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Teaching Sound Film

A Reader

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  1. R. J. Cardullo
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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Front Page, Dramatic Farce, and American (Film) Comedy

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    Pages 1-10

  3. Period Piece, Peace Picture: Renoir’s La Grande Illusion Reconsidered

    • R. J. Cardullo
    Pages 11-21

  4. The Real Fascination of Citizen Kane: Welles’S Masterpiece Reconsidered

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    Pages 23-37

  5. Italian Neorealism, Vittorio De Sica, and Bicycle Thieves

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    Pages 39-45

  6. Death Wish, Child’s Whim, Auteurist Will: Boyer and Clément’s Forbidden Games Replayed

    • R. J. Cardullo
    Pages 47-57

  7. Circumstantial Evidence: Akira Kurosawa and The Seven Samurai

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    Pages 59-71

  8. The Artistic Achievement of Federico Fellini: The Nights of Cabiria as Exemplum

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    Pages 73-88

  9. Farce, Dreams, and Desire: Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot Re-Viewed

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    Pages 89-98

  10. Married to the Job: Ermanno Olmi’s IL Posto

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    Pages 99-106

  11. Neorealist Art vs. Operatic Acting in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma

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    Pages 107-116

  12. Trainspotting: Jiří Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains

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    Pages 117-124

  13. Thought, Feeling, and The Cinema of Francis Ford Coppola: The Rain People As Exemplum

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    Pages 125-134

  14. The Fall of Béatrice, The Salvation of Pomme: Simultaneity and Stillness in Goretta’s The Lacemaker

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    Pages 135-141

  15. Wooden Allen, or Made in Manhattan

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    Pages 143-153

  16. Memories are Made of This: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss

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    Pages 155-162

  17. Case Reopened: Mrinal Sen’s The Case is Closed

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    Pages 163-168

  18. Epiphanies: Nanni Moretti’s The Mass is Ended

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    Pages 169-174

  19. Comedies are Proverbial: Eric Rohmer’s Boyfriends and Girlfriends

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    Pages 175-180

  20. Finnish Character: Aki Kaurismäki’s Ariel

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    Pages 181-186
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About this book

Teaching Sound Film: A Reader</i> is a film analysis-and-criticism textbook that contains 35 essays on 35 geographically diverse, historically significant sound films. The countries represented here are France, Italy, England, Belgium, Russia, India, China, Cuba, Germany, Japan, Russia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Brazil, Taiwan, Austria, Afghanistan, South Korea, Finland, Burkina Faso, Mexico, Iran, Israel, Colombia, and the United States.  The directors represented include Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Aki Kaurismäki, Ken Loach, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Haneke, and Hong Sang-soo.
Written with university students (and possibly also advanced high school students) in mind, the essays in Teaching Sound Film: A Reader cover some of the central films treated—and central issues raised—in today’s cinema courses and provide students with practical models to help them improve their ownwriting and analytical skills. These essays are clear and readable—that is, sophisticated and meaty yet not overly technical or jargon-heavy.  This makes them perfect introductions to their respective films as well as important contributions to the field of film studies in general.  Moreover, this book’s scholarly apparatus features credits, images, bibliographies for all films discussed, filmographies for all the directors, a list of topics for writing and discussion, a glossary of film terms, and an appendix containing three essays, respectively, on film acting, avant-garde cinema, and theater vs. film.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Sound Film

  • Book Subtitle: A Reader

  • Authors: R. J. Cardullo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-726-9Published: 26 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 460

  • Topics: Education, general

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering, Pharma

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