num_pages: 349
description: It took a nineteenth-century critic Hamilton (English and modern languages, Liberty U.) explains Frye's cyclical phases of comedy and irony, comedy and romance, romance and tragedy, romance and comedy, tragedy and romance, tragedy and irony, irony/satire and comedy and irony, satire and tragedy, using an elliptical schema invented by no less than Roger Ebert. As he works through dozens of films in all the phases and categories, Hamilton shows how each fits within the schema and relates to other examples located there, explaining the phase's characteristics against the framework set up by Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. The films, which range from military classics and Hollywood histories to classic and modern Westerns, film noir, romantic comedies, and even Revenge of the Nerds, serve to illustrate how Frye's unique approach to the written also applies so well to the filmed. The result, despite the complicated nature of Frye's work, is both agile and accessible. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Categorizing Twentieth-Century Film Using Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism: Relating Literature and Film
titlecomplete: Categorizing Twentieth-Century Film Using Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism: Relating Literature and Film
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr