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Shoe Reels The History And Philosophy Of Footwear In Film Elizabeth Ezra

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Shoe Reels The History And Philosophy Of Footwear In Film Elizabeth Ezra
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 19.65 MB
Pages: 272
Author: Elizabeth Ezra, Catherine Wheatley
ISBN: 9781474451406, 1474451403
Language: English
Year: 2021

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Shoe Reels The History And Philosophy Of Footwear In Film Elizabeth Ezra by Elizabeth Ezra, Catherine Wheatley 9781474451406, 1474451403 instant download after payment.

In his famous interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's painting A Pair of Peasant's Shoes (1886), Heidegger argues that shoes tell us all we need to know about the world of the person who walks in them. In the case of Van Gogh's painting, we learn this not through a description of the pair of shoes, nor by a report on how to make shoes, but by looking at the shoes. Heidegger thus gestures towards the power of the visual arts to show us human truths through images of footwear & the feet they conceal or reveal, a power that finds its fullest expression in the cinema

From Chaplin's meal of boots (The Gold Rush, 1925), through Powell & Pressburger's Red Shoes (1948) & Dorothy's ruby slippers (The Wizard of Oz, 1939), to Julia Roberts' pvc thigh-highs (Pretty Woman, 1990), Marty McFly's power-lacing Nikes (Back to the Future, 1985) & the slim, spike-heeled stiletto that graces the poster for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), shoes are not only some of the cinema's most enduring icons; they also serve as characterisations, plot devices, soundtracks, metaphors, & philosophical touchpoints. 

This book anaylses their significnace through a range of approaches drawn from the fields of Film Studies, Philosophy, Cultural History, Fashion, Cultural Studies & Politics.

Catherine Wheatley is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (2008) & the co-editor of Je t'aime… moi non plus (2010).

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