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The "I" of the camera: essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics
Rothman, William.
Year: c2004.
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Essays
1 Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema
2 D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies
3 Judith of Bethulia
4 True Heart Griffith
5 The Ending of City Lights
6 The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West
7 Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image
8 Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera
9 Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas
10 Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
11 Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby
12 The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game
13 Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood
14 To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel
15 Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia
16 Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema
17 The River
18 Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock
19 North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film
20 The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?"
21 Thoughts on Hitchcock's Authorship
22 Eternal Vérités: Cinema-Vérité and Classical Cinema
23 Visconti's Death in Venice
24 Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings
25 The Taste for Beauty: Eric Rohmer's Writings on Film
26 Tale of Winter: Philosophical Thought in the Films of Eric Rohmer
27 The "New Latin American Cinema"
28 Violence and Film
29 What Is American about American Film Study?
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Title: The "I" of the camera : essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics / William Rothman.
Author: Rothman, William
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Rothman, William
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2004.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07552
Subject Headings: • Motion pictures
• Film criticism
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