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The phantom of the cinema : character in modern film / Lloyd Michaels.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 191 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585074992
  • 9780585074993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Phantom of the cinema.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C36 M53 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The phantom of cinema: representation of character in the modern film -- Reflexivity and character in Persona -- Incarnations of the confidence man -- Reviving the undead: Herzog's remake of Nosferatu -- The spy and the cipher -- Documenting character in The thin blue line -- Avatars of memory: entropy and nostalgia in the representation of character -- Conclusion: the mystery and melancholy of a self.
Summary: Films discussed include Jules and Jim, Escape from Alcatraz, The day of the jackal, Reservoir dogs, Persona, The magician, House of games, Nosferatu: a symphony of horror, Nosferatu: the vampyre, Reilly: ace of spies, The mystery of Kaspar Hauser, The thin blue line, Lacombe, Lucien, Daddy Nostalgia, Mephisto, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Five Easy Pieces, and The lacemaker.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.

Print version record.

The phantom of cinema: representation of character in the modern film -- Reflexivity and character in Persona -- Incarnations of the confidence man -- Reviving the undead: Herzog's remake of Nosferatu -- The spy and the cipher -- Documenting character in The thin blue line -- Avatars of memory: entropy and nostalgia in the representation of character -- Conclusion: the mystery and melancholy of a self.

Films discussed include Jules and Jim, Escape from Alcatraz, The day of the jackal, Reservoir dogs, Persona, The magician, House of games, Nosferatu: a symphony of horror, Nosferatu: the vampyre, Reilly: ace of spies, The mystery of Kaspar Hauser, The thin blue line, Lacombe, Lucien, Daddy Nostalgia, Mephisto, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Five Easy Pieces, and The lacemaker.

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