MISE EN SCÈNE AND FILM STYLE ∙ ADRIAN MARTIN

MISE EN SCÈNE AND FILM STYLE • FROM CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD TO NEW MEDIA ART • Adrian Martin • 2014 Palgrave Macmillan 235 pgs • Cover Image Sónia Bandeira in OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST (Miguel Gomes, 2018) O Som e a Fúria Filmes • Signed copy from the author • PVP 74,89€ • Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com.

“Mise en Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art is a compact, dense, magisterial book. The scholarly coverage and detailed analysis of select sequences from films, television and new media art, plus extensive commentary on scholarly film criticism and theory, together packed into its 216 primary pages is quite remarkable. That I can imagine almost any chapter or section of the book potentially forming the basis for further, expanded work is a tribute to Mise en Scène and Film Style’s substantiveness. Almost without exception, Martin sustains with absolute grace the juggling of a frequently vast array of reference points taken from a copious array of film critics, theorists, and audiovisual texts, and the author’s always interesting commentary thereon in developing his thesis. He assumes a relatively well-informed reader, one already familiar with many of the intertwined historical and ongoing debates charted throughout, and who is perhaps occasionally prepared to pause and read up on a given concept or argument in the event of feeling the need to engage with it more extensively. Rather than a meaningful criticism, this latter possibility shows how evocatively Martin marshals his material, making the reader want to read further beyond the book itself.”

SENSES OF CINEMA, Hamish Ford