Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film - Softcover

Klevan, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862360049 ISBN 13: 9781862360044

Publisher: Flicks Books, 1999

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Recommendations by two prominent film scholars
"Fine critical work...The book is extremely ambitious and Mr Klevan's abilities have justified and fulfilled the ambition...Particularly impressive are the detailed analyses of specific films...The films treated are major works, now generally regarded as film classics, and the analyses consistently throw new light upon them. This should give the book a very long life as a necessary text for film classes in universities all over the English speaking world." ROBIN WOOD AUTHOR AND FILM SCHOLAR

"This volume strikes me as an unusual and quite original achievement. Klevan is especially concerned to explain film's capacity to articulate the important but recessive significance of the ordinary, inconspicuous events and actions - occurrences which do not present themselves as dramatic in the most familiar sense. Klevan shows again and again how this strategy has been carried through in a great range of worthwhile films. One of the beauties of his book is the variety of close studies that are presented...These discussions are finely nuanced, and they highlight cinematic achievements that have characteristically been overlooked... Overall, the theory that is elaborated and the critical practice that is recurrently executed in Disclosure of the Everyday constitutes a strikingly novel approach to film and to the methodology of cinematic analysis...I certainly hope it gets the wide readership it deserves" GEORGE M. WILSON PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Edition details

• Publisher: Flicks Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862360049
• ISBN 13: 9781862360044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224