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Michael Newton's study of Roman Polanski's classic Gothic horror film is structured in three parts: a pledge, that sets out the making of the film; a critical turn, that explores its meanings and resonances; and a flourish of the prestige, that examines its reception and cultural impact. Throughout, his reading of the film depends on three interrelated ideas: first, that the film presents itself as just a film, a work of art bound up in the paradoxes of performance; second, that the movie dramatizes a theatre of relations based on power, constraint and the loss of the individual will; and third, that the movie makes up a meeting-point for many of the themes and fashions of the late 1960s. It both floats in a sea of context and explodes the very idea of context, given its involvement in a system of meaning based on connection, coincidence, and conspiracy.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Rosemary's Baby
• Author: Michael Newton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9781844579525
• ISBN: 9781844579525
• ID: 19533532
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 214 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 189 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 2020

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