Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film

by Deborah Thomas

This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo. Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903364019
• ISBN13: 9781903364017
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 7.9"