cinema as reflective form Pippin, Robert B. 1948- creator text bibliography ilu Chicago University of Chicago Press 2020 monographic eng

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271 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : col. ill. Section I Cinema as reflective form -- Cinematic reflection -- Cinematic self-consciousness in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- Moral variations -- Section II Moral variations -- Devils and angels in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her -- Confounding morality in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt -- Section III Social pathologies -- Cinematic tone in Roman Polanski's Chinatown: can "life" itself be "false"? -- Love and class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows -- Section IV Irony and mutuality -- Cinematic irony: the strange case of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar -- Passive and active skepticism in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place -- Section V Agency and meaning -- Vernacular metaphysics: on Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line -- Psychology degree zero? the representation of action in the films of the Dardenne Brothers. Robert B. Pippin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Motion pictures United States History and criticism Motion pictures Aesthetics PN1993.5.U6 P57 2020 9780226672007 (pbk.) 022667200X (pbk.) 2019014786 210420 on1100425800