Book review

Abstract

Film analysis is framed by a discourse of sociable, even symbiotic tensions – between the remnant of a clannish Formalism and the traces of an elastic Postmodernism; between written traditions and improvisational whims; between formula and novelty; between connoisseur and opinionated pleb. The (happy?) medium may perhaps be found in the visually and technologically overstimulated youth of today who, on the surface at least, seem so adept in film analysis. Yet, although these juvenile experts are experienced in casually reading signs, they are decidedly deficient in formally elocuting them. Enter Leon van Nierop.