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a grammar of murder violent scenes and film form
p the dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we can not see . the real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men . the missing countershot from the murder victims point of view . such images or absent images karla oeler contends distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film . p reexamining works by such filmmakers as renoir hitchcock kubrick jarmusch and eisenstein oeler traces the murder scenes intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of hollywood genre . she argues that murder plays such a central role in film because it mirrors on multiple levels the act of cinematic representation . death and murder at once eradicate life and call attention to its former existence just as cinema conveys both the reality and the absence of the objects it depicts . but murder shares with cinema not only this interplay between presence and absence movement and stillness unlike death killing entails the deliberate reduction of a singular subject to a disposable object . like cinema it involves a crucial choice about what to cut and what to keep .
paperback university of chicago press 2009 isbn13 9780226617954 isbn10 0226617955
abridged n isbn 13 9780226617954 number in series 1 number of pages 282 publisher university of chicago press release date 62135769600000