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The world in a frame: What we see in films - Softcover

Braudy, Leo

 
9780385036054: The world in a frame: What we see in films

Synopsis

"An exciting, entertaining exploration of films. . . . [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment." Robert Kirsch, "Los Angeles Times""

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About the Author

Leo Braudy is Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author, most recently, of The Frenzy of Renown. Fame and Its History, second edition and coeditor of Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, fifth edition.

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Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's leading film critics, gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as well as techniques of characterization-all in an evolving cultural context. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author addressing developments in film since the book was first published in 1976.

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