'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I. Children and the Cinema; Children of a Lesser God; Death Wish, Child’s Whim, Auteurist Will; War Games; Part II. Literature and Adaptation; 'Outing' Edward, Outfitting Marlowe; Theater and Fiction into Film; Part III. Views and Interviews; Married to the Job; Reflecting Reality—and Mystery; Lower Depths, Higher Planes; The Cinema of Resistance; Part IV: World Enough and Time; The World Is Too Much with Us; Characterizing Space, Configuring Time; As Time Goes By; Bibliography; Index