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In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Each essay ponders the nature and implications of a film experience and examines the ironies of spectatorship.

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Introduction - a House Made of Light. Part 1 Sentiments of War and Peace: Being Well-Lost in Film; No Bigger Than Zuzu's Petals -Dreaming the Real in ""It's a Wonderful Life""; Thinking About Movie Sentiment - Toward a Reading of ""Random Harvest""; On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth - Watching De Sica's Children. Part 2 Three Faces of Hitchcock: ""If Thine Eyes Offend Thee"" - ""Psycho"" and the Art of Infection; ""Rear Window"" as Critical Allegory; Mother Calls the Shots - Hitchcock's Female Gaze. Part 3 Cruel Pleasures and the Limits of Irony: This May Hurt a Little - the Art of Humiliation in Film; Obvious Mysteries in ""Fargo""; Drowning for Love - Jean-Claude Lauzon's ""Leolo""; From Archangel to Mandragora in Your Own Backyard - Colaborating with Guy Maddin.

A House Made of Light Essays on the Art of Film Contemporary Film Television Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

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      Publisher: Wayne State University Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780814329467, 978-0814329467
      ISBN10: 0814329462
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Each essay ponders the nature and implications of a film experience and examines the ironies of spectatorship.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - a House Made of Light. Part 1 Sentiments of War and Peace: Being Well-Lost in Film; No Bigger Than Zuzu's Petals -Dreaming the Real in ""It's a Wonderful Life""; Thinking About Movie Sentiment - Toward a Reading of ""Random Harvest""; On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth - Watching De Sica's Children. Part 2 Three Faces of Hitchcock: ""If Thine Eyes Offend Thee"" - ""Psycho"" and the Art of Infection; ""Rear Window"" as Critical Allegory; Mother Calls the Shots - Hitchcock's Female Gaze. Part 3 Cruel Pleasures and the Limits of Irony: This May Hurt a Little - the Art of Humiliation in Film; Obvious Mysteries in ""Fargo""; Drowning for Love - Jean-Claude Lauzon's ""Leolo""; From Archangel to Mandragora in Your Own Backyard - Colaborating with Guy Maddin.

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