This is a collection of essays by a well-known film scholar and includes new chapters on Hitchcock, Griffith, Hawks, Chaplin and Renoir. They examine how theatrical melodrama is transformed by the role of the camera, the erotic dimension of film and the relationship between documentary and film.
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Originally published in 1988, The "I" of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. In a series of eloquent essays examining the "Americanness" of American film, Rothman argues compellingly that movies have inherited the philosophical perspective of American transcendentalism. This second edition includes fourteen new essays, written after the book's first publication, as well as a new foreword.
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