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Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Cinematic Flashes
• Subtitle: Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood
• Author: Rashna Wadia Richards
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780253006882
• ISBN: 0253006880
• ID: 04869871
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. December 2012

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