Cinematic flashes cinephilia and classical Hollywood /

Richards, Rashna Wadia, 1977-

Cinematic flashes cinephilia and classical Hollywood / [electronic resource] : Rashna Wadia Richards. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013. - xi, 262 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: inventing cinephiliac historiography -- Sonic booms: 1929 and the sensational transition to sound -- Show stoppers: 1937 and the chance encounter with chiffons -- Signature crimes: 1946 and the strange case of the lost scene (as well as the stranger case of the missing auteur) -- Apocalyptic antennae: 1954 and the end of storytelling -- Conclusion: the cinephiliac return.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780253007001 (electronic bk.)




Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.


Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.U6 / R495 2013

791.430973