France), and Claire 's Knee (1970, France) -- 21 Theatre and Fiction into Film: Notes on Two Paradigmatic Scenes, One Metaphoric Fiction, and An Omnibus Adaptation: On The Little Foxes (1941, USA), Housekeeping (1987, USA), Trainspotting (1996, Scotland), and Dangerous Liaisons (1988, UK) -- 22 The Preemptive Image.

ISBN

• 0773527060 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0773527079 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2004484706

OCLC

• 53792867
• SCSB-11637434

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library