Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences.
- ISBN10 0253007003
- ISBN13 9780253007001
- Publish Date 28 December 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 280
- Language English