Film HieroglyphsAt a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching filmexamining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directorsRenoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellinitend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic