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Ambiguity and film criticism : reasonable doubt / Hoi Lun Law Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 26/02/2021.
Call No: 620 HOIAuthor: Law, Hoi Lun Edition: 2021Place: Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 26/02/2021PhysDes: ix, 191 pages : illustratedSeries: Palgrave close readings in film and televisionSubject: CRITICISM ; LATE SPRING [BANSHUN] (JA, Yasujiro Ozu, 1949) ; [TEN] 10 [DIX] (FR/IR, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) ; IN A LONELY PLACE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1950) ; FORCE MAJEURE [TURIST] (SW/FR/NO, Ruben Ostlund, 2014) ; BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956) Summary: This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. -- cover blurbISBN: 9783030629472Contents: Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility.
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Narrative mortality : death, closure, and new wave cinemas / Catherine Russell Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Call No: 747.19 RUSAuthor: Russell, Catherine, 1959 Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 1995PhysDes: vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: NOUVELLE VAGUE ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; DEATH IN FILMS ; ALLEGORY IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; LANG, FRITZ ; Wenders, Wim ; OSHIMA, NAGISA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; LYNCH, DAVID ; Peckinpah, Sam ; PENN, ARTHUR ; RAY, NICHOLAS ; MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ; STAND DER DINGE, DER (GW/US/PO, Wim Wenders, 1982) ; PIERROT LE FOU (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) ; NASHVILLE (US, Robert Altman, 1975) ; NICK'S MOVIE (GW/US, Nicholas Ray & Wim Wenders, 1979) ; SEISUN ZANKOKU MONOGATARI (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1960) ; SHONEN (JA, Nagisa Oshima, 1969) ; BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and indexISBN: 0816624852 (hbk. : acid-free paper); 0816624860 (pbk. : acid-free paper)LON: 10942855
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Reel justice : the courtroom goes to the movies / Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, c1996.
Call No: 734.4 BERAuthor: Bergman, Paul, 1943 ; Asimow, Michael Place: Kansas CityPublisher: Andrews and McMeelPubDate: c1996PhysDes: xix, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: TRIALS IN FILMS ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) ; EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988) ; INHERIT THE WIND (US, Stanley Kramer, 1960) ; MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1966) ; ONION FIELD, THE (US, Harold Becker, 1979) ; REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (US, Barbet Schroeder, 1990) ; THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988) ; BILLY BUDD (UK, Peter Ustinov, 1962) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; CAINE MUTINY, THE (US, Edward Dmytryk, 1954) ; FEW GOOD MEN, A (US, Rob Reiner, 1992) ; PATHS OF GLORY (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1957) ; ADAM'S RIB (US, George Cukor, 1949) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; MY COUSIN VINNY (US, Jonathan Lynn, 1992) ; AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (US, Norman Jewison, 1979) ; COMPULSION (US, Richard Fleischer, 1959) ; IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (IE/UK/US, Jim Sheridan, 1993) ; LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE (US, William Dieterle, 1937) ; PHILADELPHIA (US, Jonathan Demme, 1993) ; SOMMERSBY (US, Jon Amiel, 1993) ; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (US, Robert Mulligan, 1962) ; YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MUSIC BOX (US, Constantin Costa-Gavras, 1989) ; PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947) ; BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (US, Fritz Lang, 1956) ; BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; PRESUMED INNOCENT (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1990) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; WRONG MAN, THE (US, Jim McBride, 1993) ; ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; STAR CHAMBER, THE (US, Peter Hyams, 1983) ; SUSPECT (US, Peter Yates, 1987) ; TRIAL BY JURY (US, Heywood Gould, 1994) ; [TWELVE] 12 ANGRY MEN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1956) ; CLASS ACTION (US, Michael Apted, 1991) ; LOSING ISAIAH (US, Stephen Gyllenhaal, 1995) ; MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (US, Les Mayfield, 1994) ; NUTS (US, Martin Ritt, 1987) ; VERDICT, THE (US, Sidney Lumet, 1982) ; WHOSE LIFE IS IT, ANYWAY? (US, John Badham, 1981) ; ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (US, William Dieterle, 1941) ; BLOOD OATH (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1990) ; HOUR OF THE PIG, THE (FR/UK, Leslie Megahey, 1993) ; YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS, THE (US, Vincent Sherman, 1959) ; LIBEL (UK, Anthony Asquith, 1959) ; KRAMER VS. KRAMER (US, Robert Benton, 1979) ; OX-BOW INCIDENT, THE (US, William Wellman, 1943) ; ON TRIAL (US, Terry Morse, 1939) ; I WANT TO LIVE! (US, Robert Wise, 1958) ; JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961) ; LET HIM HAVE IT (UK, Peter Medak, 1991) ; [TEN] 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (UK, Richard Fleischer, 1971) ; COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL, THE (US, Otto Preminger, 1955) ; BANANAS (US, Woody Allen, 1971) ; MURDER IN THE FIRST (US, Marco Rocco, 1995) ; TRIAL (US, Mark Robson, 1955) ; GUILTY AS SIN (US, Sidney Lumet, 1993) ; JAGGED EDGE (US, Richard Marquand, 1985) ; LETTER, THE (US, William Wyler, 1940) ; KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949) ; WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (US, Billy Wilder, 1957) ; ACT OF MURDER, AN (US, Michael Gordon, 1948) ; FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936) ; I CONFESS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (US, Irving Pichel, 1947) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-326) and indexISBN: 0836210352 (pbk.)LON: 11957271
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