The Dialectics of Contrast and Continuity in the Films of Humphrey Bogart

• Published in: Visual anthropology (Journal) Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 20 - 29
• Main Author: Izmirlian, Harry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Taylor & Francis Group 2009; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 20th century; Actors; American culture; Anthropology; Bogart, Humphrey; Cinema; Dialectics; Film history; Intertextuality; Motion pictures; Otherness; Social change; Transformation; Visual anthropology; Visual culture

In this article I have the following principle aims: first to demonstrate the intertextuality of the film roles of Humphrey Bogart during the decades of the 1930s to the 1950s; second, to show how the transformation of persona in film roles relates to changes in the social and cultural environment o...