Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film [electronic resource] /
Gallafent, E.author.
We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction: Letter from an Unknown Woman""; ""2 Inscription and Erasure in All This, and Heaven Too""; ""3 Of Lessons and of Love: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance""; ""4 Into the Wild: The New Unreadable America""; ""5 The Reader: Embracing Reading, Denying Writing""; ""6 Conclusion: The Intimacy of Writing""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.
Motion pictures—United States.
Motion pictures—History.
Film genres.
Motion pictures and television.
Literature—Philosophy.
Communication.
American Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Genre.
Screen Studies.
Literary Theory.
Media Studies.