312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author’s wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning.
Taking as her subject all of film history, the author traces out the history of the flashback, illuminating that history through structuralist narrative... Read more
1. Definition and Theory of the Flashback 2. Flashbacks in American Silent Cinema 3. European and Japanese Experimentation with Flashbacks in Silent Films 4. The Subjectivity of History in Hollywood Sound Film 5. Flashbacks and the Psyche in Melodrama and Film Noir 6. Disjunction in the Modernist Flashback
Biography
Maureen Turim
