Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis

by Kristin Thompson

Book Overview

"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliarizes" the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (Princeton, 1981), she clearly demonstrates the flexibility of the neoformalist approach. She argues that critics often use cut-and-dried methods and choose films that easily fit those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014531
• ISBN13: 9780691014531
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"