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"The choreography of cinematic creation is stunningly revealed in this learned and lively book. Finely historical with meticulous descriptions of directors, actors, and cameras in motion, Figures Traced in Light registers for the first time the abiding patterns of cinematic staging around the world and through the years." - Janet Walker, author of Trauma Cinema; "David Bordwell is undoubtedly the most productive and influential film historian at work today. His magisterial Figures Traced in Light combines incisive close analyses of compelling filmic artifacts with a painstaking attention to all pertinent research materials. Eschewing any abstract notion of Film, he stresses the labor, thought, and creativity which goes into the staging of individual films." - Eric Rentschler, Harvard University"

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Staging and Style 2. Feuillade, or Storytelling 3. Mizoguchi, or Modulation 4. Angelopoulos, or Melancholy 5. Hou, or Constraints 6. Staging and Stylistics Notes Index

Figures Traced in Light

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 7 March 2005
      ISBN-13 9780520241978
      978-0520241978
      ISBN-10 0520241975
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      Entertainment Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "The choreography of cinematic creation is stunningly revealed in this learned and lively book. Finely historical with meticulous descriptions of directors, actors, and cameras in motion, Figures Traced in Light registers for the first time the abiding patterns of cinematic staging around the world and through the years." - Janet Walker, author of Trauma Cinema; "David Bordwell is undoubtedly the most productive and influential film historian at work today. His magisterial Figures Traced in Light combines incisive close analyses of compelling filmic artifacts with a painstaking attention to all pertinent research materials. Eschewing any abstract notion of Film, he stresses the labor, thought, and creativity which goes into the staging of individual films." - Eric Rentschler, Harvard University"

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1. Staging and Style 2. Feuillade, or Storytelling 3. Mizoguchi, or Modulation 4. Angelopoulos, or Melancholy 5. Hou, or Constraints 6. Staging and Stylistics Notes Index

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