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The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. This book argues that such images, or absent images, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film.

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"Karla Oeler exhibits a lively, searching, and penetrating intelligence. In A Grammar of Murder she takes a fresh and illuminating look at various representations of violence - their form as well as their content - in films ranging from the Soviet montage school to Jean Renoir, from classical Hollywood to the work of such mavericks as Stanley Kubrick and Jim Jarmusch." - Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College"

A Grammar of Murder Violent Scenes and Film Form

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226617954, 978-0226617954
      ISBN10: 0226617955
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      Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. This book argues that such images, or absent images, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film.

      Trade Review
      "Karla Oeler exhibits a lively, searching, and penetrating intelligence. In A Grammar of Murder she takes a fresh and illuminating look at various representations of violence - their form as well as their content - in films ranging from the Soviet montage school to Jean Renoir, from classical Hollywood to the work of such mavericks as Stanley Kubrick and Jim Jarmusch." - Gilberto Perez, Sarah Lawrence College"

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