What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exploring this important category of the complex film genre, she dissects the different narrative forces which bring the characters together and considers the relationship between this genre and rising loneliness and isolation worldwide.
What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exploring this important category of the complex film genre, she dissects the different narrative forces which bring the characters together and considers the relationship between this genre and rising loneliness and isolation worldwide.
Lucy Fischer is a Distinguished Professor, Emerita, of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of fifteen books, including Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History (2017), Cinemagritte: René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory and Practice (2019), Emotion Pictures: Cinema and Feelings (2023), and Recollecting Collecting: Film and Media Perspectives (2023).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1. Causations Chapter 1: Chance and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 2: Coincidence and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 3: Accident and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 4: The Supernatural: The Afterlife and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 5: History and Films of Converging Lives Part 2. Geographies Chapter 6: The Local/Urban and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 7: International and Global Convergences Part 3. Formations Chapter 8: Circulating Possessions and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 9: Metafiction and Films of Converging Lives
Introduction Part 1. Causations Chapter 1: Chance and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 2: Coincidence and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 3: Accident and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 4: The Supernatural: The Afterlife and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 5: History and Films of Converging Lives Part 2. Geographies Chapter 6: The Local/Urban and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 7: International and Global Convergences Part 3. Formations Chapter 8: Circulating Possessions and Films of Converging Lives Chapter 9: Metafiction and Films of Converging Lives
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