Description
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.
About the Author
Leo Braudy is Leo S. 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.
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9780226071565
Author Leo Braudy
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 21mm * 13mm * 2mm
About the Author
Leo Braudy is Leo S. 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.
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9780226071565
Author Leo Braudy
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 21mm * 13mm * 2mm
