"No serious student of film should miss the great work collected in this volume."―W. A. Vincent, Choice
"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes scribbled in the dark or published shot breakdowns that are often overgeneralized or even inaccurate, it is refreshing to be confronted with such scholarly work, characterized by a genuinely attentive eye and a punctilious observation of detail. This long-awaited collection, gathering Bellour’s ground breaking studies into one volume, will surely be a crucial source of inspiration for future generations of film scholars." ―Peter Wollen, Bookforum
The Analysis of Film brings together Raymonds Bellour's now classic studies of classic Hollywood film. It is at once a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollywood film, Hitchcock's work―The Birds, Marnie, Psycho, North by Northwest―and the role of the woman in western representation. But, finally, it is a book about cinema itself and the love for cinema that drives the passion for analyzing the supreme art form of the twentieth century.
Bellour creatively reworks the ideas and methods of structuralism, semiology, and psychoanalysis to unravel the knot of significations that is the filmic text. The introductory chapter sketches out a history of the way the close analysis of film developed. And then, beginning with a study of the Bodega Bay sequence of The Birds, the book goes on to examine every aspect of that singular critical practice, "the analysis of film."
The book is also a model of how to write about the intricacies of film narrative, shot by shot, sequence by sequence, while addressing larger contextual issues of subjectivity, desire, and identification in Western cultural forms. A new, final chapter on D. W. Griffith's The Lonedale Operator brilliantly demonstrates that the dynamics of repetition and alternation that Bellour discovered to be the heartbeat of Hollywood narrative film were already there in nascent form at the beginnings of cinema.

The Analysis of Film

Arts & Photography

BELLOUR, RAYMOND

Photography & Video

Indiana University Press

The Analysis of Film brings together Raymond Bellour's heralded studies of classic Hollywood film. It is at once a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollywood film, Hitchcock's work, and the role of the woman in Western representation. But, finally, it is a book about cinema itself and the love for cinema that drives the passion for analyzing the supreme art form of the 20th century.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg presents the major films of filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg: Displaced Person, 1981, Cooperation of Parts, 1987, Persistence, 1997, and Something More Than Night, 2003, through newly commissioned essays by five highly respected writers of contemporary film and media art. This book represents the first survey of Eisenberg’s work, placing it in the context of contemporary theory and experimental media practice. As in the work of Claude Lanzmann, Harun Farocki and Alexander Kluge, history is the ground for investigation and experimentation for Eisenberg. The concept of postwar” finds form in each of his films, differently in each one. The book also serves as a matrix for a new photo project by Daniel Eisenberg, specifically designed for this book, drawn from stills from the films, images of source material, ephemera and the filmmaker’s own collection. Each contributor has focused his or her contribution on a specific film. In a playful and unconventional way the book will mirror the ways in which these films bring image and text into direct encounter with the physical experience of history, and how his poetic texts creates a dialogue with images. This book offers Eisenberg’s dense and critically rich films to a wide audience of filmmakers, scholars and students of history, art and media. The book coincides with a newly published DVD of Eisenberg’s films.

Postwar: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg

Eisenberg, Daniel

Gunning, Tom

Alter, Nora

Black Dog Press

Ce volume, le premier de ceux qui seront consacres a la Poietique, est le fruit de recherches poursuivies depuis plusieurs annees sur ce theme par le Groupe de Recherches esthetiques du C.N.R.S. Elargissant un concept que Valery limitait aux arts litteraires, ces etudes se proposent d'analyser les demarches qui president a l'instauration de l'oeuvre d'art - le rapport dynamique qui unit l'artiste a son oeuvre tandis qu'il est aux prises avec elle - de retracer les etapes du trajet entre fenese et structure; enfin de tenter de retrouver, par une methodologie comparative, les rapports qui peuvent exister, d'un art a l'autre, entre de tels trajets.

Recherches Poietiques (Collection D'esthetique) (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Blumenkranz-Onimus, Noemi

Bosseur, Dominique

Bosseur, Jean-Yves

Guillerme, Jacques

History & Criticism

Klincksieck

L'Analyse du film

CALMANN-LEVY

La Querelle des dispositifs: Cinéma - installations, expositions

Essays & Correspondence

First published in French in 1990, Between-the-Images unites 20 illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by Raymond Bellour (born 1939), one of the world's most prominent film theorists. Bellour writes in his foreword to this English edition: “Between-the-Images, which was innovative yesterday, is now a kind of archeological corpus. That is one of its virtues. It recalls how the landscape of the moving image was constituted and historicizes the first creative passages between film, video and photography.” Considering the works and strategies of artists and filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, Jean Eustache, Jean-Luc Godard, Thierry Kuntzel, Chris Marker and Bill Viola, Bellour shows how film looks at painting and how language inspires images. At once poetic and concisely argued, and accompanied by numerous film stills, Bellour's now-classic essays are invaluable and still relevant today.

Between the Images (Documents (JRP/Ringier))

JRP|Ringier

Tony Oursler

The intelligent irony that resonates through the video and projection installations of American artist Tony Oursler results from a subtle combination of sound, language and pop culture images. These elements are thoroughly explored in this monograph, the most extensive publication on Oursler and his work. His videos often employ a projected human face to create bizarre contemporary icons and fragmented narratives that speak to the dislocation caused by contemporary issues of sex, violence and power. Tony Oursler includes 180 illustrations from his video, sculpture and mixed-media works on paper, as well as an extensive selection of the artist's own writings. There are also two long conversations between Oursler and the artists Mike Kelley and Dan Graham, which testify to the long-lasting mutual appreciation and collaboration between them. This is a major new publication on the career of one of the most important American artists of the last two decades.

Graham, Dan

KELLEY, MIKE

Conrad, Tony

Moure, Gloria

Oursler, Tony

Individual Artists

POLÍGRAFA

ENTRE IMAGENES Foto cine video

Ediciones Colihue

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