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In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time?

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Contents
Foreword by James Naremore
1. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets Lost
2. The Bordwell Regime and the Stakes of Knowledge
3. Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography
4. Tracking
5. How to Start and Avant-Garde
6. How to Teach Cultural Studies
7. The Best Way to Understand Postmodernism
8. The Mystery of Edward Hopper
9. Film and Literature
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 22/04/2001
      ISBN13: 9780253214386, 978-0253214386
      ISBN10: 0253214386
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. This collection of essays discusses this mystery and others like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time?

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      Foreword by James Naremore
      1. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets Lost
      2. The Bordwell Regime and the Stakes of Knowledge
      3. Snapshots: The Beginnings of Photography
      4. Tracking
      5. How to Start and Avant-Garde
      6. How to Teach Cultural Studies
      7. The Best Way to Understand Postmodernism
      8. The Mystery of Edward Hopper
      9. Film and Literature
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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