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Author Torlasco, Domietta

Title The Time of the Crime : Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Scene of the Crime; "X Marks the Spot"; Blow-up: Returning to the Scene of Perspective; The Passenger: Vanishing; 2. Desiring Death; Intermittence; The Night Porter: The Metamorphosis of the Crime Scene; The Detective and the Witness; 3 Seeing Time; Skins of Color; Oedipus Rex: The Depth of the Crime Scene; The Face and the Landscape; 4. Twilight; The Line and the Labyrinth; The Spider's Stratagem: The Truth of the Crime Scene; Notes; Index
Summary The Time of the Crime explores the undoing of the detective genre in the Italian art cinema of the sixties and seventies, using an approach that combines psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and aesthetics to redefine the task of film criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Detective and mystery films -- Italy -- History and criticism
Time in motion pictures.
Detective and mystery films
Time in motion pictures
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804786775
0804786771