Interpretation and Film Studies: Movie Made Meanings

by Phillip Novak

Book Overview

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies--that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith's Way Down East, Marcel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030447413
• ISBN13: 9783030447410
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"