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Author:   David Scott Diffrient (Professor of Film and Media Studies, Colorado State University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.433kg
ISBN:  

9780748695669

ISBN 10:   0748695664
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1. ‘Beginnings without Ends’: Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2. A Cinema of Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3. Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4. Key Concepts in Film Studies: Audience, Authorship, Genre, and Nation; Part II: Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema; 5. Wartime Consensus Pictures and the ‘Housing’ of History: From Forever and a Day to Dead of Night; 6. Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7. Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8. Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: From Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9. The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: From Paris, je t’aime to 11’09”01; Filmography; Notes; Index

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"Accused as either ""ramshackle"" filmmaking or acclaimed for savvy ""acuteness and prankishness,"" the under-appreciated ""omnibus"" film is rewardingly studied here by David Scott Diffrient. Described as a ""meta-genre"", Diffrient precisely and comprehensively discusses these films' rich history and their transauthorial dynamic aesthetics. By doing so, Omnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema situates the unique place in film history that these films hold.-- ""Professor David A. Gerstner, Professor of Cinema Studies, City University of New York"""

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David Scott Diffrient is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Colorado State University

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