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Rutgers University Press New African Cinema Quick Takes Movies Popular
Book SynopsisNew African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers in the new millennium by offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema as it has evolved since the 1960s into the new medium, known as “new African cinema,” it is today. Trade Review"New African Cinema manages the formidable task of depicting the depth, breadth, and great diversity of cinema on the African continent by highlighting different genres and themes. This book will appeal to anyone who is interested in film." -- Cécile Accilien * The University of Kansas *"An impeccable introduction to the exciting films being produced today, New African Cinema delineates the important broad distinctions between Anglophone and Francophone movies, and the finer lines between North African, sub-Saharan, West African, Maghrebian, and other regional bodies of film." -- Kenneth W. Harrow * author of Trash! African Cinema from Below *"Valérie K. Orlando offers an excellent, highly engaging analysis of twenty-first century cinema from and about Africa, examining some of the most pressing issues facing the continent today." -- Hakim Abderrezak * author of Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, & Music *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note vii Introduction 1 1 From Revolution to the Coming of Age of African Cinema, 1960s–1990s 39 2 New Awakenings and New Realities of the Twenty-First Century in African Film 82 Conclusion: The Futures of African Film 141 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Further Reading and Useful Websites 155 Works Cited 157 Selected Filmography: Twenty-First-Century Films 167 Index 169
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Rutgers University Press The Modern British Horror Film Quick Takes Movies
Book Synopsis Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation. Trade Review"Steven Gerrard clearly knows his subject well and does a very good job of linking the cycles he identifies (hoodie horror, outdoors horror, and the monster within) to the contemporary British social and political context." -- Barry Keith Grant * editor of The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film *"Gerrard's exemplary study shows how recent British horror films have revitalised the genre, building on the gothic traditions of Hammer to produce a cinema that reflects the anxieties of today." -- Robert Shail * author of Seventies British Cinema *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 The Hooded Terror 27 2 The Great Outdoors 63 3 The Dead Inside, the Dead Outside, the Stranger Within 105 Conclusion 146 Acknowledgments 155 Further Reading 157 Works Cited 159 Magazines, Films, TV Series 165 Index 171
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Rutgers University Press Film Remakes and Franchises
Book SynopsisAre the remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises flooding Hollywood simply crass commercial products, or do they offer filmmakers a unique opportunity to inject timely social commentary, imaginative twists, and diversity into established media properties? Herbert examines the long history of remakes and identifies what’s distinctive about our current franchise-heavy era. Trade Review"Film Remakes and Franchises sparks conversations about one of the most important cultural forms of our time—the remake. It is utterly compelling and a pleasure to read." -- Chuck Tryon * author of On Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema *"Refreshingly and excitingly, Film Remakes and Franchises eschews the knee-jerk, obvious, and incorrect to cut new ground in making sense of the meanings, value, and importance of 'mere repetition.'" -- Jonathan Gray * author of Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Industrial Intertextuality and The Force Awakens 1 1 Coming to Terms with Intertextuality 20 2 Understanding Film Remakes 49 3 The Expansive and Inclusive Logic of Franchises 82 Conclusion: The Importance of Film Remakes and Franchises 118 Acknowledgments 127 Further Reading 131 Works Cited 137 Index 145
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Rutgers University Press Turning the Page Storytelling as Activism in
Book SynopsisCombining a close analysis of specific films and video programs with extensive interviews of industry professionals, Turning the Page demonstrates how queer storytelling in visual media has the potential to empower individuals, strengthen communities, and motivate social justice activism.Trade Review"Coon offers well-developed, insightful analyses of specific media texts that have received little if no critical attention by queer scholars. In writing Turning the Page, Coon blazes a new trail in queer media studies." -- Stephen Tropiano * author of Rebels & Chicks: A History of Hollywood Teen Movies *"Pg. 99: David R. Coon's 'Turning the Page'" feature reposted on Campaign for the American Reader by Marshal Zeringue * Campaign for the American Reader *"David R. Coon's 'Turning the Page' Page 99 Test," by Marshal Zeringue * The 99 Page Test *"An impressive work of original and seminal scholarship...Turning the Page is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library LGBTQ Studies, Film/Media Studies, and Gender Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *"What Are Writers Reading" spotlight with David R. Coon by Marshal Zeringue * Writers Read *"Coon is a fine companion to Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary." * Choice *"In the Life collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive essay from Turning the Page," by David R. Coon https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/inthelife/history/life-and-archive-20-years-facts-and-feelings * In the Life - UCLA Film and Television Archive *"Coon compels readers to consider the radical, democratizing potentialities of film, television, and other forms of visual media in representing queer experiences and perspectives." * JHistory (H-Net) *"Turning the Page offers readers a concise exploration of film and television as sites for LGBTQ advocacy and activism. He exposes them to a wide array of theoretical debates and methodological frameworks in the fields of queer history and media studies. He demonstrates how they are increasingly formative to the queer experience as sites of community building and knowledge production." * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Telling Stories for Social Change 1 Challenging Oppressive Myths: LGBTQ Activism and Storytelling 2 Documenting and Preserving Stories from the LGBTQ Movements: In the Life Media 3 Training Filmmakers and Educating Audiences: POWER UP 4 Connecting Diverse Communities through Film and Media Festivals: Three Dollar Bill Cinema 5 Developing the Next Generation of Storytellers: Reel Queer Youth Conclusion: Stories of Some of Our Lives Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Index
£26.99
Rutgers University Press L.A. Private Eyes
Book SynopsisL.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930’s through the present day. This book explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself. Trade Review"Slip into the gritty romantic noir of the LA detective scene with Dahlia Schweitzer and you won’t want to leave—at least not until she’s helped you unlock the genre’s mysteries, its place in American culture and its evolution. Bring a fedora, a stiff drink and a desire to understand, as Schweitzer does, the light and dark sides of the private eye." -- Jonathan Allen * coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign *"Much more than a deftly written and comprehensive chronicle of the enduring appeal of the LA detective, Schweitzer’s book compellingly traverses the fields of history, geography and popular culture so that we might more fully grasp this absorbing character and its inflections over decades of literature, radio, film and TV. From Philip Marlowe to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, the author invites the reader on a compressed tour of the mean streets, stifling suburbs and sprawling highways inhabited by this private eye, with insight and acumen. If you think you know this icon already, Schweitzer’s writing will make you think again." -- Deborah Jermyn * reader in Film and TV, University of Roehampton, and author of Prime Suspect *“With the same punchy, elegant concision true to the noir style, Schweitzer reappraises the long line of L.A. gumshoes from Philip Marlowe and Easy Rawlins through Veronica Mars.” -- Noah Isenberg * author of We’ll Always Have Casablanca *"Dahlia Schweitzer pounds the pavement in search of the gumshoes who pervade the city and popular culture. She uncovers the clues, weighs the evidence, and presents her case in yet another terrific, informative read." -- Mike White * host of the Projection Booth Podcast *"The Projection Booth" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The Projection Booth *WICN.org "Inquiry" podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Inquiry podcast *The Mo'Kelly Show interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The Mo'Kelly Show *iZombie podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * iZombie podcast *"With noir still a hotly debated genre, Dahlia Schweitzer takes a welcome approach in L.A. Private Eyes to a subset of the style....Scwheitzer’s detailed look at this central figure of noir helps to clarify the investigator’s point of view and its effects on the narrative." * Film and History *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 Los Angeles 2 The Detective Story 3 The Detective 4 The Black Detective 5 The Lady Dick 6 The Girl Sleuth Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press LA Private Eyes Quick Takes Movies Popular
Book SynopsisL.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930’s through the present day. This book explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself. Trade Review"Slip into the gritty romantic noir of the LA detective scene with Dahlia Schweitzer and you won’t want to leave—at least not until she’s helped you unlock the genre’s mysteries, its place in American culture and its evolution. Bring a fedora, a stiff drink and a desire to understand, as Schweitzer does, the light and dark sides of the private eye." -- Jonathan Allen * coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign *"Much more than a deftly written and comprehensive chronicle of the enduring appeal of the LA detective, Schweitzer’s book compellingly traverses the fields of history, geography and popular culture so that we might more fully grasp this absorbing character and its inflections over decades of literature, radio, film and TV. From Philip Marlowe to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, the author invites the reader on a compressed tour of the mean streets, stifling suburbs and sprawling highways inhabited by this private eye, with insight and acumen. If you think you know this icon already, Schweitzer’s writing will make you think again." -- Deborah Jermyn * reader in Film and TV, University of Roehampton, and author of Prime Suspect *“With the same punchy, elegant concision true to the noir style, Schweitzer reappraises the long line of L.A. gumshoes from Philip Marlowe and Easy Rawlins through Veronica Mars.” -- Noah Isenberg * author of We’ll Always Have Casablanca *"Dahlia Schweitzer pounds the pavement in search of the gumshoes who pervade the city and popular culture. She uncovers the clues, weighs the evidence, and presents her case in yet another terrific, informative read." -- Mike White * host of the Projection Booth Podcast *"The Projection Booth" interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The Projection Booth *WICN.org "Inquiry" podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * Inquiry podcast *The Mo'Kelly Show interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * The Mo'Kelly Show *iZombie podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer * iZombie podcast *"With noir still a hotly debated genre, Dahlia Schweitzer takes a welcome approach in L.A. Private Eyes to a subset of the style....Scwheitzer’s detailed look at this central figure of noir helps to clarify the investigator’s point of view and its effects on the narrative." * Film and History *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 Los Angeles 2 The Detective Story 3 The Detective 4 The Black Detective 5 The Lady Dick 6 The Girl Sleuth Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Unwatchable
Book SynopsisWith over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. The volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.Trade Review"By posing a seemingly modest question—what visual experiences in our media-saturated world are 'unwatchable?'—the editors of this remarkable volume have elicited an astonishing range of intensely felt responses. They reveal the most potent anxieties of our troubled times, forcing us to attend to what we cannot bear to witness directly." -- Martin Jay * author of Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought *"This thoughtfully curated anthology of short essays comes at a classical aesthetic problem with a fresh sense of historical urgency and from a number of truly new, often surprising directions. Radically extending the conceptual reach of its title, Unwatchable offers readers real traction on core questions in media and cultural studies surrounding taste, identity, and embodied experience as it navigates deftly across the dizzying landscape of contemporary spectatorship." -- Sianne Ngai * author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting *"A compelling foray into the bio- and necropolitics of spectacle, suffering, and violence. The short pieces in this weighty collection linger uncomfortably, highlighting the incommensurability of the unwatchable and the unthinkable." -- Jasbir K. Puar * author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times *"While many edited anthologies boast interdisciplinarity and intermediality, Unwatchable stands out for the astounding reach of the media and discourses marshalled under its theme. Its implications are manifold, evidence that 'unwatchable' is more than just an aesthetic category. Unwatchable’s editors suggest that the currently unobservable, whether expressly repudiated or involuntarily rendered invisible, will surely linger and haunt the public imagination for years—if not generations—to come." * Film Quarterly *New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture -- New Books in film podcast interview withNicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen * New Books Network - New Books in Film *"Confronting the Unwatchable," by Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/confronting-the-unwatchable/#! * Los Angeles Review of Books *"A substantial collection of essays, bristling with anxiety about the social impact of the kind of mediations broadcasting the news requires of us daily." * Times Literary Supplement *"The tone of the writing is refreshing—sometimes experimental and at others painfully reflective. Readers embark on deeply personal and highly politicised journeys with contributors, recalling harrowing moments from cinematic, televisual, world, and personal history." * Moveable Type *"Unwatchable is a powerful, potent collection because of its mission to crack our fingers apart just a little bit wider to see more of what we're averse to. Look for this book." * Jump Cut *"The anthology is an impressive collection of essays written by over fifty scholars and artists working on issues in film and media studies from a variety of disciplines and professional (as well as personal) perspectives, each of whom attempts to struggle with sharing what it means for something to be 'unwatchable' for them. Researchers on related issues in film, media, gender, politics, and philosophy broadly construed will find much that is both new and old to consider anew and to reconsider, while those new to such debates may find another space within which to theorize." * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *"This anthology does nothing less than challenge us to grapple with the criteria and ramifications of the unwatchable. It does not offer any one-dimensional or easily digestible answers to the complex questions raised in individual contributions. Though its richness and variety, it instead makes possible a deeper understanding of the concept of the unwatchable, which has become a crucial category across global media and politics." * MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen *"A socially urgent and intellectually galvanizing book. Unwatchable opens up a vital critical space for sharing the burden of navigating the difficult, often painful terrain of the twenty-first century visual regime. Highly readable, and productively challenging, it is a book that will inform our discussions of the politics of watching (and not watching) for a long time to come." * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"This is a volume edited by the discipline’s top scholars and featuring some of our most brilliant theorists. Film scholars will doubtless be citing the essays in this volume for a long time to come. I know I will. What is likely to impress students, and what this collection gifts so gorgeously, is its demonstration of the way theory and film alike can crack open the most pressing issues of our day and offer moral support and ethical guidance for thinking through a life lived as citizen and spectator." * The Communication Review *"This book will find its greatest connections in studies of both the ethics and aesthetics of visual culture at its fringes." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Carefully edited to allow multiple voices and experiences to be in dialogue and sometimes challenge each other, Unwatchable shows how productive the unwatchable is as a moral and aesthetic category and also reveals that when it comes to these images, our watch has just begun." -- Aurore Spiers * Discourse *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable Part I: Violence and Testimony Theorizing the Unwatchable 1. W. J. T. Mitchell, Unwatchable 2. Boris Groys, The Gaze from Within 3. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable 4. Alenka Zupančič, Melting Into Visibility 5. Meghan Sutherland, Pro Forma Spectacles of Destruction 6. Jonathan Crary, Terminal Radiance 7. Poulomi Saha, Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen 8. Alex Bush, Breakaway 9. Meir Wigoder, The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage Bearing Witness 10. Peter Geimer, The Incommensurable 11. Leshu Torchin, Not Seeing is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy 12. Frances Guerin, Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched 13. Federico Windhausen, Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos 14. Emily Regan Wills, Alan Kurdi’s Body on the Shore Visual Regimes of Racial Violence 15. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X 16. Jared Sexton, The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out 17. Alexandra Juhasz, Nothing is Unwatchable for All 18. Michael Boyce Gillespie, Empathy. Complicity. Spectacularization and Resistance 19. Alok Vaid-Menon, Entertainment Value 20. Alec Butler, Holocausts, Hallowe’en, and Headdresses 21. Danielle Peers, Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence Part II: Histories and Genres The Tradition of Provocateurs 22. Asbjørn Grønstad, The Two Unwatchables 23. Akira Lippit, Real Horrorshow 24. Mauro Resmini, Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 25. Mattias Frey, Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition Enduring the Avant-Garde 26. Christophe Wall-Romana, Unwatchability by Choice: Isou’s Venom and Eternity 27. Kenneth Berger, The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord’s Howls for Sade 28. J. Hoberman, Warhol’s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable 29. Noël Carroll, Warhol's Empire 30. Erika Balsom, Watching Paint Dry Visceral Responses to Horror 31. Vivian Sobchack, “Peekaboo”: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films 32. B. Ruby Rich, Why I Cannot Watch 33. Genevieve Yue, Apotropes Pornography and the Question of Pleasure 34. Susie Bright, I Am Curious (Butterball) 35. Bill Nichols, At the Threshold to the Void Archives and the Disintegrating Image 36. Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Restoring Blood Money 37. Jan Olsson, Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess 38. Philipp Stiasny and Bennet Togler, Twilight of the Dead Part III: Spectators and Objects Passionate Aversions 39. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sad!”: Why I Won’t Watch Antichrist 40. Nathan Lee, Transforming Nihilism 41. Julian Hanich, Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant 42. Jeffrey Sconce, The Biopic is an Affront to the Cinema Tedious Whiteness 43. Jack Halberstam, White Men Behaving Sadly 44. Brandy Monk-Payton, “You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important” or, Why I Can't Watch The Help 45. Mel Y. Chen, Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW? Reality Trumpism 46. Lynne Joyrich, TV Trumps 47. Abigail De Kosnik, The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won't Watch Any Fictionalizations of the 2016 Election Pedagogy and Campus Politics 48. Raúl Pérez, Why We Can’t Take a Joke 49. Jennifer Malkowski, The Bridge and Unteachable Films 50. Katariina Kyrölä, Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort The Triggered Spectator 51. E. Ann Kaplan, What is an “Unwatchable” Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice) 52. Barbara Hammer, Watch at Your Own Peril 53. Samuel England, Sects, Fries, and Videotape 54. Rebecca Schneider, Off Watch Acknowledgments Filmography Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Virginia Press African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Book SynopsisConsiders fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.Trade ReviewThis book examines pain as one of the lasting legacies of our racialized society. This is an important topic, and Deborah Walker King, a respected scholar of African American literary and cultural studies, adds immensely to our understanding of pain in the African American experience. The book, elegantly written and critically sound, is a substantial contribution to African American literary and cultural studies. - Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University, author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction
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Wayne State University Press Contact Zones
Book SynopsisCreated at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. This title addresses a range of filmmakers, theorists, and issues in black diasporic cinema, highlighting their influences on artistic and theoretical discourses.Trade ReviewThis work stands as a witness to the power of black cinema to render complex, complicated, and cross-resonant expressions for renarrating and rethinking human life in a post-Columbus world. It is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences for anyone interested in how the modern world comes into being from a black diasporic cinematic perspective. - Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor of cultural studies at the University of Toronto and editor of New Dawn: The Journal of Black Canadian Studies
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Wayne State University Press Personal Views
Book SynopsisContains essays on a range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic. This work offers several arguments for the importance of art, creativity, and personal response. It is of interest to film scholars and students of film.
£23.16
Wayne State University Press Britton on Film The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisFor fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. This title collects all published film criticism by Andrew Britton, a singular voice in film studies whose promising career was cut short by his untimely death.
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Wayne State University Press Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Book SynopsisRobin Wood - one of the foremost critics of cinema - has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques.Trade Review"[T]his volume is essential reading for anyone who shares Wood's belief that "the questions of where the horror film goes next is of far more than academic interest or curiosity value"." — Sight & Sound"Robin Wood on the Horror Film (Wayne State University Press) collects in one place virtually everything he wrote on the genre – and it’s a truly remarkable collection. [...]this is an essential volume for any lover of the horror film. " — DVD Choices
£27.71
Wayne State University Press Cinematic Cryptonymies The Absent Body in Postwar Film Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
Book SynopsisFollowing World War II, the world had to confront the unmournable specters of those who had been erased socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film explores how cinema addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth analysis of key filmmakers from the immediate postwar moment through the present.
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Wayne State University Press New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts
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Wayne State University Press Comebacks
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Wayne State University Press Hidden Light
Book SynopsisExplores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel’s cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film’s particular form of ‘magic’ may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.Trade ReviewHidden Light analyzes the ‘Judaic turn’ in Israeli cinema during the 2000s in riveting and rigorous detail. But that is only one of this book’s many impressive achievements. Chyutin grapples with nothing less than film theory’s links to religious and mystical concepts, building new bridges between film studies, Jewish studies, and religious studies." - Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness"Hidden Light is an act of reclamation. Moving beyond a seeming dichotomy between a text-driven legal tradition and the visual poetics of cinema, Chyutin brilliantly illustrates how the recent wave of religiously inflected Israeli cinema is deeply rooted in Jewish traditions of longing, prayer, and transcendence." - Shayna Weiss, associate director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University"Hidden Light is essential for anyone interested in contemporary Israeli cinema. Bringing deep theoretical and historical knowledge to bear on the ‘Judaic turn,’ Chyutin presents new ways of thinking about religion on-screen and ideas of spiritual transcendence endemic to the concept of ‘the cinematic’ since the art form’s birth." - Kyle Stevens, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory"Dan Chyutin’s timely study brings the ‘Judaic turn’ to bear upon a rich and engaging analysis of Israeli cinema. It does so by paying attention to cinematic appeals to the Judaic New Age, or what some scholars have recently termed the ‘Jew Age.’ Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema is an important contribution that, through its Jew Age analyses, brings into question simplistic binary thinking regarding the Israeli secular-religious divide in favor of a more complex reading of Judaism’s relationship to Israeli notions of identity." - Brian Ogren, Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and Religion Department Chair, Rice University"Hidden Light makes a singular contribution to the study of Israeli cinema, exploring and delineating one of the most important developments in Israeli cinema over the past three decades: the emergence of religious-themed Israeli films. Chyutin’s analysis of films is meticulous and enlightening, as he expands and challenges our perceptions of the Israeli cinematic canon." - Eran Kaplan, author of Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen"Film scholars will find merit." - Publisher's Weekly
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Wayne State University Press Appropriated Tales
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Syracuse University Press Fantastic Spaces
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University of Arizona Press Queer Indigenous Cinemas
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University of Minnesota Press Feminism And Documentary
Book SynopsisThe first book of essays to explore the intersection of these two vital disciplines.Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars and filmmakers, demonstrate the challenges that feminist perspectives pose for documentary theory, history, and practice. They also show how fuller attention to documentary enriches and complicates feminist theory, especially regarding the relationship between gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and nation.Feminism and Documentary begins with a substantial historical introduction that highlights several of the specific areas that contributors address: debates over realism, the relationship between filmmaker and subject, historical thinking about documentary and thinking about the historical documentary, biography and autobiography, and the use of psychoanalysis. Other essay
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University of Minnesota Press Collecting Visible Evidence
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University of Minnesota Press Wiping the War Paint off the Lens
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive exploration of Native American filmmaking and video production. Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With their cameras, they capture the lives of Native people, celebrating community, ancestral lifeways, and identity. Not only artistic statements, the films are archives that document rich and complex Native communities and counter mainstream media portrayals. Wiping the War Paint off the Lens traces the history of Native experiences as subjects, actors, and creators, and develops a critical framework for approaching Native work. Singer positions Native media as part of a larger struggle for cultural sovereignty-the right to maintain and protect cultures and traditions. Taking it out of a European-American context, she reframes the discourse of filmmaking, exploring oral histories and ancient li
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University of Minnesota Press Hollywood Goes Shopping
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University of Minnesota Press Touch
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University of Minnesota Press The Cinema or The Imaginary Man
Book SynopsisA classic work that explores the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind - at last available in English!Table of ContentsContents Translator's AcknowledgmentsTranslator's Introduction The Cinema or The Imaginary Man: An Essay in Sociological Anthropology Prologue1. The Cinema, the Airplane2. The Charm of the Image3. Metamorphosis of the Cinematograph into the Cinema4. The Soul of the Cinema5. Objective Presence6. The Complex of Dream and Reality7. Birth of a Reason, Blossoming of a Language8. The Semi-Imaginary Reality of Man Author's Preface to the 1977 Edition NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Eloquent Screen
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University of Minnesota Press Hitchcocks Cryptonymies v2
Book SynopsisThis second volume presents the director's work as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of this - and cinema's place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as the cinema's revolutionary impact on perception and memory.
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University of Minnesota Press Atomic Light Shadow Optics
Book SynopsisExplores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Revealing these hidden interiors of cultural life, this book focuses on historical moments in which the modes of avisuality came into being.
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University of Minnesota Press Photography Cinema Memory
Book SynopsisCinema and photography are both intimately associated with time-cinema with timein passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory , Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.
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University of Minnesota Press Derek Jarmans Angelic Conversations
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Getting History Wrong 1. Artistic and Sexual RevolutionsSituationism and Other Avant-gardes—The Gay Liberation Front2. Liberation, Space, and the Early FilmsReconfiguring "Home" in the Super-8s—Gay Liberation Theology in Sebastiane3. The Elizabethan FutureJubilee and the Punk Nation—Punk Heritage in The Tempest4. The Caravaggio YearsImagining Change: Imagining October—Homoerotic Countermythologies in The Angelic Conversation—Caravaggio: Gay History and the Scripts—Caravaggio and the Art of the Past5. Thatcherism, AIDS, and WarThe Last of England and the Landscape of Loss—War Requiem and the Army of Lovers6. Time and the GardenThe Garden at Prospect Cottage—Gardening History in Modern Nature—Histories of the Fall in The Garden7. Blindness and InsightEdward II: Queer Gothic—Wittgenstein and the Queer Life—Queer Vision in BlueCoda: The Raft of the Medusa Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Select Filmography of Derek Jarman Index
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University of Minnesota Press Ulrike Ottinger
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University of Minnesota Press From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital
Book SynopsisCinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media. In From Light to Byte Markos Hadjioannou asks what is different in the way digital movies depict the world and engage with the individual and how we might best address the technological shift within media archaeologies.Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Going Digital: Cinema’s New Age1. The Reality of the Index, or Where Does the Truth Lie2. Physical Presences: Reality, Materiality, Corporeality3. Spatial Coordinates: In-between Celluloid Strips and Codified Pixels4. Rediscovering Cinematic Time5. Tracing an Ethics of the Movie ImageConclusion. Change: A Point of Constant DepartureAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Night and Fog
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg’s marvelously detailed study “Night and Fog”: A Film in History a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship. . . . [It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights . . . in finely wrought prose."—Stuart Liebman, Cineaste"The ultimate authoritative source on Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking Holocaust film Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, 1955). [Lindeperg’s] research is remarkable, and the book will be invaluable to those working in European history as well as film. This volume does remarkable service to Night and Fog, a film that in the immediate aftermath of the war challenged viewers to remember the victims of the Holocaust."—CHOICE"Night and Fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which I could watch the unwatchable. Slyvie Lindeperg’s book does something similar for the film itself, and readers willing to tackle it and the film will find the effort well rewarded."—Documentary Magazine"The definitive study of Night and Fog... Historians should also appreciate it as an excellent example of the type of historical work close attention to film makes possible."—Journal of Modern History"Sylvie Lindeperg’s masterful Night and Fog: A Film in History is the definitive work of reference on Resnais’s classic documentary. We are fortunate to have an excellent English translation of this important and beautifully written French work."—H-France ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsForewordJean-Michel FrodonAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviationsPrologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the Missing LinkPart I. Inception: A Breakdown of Gazes1. The “Invisible Authority”: The Stakes of a Commission2. The “ Merchants of Shadows”: A French–Polish Coproduction3. A Journey to the East: Research and Documentation4. Writing Four Hands5. The Adventurous Gaze6. The Darkness of the Editing Room7. Suffocated Words: A Lazarian Poetry8. Eisler’s Neverending ChantPart II. Passage and Migration9. Tug of War with the Censors10. The Cannes Confusion: Dissecting a Scandal11. Germany Gets Its First Look12. Exile from Language: Paul Celan, Translator13. Translation Battles in the GDR14. A Portable Memorial15. Shifting Perspectives: An Educational Institution16. Constructing the Cinephilic GazeEpilogue: Olga’s TombNotesIndex
£57.80
University of Minnesota Press Night and Fog
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I do not hesitate to call Sylvie Lindeperg’s marvelously detailed study “Night and Fog”: A Film in History a major work of contemporary film historical scholarship. . . . [It] affords genuinely original historical and aesthetic insights . . . in finely wrought prose."—Stuart Liebman, Cineaste"The ultimate authoritative source on Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking Holocaust film Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard, 1955). [Lindeperg’s] research is remarkable, and the book will be invaluable to those working in European history as well as film. This volume does remarkable service to Night and Fog, a film that in the immediate aftermath of the war challenged viewers to remember the victims of the Holocaust."—CHOICE"Night and Fog gave me a context, a literal frame of art through which I could watch the unwatchable. Slyvie Lindeperg’s book does something similar for the film itself, and readers willing to tackle it and the film will find the effort well rewarded."—Documentary Magazine"The definitive study of Night and Fog... Historians should also appreciate it as an excellent example of the type of historical work close attention to film makes possible."—Journal of Modern History"Sylvie Lindeperg’s masterful Night and Fog: A Film in History is the definitive work of reference on Resnais’s classic documentary. We are fortunate to have an excellent English translation of this important and beautifully written French work."—H-France ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsForewordJean-Michel FrodonAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviationsPrologue: Olga Wormser-Migot, the Missing LinkPart I. Inception: A Breakdown of Gazes1. The “Invisible Authority”: The Stakes of a Commission2. The “ Merchants of Shadows”: A French–Polish Coproduction3. A Journey to the East: Research and Documentation4. Writing Four Hands5. The Adventurous Gaze6. The Darkness of the Editing Room7. Suffocated Words: A Lazarian Poetry8. Eisler’s Neverending ChantPart II. Passage and Migration9. Tug of War with the Censors10. The Cannes Confusion: Dissecting a Scandal11. Germany Gets Its First Look12. Exile from Language: Paul Celan, Translator13. Translation Battles in the GDR14. A Portable Memorial15. Shifting Perspectives: An Educational Institution16. Constructing the Cinephilic GazeEpilogue: Olga’s TombNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Pulses of Abstraction utterly transforms our understanding of the form and history of animation. Diving deep into techno-aesthetic experiments with form in abstract animation—lines, color, photograms, frequencies, and digital codes—it shows that animation is not merely a kind or genre of cinema. Animation is the mode of technical individuation for moving image media, a vital creating that gathers up individual artists, artworks, and audiences in a distinctive movement of thought. Andrew R. Johnston thus overturns film history, too, revealing a non-linear pulse of techno-animist dissensus rumbling beneath our chronological habits."—Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago "Pulses of Abstraction is an erudite book that addresses histories and theories of technology, cinema, philosophy, music, and art through the lens of experimental animation. Without losing sight of the animations under discussion as ‘sensuous works,’ Andrew R. Johnston shifts our focus away from the screen to how these works are made. Drawing on a vast body of archival material and engaging big aesthetic questions, Johnston shows how paying attention to the technological problems that drive experimentation enriches our ability to do aesthetic analysis, and he develops a precise and original vocabulary for describing experimental animation that is sorely needed. This book is a gift to the field."—Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania "Pulses of Abstraction is not only an essential contribution to animation and cinema, media studies, and media archaeology, it demonstrates the necessity of bringing these three fields into relation. Its exemplars—weirdly beautiful and beautifully weird—constitute a canon which, in Andrew R. Johnston’s animate analysis, becomes a new foundation for studies of time-based media materialisms."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "A fascinating and important look at some key voices in abstract animation and how their unique perspectives overlapped with technical innovations to create new visions and trends."—Cartoon Brew "Pulses of Abstraction takes an innovative approach to animation history, combining key figures, elements, techniques and technological developments."—Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
£84.15
University of Minnesota Press Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Pulses of Abstraction utterly transforms our understanding of the form and history of animation. Diving deep into techno-aesthetic experiments with form in abstract animation—lines, color, photograms, frequencies, and digital codes—it shows that animation is not merely a kind or genre of cinema. Animation is the mode of technical individuation for moving image media, a vital creating that gathers up individual artists, artworks, and audiences in a distinctive movement of thought. Andrew R. Johnston thus overturns film history, too, revealing a non-linear pulse of techno-animist dissensus rumbling beneath our chronological habits."—Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago "Pulses of Abstraction is an erudite book that addresses histories and theories of technology, cinema, philosophy, music, and art through the lens of experimental animation. Without losing sight of the animations under discussion as ‘sensuous works,’ Andrew R. Johnston shifts our focus away from the screen to how these works are made. Drawing on a vast body of archival material and engaging big aesthetic questions, Johnston shows how paying attention to the technological problems that drive experimentation enriches our ability to do aesthetic analysis, and he develops a precise and original vocabulary for describing experimental animation that is sorely needed. This book is a gift to the field."—Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania "Pulses of Abstraction is not only an essential contribution to animation and cinema, media studies, and media archaeology, it demonstrates the necessity of bringing these three fields into relation. Its exemplars—weirdly beautiful and beautifully weird—constitute a canon which, in Andrew R. Johnston’s animate analysis, becomes a new foundation for studies of time-based media materialisms."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland "A fascinating and important look at some key voices in abstract animation and how their unique perspectives overlapped with technical innovations to create new visions and trends."—Cartoon Brew "Pulses of Abstraction takes an innovative approach to animation history, combining key figures, elements, techniques and technological developments."—Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press Critical Mass
Book SynopsisThirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues.Trade Review"Brimming with as many fruitful insights as remarkable discoveries, Critical Mass amounts to a Declaration of Social Purpose for early French documentary film. Steven Ungar yokes the daring-do of the avant-garde to the political goals of the left over the course of some forty years of filmmaking. It is a triumph of critical analysis."—Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition"A powerhouse crowning the career of a distinguished scholar of twentieth-century studies, Critical Mass will be an enduring point of reference for the history of both documentary cinema in France and of the genre tout court. Wide-ranging, meticulously researched, and incisive, Steven Ungar’s readings recover the contexts that shape documentary style, form, and process. Had André Breton read Critical Mass, he would have concluded, rightly, that cinema will be documentary or it will not be."—Tom Conley, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Establishing Shots1. A First Wave: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies2. Moving In, Moving OutÉtudes sur Paris Transition I: 1929–19303. “All the World’s Misery”A Propos de Nice to AubervilliersTransition II: Popular Front—Vichy—Postwar4. Colonial Cinema and Its DiscontentsRené Vautier, Afrique 50Alain Resnais/Chris Marker, Les Statues meurent aussiJean Rouch, Moi, un NoirTransition III: The Group of Thirty5. Two Takes on Postwar Paris: Scenes in a Library and Paris Springtime ZeroAlain Resnais, Toute la mémoire du mondeChris Marker, Le Joli MaiAfterthoughts: A Radical LyricismAcknowledgmentsAppendix A. Declaration of the Group of ThirtyAppendix B. Quality Subsidy Study: Short-Subject AdvantagesNotesFilmographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Cinemas Bodily Illusions Flying Floating and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic perception."—Jennifer M. Barker, author of The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience"Richmond’s theory and method offers an important tool for doing some of the critical work that spectator theory cannot. Cinema’s Bodily Illusions may become an influential vein within postmodern phenomenology. It offers a critical method for understanding the aesthetic moment outside of representational blinders."—PopMattersTable of ContentsContents Introduction. Proprioceptive Aesthetics, or the Cinema 1. The Unfinished Business of Modernism: Anémic Cinéma 2. Beyond the Infinite, At Home in Finitude: 2001 3. Ecological Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Gibson 4. Proprioception, the Écart: Koyaanisqatsi 5. The Body, Unbounded: Gravity 6. Aesthetics beyond the Phenomenal: The Flicker Conclusion. The Technicity of the Cinema: Apparatuses and Technics Acknowledgments Notes Index
£66.30
University of Minnesota Press Split Screen Korea
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lucidly and sensitively written, Steven Chung’s book is not only a historical study of a single director and national culture caught in an eventful time period. It is also an excellent thesis on cinema as a locus of multidiscursivity whose evolving fissures—temporal, spatial, technical, and experiential—defy any facile attempt to stabilize meanings by way of aesthetics or geopolitics."—Rey Chow, Duke University"Split Screen Korea is a pathbreaking work that offers a theoretically sophisticated study of the complex and shifting relations between Korean cinema and mass culture. Through its careful, meticulous tracing of Sin Sang-ok’s work as a director, producer, and studio head, this book allows us to rethink the multilayered cultural and visual politics of divided Korea and, more broadly, the global Cold War itself."—Theodore Hughes, Columbia University"Split Screen Korea exemplifies a kind of necessary scholarly monograph that will never go out of style. Instead of seeking to construct yet another fashionable revisionist history, Steven Chung writes fluidly and directly, establishing ‘film and nation’ as the basic binary from which his research emanates."—Slant Magazine"Written in clear, jargon-free prose and gently persuasive and accommodating in its engagement with the existing scholarship, Steven Chung’s Split Screen Korea mounts a compelling case for re-examination and re-evaluation of the commercial Korean films produced between 1953 and 1979."—Pacific Affairs"Chung presents his arguments beautifully in jargon-free, concise language and offers a pleasurable sense of discovery at every turn. . . Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-Ok and Postwar Cinema is a formidable work and a crucial contribution to the field of Korean studies, film studies, and mass media studies."—SituationsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Visible Ruptures, Invisible Borders1. The Century’s Illuminations: The Enlightenment Mode in Korean Cinema2. Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion in the Korean 1950s3. Authorship and the Location of Cinema: In the Region of Shin Films4. Melodrama and the Scene of Development5. “It’s All Fake”: Shin Sang-ok’s North Korean RevisionsConclusion: Post-Development PicturesAcknowledgmentsNotesShin Sang-ok FilmographyBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Long Take Art Cinema and the Wondrous
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Long Take demonstrates a thorough and masterful command of film, media, and visual theory. With vivid descriptions of the works under consideration, Lutz Koepnick helps illuminate and elucidate the use of the long take in film and art with a prose that is at once accessible and intelligent. An ambitious and magisterial work."—Nora M. Alter, Temple University"Analysing permutations in the long take across a notably diverse array of institutional contexts, with close readings of moving images drawn from feature films, gallery installations, site-specific artworks and video games, Lutz Koepnick develops an expansive and nuanced account of wondrous looking. Although Koepnick is fully attuned to the demands of the attention economy, The Long Take nonetheless strikes a hopeful and appropriately curious tone, highlighting the multiple settings and situations in which, for a time at least, spectatorship can be both embodied and unguarded."—Maeve Connolly, author of TV Museum and The Place of Artists’ Cinema"The Long Take offers important, timely, and provocative insights on the transformation of our relationship to projected images as sites of exhibition morph and multiply and as viewing practices become mobile and contingent. Koepnick’s mode of analysis serves as a lesson in how criticism must adapt to the dynamic visual ecologies of the present moment."—Critical InquiryTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Wondrous Spectator1. To Cut or Not to Cut2. Images of/as Promise3. “It’s Still Not Over”4. The Long Goodbye5. Funny Takes? 6. The Wonders of Being Stuck7. (Un)Timely MeditationsConclusion: Screens without FrontiersNotesIndex
£75.65
University of Minnesota Press The Long Take
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Long Take demonstrates a thorough and masterful command of film, media, and visual theory. With vivid descriptions of the works under consideration, Lutz Koepnick helps illuminate and elucidate the use of the long take in film and art with a prose that is at once accessible and intelligent. An ambitious and magisterial work."—Nora M. Alter, Temple University"Analysing permutations in the long take across a notably diverse array of institutional contexts, with close readings of moving images drawn from feature films, gallery installations, site-specific artworks and video games, Lutz Koepnick develops an expansive and nuanced account of wondrous looking. Although Koepnick is fully attuned to the demands of the attention economy, The Long Take nonetheless strikes a hopeful and appropriately curious tone, highlighting the multiple settings and situations in which, for a time at least, spectatorship can be both embodied and unguarded."—Maeve Connolly, author of TV Museum and The Place of Artists’ Cinema"The Long Take offers important, timely, and provocative insights on the transformation of our relationship to projected images as sites of exhibition morph and multiply and as viewing practices become mobile and contingent. Koepnick’s mode of analysis serves as a lesson in how criticism must adapt to the dynamic visual ecologies of the present moment."—Critical InquiryTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Wondrous Spectator1. To Cut or Not to Cut2. Images of/as Promise3. “It’s Still Not Over”4. The Long Goodbye5. Funny Takes? 6. The Wonders of Being Stuck7. (Un)Timely MeditationsConclusion: Screens without FrontiersNotesIndex
£19.94
The University of Alabama Press This Is Called Moving A Critical Poetics of Film
Book SynopsisAs a writer, director, producer, and cinematographer, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. In these essays, Child draws on her career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work.Trade ReviewAn excellent and distinctive addition to the MCP series.... This book focuses a highly articulate poetic intelligence on a range of topics relevant to film studies and literary writing, and at the same time presents a portfolio of interviews and discussion and script material that charts the trajectory of a significant contemporary experimental filmmaker. - Bruce Andrews, author of Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Trial Films on Trial
Book SynopsisThe first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films offered insights into the events of the late 20th century.Trade ReviewTrial Films on Trial successfully brings together distinguished and emerging scholars to engage important questions about law's representation in film and, fascinatingly, film's law-like logic."" - Daniel LaChance, author of Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States""A marvelously generative text which will, I am certain, stand as an important and defining contribution to the field of law and film."" - Patricia Ewick, coauthor of The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday LifeTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Pleasures and Possibilities of Trial Films by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, Martha Merrill Umphrey Chapter 1. Law and the Order of Popular Culture by Carol J. Clover Chapter 2. Knowing It When We See It: Realism and Melodrama in American Film Since The Birth of a Nation by Ticien Marie Sassoubre Chapter 3. Reasonable Doubts, Unspoken Fears: Reassessing the Trial Film's ""Heroic Age"" by Barry Langford Chapter 4. Disorder in Court: Representations of Resistance to Law in Trial Film Dramas by Norman W. Spaulding Chapter 5. ""I Am Here. I Was There."": Haunted Testimony in The Memory of Justice and The Specialist by Katie Model Chapter 6. The Appearance of Truth: Juridical Reception and Photographic Evidence in Standard Operating Procedure by Jennifer Petersen Works Cited Contributors Index
£23.36
Ohio University Press Shakespeare Observed
Book SynopsisIn this lively study of both modern film and stage productions of Shakespeare, Samuel Crowl provides fascinating insights into the ways in which these productions have been influenced by one another as well as by contemporary developments in critical approaches to Shakespeare’s plays.Trade ReviewShakespeare Observed appears at exactly the right moment in history to describe the remarkable innovations in Shakespearean performance during the last decades of the twentieth century; it belongs in the library of anyone interested in the progression of the Shakespearean text from page to stage to screen. -- Kenneth S. Rothwell, University of Vermont“It is a generous-spirited and eloquent discussion of some of the major developments in Shakespearean production since 1960. -- John Andrews, The Guild ShakespeareThe whole piece is suffused with perception and clarity. -- Peter Hall, The Peter Hall Company
£18.99
Ohio University Press Shakespeare in Production
Book SynopsisShakespeare in Production examines a number of plays in context.
£40.50
Duke University Press The Third Eye
Book SynopsisCharting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, this title explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific.Trade Review“The Third Eye is an extraordinary contribution to both film history and the theorization of the ethnographic gaze. Informed by Rony’s close involvement with contemporary art practice and documentary film production, this fascinating book breaks with familiar genres of academic writing to provide an exciting new take on practices of ethnographic looking, the cultural history of the body, and the racial and sexual politics of visual culture in colonial science.”—Lisa Cartwright, University of RochesterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Third Eye 3 I. Inscription 1. Seeing Anthropology: Felix-Louis Regnault, the Narrative of race, and the Performers at the Ethnographic Exposition 21 2. The Writing of Race in Film: Felix-Louis Regnault and the Ideology of the Ethnographic Film Archive 45 II. Taxidermy 3. Gestures of Self-Protection: The Picturesque and the Travelogue 77 4. Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North 99 III. Teratology 5. Time and Redemption in the "Racial Film" of the 1920s and 1930s 129 6. King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema 157 Conclusion. Passion of Remembrance: Facing the Camera/Grabbing the Camera 193 Notes 219 Bibliography 265 Index 289
£25.19
Duke University Press Gilles Deleuzes Time Machine
Book SynopsisGilles Deleuze is one of France's most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers. This is a study of Deleuze's work on film and image, examining the logic of his theories and their relationship to his philosophy of difference. It is useful to Deleuze scholars, students of cinema, and those interested in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.Trade Review“Anglo-American critics have not yet begun to plumb the riches of Deleuze’s investigation into cinema, and David Rodowick, well versed in philosophy and cinema studies, is the perfect person to bring these important works into focus for the American critical establishment. This book will become a standard work for anyone who wants to learn about Deleuze on cinema and about Deleuze more generally.”—Dana Polan, University of Pittsburgh“Deleuze is now coming to be seen in the anglophone world for what the French have long known him to be—someone who is perhaps the most productive and important philosophical thinker of this century. And Rodowick has a flair for making genuinely illuminating connections between Deleuze’s cinema books and his other works.”— Kenneth Surin, Duke University“Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine is a significant contribution to those who wish to study Deleuze’s cinema volumes. As an informative and creative engagement of Deleuze’s work, it provides a fertile ground that is capable of generating more work with these texts.” -- Darlene Pursley * SubStance *“D. N. Rodowick . . . has aimed for a tightly organized and intensively explicated study of Deleuze’s cinema theory. He has managed admirably to balance a fidelity to Deleuze’s ideas with a clarity of presentation that is at times astonishing, given the notable untidiness of Deleuze’s argumentation in the Cinema volumes. . . . Rodowick has done Deleuze’s readers a genuine service in sharpening the image of thought which Deleuze sought to draw from the cinema and thus intensifying its potential impact on future discussions of the medium.” * Textual Practice *
£76.50
Duke University Press Empty Moments
Book SynopsisAn innovative reconceptualization of the defining quality of modernity and how it relates to cinema and literary theoryTrade Review“An intense and dazzling encounter with the effects that characterize modernism. This book is written with craft, insight, and care. Its creative form opens new and contemporary perspectives on the modernist past.”—Tom Conley, Harvard University“Elegant and interesting, Empty Moments will be widely and quickly recognized as a distinguished and important book.”—Ross Chambers, University of Michigan
£22.79
