From Doors to Screens by Ido Lewit
treats filmic representations of non-filmic technologies as potentially meaningful intermedial encounters, wherein the objects and media represented interact with the basic characteristics of film in ways that affect cinematic expression, meaning-making, and argumentation. Focusing on doors, clocks, gramophones, and video screens in films by Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, and others, the book reveals how these objects and technologies function as discursive agents, with formal, narrative, and argumentative consequences. Applying media theory to film analysis, the book proposes a novel methodology for the close reading of films, offering an alternative to more common symbolic and metaphorical interpretations.-
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Language Without Borders
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Cavell on Film
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Eccentric Laughter
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Brief Encounters
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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Visions in the Frame
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
Ido Lewit is Assistant Professor at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University. He is the coeditor, with Shai Biderman, of Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image and, with Brigitte Peucker, of New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9798855806410 |
| Title | From Doors to Screens |
| Author | Ido Lewit |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2026-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 274 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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