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Spectacle in "Classical" Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s (Routledge Advances in Film Studies) - Softcover

Book 40 of 78: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Brown, Tom

 
9781138548718: Spectacle in "Classical" Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138548715 ISBN 13: 9781138548718
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s brings a fresh perspective on the role of the spectacular in classical sound cinema by focusing on one decade of cinema (the 1930s), in two ‘modes’ of filmmaking (musical and historical films), and in two national cinemas (the US and France). This not only brings to light the special rhetorical and affective possibilities offered by spectacular images but refines our understanding of what ‘classical’ cinema is and was.

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About the Author

Tom Brown is Lecturer in the Film Studies Department at King’s College London, UK

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138548715
ISBN 13 
9781138548718
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
292