In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art

By Bert Cardullo

Book Overview

Chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades Offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals In Search of Cinema chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the territory of a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a scholar-theorist. With elegance, clarity, and rigour, he offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773527079
• ISBN13: 9780773527072
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"