Film Hieroglyphs
ISBN: 9780816699278
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion picture plays -- History and criticism;

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching filmOCoexamining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directorsOCoRenoir, Lang, Walsh, RosselliniOCotend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design attesting to a hidden rhetoric and to configurations of meaning that cinema cannot always control."


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