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1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 22 |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 22.
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Cover; Cinema as Weather; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Revealing Skies and Screens: The Confluence of Weather and Cinema; Storms, Miracles, and Unusual Weather; Skies, Screens, and Collective Experience; Weather in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Revealing the Weather in Film Theory; Cinematic Weather as Cinephilic History; Cinema as Weather: Scholarly and Lived; 2 The Cinematic History of Weather and the History of Cinematic Weather; The Cinematic History of Weather; Meteorology and Perception; Cinematic Landscapes |
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Domesticating Meteorology and CinemaMeteorology and National Identity; The History of Cinematic Weather; Weather's Invisibility in Early Film History; Cinematic Conquering and Creation of Weather; Early Spectacles of Cinematic Weather; 3 Interiority and Exteriority: Cinematic Weather as Plot and Effect; Weather as Plot and Drive; Interiority and Pathetic Fallacy; The Cinematic Pathetic Fallacy; Causality, Interiority, and Cinephilia; 4 Cinematic Rain; A Brief History of Rain Production; Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961); The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991) |
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The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000); It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) and It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946); Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2007); The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924); Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Another Woman (1988), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Match Point (2005), Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen "Love[s] Rain"; Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995); The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954); Rain in Cinema and World; 5 Cinematic Snow; A Brief History of Snow Production |
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Away from Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946); Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971); Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964); Snow in Cinema and World; 6 Cinematic Sunlight and Seasons; A Brief History of Cinematic Sunlight; All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955); Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006); To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert, 2002); Yasujiro Ozu's Seasons and Sunny Skies; Sunlight and Seasons in Cinema and World; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through analysis of films ranging from The Wizard of Oz to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, from Citizen Kane to In the Mood for Love, Kristi McKim calls our attention to the ways that we read our atmospheres both within and beyond the movies. Building upon meteorolog |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Weather in motion pictures.
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Nature in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Nature in motion pictures
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Weather in motion pictures
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136662027 |
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1136662022 |
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