Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema 067454336X, 9780674543362
David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a
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English Pages 352 [348] Year 1991
Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Interpretation as Construction......Page 16
Meaning Made......Page 23
Interpretive Doctrines......Page 28
2. Routines and Practices......Page 34
Interpretation, Inc.......Page 36
The Logic of Discovery, or, Problem-Solving......Page 44
The Logic of Justification, or, Rhetoric......Page 49
An Anatomy of Interpretation......Page 55
The French Connection......Page 58
Explication Academicized......Page 63
Picture Planes......Page 68
Meaning and Unity......Page 79
4. Symptomatic Interpretation......Page 86
Culture, Dream, and Lauren Bacall......Page 88
Myth as Antinomy......Page 93
Système à la Mode......Page 98
The Contradictory Text......Page 102
Symptoms and Explications......Page 109
5. Semantic Fields......Page 120
Meanings in Structures......Page 122
Structures of Meaning......Page 130
The Role of Semantic Fields......Page 142
Mapping as Making......Page 144
Knowledge Structures and Routines......Page 150
Mapping as Modeling......Page 157
Is There a Class for This Text?......Page 161
Making Films Personal......Page 166
8. Text Schemata......Page 184
A Butt’s-Eye Schema......Page 185
Meaning, Inside Out and Outside In......Page 196
Textual Trajectories......Page 201
Doctrines into Diachronies......Page 210
9. Interpretation as Rhetoric......Page 220
Sample Strategies......Page 221
Theory Talk......Page 230
Jean Douchet, “Hitch and His Public” (1960)......Page 239
Robin Wood, “Psycho,” Hitchcock’s Films (1965)......Page 241
Raymond Durgnat, “Inside Norman Bates,” Films and Feelings (1967)......Page 245
V. F. Perkins, “The World and Its Image,” Film as Film (1972)......Page 247
Raymond Bellour, “Psychosis, Neurosis,Perversion” (1979)......Page 250
Barbara Klinger, “Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality” (1982)......Page 254
Leland Poague, “Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism” (1986)......Page 256
The Ends of Interpretation......Page 264
The End of Interpretation?......Page 269
Prospects for a Poetics......Page 278
Notes......Page 291
Index......Page 343
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Interpretation as Construction......Page 16
Meaning Made......Page 23
Interpretive Doctrines......Page 28
2. Routines and Practices......Page 34
Interpretation, Inc.......Page 36
The Logic of Discovery, or, Problem-Solving......Page 44
The Logic of Justification, or, Rhetoric......Page 49
An Anatomy of Interpretation......Page 55
The French Connection......Page 58
Explication Academicized......Page 63
Picture Planes......Page 68
Meaning and Unity......Page 79
4. Symptomatic Interpretation......Page 86
Culture, Dream, and Lauren Bacall......Page 88
Myth as Antinomy......Page 93
Système à la Mode......Page 98
The Contradictory Text......Page 102
Symptoms and Explications......Page 109
5. Semantic Fields......Page 120
Meanings in Structures......Page 122
Structures of Meaning......Page 130
The Role of Semantic Fields......Page 142
Mapping as Making......Page 144
Knowledge Structures and Routines......Page 150
Mapping as Modeling......Page 157
Is There a Class for This Text?......Page 161
Making Films Personal......Page 166
8. Text Schemata......Page 184
A Butt’s-Eye Schema......Page 185
Meaning, Inside Out and Outside In......Page 196
Textual Trajectories......Page 201
Doctrines into Diachronies......Page 210
9. Interpretation as Rhetoric......Page 220
Sample Strategies......Page 221
Theory Talk......Page 230
Jean Douchet, “Hitch and His Public” (1960)......Page 239
Robin Wood, “Psycho,” Hitchcock’s Films (1965)......Page 241
Raymond Durgnat, “Inside Norman Bates,” Films and Feelings (1967)......Page 245
V. F. Perkins, “The World and Its Image,” Film as Film (1972)......Page 247
Raymond Bellour, “Psychosis, Neurosis,Perversion” (1979)......Page 250
Barbara Klinger, “Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality” (1982)......Page 254
Leland Poague, “Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism” (1986)......Page 256
The Ends of Interpretation......Page 264
The End of Interpretation?......Page 269
Prospects for a Poetics......Page 278
Notes......Page 291
Index......Page 343
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