Mysteries of Cinema : : Reflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016 / / Adrian Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Martin, Adrian,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

The essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. He offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Letters of Introduction -- 1. Retying the Threads -- 2. The Path and the Passeur -- 3. That Summer Feeling -- Part II: Scenographies -- 4. Scenes -- 5. Wishful Thinking -- 6. Entities and Energies -- 7. Entranced -- Part III: A Cinephile in Australia -- 8. No Flowers for the Cinephile. The Fates of Cultural Populism 1960-1987 -- Part IV: The Lyrical Impulse -- 9. Refractory Characters, Shards of Time and Space -- 10. The Trouble with Fiction -- 11. Ball of Fire -- 12. The Ever-Tested Limit -- 13. Delirious Enchantment -- Part V: Genre Games -- 14. Mr Big -- 15. Unlawful Entries -- 16. Lady, Beware -- 17. Live to Tell -- 18. In the Mood For (Something Like) Love -- 19. Shivers, Surprise and Discomfort -- Part VI: Interventions -- 20. Making a Bad Script Worse -- 21. The Offended Critic -- 22. Wild Psychoanalysis of a Vicarious, Unstable Reality -- Part VII: Envoi -- 23. No Direction Home -- 24. Farewells, Full Circles and Ellipses -- 25. My Back Pages -- 26. The File We Accompany -- Sources of Texts -- Index