In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art ISBN: 9780773571907 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Motion pictures -- Reviews; Motion pictures -- History;
In Search of Cinema chronicles the vitality of international film art in the last two decades. At a time when the movie review has degenerated into mere publicity for Hollywood pictures and film scholarship has become entangled in its own pseudo-scientific discourse, Bert Cardullo reclaims the territory of a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a scholar-theorist. With elegance, clarity, and rigour, he offers close readings of individual films to show how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex, significant human goals.