Film moments
Subtitle: criticism, history, theory
By: edited by Tom Brown & James Walters
Contributors: British Film Institute
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute; BFI/Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781844573363; 9781844573356
Subjects: Motion pictures; Film criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shadow play and dripping teat :; title: The Night of the Hunter (1955)  -- Tom Gunning; title: Between melodrama and realism :; title: Under the Skin of the City (2001)  -- Laura Mulvey; title: Internalising the musical :; title: The Band Wagon (1953)  -- Andrew Klevan; title: The visitor's discarded clothes in Theorem (1968)  -- Stella Bruzzi; title: Style and sincerity in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)  -- James Walters; title: The moves :; title: Blood (1989)  -- Adrian Martin; title: The properties of images :; title: Lust for Life (1956)  -- Steve Neale; title: Two views over water :; title: action and absorption in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957)  -- Edward Gallafent; title: Making an entrance :; title: Bette Davis's first appearance in Jezebel (1938)  -- Martin Shingler; title: A narrative parenthesis in Life is Beautiful (1997)  -- Deborah Thomas; title: The end of summer :; title: Conte d'été (1996)  -- Jacob Leigh; title: Enter Lisa :; title: Rear Window (1954)  -- Douglas Pye; title: Opening up The Secret Garden (1993)  -- Susan Smith; title: A magnified meeting in Written on the Wind (1956)  -- Steven Peacock; title: "Everything is connected, and everything matters" :; title: relationships in I [heart] Huckabees (2004)  -- John Gibbs; title: The Ending of 8 1 -- 2 (1963) / -- Richard Dyer; title: Haptic vision and consumerism :; title: a moment from Fritz Lang's Siegfried (1924)  -- Thomas Elsaesser; title: Visions of sound in City Lights (1931)  -- Charles Barr; title: "Entertainment and dystopia" :; title: Maurice Chevalier performs Avec le sourire (1936)  -- Tom Brown; title: Music, crime and the gaze :; title: La Bête humaine (1938)  -- Ginette Vincendeau; title: Thunder and lightning :; title: Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation  -- Rick Altman; title: Hearing, fearing :; title: the sonic design of suspense in Cat People (1942)  -- Helen Hanson; title: "I've seen him take his knife--" :; title: The Searchers (1956)  -- R.J. Ellis; title: Another story :; title: myth and history in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)  -- Pam Cook; title: A sculptural moment :; title: the epilogue to Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (1971)  -- Mark Broughton; title: Star Wars (1977) :; title: back and forth in time and space  -- Jonathan Bignell; title: Between freedom and confinement :; title: music in The World (2004)  -- Claudia Gorbman; title: Performance, with strings attached :; title: Team America's (2004) snub to the actor  -- Alex Clayton; title: Éloge de l'Amour (2001) :; title: moments in time  -- Alison Butler; title: Contested endings :; title: interpreting The Piano's (1993) final scenes  -- Barbara Klinger; title: Mourning, loss and trauma, and the ambiguities of proper and improper desire in Exotica (1994)  -- Elizabeth Cowie; title: Stepping out of Blockbuster mode :; title: the lighting of the beacons in The Lord of the Rings :; title: The Return of the King (2003)  -- Kristin Thompson; title: Dorothy's dream :; title: mindscreen in The Wizard of Oz (1939)  -- Bruce F. Kawin; title: Looking on and looking the other way :; title: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the racialised ethics of spectatorship  -- Michele Aaron; title: Working through the body :; title: textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006)  -- Lisa Purse; title: "I wasn't expecting that!" :; title: cognition and shock in Alien's (1979) chestburster scene  -- Jonathan Frome; title: The inflection of a dream in Scarlet Street (1945)  -- George M. Wilson; title: Judy's plan :; title: a reading of the "Flashback" sequence in Vertigo (1958) -- William Rothman.