Breaking the Glass Armor / / Kristin Thompson.

"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliarizes" the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Prince...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1988
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE. A Neoformalist Approach to Film Analysis
  • PART TWO. The Ordinary Film
  • PART THREE. Analyzing the Dominant
  • PART FOUR. Defamiliarization within the Classical Cinema
  • PART FIVE. A Formal Look at Realism
  • PART SIX. The Perceptual Challenges of Parametric Form
  • Index
  • Illustrations