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Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

Cinematic Flashes: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

Paperback

Film Studies

ISBN10: 0253006929
ISBN13: 9780253006929
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Dec 1 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of cinephiliac historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences.

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