Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories

The author does not draw upon the types of sources that he discusses in detail In the Chapter One, such as reviews and prerelease marketing materials, which somewhat lessens the effectiveness of the exercise; nonetheless, his conclusion is convincing, namely that It Is "necessary to recognize t...

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Published inFilm & History Vol. 46; no. 1; p. 77
Main Author Weiser, Frans
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cleveland, OK Center for the Study of Film and History 01.07.2016
Subjects
Case studies
Cultural factors
Film studies
Historical analysis
Intertextuality
Motion picture directors & producers
Postmodernism
Scholars
Visual media
New York
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Summary:The author does not draw upon the types of sources that he discusses in detail In the Chapter One, such as reviews and prerelease marketing materials, which somewhat lessens the effectiveness of the exercise; nonetheless, his conclusion is convincing, namely that It Is "necessary to recognize the fact that the cinematic conventions of meaning-making Inscribed within the film 'text' operate within a wider cultural context from which the film draws intertextual elements into its representational repertoire, elements that would have been readily recognizable to contemporary viewers" (48). [...]in order to suggest why simply critiquing Hollywood conventions is not constructive, the author examines how much of our visual media is permeated by filmic codes.
ISSN:0360-3695
1548-9922