Bøger af Sam Rohdie

" -Film QuarterlySam Rohdie has written a personal, wonderfully lucid account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature.

An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism. -- .

A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known - Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles - to those that he feels need more attention - Painleve, Vigo and Franju. -- .

An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn, in the 1900s - arguably an instance of French modernism.

Fellini Lexicon explores the forms and substances, significances and insignificances, objects and shadows in Fellini's work - the dance and music of his characters, the colour, light, and movement in his images. Fellini Lexicon is an original, delightful approach to Fellini's work and to the practice of film criticism.