The Structure of Complex Images

by Robert B. Ray

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as "acting"? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism's celebration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030406334
• ISBN13: 9783030406332
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"