From Doors to Screens by Ido Lewit

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.

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.

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ISBN 13	9798855806410
Title	From Doors to Screens
Author	Ido Lewit
Series	Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2026-10-02
Number of pages	274
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