The World in a Frame

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Contents: INTRODUCTION Movies in Mind = 1 SECTION ONE Varieties of Visual Coherence = 20 A Short History of the Visible = 24 The Continuous Muse = 33 The Shaping Eye and the Recalcitrant Object = 37 The Open and the Closed = 44 Frame and Context = 51 Magic, Science, and Religion : Connecting the Visible = 65 Gods in the Film = 69 The Theme of the Object = 76 Fact-gatherer and Fact-creator = 83 Open World and Enclosed Story: New Forms in the 1950s and 1960s = 94 SECTION TWO Genre : The Conventions of Connection = 104 Self-consciousness and Story = 114 Enclosed Society and Open Spaces = 117 Westerns and the Myth of the Past = 124 Musicals and the Energy from Within = 139 Truffaut, Godard, and the Genre Film as Self-conscious Art = 163 The Transformation of Genre: Film and Society in the 1970s = 169 SECTION THREE Acting and Characterization : The Aesthetics of Omission = 182 Acting: Stage vs. Screen = 191 Role-playing and Type-casting = 201 The Metaphysic of the Body = 212 Actors and Objects = 218 Films and Human Nature = 225 The Double = 226 The Theatrical Character = 235 Character and Connection : European and American Films of the 1960s and 1970s = 250 INDEX OF FILMS = 260 GENERAL INDEX = 266

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