[Commlist] New book: The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Eloquent Screen***

A Rhetoric of Film

*Gilberto Perez*

*Foreword by James Harvey***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-eloquent-screen_**__*

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking 
statement on film's unique ability to move us. Cinema is commonly hailed 
as "the universal language,” but how does it communicate so effortlessly 
across cultural and linguistic borders? In /The Eloquent Screen/, 
influential film critic Gilberto Perez makes a capstone statement on the 
powerful ways in which film acts on our minds and senses.Drawing on a 
lifetime's worth of viewing and re-viewing, 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. He begins by explaining 
how film fits into the rhetorical tradition of persuasion and 
argumentation. Next, Perez explores how film embodies the central tropes 
of rhetoric––metaphor, metonymy, allegory, and synecdoche––and concludes 
with a thrilling account of cinema's spectacular capacity to create 
relationships of identification with its audiences. Although there have 
been several attempts to develop a poetics of film, there has been no 
sustained attempt to set forth a rhetoric of film—one that bridges 
aesthetics and audience. Grasping that challenge, /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.

*Gilberto Perez *(1943–2015) held the Noble Chair in Art and Cultural 
History at Sarah Lawrence College and was author of /The Material Ghost: 
Films and Their Medium./ He was film critic for /The Yale Review/ and 
his essays on film have been published in /The Nation, the New York 
Times/, and the /London Review of Books./

With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers

*University of Minnesota Press**| November 2019 | 448pp | 9780816641338 
| PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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