Film Hieroglyphs

Film HieroglyphsAuthor: Tom Conley ISBN: 9780816649709 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Year first published: 01 Mar 2007 Pages: 296 Format: Paperback softback At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds

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ISBN: 9780719033971

In this fully revised and updated second edition

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