Personal Views Explorations in Film 1st Edition by Robin Wood ISBN 978-0814332788 0814332781
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ISBN 10: 0814332781
ISBN 13: 978-0814332788
Author: Robin Wood
Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views. This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic. Wood, the proud “unreconstructed humanist,” offers in this collection persuasive arguments for the importance of art, creativity, and personal response and also demonstrates these values in his analyses.
Personal Views is the only book on cinema by Wood never to have been published in the United States.
It contains essays on popular Hollywood directors such as Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli, and Leo McCarey; as well as pieces on recognized auteurs like Max Ophuls, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Josef von Sternberg; and essays on art-film icons Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kenji Mizoguchi. The writings that make up Personal Views appeared duing a pivotal time in both film studies-during its academic institutionalization-and in the author’s life. Throughout this period of change, Wood remained a stalwart anchor of the critical discipline, using theory without being used by it and always staying attentive to textual detail.
Wood’s overall critical project is to combine aesthetics and ideology in understanding films for the ultimate goal of enriching our lives individually and together. This is a major work to be read and reread not just by film scholars and students of film but by anyone with an interest in twentieth-century culture.
Table of contents:
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Confessions of an Unreconstructed Humanist
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On Current Tendencies in Film Criticism
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Realism and Ideology
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The Scarlet Empress
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
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Touch of Evil
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Images of Childhood
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Hawks DeWollenized
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Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie
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Ugetsu Monogatari and Sansho Dayu
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Notes for a Reading of I Walked with a Zombie
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Two Film Noirs of the Fifties
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Reflections on the Auteur Theory
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Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic
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Select Bibliography
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