The World in a Frame: What We See in Films, 25th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

Leo Braudy (author)

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Paperback 288 Pages
Published: 15/07/2002

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Synopsis

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 well 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.

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226071565
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 312 g
Dimensions: 21 x 13 x 2 mm

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"An exciting, entertaining exploration of films.... [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment." - Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times