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The Prop

What are film props? What do they do? This book answers these questions by a close attention to those material objects that are used to construct cinematic worlds. The term prop is short for property. This truncated terms etymology belies the expansiveness of the concept and indicates the micro and macro scales at which th......
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What are film props? What do they do? This book answers these questions by a close attention to those material objects that are used to construct cinematic worlds. The term “prop” is short for property. This truncated term’s etymology belies the expansiveness of the concept and indicates the micro and macro scales at which the prop operates. Props are the material—often literal—furniture of cinema’s diegetic reality. Props are also narrative agents: think of the animacy of objects in Jean Epstein’s account of photogénie, the crystal egg in Risky Business, or the domestic bric-à-brac of Sirk’s melodramas. The prop is central to production design and the construction of mise-en-scène. And yet, the prop has rarely—almost never—been taken as an object of analysis and theorization in its own right. This book begins by tracing the prop’s curious but unacknowledged role in film theory, before proceeding to a series of theoretical speculations and close readings that bring the prop into

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