Film Modernism

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by Sam Rohdie

Type

Studies

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, modernism

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 256 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78499-263-7

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Book Presentation:
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each category, though autonomous, interacts, intersects and juxtaposes with the others, entering into a dialogue with them and in so doing creates connections, illuminations, associations and rhymes which may not have arisen in a more conventional framework.

The author refers to particular films and directors that raise questions related to modernism, and, inevitably, thereby to classicism. Jean-Luc Godard's work is at the centre of the book, though it spreads out, evokes and echoes other filmmakers and their work, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, João César Monteiro, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Orson Welles. This innovative and eloquently written text book will be an essential resource for all film students.

About the Author:
Sam Rohdie (1939-2015) was Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Central Florida

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press