Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema PDF
Preview Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema
Making Meaning Harvard Film Studies Making Meaning Inftrence and Rhetoric in the Interpretation ofCinema David Bordwell Harvard University Press Cambridge) Massachusetts London) England Copyright © 1989 bythe Presidentand FellowsofHarvardCollege All rights reserved Printed in the UnitedStatesofAmerica FirstHarvard UniversityPress paperbackedition, 1991 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Bordwell, David. Makingmeaning :inference and rhetoric in the interpretationof cinema/David Bordwell. p. em. Bibliography: p. Iricludes index. ISBN 0-674-54335-1 (alk. paper) (cloth) ISBN 0-674-54336-X (paper) I. Filmcriticism. 2. Motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.B6172 1989 89-30324 791.43'01'5--<ic19 eIP For Samuel Becker AngeloBertocci Richard Goldman Fred Silva Patricia Ward Contents Preface xt 1. Making Films Mean 1 Interpretation as Construction 1 Meaning Made 8 Interpretive Doctrines 13 2. Routines and Practices 19 Interpretation) Inc. 21 The Logic ofDiscovery) o~ Problem-Solving 29 The Logic ofJustification) ~ Rhetoric 34 AnAnatomy ofInterpretation 40 3. Interpretation as Explication 43 The French Connection 43 E~Um~nAcMemuk~ 48 Picture Planes 53 Meaning and Unity 64 4. Symptomatic Interpretation 71 Culture) Dream) andLauren Bacall 73 Myth asAntinomy 78 Systeme alaMode 83 The Contradictory Text 87 Symptoms andExplications 94 Contents V1I1 5. Semantic Fields 105 Meanings in Structures 107 of Structures Meaning 115 The Role ofSemanticFields 127 6. Schemata and Heuristics 129 Mapping asMaking 129 Knowledge Structures andRoutines 135 Mapping asModeling 142 7. Two Basic Schemata 146 Is There a Classfor This Text? 146 Making FilmsPersonal 151 8. Text Schemata 169 A Bull's-Eye Schema 170 Meaning) Inside Out and OutsideIn 181 Textual Trajectories 186 Doctrines intoDiachronies 195 9. Interpretation as Rhetoric 205 Sample Strategies 206 Theory Talk 215 10. Rhetoric in Action: Seven Models ofPsycho 224 Jean Douchet) ((~itch andHis Public)) (1960) 224 Robin Wood) "Psycho," Hitchcock's Films (1965) 226 RaymondDurgnat) "1nsideNor1nan Bates)" Films and Feelings (1967) 230 V. F. Perkins) "The World andItsImage))) Film as Film (1972) 232 RaymondBellour, "Psychosis) Neurosis) Perversion)) (1979) 235 Barbara Klinger, "Psycho: The Institutionalization ofFemale Sexuality)) (1982) 239 LelandPoague) "Links in a Chain: Psycho andFilm Classicism)) (1986) 241 Contents IX 11. Why Not to Read aFilm 249 The Ends ofInterpretation 249 The EndofInterpretation? 254 Prospectsfor a Poetics 263 Notes 277 Index 329
The list of books you might like
