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Author_Karla Oeler
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cinema
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fiction
fictional works
film studies
form
genre
guns
hollywood
humanity
humans
imagination
interplay
jean renoir
killing
lev kuleshov
literary scholarship
loss
mass media
montage
motion picture
movies
murder
mystery
stanley kubrick
stylization
suspense
thrillers
violence
violent movie
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- ISBN 9780226617954
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Reexamining works by such film-makers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene's intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that murder plays such a central role in film because it mirrors, on multiple levels, the act of cinematic representation. Death and murder at once eradicate life and call attention to its former existence, just as cinema conveys both the reality and the absence of the objects it depicts. But murder shares with cinema not only this interplay between presence and absence, movement and stillness: unlike death, killing entails the deliberate reduction of a singular subject to a disposable object. Like cinema, it involves a crucial choice about what to cut and what to keep.
Karla Oeler is associate professor of film studies at Emory University.
