{"product_id":"the-eloquent-screen-gilberto-perez-9780816641338","title":"The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film's unique ability to move us\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCinema is commonly hailed as \"the universal language,\" but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In \u003ci\u003eThe Eloquent Screen\u003c\/i\u003e, influential film critic Gilberto Perez makes a capstone statement on the powerful ways in which film acts on our minds and senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing and re-viewing, Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present--including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. He begins by explaining how film fits into the rhetorical tradition of persuasion and argumentation. Next, Perez explores how film embodies the central tropes of rhetoric--metaphor, metonymy, allegory, and synecdoche--and concludes with a thrilling account of cinema's spectacular capacity to create relationships of identification with its audiences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough there have been several attempts to develop a poetics of film, there has been no sustained attempt to set forth a rhetoric of film--one that bridges aesthetics and audience. Grasping that challenge, \u003ci\u003eThe Eloquent Screen\u003c\/i\u003e shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilberto Perez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816641331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816641338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2020","brand":"Gilberto Perez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926483730687,"sku":"9780816641338","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_45cf6fad-ed95-47e6-85b9-c2fd0ac55cb7.jpg?v=1681083324","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-eloquent-screen-gilberto-perez-9780816641338","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}