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Author Bordwell, David, 1947- author.
Title Making meaning : inference and rhetoric in the interpretation of cinema / David Bordell.
Publication Info Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1989.


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Descript xvi,334p.
Contents Part 1 Making films mean: interpretation as construction; meaning made; interpretive doctrines. Part 2 Routines and practices: Interpretation, Inc; the logic of discovery, or, problem-solving; the logic of justification, or, rhetoric; an anatomy of interpretation. Part 3 Interpretation as explication: the French connection; explication academicized; picture planes; meaning and unity. Part 4 Symptomatic interpretation: culture, dream, and Lauren Bacall; myth as antinomy; systeme a la mode; the contradictory text; symptoms and explications. Part 5 Semantic fields: meanings in structures; structures of meaning; the role of semantic fields. Part 6 Schemata and heuristics: mapping as making; knowledge structures and routines; mapping as modeling. Part 7 Two basic schemata: is there a class for this text?; making films personal. Part 8 Text schemata: a bull's-eye schema; meaning, inside out and outside in; textual trajectories; doctrines into diachronies. Part 9 Interpretation as rhetoric: sample strategies; theory talk. Part 10 Rhetoric in action - seven models of "Psycho": "Hitch and his public" (1960), Jean Duochet; "Psycho", Hitchcock's films (1965), Robin Wood; "inside Norman Bates", films and feelings (1967), Raymond Durgnat; "the world and its image", film as film (1972), V.F. Perkins; "psychosis, neurosis, perversion" (1979), Raymond Bellour; "Psycho - the instiutionalization of female sexuality" (1982), Barbara Klinger; "links in a chain - Psycho and film classicism" (1986), Leland Poague. Part 11 Why not read a film: the ends of interpretation; the end of interpretation?; prospects for a poetics.
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ISBN 9780674028531 (e-book)
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Author Bordwell, David, 1947- author.
Subject Film criticism.
Motion pictures.
Descript xvi,334p.
Contents Part 1 Making films mean: interpretation as construction; meaning made; interpretive doctrines. Part 2 Routines and practices: Interpretation, Inc; the logic of discovery, or, problem-solving; the logic of justification, or, rhetoric; an anatomy of interpretation. Part 3 Interpretation as explication: the French connection; explication academicized; picture planes; meaning and unity. Part 4 Symptomatic interpretation: culture, dream, and Lauren Bacall; myth as antinomy; systeme a la mode; the contradictory text; symptoms and explications. Part 5 Semantic fields: meanings in structures; structures of meaning; the role of semantic fields. Part 6 Schemata and heuristics: mapping as making; knowledge structures and routines; mapping as modeling. Part 7 Two basic schemata: is there a class for this text?; making films personal. Part 8 Text schemata: a bull's-eye schema; meaning, inside out and outside in; textual trajectories; doctrines into diachronies. Part 9 Interpretation as rhetoric: sample strategies; theory talk. Part 10 Rhetoric in action - seven models of "Psycho": "Hitch and his public" (1960), Jean Duochet; "Psycho", Hitchcock's films (1965), Robin Wood; "inside Norman Bates", films and feelings (1967), Raymond Durgnat; "the world and its image", film as film (1972), V.F. Perkins; "psychosis, neurosis, perversion" (1979), Raymond Bellour; "Psycho - the instiutionalization of female sexuality" (1982), Barbara Klinger; "links in a chain - Psycho and film classicism" (1986), Leland Poague. Part 11 Why not read a film: the ends of interpretation; the end of interpretation?; prospects for a poetics.
Note 400 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780674028531 (e-book)
Author Bordwell, David, 1947- author.
Subject Film criticism.
Motion pictures.

Subject Film criticism.
Motion pictures.
Descript xvi,334p.
Contents Part 1 Making films mean: interpretation as construction; meaning made; interpretive doctrines. Part 2 Routines and practices: Interpretation, Inc; the logic of discovery, or, problem-solving; the logic of justification, or, rhetoric; an anatomy of interpretation. Part 3 Interpretation as explication: the French connection; explication academicized; picture planes; meaning and unity. Part 4 Symptomatic interpretation: culture, dream, and Lauren Bacall; myth as antinomy; systeme a la mode; the contradictory text; symptoms and explications. Part 5 Semantic fields: meanings in structures; structures of meaning; the role of semantic fields. Part 6 Schemata and heuristics: mapping as making; knowledge structures and routines; mapping as modeling. Part 7 Two basic schemata: is there a class for this text?; making films personal. Part 8 Text schemata: a bull's-eye schema; meaning, inside out and outside in; textual trajectories; doctrines into diachronies. Part 9 Interpretation as rhetoric: sample strategies; theory talk. Part 10 Rhetoric in action - seven models of "Psycho": "Hitch and his public" (1960), Jean Duochet; "Psycho", Hitchcock's films (1965), Robin Wood; "inside Norman Bates", films and feelings (1967), Raymond Durgnat; "the world and its image", film as film (1972), V.F. Perkins; "psychosis, neurosis, perversion" (1979), Raymond Bellour; "Psycho - the instiutionalization of female sexuality" (1982), Barbara Klinger; "links in a chain - Psycho and film classicism" (1986), Leland Poague. Part 11 Why not read a film: the ends of interpretation; the end of interpretation?; prospects for a poetics.
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