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Auteur(s) : Bordwell, David (1947-2024)
Titre(s) : Reinventing Hollywood [Texte imprimé] : how 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling / David Bordwell
Publication : Chicago, [Illinois] ; London : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous,
unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might
pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters'
viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Some films didn't have
protagonists, while others centered on antiheroes or psychopaths. Women might be on
the verge of madness, and neurotic heroes lurched into violent confrontations. If
this sounds like today's cinema, that's because it is. In Reinventing Hollywood, David
Bordwell examines for the first time the full range and depth of trends that crystallized
into traditions. He shows how the Christopher Nolans and Quentin Tarantinos of today
owe an immense debt to the dynamic, occasionally delirious narrative experiments of
the 1940s. With verve and wit, Bordwell examines how a booming movie market during
World War II allowed ambitious writers and directors to push narrative boundaries.
Although those experiments are usually credited to the influence of Citizen Kane,
Bordwell shows that similar impulses had begun in the late 1930s in radio, fiction,
and theater before migrating to film. And despite the postwar recession in the industry,
the momentum for innovation continued. Some of the boldest films of the era came in
the late forties and early fifties, as filmmakers sought to outdo their peers. Through
in-depth analyses of films both famous and virtually unknown, from Our Town and All
About Eve to Swell Guy and The Guilt of Janet Ames, Bordwell assesses the era's unique
achievements and its legacy for future filmmakers. The result is a groundbreaking
study of how Hollywood storytelling became a more complex art. Reinventing Hollywood
is essential reading for all lovers of popular cinema."--Dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Narration -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Cinéma -- Los Angeles (Calif., États-Unis) -- 1929-1945
Intermédialité -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 97309044 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - États-Unis - 1940-1949
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226487755. - ISBN 022648775X. - ISBN 9780226487892 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45464642n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45464642
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Table des matières : Introduction: The way Hollywood told it ; The frenzy of five fat years ; Interlude:
Spring 1940: lessons from Our town ; Time and time again ; Interlude: Kitty and
Lydia, Julia and Nancy ; Plots: the menu ; Interlude: Schema and revision, between
rounds ; Slices, strands, and chunks ; Interlude: Mankiewicz: modularity and polyphony
; What they didn't know was ; Interlude: Identity thieves and tangled networks ;
Voices out of the dark ; Interlude: Remaking middlebrow modernism ; Into the depths
; Call it psychology ; Interlude: Innovation by misadventure ; From the Naked City
to Bedford Falls ; I love a mystery ; Interlude: Sturges, or showing the puppet
strings ; Artifice in excelsis ; Interlude: Hitchcock and Welles: the lessons of
the masters ; Conclusion: The way Hollywood keeps telling it.
