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Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Claire Denis
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The University of Chicago Press Westerns Making the Man in Fiction Film Paper
Book SynopsisRanging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from such classic films as "Stagecoach" to spaghetti Westerns like "A Fistful of Dollars", this book shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Women in the Western
Book SynopsisExplores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genre
£19.94
Oxford University Press Inc Astaire by Numbers Time the Straight White Male
Book SynopsisAstaire by Numbers offers a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture through a new looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era. Author Todd Decker provides a deep examination of this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality.Trade ReviewIn wonderfully engaging prose, Decker demonstrates how and why both musical and computational numbers count in Astaire's films, and he is also enviably good at describing the qualitative dimension of those numbers. This book will be a delight for Astaire enthusiasts and a must-read for devotees and students of dance on film, while also providing a sobering account of the systemic racism and careful, career-long self-regulation that sustained his successful dancing performance of straight white masculinity. * Raymond Knapp, Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Humanities, UCLA *Todd Decker's Astaire by Numbers deftly pairs quantitative analysis with archival research to examine both the material labor of Fred Astaire's dancing body and his position of power within the Hollywood studio era. Through a novel and careful parsing of musical choreography and production practices, Decker illustrates how Astaire's identity as a cisgender, heterosexual white male allowed him to dominate the Hollywood Studio era's film musicals in a way no other musical star has. * Colleen T. Dunagan, California State University, Long Beach *Astaire by Numbers provides an in-depth look into the fastidious creative processes of Fred Astaire and how the dancer's work and persona shaped the concept of the male dancer during his time... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction One: Numbers Two: Shots Three: Days, Hours, Minutes Midpoint: "I just / Won't / [don't?] Dance" Four: Frames, Sets, Cuts Five: Partners Six: Noisy Masculinity Conclusion Appendix One: Astaire films corpus Appendix Two: Astaire dancing corpus by number Appendix Three: Astaire dancing corpus by shot Acknowledgements Notes
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John Libbey & Co Reel Change A History of British Cinema from the
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus The Films of Joachim Trier
Book SynopsisThe first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier.
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Thai Horror Film
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University of Minnesota Press The Horror of Police
Book SynopsisUnmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police Year after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure world. Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged and order restored but as horror, Linnemann reveals the monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. “law and order.” Only when viewed through the refracted motif of horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits of police and imagine a world without them. Trade Review"We know this more clearly today than ever before: policing is monstrous, unleashing terror while cannibalistically devouring resources otherwise destined for more human things. Travis Linnemann turns our reality upside-down as he turns the horror genre inside-out, insisting that only by confronting the dreadful monsters in our midst can we build a truly different world."—Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete"Police stories are among the most popular in American culture. In this book—equally steeped in pop culture, the latest critical theory, and the history and contemporary reality of policing—Travis Linnemann reads those stories against the grain to argue that the police represent the monstrous core of our society and to challenge us to imagine a world without them."—Adam Kotsko, author of Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital"In this highly original take, Travis Linnemann looks beyond the flashy headlines of the grossest excesses of police violence to the monstrosity that lies beneath it: police power itself. Using the tropes and conventions of the horror literary genre, Linnemann parses not just the fear that the police inspire amongst ‘us’ but also what haunts the police: mutuality, collectivity, and solidarity."—Emma Russell, author of Queer Histories and the Politics of PolicingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Police Story, Horror Story1. Bad Cops and True Detectives2. The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line3. RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus4. Monsters Are Real5. The Unthinkable WorldAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexNotesIndex
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Luath Press Ltd Choose Life. Choose Leith.
Book SynopsisBy examining the book, the play and the film, Choose Life, Choose Leith both critically analyses the Trainspotting phenomenon in its various forms, and contextualises the importance of the location of Leith and the culture of 1980s Britain. Looking in detail at the history of Leith, the drug culture, the spread of HIV/AIDs, and how Trainspotting affected drug policy, Leith and the Scottish Identity, the book highlights the importance of Trainspotting. Choose Life, Choose Leith acts as a reference book, a record of the times and a background as to the history that led to the real-life situation and the publication of the book.
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Footnote Press Ltd Strong Female Character
Book SynopsisNew edition with a brand new chapter!'At a time when fluff and gossip reign supreme, Hanna Flint's work is consistently insightful, informative and engaging all at once. I always finish reading it feeling just a tad bit smarter.' Candice Frederick, Huffington Post'One of the smartest pop culture commentators out there.' Toby Moses, GuardianThe leading film critic of her generation offers an eloquent, insightful and humorous reflection on the screen's representation of women and ethnic minorities, revealing how cinema has been the key to understanding herself, her body image and her ambitions as well as the world we live in.A staunch feminist of mixed-race heritage, Hanna has succeeded in an industry not designed for people like her. She interweaves anecdotes from familial and personal experiences - from episodes of messy sex and introspection to the time when actor Vincent D'Onofrio tweeted that Hanna F
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Intellect Books Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History
Book SynopsisBringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media and text. These multiple occurrences and iterations offer new critical possibilities for thinking and writing the histories of performance. Among the artists, theorists and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Orlan, Tilda Swinton and Jean-Luc Nancy.Trade Review'A work of art can never be produced the same way twice. ... this concern ... continues to provoke a multitude of questions and opinions regarding how works should be documented and re-created. ... [Jones and Heathfield] address these concerns in relation to performance art, body art, and live art; simultaneously, they construct a history of these broad artistic fields.' – Caylin Smith, Moving Image Archive News 'The breadth and depth of Perform, Repeat, Record are astonishing and the range of artists, scholars and insights invigorating ... It leaves me overwhelmed.' – Caroline Wake, RealTime Arts 'An impressive collaboration between two of the field's most dedicated scholars.' – Lisa Newman, Artillery 'This is a weighty text in all senses of the term' – New Theatre Quarterly, Chris Gilligan 'In its exhaustive presentation of different types of performances, documentation, and critical approaches, it suggests a way of reading performance that is no longer beholden to modernist notions of transgression, transformation, and the avant-garde.' – A Journal of Performance and Art, Jennie Klein '“[A] broad and thoughtful investigation of how the history of performative art should be documented and studied….The book covers a particularly international scope, with essays devoted to performance art in the U.S., Western Europe, South America, China, the Middle East, Australia, and the Soviet Union, including a timeline of Soviet and Post-Soviet performance and another of performance historiography–that is, surveys and re-performances. The final section records eleven conversations between scholars and performance artists, including Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Ron Athey, Janine Antoni and Marina Abromavic…. The book will be very useful for scholars of performance and can serve as an introduction to the history and questions around the field for performance artists themselves.”' – The Drama Review, Pannill Camp 'The collection offers a wealth of research on previously little researched work.' – Drama and Performance Studies 'Taken as a whole, then, 'Perform, Repeat, Record' embraces the mammoth task of challenging how history making occurs within this field of contemporary art. Embracing a diverse and unconventional range of responses to the provocation ‘How does live art get remembered?’, it has implications for the broader field of historical discourse' – Limina, Janet Carter 'A valuable sourcebook and toolbox' – Theatre Journal, Marie Pecorari '[A] broad and thoughtful investigation of how the history of performative art should be documented and studied….The book covers a particularly international scope, with essays devoted to performance art in the U.S., Western Europe, South America, China, the Middle East, Australia, and the Soviet Union, including a timeline of Soviet and Post-Soviet performance and another of performance historiography–that is, surveys and re-performances. The final section records eleven conversations between scholars and performance artists, including Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Ron Athey, Janine Antoni and Marina Abromavic…. The book will be very useful for scholars of performance and can serve as an introduction to the history and questions around the field for performance artists themselves.' – Artblog, Andrea KirshTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONS The Now and the Has Been: Paradoxes of Live Art in History – Amelia Jones Then Again – Adrian Heathfield THEORIES AND HISTORIES Introduction Amelia Jones Chapter 1: The Performativity of Performance Documentation – Philip Auslander Chapter 2: Dead Mannequin Walking: Fluxus and the Politics of Reception – Hannah B Higgins Chapter 3: The Viral Ontology of Performance – Christopher Bedford Chapter 4: Can Photographs Make It So? Repeated Outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT’s Genital Panic Since 1969 – Mechtild Widrich Chapter 5: Macular Degeneration: Some Peculiar Aspects of Performance Art Documentation – Mónica Mayer Chapter 6: History and Precariousness: In Search of a Performative Historiography – Eleonora Fabião Chapter 7: Performance Remains – Rebecca Schneider Chapter 8: Not as Before, but Simply: Again – André Lepecki Chapter 9: The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-based Art – Meiling Cheng Chapter 10: Progressive Striptease – Sven Lutticken Chapter 11: Repetition: A Skin which Unravels – Jane Blocker Chapter 12: Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation 209 – Boris Groys Chapter 13: The Interstices of History – Angela Harutyunyan et al. An Unofficial Timeline of Socialist and Post-Socialist Performance – Angela Harutyunyan et al. DOCUMENTS Introduction Adrian Heathfield Chapter 14: A Text on 20 years with 66 footnotes – Tim Etchells Chapter 15: Faith Wilding, Waiting and Wait-With Chapter 16: Lynn Hershman and/as Roberta Breitmore Chapter 17: We Are Formatted Memories – Orlan Chapter 18: Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Don’t Leave Me This Way Chapter 19: Make Me Stop Smoking – Rabih Mroué Chapter 20: The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers) – Nao Bustamante Chapter 20: The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers) – Nao Bustamante Chapter 21: Cai Yuan and J.J. Xi, Mad For Real Chapter 22: Hayley Newman, MiniFlux Chapter 23: Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael or The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant Chapter 24: Multiple Journeys: A Performance Chronology – Guillermo Gómez-Peña Chapter 25: Attending to Anthony McCall’s Long Film For Ambient Light – Lucas Ihlein Chapter 26: ReCut Project – Ming-Yuen S. Ma Chapter 27: Assuming a Migrant Woman’s Identity – Tanja Ostojic Chapter 28: Barbara Smith, Intimations of Immortality Chapter 29: Santiago Sierra and the “Contexts” of History Chapter 30: Reconstruction2 – Janez Janša Chapter 31: Documents of Chinese Time-based Art: Three Impressions from Three Fragments – Meiling Cheng Chapter 32: Both Sitting Duet and Cheap Lecture – Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion Chapter 33: Aftermath: The Performance / Installation Nexus – Blair French Timeline of Ideas: Live Art in (Art) History, A Primarily European-US-based Trajectory of Debates and Exhibitions Relating to Performance Documentation and Re-enactments – Amelia Jones DIALOGUES Introduction Adrian Heathfield Chapter 34: Interior Squirrel and the Vicissitudes of History – Carolee Schneemann and Amelia Jones Chapter 35: I Just Go in Life – Tehching Hsieh and Adrian Heathfield Chapter 36: The Maybe: Modes of Performance and the “Live” – Tilda Swinton and Joanna Scanlan Chapter 37: Photography as a Performative Act – Shezad Dawood and Amelia Jones Chapter 38: Do it Again, Do it Again (Turn Around, Go Back) – Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with Andrew Renton Chapter 39: Touching Remains – Janine Antoni and Adrian Heathfield Chapter 40: Perverse Martyrologies – Ron Athey and Dominic Johnson Chapter 41: The Live Artist as Archaeologist – Marina Abramovic and Amelia Jones Chapter 42: Every House Has a Door – Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish Chapter 43: Alliterations – Mathilde Monnier and Jean-Luc Nancy Introduction and Translation: Noémie Solomon Chapter 44: Intangibles – Hugo Glendinning, Adrian Heathfield, and Tim Etchells
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Burn It Down
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is urgent and necessary, and I am excited to see Maureen Ryan bring it into the world. So many of the books about misconduct and abuse in the entertainment industry focus on One Important Man, and we know the problems are deeper and wider than that at every level. An examination of the systems and traditions that enable abuse and prop up abusers, helping them fail upwards and ensuring there will be a bottomless churn of vulnerable workers for them to exploit is so needed right now. Burn It Down is that book." — Erin Keane, Editor-in-Chief of Salon and author of Runaway "Maureen Ryan is a dogged, clear-eyed reporter, legendary for her miles-deep exposés of Hollywood abuse, toxicity and bullying. In Burn It Down, she makes a powerful case for a less romanticized view of the entertainment industry, one that rejects the ugly traditions of the past, holds bad bosses accountable, and marks a path to a better future." — Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New Yorker and author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution "Burn It Down does the heavy lifting in helping to uncover not just the ugliness of the behavior of high-profile individuals, but the mundane abuses common in the broader television and movie landscape. Maureen Ryan is a tenacious and meticulous reporter, a sharp and passionate writer, and an advocate for a fairer and better industry. There’s a reason a lot of network personnel with a lot they’re trying to keep in the dark hate nothing more than to see Maureen coming with a flashlight and a pen." — Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour "Maureen Ryan is a rigorous thinker and a lovely writer and does terrific and necessary work to trace the places where entertainment and injustice intertwine with profit and abuse." — Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies "Maureen Ryan is a necessary agent in questioning the status quo, and Burn It Down masterfully takes on Hollywood power structures that need to be reckoned with and changed." — Ira Madison III, co-host of the Crooked Media podcast Keep It and author of the forthcoming essay collection Pure Innocent Fun "Maureen Ryan is not only a keen critic with a fair and far-reaching eye. She is also a leader in dismantling systems of oppression and abuse in Hollywood. Her reporting has single handedly brought consequences for abusers in positions of power. I am continually inspired and grateful for her work in my industry. She makes the entertainment world safer." — Felicia Day, New York Times bestselling author of You’re Never Weird on the Internet and Embrace Your Weird "As a journalist, Mo Ryan saw the need for #MeToo coming years before it went viral. And that means that even though the constant headline-grabbing virality has subsided, Mo knows that there is still much more work to do. There are unfortunately many more painful truths about show business that have to be dug up. And there are also more skeletons in closets that need to be dragged out into the light. Mo is fierce, funny, unbossed, and unafraid." — W. Kamau Bell, New York Times bestselling author of Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book, director, and executive producer "Film and television journalist and critic Ryan has written the kind of book the phrase 'searing indictment' was invented for: a straight-shooting, rigorously researched and documented exposé of Hollywood’s culture of abuse.... This appears to be the book Ryan’s career has been building toward: she’s always been an advocate for people who work in the entertainment industry, and she’s never shied away from exposing Hollywood’s darker side. This powerful, angry, shocking, and important work should grip all readers interested in the truth about the entertainment industry." — Booklist "Ryan exposes the ugly truths about the entertainment business and the harmful behaviors that have been accepted and normalized in Hollywood for more than a century.... By breaking down the various myths that entertainment workers are told to believe, the author dismantles the argument that there is no changing the business; she also offers solutions. Readers will come away with a better understanding of what creatives have gone through to make the shows and films people love to watch. Some readers may even recognize similar harmful behaviors in their own work environments." — Library Journal "Vanity Fair contributing editor Ryan has been writing about the film and TV industries for many years and has collected a huge number of stories about abuses. While the revelations about Harvey Weinstein shone a light into shadowy corners, the author argues that a propensity for abuse is effectively institutionalized.... Ryan has the experience and insight to explore Hollywood’s dark underbelly, and she finds plenty of monsters." — Kirkus Reviews "Filled with revealing behind-the-scenes stories and blistering analyses of the industry’s failings, this makes a convincing case for rebooting Hollywood." — Publishers Weekly "[A] breathless compendium of malfeasance, which provides a valuable service in giving voice to those who have long gone unheard." — Los Angeles Times "Burn It Down is a Howard Beale-style, 'mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore' manifesto directed at the overlords and ladies of show business, complete with a multi-point plan for their redemption.... This is a dogged and dedicated journalist." — New York Times "A searing indictment of abusive behavior and work practices in the U.S. entertainment industry.... This is the proverbial look inside the sausage factory, revealing the offal, sorry, awful truth about how those shows you love are made. Indeed, if you enjoy watching television, you owe it to yourself to read this book and see what's really going on.... Burn It Down is a heavily researched, beautifully written book that leaves no Hollywood throne unturned.... Constantly engaging and illuminating." — Haaretz
£23.75
University of Illinois Press The Devil You Dance With
Book SynopsisInvaluable, illuminating interviews with South African filmmakersTrade Review“This engaging and very readable book is an original and important contribution to the fields of film studies, African studies, and the sociology of race. It addresses the current state of cinema in South Africa, in which the filmmakers see cinema as a metaphor for their newly formed society as it emerges from the apartheid system.”--Manthia Diawara, author of We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World“An extremely important work, The Devil You Dance With is the first comprehensive study of South African filmmaking in the critical post-apartheid period. This book gives vital insight into how globalization actually impacts a non-Western society that has few defenses beyond the awareness and canniness of the artists involved. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in film.”--Peter Davis, director of award-winning documentary films Winnie Mandela and In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid"Filled with rich insights. . . . It is a gold mine for African film scholars."--CineasteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments - ix Introduction - 1INTERVIEWS Beathur Baker - 21 Pascal Mzwandile Damoyi - 27 Mike Dearham - 33 Mickey Madoba Dube, Sechaba Morojele, Akin Omotoso - 38 Ingrid Gavshon - 48 Angus Gibson - 52 Kevin Harris - 61 Letebele Masemola Jones - 67 Ntshaveni wa Luruli - 75 Norman Maake and Tongai Furusa - 84 Kgafela oa Magogodi - 94 Teboho Mahlatsi - 103 Zola Maseko - 112 Khalo Matabane - 120 Teddy Errol Mattera - 130 Jyoti Mistry - 139 Palesa Letlaka-Nkosi - 150 Akin Omotoso - 159 Bhekiziziwe Peterson - 166 Dumisani Phakathi - 175 Bridget Pickering - 183 Maganthrie Pillay - 192 Isabelle Rorke and Dumisani (Dumi) Gumbi - 196 Xoliswa Sithole - 207 Motshabi Tyelele - 217Partial List of Theatrical and Other Selected Released in South Africa, 1994-2008 - 225Bibliography - 229Index - 231
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John Wiley & Sons Queer in Black and White
Book SynopsisStefanie K. Dunning is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.
£32.80
MIT Press Ltd Subtitles On the Foreignness of Film
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£23.83
Hachette Books No Crying in Baseball
Book SynopsisNo Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall''s genre outlier became an instant classic and significant aha moment for countless young women who saw that throwing like a girl was far from an insult.Part fly-on-the-wall narrative, part immersive pop nostalgia, No Crying in Baseball is for readers who love stories about subverting gender roles as well as fans of the film who remain passionate thirty years after its release. With key anecdotes from the cast, crew, and diehard fanatics, Carlson presents the definitive, first-ever history of the making of the treasured film that inspired generations of Dottie Hinsons to dream bigger and aim for the sky.
£18.75
Stanford University Press Postsocialist Modernity
Book SynopsisThis book examines Chinese culture under the condition of postsocialist modernity, in which market reforms have fundamentally altered the fields of film, literature, and cultural debate.Trade Review"This timely, informative study is remarkable in its narrative flow and clarity of argument. McGrath clearly delineates both the problems with market-driven cultural production and the pluralistic gains in freedom and openness by self-initiated, enterprising artists and writers." -- Ban Wang"Postsocialist Modernity is an engaging and well-written analysis that employs an array of primary sources to illustrate the ways literature, culture, and cinema connect to national transformation in an international context. Additionally, McGrath provides accurate and helpful translations of Chinese cultural terminology affiliated with this particular era. The book is strongly recommended to researchers, graduate students, upper-division undergraduates, and anyone interested in contemporary Chinese cinema, literature, and culture." -- Yilian Liao * China Review International *"This is the most lucid, engaging, and theoretically acute account of contemporary Chinese cultural production to have emerged in recent years from the Western academy." -- Andrew F. Jones, University of California"This thoughtful...study explores facets of Chinese culture resulting from China's recent transition from a socialist to a primarily market economy . . . Addressing a select group of texts, including commercial and avant-garde films and literature, McGrath shows that despite China's rapid rise in the global economy the cultural products of this period display a more hesitant, anxious attitude toward modernity." —CHOICE"This clearly written, engaging study of literature, film, debate and theory in contemporary culture beings with the insight that postsocialist Chinese modernity must be understood in the context of global modernity and, more specifically, the global capitalist system." -- China Quarterly
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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Movies and the Meaning of Life
Book SynopsisThe meaning of life is the most urgent of questions, said Albert Camus. And philosopher Woody Allen has wondered: How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? Claims about what gives life meaning have not only been analyzed by philosophers but by the primary mythmakers in contemporary culture: Hollywood filmmakers.Movies and the Meaning of Life shows how a wide variety of films have tackled to sometimes hilarious, sometimes surprisingly pointed effect the same questions that have obsessed the deep thinkers. These essays draw on such sources as The Truman Show and Contact to explore the nature of reality; Fight Club and Being John Malkovich for cogent lessons on finding one''s true identity; American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption for pointers on life''s purpose; Pleasantville and Spiderman for nuggets of wisdom on how to live one''s life; and more.
£22.79
University of Alberta Press North of Everything
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With its combination of histories, interviews and directorial profiles, North of Everything has a broad scope and accessible style that will appeal to film enthusiasts, students, and scholars alike." Diane Burgess, CinemaScope"Their edited collection has thirty-two contributors, several of which are major figures in Canadian film scholarship, including Kay Armatage.Seth Feldman.Geoff Pevere and Robin Wood. But what is particularly pleasing about this collection is its wide range of contributors, including Americans....[North of Everything] will help students of Canadian cinema understand a bi-national cinematic culture that is rich but unknown to most of the world." George Melnyk, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2005"What both [North of Everything and Canada's Best Features] overwhelmingly convey to me, however, is that new and often more comprehensive arguments about Canadian cinema are being constructed. I think one of the most important developments that these collections register, is that finally critics of Canadian cinema are no longer obliged to erect a unified front on a subject of method of analysis." Jean Bruce, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Vol. 13, No.2, Autumn, 2004.
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University of Alberta Press Great Canadian Film Directors
Book SynopsisFilm directors articulate creative visions that provide insights into national cultures. 18 essays highlight Canada's prominent Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers.Trade Review"One Saturday in the winter of 1965 I talked my father into driving me to Toronto from our home in Oshawa, Ontario, to see a particular movie that I knew I would never see at the local cinema. I was 14 years old. What I saw that cold night made a profound and lasting impression on me. I grew up watching Hollywood westerns and commercial television shows and, like most people of my generation, I thoughtlessly consumed those products for escape and entertainment. Never before had I seen a film that encouraged me to think about myself, my own life and the province that was my home. The movie was called Nobody Waved Goodbye. It was produced at the National Film Board of Canada and directed by a Torontonian named Don Owen. Thus began my 40-year love affair with Canadian cinema. By becoming a passionate fan of Canadian cinema in the 1960s, I joined a relatively small group of people who go to see Canadian films because it nurtures our souls and provides us with powerful food for thought from a familiar point of view. [F]or the intrepid voluntary viewers out there, this book will be an invaluable resource-a map to navigate their courageous journey through the wonderfully contradictory worlds of our brave film artists and the almost invisible yet burning hearts of those who live on the frosty masthead of the North American continent." Clarke Mackey, Literary Review of Canada, October 2007"One of Melnyk's goals is to introduce the work of these directors to a wider audience. 'We make films that very few people see. Probably 80 percent of my students had never seen a Canadian film. These directors make superb films.' But, in the end, it is a very personal thing. 'I want to see Canadian films because they do something for my soul.'" Polly Washburn, Prairie books NOW, Fall/Winter 2007"Canadians too often overlook the existence of film directors who have made a major contribution in defining our culture. With Great Canadian Film Directors, George Melnyk has skillfully put together essays on 20 directors by a number of scholars and critics, focusing on their diversity, complexity, imagination and talent. Why directors and not stars? Because our star system is practically non-existent....[T]he list is impressive and worth our scrutiny. Some names may be familiar, other decidedly not. Surprisingly, genders are well represented." Nicholas Spillios, Edmonton Journal, November 25, 2007"...We should be grateful that Melnyk has been the facilitator for some excellent essays. The most original pieces include those of Jerry White on Zach Kunuk's career and artistic perspective; Jacqueline Levitin on Mina Shum's difficult but fruitful creative negotiation of her Chinese Canadian status; Patricia Gruben's thoughtful analysis of Gary Burns' work' and Bart Testa's valiant and exceedingly well informed attempt to cut through the misconceptions about Norman Jewison and his films. Students grappling with Canadian cinema for the first time will be grateful for Bill Beard's views on Atom Egoyan; Kay Armatage's feminist take on Nell Shipman and Joyce Wieland's curtailed careers; Pierre Veronneau's masterly overview of Denys Arcand's themes' Brenda Austin-Smith's astute treatment of Patricia Rozema's cinema; and Peter Dickinson's critique of Robert Lepage's oeuvre. Is is also good to see attention given to Lea Pool. ... The sins of omission are endless in any anthology, and I'm sure Melnyk would be the first to admit that another book could be published on a slew of other directors. ... As it stands, the collection contains some original work, many solid introductions, and only a few missed opportunities." Brian McIlroy, Canadian Literature, Summer 2008"George Melnyk's aim for his scholarly yet readable Great Canadian Film Directors is to present "a clear understanding of why Canadian directors are so crucial to the development of a distinct cinematic identity, both thematically and aesthetically." To accomplish his purpose, Melnyk, an associate professor of Canadian Studies and Canadian Film Studies at the University of Calgary, and a prolific author, focuses on the films of 20 Canadian directors in 19 essays by respected scholars, some, like the filmmakers themselves, better known than others. The diversity of the presentations is held together by broad categories of identities such as English, French, and Inuit, male and female, and in time frames of "Late Greats," "Contemporary Greats," and "Future Greats" to establish that "the breadth and depth of Canadian cinema is outstanding." In developing his thesis for the diversity and excellence of Canadian film achieved by directors such as Claude Jutra, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, immigrant Lea Pool, and Inuit artist and filmmaker Zack Kunuk, Melnyk develops the rationale for his choices and his omissions, and his preference for the adjective "great." His colleagues, in turn, scrutinize the themes and aesthetics of the directors. Kay Armatage, for example, compares the works of Nell Shipman and Joyce Weiland. Christopher Gittings profiles director John Greyson and his "queer aesthetic . [that] broadens our perspective on Canadian cinema." Aaron Taylor analyzes the work of Bruce McDonald, "the 'bad boy' of Canadian Cinema," while Jacqueline Levitin's discourse features Chinese-Canadian Mina Shum's films, and Kalli Paakspuu discusses the necrophilia in Lynne Stopkewich's work. The groundbreaking, award-winning film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, by Inuit director Kunuk, is the subject of Jerry White's erudite essay. Although admittedly not the last word on why or who of Canada's film directors have attained or will achieve greatness, Melnyk definitely establishes the diversity and excellence of the "Greats" included in the insightful and interesting essays in his book. Academics, film students, and teachers will find it a rewarding read." - M. Wayne CunninghamTable of ContentsIntroduction; Wieland's Far Shore and Shipman's God's Country; The Fatal Leap; "It Takes Monsters to Do Things Like That"; Denys Arcand; David Cronenberg; Atom Egoyan; Activism and Aesthetics; Norman Jewison; Double Take; Straight Outta' Hogtown; Living In/Between; Women with a Movie Camera; Mina Shum; A Problem with Rules; Coward, Bully and Clown; Hanging in Plain Sight; Zach Kunuk and Inuit Filmmaking; Don McKellar; Lynne Stopkewich; Index.
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Secant Publishing Stardust by the Bushel
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Cambridge University Press Fantasy of Modernity
Book SynopsisRomantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films and film stars. Love in cinema becomes significant when social reality constrains its quotidian experience and expression. By bringing a spectacular imagination of love to centre stage, the 1950s cinema deflected anxieties of ''Indianness'' even as the new aesthetic and affect of romance offered an alternative engagement with the contradictions of modernity. Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s explores the films, the songs, the stars and the extra-cinematic discourse of the period to read love and romance as its most productive trope that mobilized a dynamic and contested public sphere.Trade Review'This is a page-turner and a breath of fresh air. Written lucidly and clearly, well aware of contemporary debates in Indian and global film studies, which it both summarizes and takes forward, [this book] offers a new take on a much written area of film history, the popular Bombay cinema of the 1950s. While film studies have been preoccupied with the construction of the nation in cinema in this period, Wani suggests that this cinema was also simultaneously helping construct a modern sensibility premised on freedom, one built upon ideas of romance and erotic desire, not exactly congruent with the construction of a bourgeois and patriarchal nationhood. The insights she offers are so logical that one is struck at how we missed them so far.' Jyotsna Kapur, Southern Illinois University'This is an original, rich and beautifully written account of Bombay cinema's preoccupation with romantic love, which draws on a wide range of archives, including little-known Marathi sources, as well as the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of the cinema of that era. This ambitious project brings genuinely new insights to our understandings of how romantic love - as the sign of the modern - was imagined and given shape in 1950s Bombay films, their songs and star texts. A pleasure to read.' Rosie Thomas, University of Westminster'The originality of this delightfully written book lies in its focus on the relatively neglected 1950s as a pivotal moment in the evolution of Indian popular cinema, bridging the political event of Independence, and the technological innovation of colour cinematography. Identifying the theme of romantic love as the signature of modernity, the author cuts across conventional film genres to explore this conjunction in the three domains of 'urbanity'; of film songs; and through the phenomenon of stardom. It is rare to find a work that succeeds in stitching these separate discourses so elegantly together.' Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Economic GrowthTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. City of love; 2. The song of love; 3. Love and stardom; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Faust Legend
Book SynopsisExplores dramatic and filmic adaptations of the Faust legend from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Goethe's Faust to lesser known works. With detailed comparison and analysis tracing the development of the Faust topos, it will appeal to students of early modern drama, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, and film studies.Trade Review'Based on solid and original scholarship, this book is intelligent and attractive for the educated readership, theatre and cinema-goers generally, and especially those interested in the Faust legend, Goethe, classical German literature, drama, and film. It can serve as a source of entertainment, a critical study, or a useful reference work.' David G. John, University of Waterloo. CanadaTable of Contents1. The background of the Faust legend; 2. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 3. Goethe's Faust; 4. Poste-Goethe dramatic versions of the Faust legend; 5. Cinematic Fausts; Epilogue.
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Zephyr Press Best Film You've Never Seen
Book Synopsis In this book, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savagedgems. Among these guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival are unsung noirs (Murder by Contract), famous flops (Can?t Stop the Music, Joe Versus the Volcano), art films (L?ange), theatrical adaptations (The Iceman Cometh), B-movies (Killer Klowns from Outer Space), and even a few Oscar-winners (Some Came Running). In these conversations, the filmmakers defend their choices. These films, they argue, deserve a larger audience and for their place in movie history to be reconsidered. But the conversations? tangents, diversions, and side trips provide as much insight into the directors? own approach to moviemaking as into the film they?re discussing. The filmmakers are the perfect hosts, often setting the tone, managing expectations, and giving advice about how you should watch each movie. They?re often brutally honest about a film?s shortcomings or the reasons why it was lost in the first place. The Best Film You?ve Never Seen is not only a guide to some badly overlooked movies but a bold attempt to rewrite film history.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Ciné-Module 1: Jean de Florette
Book SynopsisFocused on individual films, each Cine-Module includes a teachers manual and student guide with numerous exercises and aids to structure the experience of watching, discussing and writing about the film in French, and understanding the film in a broad cultural context. Each also contains vocabulary, structured exercises (scene study, vocabulary, topics for discussion, essay topics) and an accompanying reading. This series is intended for intermediate level college and advanced level high school students.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile: Les Visiteurs: Un film de Jean-Marie
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Ciné-Module 1: Jean de Florette, Cahier du
Book SynopsisThis is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 1: Jean de Florette.
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile: Les Visiteurs, Manuel du professeur:
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Ciné-Module 3: Cyrano de Bergerac, Cahier du
Book SynopsisTeacher's edition of # 01109 (Ciné-module no. 3)
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile: Les Triplettes de Belleville: Un film
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile: Les Triplettes de Belleville, Manuel
Book SynopsisTeacher's materials with answer key, sample test.
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Temple University Press,U.S. From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational
Book SynopsisExplores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on world screens by examining a range of films, videos, and digital works associated with global Chinese cultureTrade Review"Marchetti offers a sophisticated analysis of the thoroughgoing transformation of contemporary "Greater China" as mediated by an integrated international cinema system held in a curious interplay between state-controlled and 'free-market' institutions." Darrell Y. Hamamoto, University of California, Davis
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Linden Publishing Co Inc 1939: The Making of Six Great Films from
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Linden Publishing Co Inc Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted
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Otago University Press Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars
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Transcript Verlag European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and "small cinemas" relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization. Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Deleuze & Guattari's concept of the "minor", contributions address the relationship of small cinemas to Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in post-Socialist cinemas.
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Transcript Verlag Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary
Book SynopsisWhen Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) "feels old" in "Cosmopolis", these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little attention in age studies so far. Leaving aside chronological or biological dimensions of age, this study approaches age as a metaphoric practice, suggesting that "feeling old" is not to be taken literally but metaphorically. The book examines the cultural meanings of age and aging for characters who are in their twenties and thirties and challenges often-quoted labels such as late-coming-of-age story or perpetual adolescence.
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Transcript Verlag Miranda July's Intermedial Art: The Creative
Book SynopsisThis first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning intermedial work, the author lays open how July takes individualism and self-help as constitutive for the creative class. Although a member of the creative class herself, July's voice oscillates between irony and approval. July thus paints a fascinating portrait of neurotic hipsterism, which triggers self-reflection in the general reader and critical thinking in the cultural analyst.
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Transcript Verlag American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race,
Book SynopsisAmerican Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.
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Transcript Verlag Topographies of ′Borderland Schengen′ –
Book SynopsisAnalysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.
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Transcript Verlag On Desire – Positions of Time–Based and Immersive
Book SynopsisDesire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships to the social body, to sexuality and gender questions, to ownership, and to the production, perception, and appropriation of moving images.This book brings together a broad spectrum of international positions relating to the time-based, immersive arts presented at the third B3 - the Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt/Main 2017 - which focuses on desire in the contemporary world. An extensive essay by Marc Ries develops a theoretical framework relating the moving image to desire.Contributions by Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic, and Frederico Solmi.Desire/Begehren benennt Phänomene, die in eine produktive Ambivalenz eingeschrieben sind. Sie assoziieren Grundelemente menschlichen Zusammenlebens, verweisen aber zugleich auf komplexe gesellschaftliche Prozesse und Institutionen. Mit den gegenwärtigen Medien erleben und erfahren wir ein Gefüge des Begehrens, das neue Verhältnisse zum sozialen Körper, zur Sexualität und Geschlechterfrage, zum Eigentum und auch zur Produktion, Wahrnehmung und Aneignung von Bewegtbildern entwirft.Der Band versammelt ein Spektrum an internationalen Positionen zeitbasierter und immersiver Künste der dritten B3 - Biennale des Bewegten Bildes Frankfurt/Main 2017 - zum Begehren in der Gegenwart. Ein umfassender Essay von Marc Ries entwickelt einen theoretischen Rahmen der Beziehung des bewegten Bildes zum Begehren.Beiträge von Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic und Frederico Solmi.Table of ContentsPreface; Das Bewegte Bild Des Begehrens / The Moving Image of Desire; Prolog on Desire; In Den Hauptrollen: Desire Und Begehren/In the Leading Roles: Desire and Aspiration; Ausstellung/Exhibition; Sammlungen/Collections; Filme/Movies; Specials / Vr Kino; Arte 360; Fulldome; Vr Installations; Filmuniversität Babelsberg; Zürcher Hochschule Der Künste; Parcourspartner Schauspiel / Oper Frankfurt; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Museum Sinclair-Haus; Kunsthalle Darmstadt; Portikus Frankfurt; Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden; Exzellenzcluster Normative Orders; Awards B3 Ben Award 2017; Ingvild Goetz; Jonas Mekas; Gäste Guests A-Z; Anhang Appendix Bildnachweis; Photo Credits; Team Impressum.
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Transcript Verlag The Supernatural Media Virus – Virus Anxiety in
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
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Transcript Verlag 21st Century Retro – ′Mad Men′ and 1960s America
Book SynopsisNumerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.
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Transcript Verlag Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Book SynopsisThis new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent "arthouse" productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.Table of ContentsIntroduction; A Drunkard's Reformation (1909); Tom Gunning; Blind Husbands (1919); Applause (1929); Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929); The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel, 1930); Ganga Bruta (1933); Masquerade in Vienna (Maskerade, 1934); Modern Times (1936); Bewitching Kisses (Besos brujos, 1937); Heimat (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Casablanca (1942); Mashenka (Машенька, 1942); Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945); Nosotros los pobres (1948); Chains (Catene, 1949); Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari, 1953); House of Ricordi (Casa Ricordi, 1954); The Night of the Hunter (1955); All that Heaven Allows (1955); The Word (Ordet, 1955); Violent Playground (1958); Hiroshima mon amour (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); Oyster Girl (蚵女,Ke nü, 1963); A Patch of Blue (1965); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Dark of the Sun (1968); Love Story (1970); The Legend of the Red Lantern (红灯记, Hongdeng ji, 1970); Ariana (אריאנה, 1971); Insiang (1976); Amar Akbar Anthony (1977); The Smoking Fish (El pez que fuma, 1977); An Unmarried Woman (1978); The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979); Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979); Babylon (1980); Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984); The Official Story (La historia oficial, 1985); Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast, 1987); Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, Malen'kaia Vera, 1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, 1988); Coming Out (1989); Living in Bondage, Part I (1992) and II (1993); Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Bawang bie ji, 1993); The Piano (1993); In the Heat of the Sun (陽光燦爛的日子, Yángguāng Cánlán De Rìzi, 1994); Bombay (1995); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujirō no natsu, 1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000); Erin Brockovich (2000); In the Mood for Love (花樣年華, Fa yeung nin wa, 2000); Moulin Rouge! (2001); Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, 2001); Devdas ( 2002); Destiny Has No Favorites (El destino no tiene favoritos, 2003); Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, 2003); Osuofia in London, Part I (2003) and II (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Rang De Basanti ( 2006); The Yacoubian Building ('Imārat Ya'qūbīān, 2006); Lust, Caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè, 2007); Shanghai Baby (2007); Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007); The Blind Side (2009); Invictus (2009); The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos, 2009); Jaffa ( כלת הים , Kalat Hayam, 2009); Pumzi (2009); Anchor Baby (2010); Even the Rain (También la Iluvia, 2010); Melancholia (2011); Laurence Anyways (2012); The Cut (2014); The Theory of Everything (2014); Eye in the Sky (2015); Masaan (2015); The Salesman (Forushandeh, 2016); Jackie (2016); The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці, Hnizdo horlytsi, 2016); Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018); Mirja Lecke; Elevator Baby (2019); The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (A vida invisível, 2019); Joker (2019); Hamilton (2020); No Hard Feelings/FUTUR DREI (2020); Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors.
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Transcript Verlag Imaging the Scenes of War: Aesthetic Crossovers
Book SynopsisIn American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its consequences. Dealing with trauma and war crimes led to the emergence of complex aesthetic forms and media crossovers. Decker shows that the 1940s were a pivotal period for the creation of horrific yet also innovative representations that boosted American visual modernism and set the stage for debates about the ethics of visual culture in the post-9/11 era.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Trauma Narratives, Mixed Media, and the Meditation on the Invisible; Imaging Axis Terror: War Propaganda and the 1943 The Nature of the Enemy Exhibition at Rockefeller Center; In Search of a Common Vision: Ben Shahn, Photography, and The Family of Man Exhibition in 1955; Transnational Romance: Love and Politics in the Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s; Poetry and Film, Film as Poetry: Notes on a History of Creative Interactions; Screening Holocaust: American Television and the Discourse on 'Victim Cultures' in West Germany; Index.
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transcript Verlag Mixed Feelings in France
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Edition Axel Menges From Doodlebug to Oppenheimer
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V&R unipress GmbH Darkness Subverted: Aboriginal Gothic in Black
Book SynopsisThe discourse of self and other on which the classic horror novel was based was quickly applied to the circumstances of the colonial situation and projected onto the relationship between the colonial master and the colonial subject. Contemporary black Australian artists take on this colonial shower discourse, tear it to pieces through their sharp perspective and finally transform it into a discourse of Aboriginal Gothic. The present study develops the theoretical foundations of Aboriginal Gothic and uses the term thus concretized, to analyze novels by Vivienne Cleven, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Sam Watson and Alexis Wright as well as films by Beck Cole and Tracey Moffatt. The focus of the study is the extent to which the traditional European shower discourse is interspersed with elements of indigenous Australian culture in order to portray the current situation of Australian Aborigines and to describe a recovered cultural identity.
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