The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film
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The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film
By (Author) Gilberto Perez
Foreword by James Harvey
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
29th October 2019
United States
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Non Fiction
791.4301
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448
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 51mm
Description
A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move us Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders In The Eloquent Screen, influential film critic Gilberto Perez makes a capstone statement on the p
Author Bio
Gilberto Perez (19432015) held the Noble Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College and was author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium. He was film critic for The Yale Review and his essays on film have been published in The Nation, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books.
