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"A beautiful object in itself, Gorfinkel's and Rhodes' inspiring book brings to life the object in film. It gives the prop its deserved close-up and in doing so unravels a fascinating new way of looking at cinema."--Joanna Hogg, director of The Souvenir
What are film props? What do they do? This book answers these questions by a close attention to those material objects that are used to construct cinematic worlds. From the domestic bric-à-brac of Sirk's melodramas to the crystal egg of Risky Business, props are the material furniture of cinema's diegetic reality: both narrative agents and the stuff of mise-en-scène. And yet, the prop has rarely been taken as an object of analysis in its own right. This book begins by tracing the prop's curious but unacknowledged role in film theory, before proceeding to a series of theoretical speculations and close readings that bring the prop into focus. Across a variety of genres, modes, and historical contexts--studio filmmaking, art cinema, adult and avant-garde films--Gorfinkel and Rhodes argue that the prop is nothing less than a condensation of how labor, subjection, value, and instrumentality underwrite the very conditions of cinema. Elena Gorfinkel is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. John David Rhodes is Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge."A beautiful object in itself, Gorfinkel's and Rhodes' inspiring book brings to life the object in film. It gives the prop its deserved close-up and in doing so unravels a fascinating new way of looking at cinema."--Joanna Hogg, director of The Souvenir
What are film props? What do they do? This book answers these questions by a close attention to those material objects that are used to construct cinematic worlds. From the domestic bric-à-brac of Sirk's melodramas to the crystal egg of Risky Business, props are the material furniture of cinema's diegetic reality: both narrative agents and the stuff of mise-en-scène. And yet, the prop has rarely been taken as an object of analysis in its own right. This book begins by tracing the prop's curious but unacknowledged role in film theory, before proceeding to a series of theoretical speculations and close readings that bring the prop into focus. Across a variety of genres, modes, and historical contexts--studio filmmaking, art cinema, adult and avant-garde films--Gorfinkel and Rhodes argue that the prop is nothing less than a condensation of how labor, subjection, value, and instrumentality underwrite the very conditions of cinema. Elena Gorfinkel is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. John David Rhodes is Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge.Elena Gorfinkel is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s (Minnesota, 2017) and Wanda (British Film Institute, 2025).
John David Rhodes (Author)
John David Rhodes is Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film (Minnesota, 2017), Meshes of the Afternoon (British Film Institute, 2011), and Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (Minnesota, 2007).
1. A Strand of Rope | 1
2. Reading for the Prop | 13
3. Prop Value | 32
4. Realism, or the Prop's Thereness | 53
5. The Prop and the Performer | 80
6. Modalities of the Prop beyond the Studio | 95
Coda: Golden Rain Tree | 115
Theses on the Prop | 119
Acknowledgments | 125
Notes | 127
List of Figures | 137
Index | 139
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Theater & Film |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781531509613 |
| ISBN-10: | 1531509614 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Gorfinkel, Elena
Rhodes, John David |
| Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 175 x 127 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Elena Gorfinkel (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.03.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,136 kg |
Elena Gorfinkel is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s (Minnesota, 2017) and Wanda (British Film Institute, 2025).
John David Rhodes (Author)
John David Rhodes is Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film (Minnesota, 2017), Meshes of the Afternoon (British Film Institute, 2011), and Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome (Minnesota, 2007).
1. A Strand of Rope | 1
2. Reading for the Prop | 13
3. Prop Value | 32
4. Realism, or the Prop's Thereness | 53
5. The Prop and the Performer | 80
6. Modalities of the Prop beyond the Studio | 95
Coda: Golden Rain Tree | 115
Theses on the Prop | 119
Acknowledgments | 125
Notes | 127
List of Figures | 137
Index | 139
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Theater & Film |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781531509613 |
| ISBN-10: | 1531509614 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Gorfinkel, Elena
Rhodes, John David |
| Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 175 x 127 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Elena Gorfinkel (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.03.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,136 kg |
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