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Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto 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. The Eloquent Screen 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. --

film --- filmtheorie --- filmanalyse --- Chaplin Charles --- Ford John --- Kiarastomi Abbas --- Eisenstein Sergei --- Malick Terence --- Haneke Michael --- Mizoguchi Kenji --- Hitchcock Alfred --- Godard Jean-Luc --- 791.41 --- Motion pictures --- Subjectivity in motion pictures --- Metaphor in motion pictures --- Motion picture plays --- Point of view in motion pictures --- Subjective camera --- Philosophy --- History and criticism --- Subjectivity in motion pictures. --- Metaphor in motion pictures. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism. --- 24.31 theory and aesthetics of film art. --- Film. --- Motion picture plays. --- PERFORMING ARTS --- Stilistik. --- Screenplays.