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The Material Ghost

Films and Their Medium

Gilberto Perez

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade, The Material Ghost tied for first place with Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma. Gilberto Perez draws on his lifelong love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write a lively, wide-ranging, penetrating study of films and filmmakers and the nature of the art form.

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Strikes an ideal balance between insightful analysis and graceful writing... A model of thoughtful criticism that treats the complexities of film and the sensibilities of readers with equal understanding, consideration, and respect.

In recent decades there has been no more cogent a rethinking of the physical and psychological experience of film as it evolved, both as a technology and as an art form. I want to read it again, soon.

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9
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480
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9780801865237
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86 b&w photos
Table of Contents

Introduction. Film and Physics
Chapter 1. The Documentary Image
Chapter 2. The Narrative Sequence
Chapter 3. The Bewildered Equilibrist
Chapter 4. The Deadly Space Between
Chapter 5. The Meaning of

Introduction. Film and Physics
Chapter 1. The Documentary Image
Chapter 2. The Narrative Sequence
Chapter 3. The Bewildered Equilibrist
Chapter 4. The Deadly Space Between
Chapter 5. The Meaning of Revolution
Chapter 6. Landscape and Fiction
Chapter 7. American Tragedy
Chapter 8. History Lessons
Chapter 9. The Signifiers of Tenderness
Chapter 10. The Point of View of a Stranger

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Gilberto Perez

Gilberto Perez is a professor of film studies at Sarah Lawrence College and film critic for the Yale Review.