Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film

by E. Gallafent

Overview

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137022189
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/23/2013
Series:	Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Edward Gallafent teaches Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director (1994), Astaire and Rogers (2000) and Quentin Tarantino (2006). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the online publication Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Letter from an Unknown Woman 2. Inscription and Erasure in All This, and Heaven Too 3. Of Lessons and of Love: The Man who Shot Liberty Valance 4. Into The Wild: The New Unreadable America 5. The Reader: Embracing Reading, Denying Writing 6. Conclusion: The Intimacy of Writing Bibliography Index

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