Cheerfully Chopping up the World
Michael Wood: Film theory, 2 July 1998
The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium
by Gilberto Perez.
Johns Hopkins, 466 pp., £25, April 1998,0 8018 5673 6 Show More
by Gilberto Perez.
Johns Hopkins, 466 pp., £25, April 1998,
On the History of Film Style
by David Bordwell.
Harvard, 322 pp., £39.95, February 1998,0 674 63428 4 Show More
by David Bordwell.
Harvard, 322 pp., £39.95, February 1998,
Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine
by D.N. Rodowick.
Duke, 260 pp., £46.95, October 1997,0 8223 1962 4 Show More
by D.N. Rodowick.
Duke, 260 pp., £46.95, October 1997,
The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King.
Athlone, 405 pp., £45, February 1998,0 485 30084 2 Show More
by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King.
Athlone, 405 pp., £45, February 1998,
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
by Peter Wollen.
BFI, 188 pp., £40, May 1998,0 85170 646 0 Show More
by Peter Wollen.
BFI, 188 pp., £40, May 1998,
“... same thing, but not sketchily, and across a very wide range of films; and the central argument of David Bordwell’s book is similar. Perez is interested in ‘the properties and possibilities of the medium’, but thinks that what distinguishes them is their variousness. ‘Most theorists have attempted to define the nature of film as something ... ”
