Making Meaning : : Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema /

Making Meaning : : Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema / / David Bordwell.

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David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Bordwell, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1989
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Harvard Film Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Making Films Mean
  • Interpretation as Construction
  • Meaning Made
  • Interpretive Doctrines
  • 2. Routines and Practices
  • Introduction
  • Interpretation Inc.
  • The Logic of Discovery or Problem-Solving
  • The Logic of Justification or Rhetoric
  • An Anatomy of Interpretation
  • 3. Interpretation as Explication
  • The French Connection
  • Explication Academicized
  • Picture Planes
  • Meaning and Unity
  • 4. Symptomatic Interpretation
  • Introduction
  • Culture Dream and Lauren Bacall
  • Myth as Antinomy
  • Systeme a la Mode
  • The Contradictory Text
  • Symptoms and Explications
  • 5. Semantic Fields
  • Introduction
  • Meanings in Structures
  • Structures of Meaning
  • The Role of Semantic Fields
  • 6. Schemata and Heuristics
  • Mapping as Making
  • Knowledge Structures and Routines
  • Mapping as Modeling
  • 7. Two Basic Schemata
  • Is There a Class for This Text?
  • Making Films Personal
  • 8. Text Schemata
  • Introduction
  • A Bull's-Eye Schema
  • Meaning Inside Out and Outside In
  • Textual Trajectories
  • Doctrines into Diachronies
  • 9. Interpretation as Rhetoric
  • Introduction
  • Sample Strategies
  • Theory Talk
  • 10. Rhetoric in Action: Seven Models of Psycho
  • Jean Douchet, "Hitch and His Public" (1960)
  • Robin Wood, "Psycho," Hitchcock's Films (1965)
  • Raymond Durgnat, "Inside Norman Bates," Films and Feelings (1967)
  • V. F. Perkins, "The World and Its Image," Film as Film (1972)
  • Raymond Bellour, "Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion" (1979)
  • Barbara Klinger, "Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality" (1982)
  • Leland Poague, "Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism" (1986)
  • 11. Why Not to Read a Film
  • The Ends of Interpretation
  • The End of Interpretation?
  • Prospects for a Poetics
  • Notes
  • Index

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