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Edinburgh University Press Filming Death
Book SynopsisExamines the narratives documentary films construct and mediate about death and dying
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Filming Death
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Edinburgh University Press Reimagining Israel and Palestine in Contemporary
Book SynopsisExamines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Larisa Shepitko
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Edinburgh University Press Resistance in Indian Documentary Film
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Edinburgh University Press The Female Avenger Womens Anger and RapeRevenge Film and Television
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Edinburgh University Press Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences
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Edinburgh University Press Screens and Illusionism
Book SynopsisExplores the effects of illusionism within media representation and contemporary aesthetics with a focus on the uncanny.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press East Asian Auteurism Cinephilia and the Media
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Edinburgh University Press From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World
Book SynopsisExplores the creative and commercial developments of the Harry Potter franchise during the 2010s.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Spike Lee Brand The A Study of Documentary Filmmaking SUNY series in African American Studies
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State University of New York Press The Holiday in His Eye
Book SynopsisPresents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell''s philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has long been one of his most astute readers. The Holiday in His Eye collects Rothman''s writings about Cavell-many of them previously unpublished-to offer a lucid, serious introduction to and overview of Cavell''s work, the influence of which has been somewhat limited by both the intrinsic difficulty of his ideas and his challenging prose style. In these engaging and accessible yet philosophically serious and rigorously argued essays, Rothman presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes Cavell''s kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
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State University of New York Press The Cinematographers Voice
Book SynopsisA unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema's ultimate insiders.
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State University of New York Press Cinema of Discontent
Book SynopsisUses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar economic miracle, challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.
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State University of New York Press Bodies of Water
Book SynopsisRivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water''s queer cinematic potential, Bodies of Water proposes that we think not only about water but also through it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. Bodies of Water engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, Bodies of Water ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what''s so queer about cinematic waters?
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc American Film and Society since 1945
Book SynopsisFrom Steven Spielberg''s Lincoln to Clint Eastwood''s American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society.One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, Praeger''s American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential historical context. The historical overview provides a capsule analysis of both American and Hollywood history for the most recent decade as well as past eras, in which topics like American realism; Vietnam, counterculture revolutions, and 1960s films; and Hollywood depictions of big business like Wall Street are covered. Readers will better understand the explicit and hidden meanings of films and apprecTrade ReviewFilm studies programs will find this to be an indispensable tome, and public libraries will value the book's significant analyses and perceptions about both American society and its film industry. * ARBA *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 The 1940s 3 The 1950s 4 The 1960s 5 The 1970s 6 The 1980s 7 The 1990s 8 2000–2009 9 The 2010s Selected Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press Italian Horror Cinema
Book SynopsisIn its heyday from the 1950s until the 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore and often-incoherent plot-lines. This collection brings together a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the work of its most representative directors and the role it has played within popular culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Preferisco l'inferno: Early Italian horror cinema, Russ Hunter Chapter 2: Domestic Films Made for Export: Modes of Production of the 1960s Italian Horror Film, Francesco Di Chiara Chapter 3: The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel, Stefano Baschiera Chapter 4: Knowing the unknown beyond: 'Italianate' and 'Italian' horror cinema in the twenty-first century, Johnny Walker Chapter 5: Bavaesque: The Making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur, Peter Hutchings Chapter 6: The Argento Syndrome: Aesthetics of Horror, Marcia Landy Chapter 7: Scrap Metal, Stains, Clogged Drains: Argento's Refuse and Its Refusals, Karl Schoonover Chapter 8: The Giallo/Slasher Landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th, and Subtractive Spectatorship, Adam Lowenstein Chapter 9: Kings of Terror, Geniuses of Crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri, Leon Hunt Chapter 10: Political Memory in the Italian Hinterland: Locating the 'Rural Giallo', Austin Fisher Chapter 11: The Horror of Progressive Rock: Goblin and Horror Soundtracks, Craig Hatch Chapter 12: 'The Only Monsters Here Are the Filmmakers': Animal Cruelty and Death in Italian Cannibal Films, Mark Bernard Chapter 13: Italian Horror cinema and Italian Film Journals of the 1970s, Paolo Noto
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Edinburgh University Press ComingOfAge Cinema in New Zealand
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press James Bennings Environments
Book SynopsisA range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films
Book SynopsisExplores how cult and classic '60s British films are remade by Hollywood in the new millennium
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Edinburgh University Press Badfilm
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production conditions.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Early Cinema in Scotland
Book SynopsisFocusing on the social experience of cinema and cinema-going, this collection of essays provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland, from its inception in 1896 until the arrival of sound in the early 1930s.
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Edinburgh University Press Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian
Book SynopsisPresents a new history of Brazilian Cinema, based on its dialogue with other arts and media
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Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Soft Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.Trade Review"Offering a comprehensive and highly original perspective, Cinema and Soft Power is a significant contribution to the field. Anyone seeking to understand the value of cinema as a soft power instrument in case studies beyond the usual suspects" will appreciate both the breadth and depth of this collection of essays."" -Gary Rawnsley, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
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Edinburgh University Press Politics Aesthetics and Practice in Moroccan Cinema
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£76.50
Edinburgh University Press No Power without an Image
Book SynopsisThe first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms.
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Edinburgh University Press Transnational Kaiju
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the kaij? eiga has developed into a global genre
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Edinburgh University Press Mapping Taiwanese Cinema 200820
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Edinburgh University Press George A. Romeros Independent Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines George A. Romero's regional production company Laurel Entertainment and its contribution to American cinema.
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Lucrecia Martel
Book SynopsisCollects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel
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Edinburgh University Press Demons of the Mind
Book SynopsisExamines the mental health interventions that changed 1960s British and American cinema
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Edinburgh University Press Demons of the Mind
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Edinburgh University Press Faces on Screen
Book SynopsisExamines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Roberta Findlay
Book SynopsisThe first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta FindlayTrade Review"A beautifully curated and engaging collection of some of the most important voices in porn studies and cult cinema. These essays reflect the continued evolution of the field and the important work of canonizing overlooked yet profoundly significant filmmakers such as Findlay." -Laura Helen Marks, Tulane University
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Film and Fashion in Japan 192339
Book SynopsisExamines Western-inspired fashion objects in Japanese cinema between 1923 and 1939
£23.38
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema
Book SynopsisApplys a noir lens to films which defy easy generic categorization
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Kafkaesque Cinema
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Orion Publishing Co Miss Aluminium
Book SynopsisONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES'' 100 BEST SUMMER READS OF 2020''It''s hard to beat Susanna Moore''s Miss Aluminium'' Vogue''A sharp-edged summery treat'' Hadley Freeman''Unlike any Hollywood memoir you''ll have read'' MetroAt seventeen, Susanna Moore left her home in Hawai''i, with no money, no belongings and no prospects. But in Philadelphia, an unexpected gift of four trunks of beautiful clothes allowed her to assume the first of many disguises. Her journey takes her from New York to Los Angeles where she becomes a model and meets Joan Didion and Audrey Hepburn. She works as a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and is given a screen test by Mike Nichols. But beneath Miss Aluminium''s glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girl''s insatiable hunger to learn. Moore gives us a sardonic, often humorous portrait of Hollywood in the seventies and of a young womanTrade ReviewAn outstanding memoir... A novelist best known for her extraordinary 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut, Moore has now written an extraordinary memoir... The descriptive writing is a joy. * The Sunday Times *Poignant and hugely entertaining... As she tries on different identities, the book becomes less about childhood trauma than an examination of the masks women wear to meet social expectations, occasionally prompting them to forget who they are entirely... The book bursts with brilliantly gossipy titbits, recounted with wry understatement... From the outside, Moore's life seemed gilded with its merry-go-round of parties, lovers, designer clothes and dizzyingly famous friends. In Miss Aluminium, her tales of the Hollywood high life certainly provide giggles and glitz, though the darkness is never far from the surface. The real story is the ripple effect of grief, a woman's self-invention and the awful deeds of powerful men. -- Fiona Sturges * Guardian *Moore's account of her time as a model and bit-part actress in Hollywood is peppered with famous names, from Audrey Hepburn and Harrison Ford to Warren Beatty and Roman Polanski. But this riveting book isn't just about being on the fringes of celebrity: it's a compellingly dark tale of a young woman navigating her way through a sea full of sharks ... This is a totally gripping and tremendously entertaining memoir. * Daily Mail *A striking new memoir ... Through the #MeToo lens, Moore's measured, superficially judgment-free recounting of her time in the middle of All That can be read as a personal statement of empowerment: She came, she saw, she took notes, and she left to become a novelist and a miss-no-detail student of female autonomy. * New York Times *Miss Aluminium, is a triumphant, inspiring account of how to find your true self in the most unlikely of settings * RED magazine *As well as documenting Moore's heartbreaks, Miss Aluminium is also full of humorous tales about the famous... a poignant remembrance of a life lived in the shadow of family tragedy, as well as being a wry peak into celebrity narcissism. * Independent (App Edition) *Susanna Moore on working in Hollywood in the 1970s is literally my fantasy weekend read, and it does not disappoint. -- Hadley FreemanA sharp-edged summery treat -- Hadley FreemanDisarmingly candid... This is her first memoir and it's even better than her fiction... Moore deploys a disarming repertoire of sideswipes, gallows humour and raised eyebrows, whether writing about trivia or tragedy... There's a fascination here with toxic masculinity that makes you think of the dangerous, sexually potent detective in In the Cut. * The Times *Susanna Moore's memoir Miss Aluminium is the most blissful brilliant beautiful book. How it manages to be so glittery with old Hollywood gossip, and yet to be so utterly serious about a woman's struggle for self-determination, I don't know, but there it is. -- Rachel CookeNow seventy-four, and a well-regarded author, Moore is ready to expose her "shadow self" and the pain of her early life . . . One gets a sense that what is revealed has been chosen appraisingly, not out of coyness but, rather, out of something resembling an architect's appreciation of a structure's good bones. Moore's writing has the slightly mysterious sense of detachment that she adopted when building her persona, many years ago, though paradoxically this is what makes her revelations, when they come, more piercing. * The New Yorker *Moore's search for stability during a free-spirited decade is a whirlwind of celebrity encounters and a lyrical exploration of the lingering effects of a mother's death * Publishers Weekly *As readers of Moore's fiction know, she is a brilliant storyteller and sentence-maker . . . Miss Aluminum reminded me of everything I ever loved about her as a writer and now, as happens with certain memoirs, I feel like she is my friend? A very elegant, accomplished grande dame sort of friend, to be sure, one who might loan you a pair of blue velvet Pucci bell-bottoms or a copy of 'The Great War and Modern Memory' on your way out the door after tea. * The Washington Post *A tantalizing tale, told in a seductive and provocative voice. * Booklist *A captivating portrait of a woman in search of herself * Kirkus *It's a tale of shimmering, glamorous surfaces that conceal something darker and more painful... Miss Aluminium positions Moore as a chronicler of Sixties power and pleasure to rival her friend Didion, and, you sense, this model-actress-author has plenty more Hollywood stories to tell. We can only hope she chooses to share them. * Evening Standard *It's hard to beat Susanna Moore's Miss Aluminium * Vogue *There may not be an air bridge to the US just yet but you can still touch down on Tinseltown high life thanks to Susanna Moore's memoir, Miss Aluminium... her understated book is unlike any Hollywood memoir you'll have read * Metro *Wonderful ... Moore's sketches of famous friends cut to the quick - Nichols is tiringly brilliant; Beatty is restless and ravenous; Roman Polanski (this 20-something starlet was "too old to interest him") makes a contest of everything * Daily Telegraph *Moore's book captures what it was like to come of age in a glamorous world, but there was darkness beneath the surface. If the 70s was Hollywood's Golden Age, Miss Aluminium illustrates that there was much suffering and exploitation behind the scenes - and yet the young wannabe writer and actor from Hawaii clearly had plenty of fun along the way * Irish Independent *In this superb Hollywood memoir, novelist Susanna Moore tells the story of her early years... just as memorable is Moore's unflinching portrayal of the darkness beneath the glamour of Seventies Hollywood * Tatler *Miss Aluminium is a different order of achievement entirely, both in its scalding honesty and its sly, watchful humour. I haven't read a book like it in years. -- Anthony Quinn * Mail on Sunday *There's a kind of writing about LA that I am a sucker for. Gossipy, lyrical, with a surface of affectless simplicity but an undertow of melancholy that can be personal or institutional or, best of all, both entwined ... Joan Didion did it; Eve Babitz specialised in it... Miss Aluminium is that kind of book. I, of course, adore it. Miss Aluminium ends before Moore really becomes a writer, but with her poised for that part of her life to begin; its ravishing execution is testament to how fine a writer she became. * Spectator *There is a coolness in the way she describes traumatic events. Such understatement also lends itself to wicked humour... In another's hands, a Hollywood memoir would be pure titillation. What makes this stand out is its depiction of a specific place in time and the elegant restraint of its prose... an excellent book * Financial Times *A rollercoaster ride that will both move and entertain -- Alex Clark * Financial Times *Hollywood's darker side is exposed in this model-turned-writer's tales of her time among the stars * Sunday Times *The bare-bone facts of Susanna Moore's memoir read like a dark fairy tale... Heartbroken, directionless and adrift in a man's world... she embarks on a quest to find a voice and sense of selfhood, poignantly described by the older, wiser Susanna * Sunday Express *Moore's book captures what it was like to come of age in a glamorous world, but there was darkness beneath the glittering surface. If the 70s was Hollywood's Golden Age, Miss Aluminium illustrates that there was much suffering and exploitation behind the scenes * Irish Independent *
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McFarland & Co Inc Burt Reynolds on Screen
Book Synopsis? In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Reynolds was one of the world''s most famous stars of film and television. As much a folk hero as a Hollywood celebrity, he began as a stuntman and bit player in B Westerns and TV shows before landing a starring role on NBC''s Riverboat (1959-1961). His breakthrough role in Deliverance (1972) made him famous and the sleeper hit Smokey and the Bandit (1977) made his name a household word. This first critical overview of Reynolds'' work examines his complete filmography, featuring candid discussions with costars and collaborators, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and a wealth of film stills.Trade ReviewWayne Byrne's book on the cinematic and television career of Burt Reynolds is both entertaining and highly informative: this is a brilliant, professional biography of a sometimes misunderstood and underrated talent. If you think you knew Reynolds and his oeuvre, think again. Burt Reynolds on Screen is a definitive work that deserves to be read."—Paul Farren, Film Ireland"Byrne's book is a singular and compelling step towards establishing Reynolds as a true American Icon. His work is a clarion call for a revisionist project that will give this great actor the respect he has earned. This is not just a meticulously researched appraisal of a life's work but a serious statement about Reynold's importance to modern American cinema."—Matthew Nolan, senior lecturer and subject expert in creative media, Dublin Business School"Prolific author Wayne Byrne has penned a colossal contribution to the legacy of seven-time No. 1 box office star Burt Reynolds. His veracious attention to circumstance and detail is evident throughout the book. If you somewhat knew Burt Reynolds before the book, you certainly will know him after the book. I worked for Burt Reynolds as PR Director of his theater, appeared in two of his films, visited a dozen film sets, supported one of his protégés, and currently attend his Institute for Theatre Training Writing seminars. And yet this book tells me even more that I realized in my years of experiences. Once read, you will feel as if you were on the movie sets, too." —Peggy Gossett-Seidman, former public relations director at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre.
£41.12
McFarland & Co Inc Anita Page
Book Synopsis Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with Joan Crawford. In a relatively short career, Page enjoyed critical acclaim. She appeared in the first full-sound movie to win Best Picture, The Broadway Melody (1929). With a foreword by her close friend, actor Randal Malone, this reference work is the first to fully detail Page''s remarkable career, including a biography and a complete listing of all her films, along with her one stage appearance and her returns to the limelight in later years. Entries provide complete production information, reviews and behind-the-scenes commentary. Dozens of photos and revealing anecdotes complete a portrait of a fascinating yet underappreciated performer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixForeword by Randal Malone 1Preface 3Anita Page: "You Were Meant for Me" 7The FilmsA Kiss for Cinderella (1925) 73Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) 75Beach Nuts (1927) 76Telling the World (1928) 78While the City Sleeps (1928) 83Our Dancing Daughters (1928) 86The Flying Fleet (1929) 93The Broadway Melody (1929) 98Speedway (1929) 106Our Modern Maidens (1929) 109The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) 114Navy Blues (1929) 118Free and Easy (1930) 121Caught Short (1930) 124Our Blushing Brides (1930) 127The Little Accident (1930) 130War Nurse (1930) 134Reducing (1931) 137The Easiest Way (1931) 140Gentleman's Fate (1931) 146Sidewalks of New York (1931) 149Under Eighteen (1932) 152Are You Listening? (1932) 154Night Court (1932) 157Skyscraper Souls (1932) 161Prosperity (1932) 164Jungle Bride (1933) 166The Big Cage (1933) 169Soldiers of the Storm (1933) 172I Have Lived (1933) 174Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936) 176The Runaway (1961) 178Sunset After Dark (1996) 180Theater 185Foreign Language Films 191Shorts 193Documentaries and Television 195Video Films 197Chapter Notes 199Bibliography 209Index 211
£39.47
McFarland & Co Inc Spike Lees Bamboozled and Blackface in American
Book Synopsis Spike Lee''s challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, however, gives way to a complex and nuanced study of the history of black performance. This book analyzes the work of five men, minstrel performer Bert Williams, director Oscar Micheaux, writer Ralph Ellison, painter Michael Ray Charles, and director Spike Lee, all through the lens of this misunderstood film. Equal parts biography and cultural analysis, this book examines the intersections of these five artists and Bamboozled, and investigates their shared legacy of resistance against misrepresentation.
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McFarland & Co Inc Victoria Queen of the Screen
Book Synopsis Both in life and death, Queen Victoria is among the most popular monarchs to be committed to film. Her reign was characterized by an explosion in media coverage that began to rely on images rather than words to tell her story. Even though Victoria has been labeled the first media monarch, the sheer magnitude of her screen presence has been neither chronicled nor fully appreciated until now. This book examines the growth and evolution of Queen Victoria''s on-screen image. From the satirical cartoons and silent films of the 19th century to the television shows, video games, and webcomics of the 21st, it demonstrates how the protean Victoria character has evolved, ultimately meaning many different things to many different people in many different ways. Each chapter looks at a facet of her character and includes analysis of how these media present Queen Victoria as a real person and shape her as a character acting within a narrative. The book includes a comprehensive and inTable of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgments—vi Preface—1 Introduction: The Real and the Reel Victoria—3 1. Queen Victoria on the Silent Screen—11 2. Of War and Empire—36 3. Of Love and Obsession—62 4. Victoria Is Amused—91 5. Victoria Rules the Small Screen—103 6. Transformations of Victoria Into the 21st Century—137 Appendix: Select Filmography—149 Chapter Notes—195 Works Cited 215 Index—225
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University of Texas Press The LEGO Movie
Book SynopsisWhat happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image—maybe even a moving image? To what extent can the LEGO brick fit into the multimedia landscape of popular culture, especially film culture, today? Launching from these questions, Dana Polan traces LEGO from thing to film and asserts that The LEGO Movie is an exemplar of key directions in mainstream cinema, combining the visceral impact of effects and spectacle with ironic self-awareness and savvy critique of mass culture as it reaches for new heights of creativity.Incorporating insights from conversations with producer Dan Lin and writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Polan examines the production and reception of The LEGO Movie and closely analyzes the film within popular culture at large and in relation to LEGO as a toy and commodity. He identifies the film’s particular stylistic and narrative qualities, its grasp of aTrade ReviewDana Polan is a master-builder of film criticism…[Polan] riffs on…The LEGO Movie with the speed, wit, dexterity, and precision of Wyldstyle, building new arguments by dissembling and reassembling one part of the film after another. It's a dazzling performance, as fast-paced and all-over-the-place as his subject—zigging-zagging this way and that—and comes together in one analytical set-piece after another. * PopMatters, "The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction" *[The LEGO Movie] nails much of what makes Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s blockbuster so smart. * The Film Stage *Table of ContentsPrologue The World of Animation and the Animation of the World The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema Through the Rabbit Hole, into the LEGO-Verse Falling into Narrative The Extraordinary Ordinariness of LEGO The Secret Life of Toys Production History, Part 1: Project Development as LEGO Goes to the Movies Production History, Part 2: The Animation Process Production History, Part 3: The Screenwriter-Directors Reception and After-Life Coda Acknowledgments Notes LEGO Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Visible Borders Invisible Economies
Book Synopsis2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’Trade ReviewUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . . The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization Part I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera Part II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Where Histories Reside
Book SynopsisPriya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.Trade Review“With grace and flair Priya Jaikumar shows how the preproduction practices and industry cultures of cinema—from expedition and nature films to commercial Bollywood cinema—produced and reinforced the spatial notions of territory and empire that dominated geopolitical histories. She looks forward to contemporary Indian geopolitics, as the privatization of economic resources increasingly harms vulnerable populations—even while location-based films exploit these populations and iconic precolonial architecture, now often in ruins, for a cinematic backdrop or ambience. Here is a magnificent study.” -- Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor, Harvard University“Where Histories Reside is a superbly written book in which Priya Jaikumar uses the optics of space to recast the discourse of Indian cinema and its pasts. Landscape, territory, and architecture are brought into conversation with geography, cultural theory, cinema studies, and politics. The result is a magnificent and methodologically daring approach that displaces the desire for causality with the spatialization of historical inquiry.” -- Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi"Employing a variety of methodologies, the volume is valuable both in itself and as a model for subaltern cinema history and historiography." -- K. J. Wetmore Jr. * Choice *"Written with style and verve, [Where Histories Reside] is one of those rare academic works that can justifiably claim a readership beyond conventional disciplinary provinces like film history or theory." -- Anustup Basu * Critical Quarterly *“Where Histories Reside is a great resource.... It is an authoritative book with meticulous research.... [I] recommend it to those who are interested in how space, history, geography, and people have come to create the cinematic space.” -- Umme Al-wazedi * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *“Where Histories Reside might be a book of multiple localised legacies concerning regional geography, Empire and globalised networks of capital and film production, but it is also very much a publication brimming with hard-won personal insight and critical reflection.” -- Alastair Philips * BioScope *“Where Histories Reside shows that space is not a thing to be filmed, nor simply a place to film in.... Jaikumar’s book invites us to regard both national and cinematic space as overdetermined and also to consider that seeing filmed space requires multiple overlapping lenses.” -- Pamela Robertson Wojcik * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *“Beginning with a promise of realizing a spatial critique in film studies, this book contributes to the spatial turn in film studies.... The significant success of the book is in gesturing towards diverse methods which go beyond the textual, enter the world of commerce, labour and interlink the on screen with off screen.” -- C. Yamini Krishna * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Filmed Space 1 Part I. Rationalized Spaces 1. Disciplinary: Indian Towns in British Geography Classrooms 35 2. Regulatory: The State in Films Division's Himalayan Documentaries 75 Part II. Affective Spaces 3. Sublime: Immanence and Transcendence in Jean Renoir's India 125 4. Residual: Lucknow and the Haveli as Cinematic Topoi 181 Part III. Commodified Spaces 5. Global: From Bollywood Locations to Film Stock Rations 233 Conclusion: Cinema and Historiographies of Space 287 Appendix 311 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 389
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Duke University Press Reattachment Theory
Book SynopsisIn Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality—far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted—is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell''s analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films—Dorothy Arzner''s Craig''s Wife (1936); Tom Ford''s A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko''s High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh''s Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)—that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentallTrade Review“Gay marriage: heteronormative capture or homophobia's social cure? If Lee Wallace gets her way, we will be liberated from thinking about gay marriage in these reductive terms forever. Insightful, nervy, and unapologetic, Reattachment Theory makes a case for gay marriage as central to the history of sexual modernity.” -- Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature, Duke University“Reattachment Theory is a pointed engagement with contemporary queer theory and politics, making the fresh and compelling argument that homosexuality rescripted the marriage plot long before the legalization of same-sex marriage. Lee Wallace is an extraordinarily gifted close reader who sets new terms for queer marriage debates and film theory alike.” -- Patricia White, author of * Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms *"This well-researched, clearly argued, beautifully written, and brave book has few flaws." -- Elizabeth Freeman * Critical Inquiry *
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Duke University Press Discorrelated Images
Book SynopsisShane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.Trade Review“Addressing some of the most important issues faced by film and media scholars today, Shane Denson gives a surprising and highly cogent account of the changes that make for our current experience of ‘postcinematic’ audiovisual media. He powerfully shows how broad socio-technological forces work in the realm of visual media and suggests ways that such media can help us to grasp the scale and effects of those forces. An important book, Discorrelated Images offers major new contributions to film and media studies.” -- Steven Shaviro, author of * The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism *“Theoretically brilliant in its phenomenological conceptualization of discorrelation, Shane Denson's book reveals the perceptual and aesthetic discontinuities and continuities between film-based and digitally rendered cinema. Most significantly, Denson argues that understanding the effects of discorrelation and its expansion of our ways of seeing and being may provoke greater awareness of our existential precarity. A groundbreaking work.” -- Vivian Sobchack, author of * The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience *"The true strength of Discorrelated Images lies in Denson’s ability to make such dramatic claims about the role of technology in reshaping human subjectivity without ever veering into crude techno-determinism, or media-effects style moral panic... [It] is highly recommended to any reader with an interest in contemporary social and media theory.” -- Marcus Maloney * Thesis Eleven *“For anyone concerned with digital media in particular and media theory in general, Discorrelated Images is essential reading.” -- Christian de Mouilpied Sancto * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Discorrelation and Post-cinema 1 Part I. Theorizing Discorrelation 1. Crazy Cameras 21 2. Dividuated Images 51 3. Screen Time 73 Part II. Making Sense of Discorrelation 4. Life to Those Pixels! 113 5. The Horrors of Discorrelation 153 6. Post-cinema after Extinction 193 Notes 237 Bibliography 277 Index 293
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Duke University Press Indirect Subjects
Book SynopsisMatthew H. Brown explores the connections between Nigeria's booming film industry, state television, and colonial legacies that together involve spectators in global capitalism while denying them its privileges.Trade Review“Indirect Subjects is an ambitious work providing an overview of film in Nigeria from its earliest days, through the height of state television to the rise of Nollywood. It also offers a rethinking of this history by examining the political, economic, and aesthetic logics that tie this history together. This is an insightful work for both scholars and students analyzing iconic films and television series in a new way. Doing so, it offers a new understanding of political aesthetics in Nigeria.” -- Brian Larkin, author of * Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria *“Matthew H. Brown's Indirect Subjects applies acuity and sophistication to Nollywood in ways that push the terms of debate beyond anything currently conceived. This is at once theoretically nuanced and historically informed, attentive to the dynamics of the industry as well as to the specific subject matter of the movies. In a word, a real gift offering to a field already dotted with sparkling scholarly gems.” -- Ato Quayson, author of * Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism *"[Indirect Subjects] provides a valuable and generative contribution to African media studies. ... Brown’s access to rare archival materials allows him to offer what is, perhaps, the most sustained investigation of the links between state television and video films to date." -- Connor Ryan * African Studies Review *"[Indirect Subjects] adeptly explores the conjunctures and ruptures in the modalities of addressing the audience through different times and spaces in screen media history. ... This book makes a rich contribution to studies of the political economy of culture broadly and, more specifically, to the study of screen media in Nigeria by exposing the rifts and shifts in the neoliberal matrix that undergird it." -- Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Indirect Subjectivities and Periliberalism 1 Part I. 1. Subjects of Indirect Rule: Nigeria, Cinema, and Liberal Empire 33 2. Emergency of the State: Television, Pedagogical Imperatives, and The Village Headmaster 66 Part II. 3. "No Romance without Finance": Feminine Melodrama, Soap Opera, and the Male Breadwinner Ideal 99 4. Breadlosers: Masculine Melodrama, Money Magic, and the Moral Occult Economy 150 5. Specters of Sovereignty: Epic, Gothic, and the Ruins of a Past That Never Was 185 6. "What's Wrong with 419"?: Comedy, Corruption, and Conspiratorial Mirrors 221 Conclusion: Fantasies of Integration or Fantasies of Sovereignty 263 Notes 271 Filmography 285 Bibliography 289 Index 303
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