Style articles from September 1998

Style archives from September 1998

Introduction.(Style in Cinema)(style in cinema)
September 22, 1998... This number of Style assembles six essays on style in cinema. The authors discuss parallels between literary style and film style, ways in which technology (sound, color) shapes technique, the problem of cinematic tempo, the ethics of style,...

Film form: an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film.(Style in Cinema)
September 22, 1998... Part I: The Different Domains of Style As with other artforms, the initial problem of talking about style or form in film is complicated by the fact that the concept of style can be applied to so many different kinds of things and at so...

Keeping up with Hawks.(Style in Cinema)(filmmaker Howard Hawks)
September 22, 1998... We had an interesting thing during the making of it - the newspaper-men, who looked on the story of Front Page as a sort of Bible, were rather horrified at the idea of changing the reporter to a girl. We arranged a showing to the newspapermen,...

Stylistic description as historical method: French films of the German Occupation.(Style in Cinema)
September 22, 1998... In this article, I undertake a study of the cinema of occupied France with the aim of demonstrating the necessity of the descriptive analysis of film style in film historiography. My basic claim is that descriptive analysis is necessary because...

Color at the center: Minnelli's Technicolor style in 'Meet Me in St. Louis.'.(Style in Cinema)(filmmaker Vincente Minnelli)
September 22, 1998... The image of Judy Garland on a trolley, framed by a circle of singers with brightly colored hats and dresses, has become a popular emblem of the Hollywood color musical. Part of the enduring appeal of this image, aside from its association with...

Forget the Alamo: reading the ethics of style in John Sayles's 'Lone Star.'.(Style in Cinema)
September 22, 1998... Blood only means what you let it. - John Sayles, Lone Star In an editorial of 26 March 1997, Linda Chavez, the President of the Center for Equal Opportunity and a nationally syndicated columnist, laments Hollywood's subtle "chipping...

Borges and the classical Hollywood cinema.(Style in Cinema)(fiction writer)
September 22, 1998... Although there are already a few articles written about the influence that Borges's interest in cinema had on his fictional work, this still remains a largely understudied area of his aesthetics, especially in comparison to the attention given...

Almanac of Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Stories After Freud and Lacan.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Ed. Ruth Golan, Gabriel Dahan, Shlomo Lieber, and Rivka Warshawsky. Tel Aviv: Groupe Israelienne de l'Ecole Europeene, 1998. 227 pp. $25.00. Initially, because of how it is situated within what Elisabeth Roudinesco calls "Lacanian...

Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Julian Wolfreys and William Baker, eds. New York: New York University Press. xi + 259pp. If this ain't the berries! as an uncle of mine (memorable only for that botched idiom) used to say. Here's a book explaining and performing literary...

A New History of Classical Rhetoric.(Review)
September 22, 1998... George A. Kennedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xii + 301 pp. $54.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. For scholars of rhetoric today, George A. Kennedy might well take Aristotle's place in Dante as maestro di color che sanno. He is the...

Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Katharine Young. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiii + 199. $27.75 cloth. The opening paragraph of this inventive, stylishly written book outlines the core problem studied by the author: Medicine inscribes the body into a...

Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Lubomir Dolezel. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. xii + 339 pp. $45.00 hardcover. The timing of the publication of this book tells a deceptive story. Heterocosmica appeared in the wake of a number of other books on the...

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Helen Vendler. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997. xx + 672 pp. $35.00 doth. CD included: the author reads 65 sonnets. As a stylized form of verbal construction and expression, the sonnet necessarily demands conscious artistic manipulation of...