Spectacle in Classical Cinemas

Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s

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by Tom Brown

Type: Essays
Subject: On Films > Per period
Keywords: classical Hollywood, 1930s, France
Publishing date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
1st publishing: 2015
Language: English

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Paperback • 292 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-54871-8

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Book Presentation:
Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s brings a fresh perspective on the role of the spectacular in classical sound cinema by focusing on one decade of cinema (the 1930s), in two ‘modes’ of filmmaking (musical and historical films), and in two national cinemas (the US and France). This not only brings to light the special rhetorical and affective possibilities offered by spectacular images but refines our understanding of what ‘classical’ cinema is and was.

About the Author:
Tom Brown is Lecturer in the Film Studies Department at King’s College London, UK

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