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Intro; Contents; Publishers's Note; Foreword; On Gil Perez; Preface; Introduction: John Ford's Rhetoric; Judge Priest's Rhetoric; Plato and Cicero; Rhetoric and Comedy; Will Rogers and Stepin Fetchit; Identification; Comedy and Hierarchy; Larger Than Life; The River and the Dance; Politics and Principle; Myth and Truth; Rhetoric of Genre; House of Miscegenation; Road to the Promised Land; I. Cinematic Tropes; Metonymy; Tropes and Figures; Metaphor; The Unraveled Underwear; The Broken Necklace; Metaphor and Metonymy; Synecdoche; The Hands, the Bootie, the Sandals; Faces; The Stolen Necklace |
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RosebudHavana Stories; The Dancing Women; The Guillotine; Freedom and Predestination; The Puncture and the Veil; The Train Whistles and the Hunk of Blue; Documentary, Repetition, Representation; The Village Church; The Revolutionary Battleship; Allegory and Extended Synecdoche; The Monster and the City; Steamboat Willie; Figura Futurorum; The Marriage of East and West; The Walls of Jericho; Technique as Metaphor; The Road of Life; The Striped Box; Surprise; The Slashed Eye and the Primal Scene; The Priest and the Pineapple; Irony and Realism; The Bridge and the Ballad; Dramatic Irony |
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The Hurdanos and UsIronic Self-Effacement; Open Synecdoche and the Reality Effect; Hometown and War; God Bless America; The High of War; Reflexivity and Comedy; Modernist Parody; Folk Tale and Revolution; Each Scene for Itself; Black Sheep; Flowers; Melodrama and Film Technique; Between Tragedy and Comedy; From Theater to Film; Thinking and Feeling; The Close-up as Aria; Melodramatic Argumentation; Novelistic Characterization; The Reverse Angle; McTeague and Greed; Photographer; Music into Drama; Melodrama of the Spirited Woman; The Ambiguity of Stella Dallas; Moving with Characters |
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Not ReconciledIn the Mood for Love; Tragic Narration; The Personified Camera; Jump Cuts; Crosscutting; Split Space, Unbroken Time; Displeasure; The Devil's Point of View; Allegorical Dimensions; The Garden of Eden; Melodrama and Comedy; Of Identification; Notions and Kinds of Identification; The Projectionist; Notes; Index |
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9781452959641 (electronic bk.) |
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1452959641 (electronic bk.) |
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9780816641321 |
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0816641323 |
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9780816641338 |
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0816641331 |
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