A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film

by George E. Toles

Book Overview

When the lights go down and the film starts to roll, we give ourselves over to the magic of movies. But as George Toles observes, what we experience in this house of light may strike closer to home than we imagine.

In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Reflecting a literary critic's and professional screenwriter's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814329462
• ISBN13: 9780814329467
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.1"