The World in a Frame: What We See in Films, 25th Anniversary Edition / Edition 25

by Leo Braudy

Overview

Now a classic, The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Leo Braudy, one of America's leading film critics, gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as ell as techniques of characterization—all in an evolving cultural context. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new preface addressing developments in film since 1976.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226071565
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/01/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	703,804
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Leo Braudy is the University Professor and the Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author, most recently, of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, second edition and coeditor of Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, fifth edition.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONMovies in Mind

SECTION ONEVarieties of Visual Coherence

SECTION TWOGenre: The Conventions of Connection

SECTION THREEActing and Characterization:
The Aesthetics of Omission

INDEX OF FILMS

GENERAL INDEX