Film history, theory or criticism Books
Oxford University Press Inc Documentary
Book SynopsisThis is the second major revision of a book universally acclaimed as the definitive history of the documentary film. The final section has been completely rewritten and expanded to take into account the major films and trends of the past nine years. Particular attention has been paid to the growth of documentary film-making in the Soviet Union since Glasnost and the corresponding expansion in the United States, including Ken Burns''s The Civil War, which broke all audience records for Public Television in 1990.Trade Review"This is the best historical overview of that major genre termed 'Documentary' or 'Non-fiction." --Edward S. Small, Phd., University of Kansas "Nothing compares, still." --Amy Villarejo, Cornell University "A reasonably priced introduction to a major area of film making which is all too often left in the shadow of drama. It is both thorough and readable." --Fred Caffney, South Kent College "First rate history--well written, with a coherent and constant focus on the power of the documentary film." --Tom Mullin, Eastern Washington University "The best in its field. I have used the first edition for almost twenty years to great effect. Barnouw is a masterful text writer." --Robert J. Allen, Seton Hall University "This is the basic book for anybody who wants to be a documentary filmmaker. Very good!" --Aleksander Mandis, New York University "A concise, accurate and indispensable book for any lover of documentary film. An indispensable reference and a worthy text for any course on the subject." --Lynne Jackson, St. Francis College "The best general history of documentary available. Concise, yet wide ranging and erudite. A valuable classroom text." --Michael Griffin, University of Minnesota Praise for Previous Editions: "A helpful antidote to the spirit....It presents sign posts to where documentary could be and where it may emerge. Barnouw's style has a clarity and precision that make his books delights to read." --Film Quarterly "The whole panorama has been richly researched and compactly organized into easy prose by Barnouw, writing at the peak of his competence." --Variety "Erik Barnouw puts film history in the mainstream of human history as few others have done before. He reminds us of the powers of film to instruct, exhilarate, excite and deceive, and shows how these powers have been used in our time." --Daniel J. Boorstin "Provides students with a foundation of knowledge from which they can learn, explore, and create." --Ronald A. Hoodak, Elmira College "Indispensable text. I have used Barnouw's book since 1975, and I'm grateful for each updated edition." --Bill Huie, Texas A&M University, Corpus Cristi "Well-written and wonderfully researched. Clear and concise!....I'm very excited using it." --Robert J. de Maria, Washington and Lee University "Superior text. [I've] used it for years and will continue to do so." --Professor E. Scott Bryce, St. Cloud State University "I will almost certainly use it when I next teach the class."--Professor Edward S. Small, University of Kansas "Very good overview."--Mike Duvall, Saugamon State University "This knowledgeable chronicle and advocacy of the documentary is marked with the poetry of Barnouw's own appreciation of the medium." --William Judson, University of PittsburghTable of Contents1.: Glimpse of Wonders Prophet 2.: Images at Work Explorer Reporter Painter 3.: Sound and Fury Advocate Bugler Prosecutor 4.: Clouded Lens Poet Chronicler Promoter 5.: Sharp Focus Observer Catalyst Guerilla 6.: Movement
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Oxford University Press Inc Screen Stories and Moral Understanding
Book SynopsisThe stories we tell and show, in whatever medium, play varied roles in human cultures. One such role is to contribute to moral understanding. Moral understanding goes beyond moral knowledge; it is a complex cognitive achievement that may consist of one or more of the following: the ability to understand why, to ask the right questions, categorization, the application of models to specific incidents, or the capacity to make connections between morally charged situations that have a common underlying meaning. While the disciplines of communication, psychology, philosophy, and film and media studies have all made significant scholarly progress on this issue, they make different grounding assumptions and use different terminologies. Screen Stories and Moral Understanding approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective and explores the conditions under which stories we view on screens-movies, streamed series, and television-can lead to moral understanding in viewers.In five secti
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Oxford University Press Inc One Shot Hitchcock
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the director''s work. Adding to this pattern of innovation, the edited collection One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen utilizes formal analysis to interrogate key single shots from across Alfred Hitchcock''s long career. This collection reveals the value of analyzing the single shot - within this small, cinematic unit is a code that unlocks a series of revelations about cinema as an artistic practice and a theoretical study. Each chapter examines one shot from a single film, beginning with The Lodger (1927) and ending with Frenzy (1972). If Hitchcock is known as a director of suspense films and films about murder, the shots discussed in One Shot Hitchcock are his crime scenes. These are the shots that resist being forgotten, that repeatedly demand to be investigated, in which Hitchcock''s influence on aesthetics and culture is
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Oxford University Press Inc Our CountryWhose Country
Book SynopsisThe concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States'' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers'' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what American Progress came to mean.Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the Appalachians, Great Plains, and Rockies. Their seizure of empty land provoked continual resistance from Indigenous peoples and Mexicans; pioneers suffered extreme hardships, but heroic male figures usually scattered or wiped out those aliens. Some films indulged in nostalgic empathy for the Indian as a Vanishing American. In the early 1910s, westerns became increasingly popular. In Indian pictures, Native Americans ranged from devious savages, victims of white violence, and Noble Savages to in-between figures caught between cultures and mixed-descent peoples partnered for security or advantage. Mexicans Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "Wild West" Subjects to 1910 Touring the West 1 Chapter 2: Single-Reel Westerns, 1910-1913 Touring the West 2 Chapter 3: Multiple-Reel Westerns, 1912-1914 Touring the West 3 Chapter 4: William S. Hart, "The Silent Man" Touring the West 4 Chapter 5: Harry Carey, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks Afterword Bibliography Endnotes Index
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Oxford University Press The Cinema of Converging Lives
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
Book SynopsisComprehensive, authoritative, and unique, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the up-to-date critical volume on the theories, debates, and approaches to the study of film. A host of international experts provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the main concepts and methods involved in film analysis, a survey of the main issues and debates in the study of film, and critical discussion of key areas. The Guide features: * Comprehensive coverage suitable for any course on cinema or film studies * Organized into three sections: Approaches; Hollywood and the World; World Cinema * An emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods, and debates * Specially commissioned chapters on such varied topics as film music, the Hollywood Star System, and the idea of national cinema * Coverage dedicated to important new areas in film studies: gay and lesbian criticism, postcolonial theory, audience studies, post-classical Hollywood cinema, and cultural studies * Chapters discussing exciting new developments in classical topics, such as Early Hollywood Cinema, Film History, and the avant-garde* Illustrated throughout, and complete with `readings'' designed to demonstrate the variety of theoretical approaches, chapter headings and summaries, guides to further reading, and `highlight'' quotes With its uniquely comprehensive coverage, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable aide and reference source for the student of film and media, and anyone interested in the study of cinema.Trade Review"One of the first things that strikes you about The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the number of contributors, nearly 70 in all representing a fair cross-section of leading scholarship mainly (though not exclusively) from the United Kingdom and the United States. This is a great strength." * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *"Prominence is given to the politics of gender and sexuality, an accurate reflection of the balance of debates within the discipline over the past two decades at least." * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *"In its coverage of major theoretical issues, provides a sound introduction for undergraduate film-studies students and perhaps even more usefully, for students on courses on which film is only a part." * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *"Featuring entries from most of the reigning luminaries in the field, this solid, exhaustive volume is possibly the best all-in-one guide currently available. The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches, and there are a few surpises --- for instance, pornography is firmly ensconced as a respectable academic subject." * Sight and Sound, May 1998 *substantial book that, particularly in its coverage of major theoretical issues, provides a sound introduction for undergraduate film-studies students and, perhaps even more usefully, for students on courses of which film is only a part. * Steve Blandford, The Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction ; PART ONE: CRITICAL APPROACHES ; 1. Introduction to Film Studies ; STUDYING THE FILM TEXT ; 2. The Film Text and Film Form ; 3. Film Acting ; 4. Film Costume ; 5. Film Music ; THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; 6. Classic Film Theory and Semiotics ; 7. Formalism and Neo-formalism ; 8. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory ; 9. Film and Psychoanalysis ; 10. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction ; 11. Film and Postmodernism ; FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES ; 12. Marxism and Film ; 13. Feminism and Film ; 14. Gay and Lesbian Criticism ; 15. Queer Theory ; 16. Pornography ; 17. Race, Ethnicity, and Film ; 18. Film and Cultural Identity ; FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION ; 19. Film and History ; 20. Sociology and Film ; 21. Cultural Studies and Film ; 22. Film Audiences ; 23. Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation ; PART TWO: AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES. ; AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION ; 1. American Cinema and Film History ; 2. History and Cinema Technology ; 3. Hollywood as Industry ; 4. Early American Film ; 5. Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama ; 6. Post-classical Hollywood ; CRITICAL CONCEPTS ; 7. Authorship and Hollywood ; 8. Genre and Hollywood ; 9. The Star System and Hollywood ; POLITICS AND SOCIETY ; 10. Hollywood Film and Society ; 11. Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond ; 12. Hollywood and the World ; PART THREE: WORLD CINEMA: CRITICAL APPROACHES ; REDEFINING CINEMA: INTERNATIONAL AND AVANT-GARDE ALTERNATIVES ; 1. Concepts of National Cinema ; 2. Modernism and the Avante-Gardes ; 3. Realism, Modernism, and Post-Colonial ; REDEFINING CINEMA: OTHER GENRES ; 4. The Documentary Film ; 5. The Animated Film ; EUROPEAN CINEMA ; 6. Iss ues in European Cinema ; CASE-STUDIES: MOVEMENTS, MOMENTS, AND FILMMAKERS ; 7. The Avant-Gardes and European Cinema before 1930 ; 8. Italian Post-War Cinema and Neo-Realism ; 9. The French Nouvelle Vague ; 10. New German Cinema ; 11. East-Central European Cinema ; 12. European Film Policy and the Response to Hollywood ; 13. Directors and Stars ; (a) Jean Renoir ; (b) Ingmar Bergman ; (c) Chantal Akerman ; (d) Pedro Almodovar ; (e) Luc Besson ; ANGLOPHONE NATIONAL CINEMAS ; CASE-STUDIES ; 14. British Cinema ; 15. Ireland and Cinema ; 16. Australian Cinema ; 17. Canadian Cinema ; WORLD CINEMA ; 18. Issues in World Cinema ; CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD ; 19. Indian Cinema ; 20. Chinese Cinema ; 21(a) Hong Kong Cinema: Discovery and Pre-Discovery ; 21(b) China, and 1997 ; 22. Taiwanese New Cinema ; 23. Japanese Cinema ; 25. South American Cinema ; FILM IN A CHANGING AGE ; 26. Film and Changing Technologies ; 27. Film and Television
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Oxford University Press A Dictionary of Film Studies
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'Rich, thought-provoking, and diverse' * Mark Cousins, creator of The Story of Film: An Odyssey *'This important work [is] affordable to film students, to whom I would strongly recommend it. It also has benefits for more advanced scholars who may want to quickly check less familiar terms and concepts when writing articles or preparing class materials' * Sylvie Magerstädt, Film and History *'Impressive for range and readability ... An unusually absorbing reference work for students and film buffs alike' * The Independent *'I could find little to fault in this work... [it] will ... enhance understanding for anyone interested in film and film criticism' * Bob Duckett, Reference Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction A to Z Entries Index of Film Titles Index of Directors
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Oxford University Press Wilde in the Dream Factory
Book SynopsisHollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies, it reveals how Wilde helped to shape Hollywood in the early twentieth century. It begins with his 1882 American tour, and traces the ongoing popularity of his plays and novel in the early twentieth century, after his ignominious death. Following the early filmmakers, writers and actors as they headed West in the Hollywood boom, it uncovers how and why they took Wilde''s spirit with them. There, in Hollywood, in the early days of silent cinema, Wilde''s works were adapted. They were also beginning to define a new kind of style -- a ''Wilde-ish spirit'', as Ernst Lubitsch called it -- filtering into the imaginations of Lubitsch himself, as well as Alla Nazimova, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein and many others. These were the people
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Oxford University Press Inc A Modernist Cinema
Book SynopsisIn A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors - Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles - these essays investTrade ReviewThe volume does not descend into a vague "modernists go to the movies" survey. Rather, despite the canonicity of the films, each essay provides strong case studies. Though all the essays have a similar implicit thesis--something like "this film, which does not seem to be modernist, actually speaks to modernism"--the variety of topics covered is the book's strong suit. * K. M. Flanagan, George Mason University, CHOICE *The table of contents of this book reads like a veritable Who's Who of cinematic modernism, including such directors as Griffith, Eisenstein, Lang, Hitchcock, Murnau, Dreyer, Bunuel, Ford, Renoir, Chaplin, Riefenstahl, and Welles. Add to that the fact that every chapter offers a provocative and original take on a single masterpiece by each of these directors, and you have a truly remarkable volume. And to top it all off, the essays are written in accessible, jargon-free prose and explore their subjects with a deep awareness of historical and theoretical contexts. * Paul A. Cantor, author of Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, Gesture, Modernism, by Enda Duffy and Maurizia Boscagli Chapter 2: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance and the Ever-Present Now, by Michael North Chapter 3: Sergei Eisenstein's Collage: Filming Montage in Museums at Night, by Lisa Siraganian Chapter 4: From Automaton to Autonomy: Mechanical Reproduction in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, by Richard Begam Chapter 5: "Suspense is Like a Woman": Sex and Style in Alfred Hitchcock's Pleasure Garden and The Lodger, by Laura Frost Chapter 6: F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: Between Two Worlds, by Laura Marcus Chapter 7: "A Language Worth the Trouble of Learning"? Carl Theodore Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, by Andrzej Gasiorek Chapter 8: Intervals of Transition: Dziga Vertov's The Man With a Movie Camera, by Tyrus Miller Chapter 9: Luis Buñuel, Surrealism and the Politics of Disorder, by Michael Wood Chapter 10: Yasujir's Ozu's A Story of Floating Weeds and the Art of Being Behind, by Carrie J. Preston Chapter 11: "Saved from the Blessings of Civilization": John Ford's Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism, by Michael Valdez Moses Chapter 12: "Tout le monde a ses raisons" The Problem of Impressionist Commitment in Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu, by Jesse Matz Chapter 13: "You Must Speak": Silence, Scale, and Power in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, by Scott W. Klein Chapter 14: Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi Neoclassicism: Olympia, by Elizabeth Otto Chapter 15: On Auratic and Sentimental Objects: High and Low Modernism in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, by Douglas Mao Index
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The University of Chicago Press Filmed Thought
Book SynopsisWith the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almod var's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All that Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptio
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Taylor & Francis Big Wednesday
Book SynopsisThis book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has undergone a significant reappraisal. It is now considered not only an important contribution to youth cinema, but also the most important film that John Milius ever made. Over six chapters, the book considers questions of authorship, commerce, genre, stardom, and myth, and explores how these ideas intersect with the filmâs status as a significant youth movie and collectively how these ideas have contributed to its recent critical rehabilitation. In doing so, the book also provides a much-needed reassessment of an important and overlooked entry in the New Hollywood canon.Exploring Big Wednesdayâs subsequent resonance and relevance, this unique study will appeal
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive revision guide contains everything students need to know to succeed on their A Level Film Studies course.Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies features engaging and accessible chapters to help learners develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of film form, including cinematography, mise en scène, performance, lighting, editing and sound. The book offers detailed explanations of the specialist study areas required for the A Level course, including auteur theory, spectatorship, genre, key critical debates, narrative and ideology, as well as overviews of key film movements like French New Wave cinema, German Expressionism and Soviet Montage. Also included are practical exercises designed to help students apply essential concepts to film set texts, sample exam responses for both Eduqas and OCR exam boards, and challenge activities designed to help students secure premium grades.With its practical approach and comprehensive scoTrade Review"This is an invaluable resource for anyone studying Film A level. The book is split into three accessible and logical sections; Film Forms, Theories and Context and Forms and is well supported throughout by relevant and interesting examples. Written with the student in mind, the revision activities and exemplars ought to help pupils achieve at a high level in their A level exams. The ‘experimental film’ and ‘lighting’ chapters are great examples of how to break down complex topics into digestible and fathomable content, allowing access across all ability ranges. This text is equally useful for 1st year undergraduate students who are bridging into a film related course."- Leigh Adams, British Film Institute: Director of Education and Skills"Essential in more than just name! With written examples relating to exam set texts and chapters on technical aspects of film, theories and contexts, Mark Dixon’s Essential Revision for A Level Film is the perfect companion for any student embarking on an A level Film Studies course, or any teacher who wants to secure their subject knowledge." - Claire Pollard, Editor of EMC MediaMagazineTable of ContentsPart One: Film Forms1 Cinematography2 Mise en scene and performance3 Editing4 Sound5 LightingPart Two: Film Theories6 Theories of narrative7 Auteur-based approaches8 Ideology9 SpectatorshipPart Three: Contexts and forms10 Silent cinema11 Classical Hollywood 1930-6012 Experimental film13 New Hollywood 1961-90 14 Contemporary British cinema since 199515 Documentary film16 Contemporary American cinema since 2005BibliographyIndex
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Jesus the Gospels and Cinematic Imagination
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Faber & Faber Trier on Von Trier
Book SynopsisThe mercurial Danish director of Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves offers his inimitable views on life and art in this fascinating, opinionated and witty addition to Faber''s ''Directors on Directors'' series.Lars Trier affected the lordly ''von'' in his name while still a film student, in homage to such great movie-makers of the past as von Sternberg and von Stroheim. His own brilliant directing career has been marked by similarly grand ambitions, and he is unique in having premiered all of his features - from the highly styled The Element of Crime to the digital-video-originated The Idiots - at the Cannes Film Festival. Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema, a restless innovator and polemicist, as his participation in the back-to-basics Dogme95 movement attests; and these conversations with Stig Bjorkman, author of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, trace the evolution of his career an
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Faber & Faber The Path to Paradise
Book SynopsisThe definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world.Supremely entertaining.' New York TimesMouth-watering . . . Sizzingly vivid and compulsive.' Daily TelegraphAcclaimed writer Sam Wasson weaves together an extraordinary portrait of Coppola, having conducted hundreds of interviews with the director and those who have worked closely with him. A man who is charming, brilliant, but also plagued by restlessness, recklessness and a desire to operate perpetually at the extremes. It is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted, Apocalypse Now. That story, already the stuff of legend, has never been fully told until this extraordinary book..
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Harvard University Press Arts of Impoverishment Beckett Rothko Resnais
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Edinburgh University Press Breaking the Fourth Wall
Book SynopsisFilm characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cases a convention of - various traditions of filmmaking.Table of Contents1. Introduction: direct address in film history, theory and criticism; 2. Counter-looks: direct address and counter-cinema; 3. Looks of invitation: comedic and musical direct address; 4. Le Notti di Cabiria (1957); 5. High Fidelity (2000); 6. La Ronde (1950); 7. Conclusion.
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Running Press,U.S. Lena Horne
Book SynopsisFrom Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood’s first African American movie goddess. Lena Horne’s life and career are truly remarkable in American film history. She was the first Black performer to become a true star—to receive the kind of glamour treatment at the fabled MGM that the studio had previously given to the likes of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner. At the same time, Horne dealt with endless indignities, not the least of which was the fact that her roles in films was often as a musical performer, which allowed her numbers to be easily stripped out of films without affecting the narrative when played to audiences that would find her presence undesirable. At long last, Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed gives the star her due. Through a highly informed and insightful narrative based on interviews, press accounts, studio archives, and decades of research, the book sheds new light on the star's compelling life and complicated career: her activism; her accomplishments and heady triumphs in movies, television, and nightclubs as she broke down long-standing barriers for Black individuals—especially Black women—and her solemn, sometimes bitter disappointments, both professional and personal. Illustrated by stunning photos (some published for the first time), this is the ultimate book on the icon.
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Running Press,U.S. TCM Underground
Book SynopsisBased on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films—primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s—with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white photography throughout. Go along for the ride with new takes on crime films, including The Honeymoon Killers and The Harder They Come. Witness one-of-a-kind horror in Bill Gunn's landmark vampire film Ganja and Hess and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s infamous and indescribable Hausu. Absorb the boundary-pushing documentary-style trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which throws you into indelible moments in the punk and metal music scenes. And marvel at pure '80s oddities like Mac and M
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Running Press,U.S. This Was Hollywood
Book Synopsis In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram''s celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world''s first movie star. Clark Gable''s secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman''s career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
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Running Press,U.S. The Essential Directors
Book SynopsisFor well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist''s vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director. The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Considering each artist''s influence on the medium, cultural impact, and degree of achievement, Turner Classic Movies presents a compendium of Hollywood''s most influential filmmakers, with profiles offering history and insight on the filmmaker''s narrative style, unique touches, contributions to the medium, key films, and distinctive movie moments to watch for. The work of these game-changing artists is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs.In The Essential Directors you''ll read how Cecil B. DeMille revamped religion to define an era, and how Oscar Micheaux broke barriers to become the most influential Black filmmaker of the 1920s. You''ll marvel at the efficient artistry of One-Take Woody Van Dyke and fall in love again with the sophisticated studio-era classicsof George Cukor. You''ll gain insight into how women like Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino built thriving careers in an industry ruled by men and discover what drove Mike Nichols to mix comedy with tragedy, becoming the highest-paid director of his day in the the process. The Essential Directors presents the work of these game-changing artists and dozens more in this stunning volume.
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Running Press,U.S. Dark City
Book SynopsisThis revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Named by The Hollywood Reporter one of the '100 Greatest Film Books of All Time!'Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.
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Kensington Publishing Corporation Fever
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Wayne State University Press Transforming Harry
Book SynopsisLooks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of this pop culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of both the films and books.Trade ReviewIn Transforming Harry: The Adaptations of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age, editors John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller have used all the spells in their litany to collect a powerful series of essays about adaptations of the popular Harry Potter series. They’ve used accio scholarship to bring invigorating analyses of fandom, transmediation, and adaptation; alohomora to unlock the secrets of the series; and aparecium to reveal the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of the series in the digital age. This is one collection that all Potter scholars and fans must read!""- Paul Booth, author of Digital Fandom 2.0, Game Play, and Playing Fans;""This collection presents a unique look at the Harry Potter phenomenon that expands on the dialogue about the film adaptation of the novels. The contributors offer very timely discussions on the further reception and transformation of the novels beyond the large screen and to the smaller screens of computers and smartphones.""- Cristina Santos, author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins;""An extraordinary body of seminal scholarship, the primary focus of this informed and informative collection is academic, but it will have immense appeal to a broad range of dedicated, non-academic Harry potter fans.""- Helen Dumont, Midwest Book Review
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John Libbey & Co Londons Arts Labs and the 60s AvantGarde
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Audience Genre Expectations in the Age of Digital
Book SynopsisThis volume bridges the divide between film and media studies scholarship by exploring audience expectations of film and TV genre in the age of digital streaming, using qualitative thematic and quantitative data-driven analyses. Through four ground-breaking surveys of audience members and content creators, the authors have empirically determined what audiences expect of various genres, the extent to which these definitions match those of scholars and critics, and the overall variation and complexity of audience expectations in the age of media abundance. They also examine audience habits and preferences, drawing from both theory and original empirical analyses, with a view toward the implications for the moving image in a rapidly changing media environment. The book draws from the data to develop a number of new concepts, including genre repertoire, genre hybridity, audience interest maximization, and variety seeking, and a new stage of genre development, genre bendingTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Audience Expectations for Film and Television Genres 3. Audience Viewing of the Moving Image—Film and Television Genres 4. A Profile of Creators of the Moving Images as Audience Roles Evolve 5. Audiences Coping with an Era of Content Abundance: Novelty Seeking and Interest Maximization 6. The New Viewing Environment—Matching Genres with Screens 7. Developing Content Theory for Moving Images 8. Responding to the Pandemic in a Streaming Environment 9. Final Thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Screening Adult Cinema
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Taylor & Francis A Level Film Studies
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Palgrave Macmillan The DVD and the Study of Film
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with producers, directors, and scholars, and examining the DVD''s supplementary features, this book explores how the format, at its best, combines the enthusiasm of a fan, cinematic nostalgia, and scholarly insight.Trade Review"A remarkable job of capturing the story of the Criterion Collection.Absolutely spot on and highly illuminating...A balanced, coherent, and compelling narrative." - Michael Nash, Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy and Business Development, Warner Music Group. "A fascinating account of the evolution of home video from the laserdisc to the DVD with its multiple track audio commentaries and rich supplementary content enabling the broader public to engage more deeply in cinema studies. The book s in-depth interviews and critical analysis gives an unequaled first person perspective and deep insight into film studies in the modern age." - Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft"I know of no other study of the DVD 'revolution' that is as detailed and suggestive as this stylish, lucid investigation. An early scholarly foray into a field this massive, relatively new, and constantly changing cannot be expected to cover all the issues or answer all the questions, but this book does an admirable job raising important questions and identifying new directions in film reception." - Timothy Corrigan, Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsThe DVD and New Media * DVD Production and DVD Producers * Setting the Standard: The History of The Criterion Collection * Directors and DVD Commentary: the Specifics of Intention * Directorial Commentary and Film Study: The Case of Atom Egoyan * Scholarly Commentary and Film Study * The Anthologizing Impulse
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Thinking Film
Book SynopsisHailed as one of America''s original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy?Following Cavell''s lead to think along the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters, Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both philosophy''s word on film and film''s word to philosophy, the interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual and the particular as it considers how filmTrade ReviewFrom the groundbreaking works of Cavell and Deleuze, through contemporary philosophies of film, to a philosophical working through of particular films, this book provides a detailed guide to some of the most important philosophical work on film of the last half-century. Kearney and Littlejohn have done something remarkable here. * Joseph Westfall, Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction – Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn Part 1. Classic Philosophers on Film 1. The Thought of Movies, Stanley Cavell 2. On Cinema, Gilles Deleuze Part 2: Thinking on Films 3. Film as Philosophy and Cinematic Thinking, Robert Sinnerbrink 4. Theory, Therapy and Classic Hollywood Movies, M.E. Littlejohn 5. Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women, Naomi Scheman 6. Why is ‘Leap Year’ not a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage?, Stephen Mulhall 7. Film and Television as Forms of Shared Experience, Sandra Laugier 8. What Does it Mean to Have A Cinematic Idea? Deleuze and Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, David Deamer 9. The Active Eye (Revisted): Toward a Phenomenology of Cinematic Movement, Vivian Sobchack 10. Rethinking Monster Movies: Men In Black, Alien Resurrection and Apocalypse Now, Richard Kearney 11. A Plural Transcendence: When Film Does Phenomenology, Anna Westin 12. I Wake up Screaming: Kansas and Beyond, Anthony Steinbock 13. Mediating Fairy Stories in Words and Images: Warring Magics in J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, Stephanie Rumpza Part 3: Thinking with Films 14. On Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, Richard Kearney 15. On Larissa Shepitko’s The Ascent, Fanny Howe 16. On Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Brian Treanor 17. On Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, Sam B. Girgus 18. On Antwone Fisher’s Antwone Fisher, Alberto G. Urquidez 19. On Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, Paul Freaney 20. On Lars Von Trier’s The House that Jack Built, John Panteleimon Manoussakis 21. On Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest, J. E. Grefenstette 22. On Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, Joseph S. O’Leary 23. On Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Patrick Hederman 24. On Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique, Joseph Kickasola 25. On Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful 8, Matthew Clemente 26. On Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, John Fardy 27. On Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman’s Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse, Anne M. Carpenter 28. On the Dardenne Brothers’ The Young Ahmed, Joel Mayward 29. On John Huston’s The Dead, Magnus Ferguson 30. On Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Jason Wirth
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Robert Pippin and Film
Book SynopsisRobert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about and critic of film who has written books and numerous articles on canonical subjects such as the Western, Film Noir, and Hitchcock''s Vertigo. In Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin''s thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge. He also explores the implications of Pippin''s methodological commitments to clear language and to maintaining close contact with the details of the films in question. In so doing, Lash brings Pippin''s work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates both within film studies and beyond. This includes those concerning the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and politTrade ReviewThe work of Robert Pippin is fast becoming an indispensable reference in studies of film and philosophy. Dominic Lash provides a clear, accessible exegesis of Pippin’s ideas and examples, while also extending the discussion and offering a comparative assessment of Pippin’s place in the contemporary critical scene. -- Adrian Martin, Monash University, AustraliaFull of keen insights and subtle analysis, Lash expertly elucidates Pippin’s unique contribution to film criticism and theory from the perspective of a leading contemporary philosopher. Just as significantly, through the prism of Pippin’s deep reflections, Lash provides his own distinctive and illuminating 21st century take on the ethical and socio-political dimensions of a range of films, modes, genres, and styles. -- Daniel Yacavone, University of Edinburgh, UKRobert Pippin’s potential contribution to film philosophy and criticism has for too long gone undervalued and underexamined. This pathbreaking book corrects this oversight. Eminently readable, written in elegant prose that explains complex philosophical concepts with verve and lucidity, Robert Pippin and film is a must for newcomers to Pippin’s writing on film. Lash’s own brilliant, versatile readings of films from the Hollywood Western to European arthouse confirm the importance of taking Pippin’s work, in the author’s own words, as “a spur to further inquiry”. -- Catherine Wheatley, King's College London, UKIn Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash provides provides a welcome and astute account of this philosopher and critic of cinema. Moving adroitly between careful analyses of the films Pippin discusses and the broader philosophical project that underlies his method, Lash not only shows why Pippin matters for film studies but continues the project to show how it can have new and greater relevance. This is a book that is more than a study of a philosopher of film; it is itself a compelling story about how philosophy and film might go together. -- Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago, USATable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Introduction Introduction: "I'm Just Trying to Understand the Damn Film" 1. The Subject after Modernism and the Value of Film for Philosophy 2. What Do We Call Politics? 3. Do We Know What We're Doing? Pippin on Agency 4. Film as Practical Psychology 5. Pippin and Film Studies Conclusion: On the Impossibility of Pippinian Film-Philosophy Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Antipodean Antiquities
Book SynopsisLeading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art.Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.Trade ReviewThis is a timely book, given current debates about teaching ‘western civilisation’ in our universities. It represents a coming-of-age particularly in Australian classical reception studies, and it will surely be a stimulus to bring less descriptive and more theoretically innovative approaches to bear on the myriad forms of classical reception that saturate Australasia. * The Classical Review *Marguerite Johnson has curated a formidable and impressively diverse collection of essays … The volume showcases a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and has the added benefit of presenting familiar classical materials in distinctly unfamiliar contexts, replete with their own unique social and cultural pressures and local systems of scholarship. * Greece & Rome *A well-rounded study highlighting the importance of Greco-Roman history and culture for many Australians and New Zealanders, from convicts to colonisers, ranging from novelists to poets to painters and film-makers. This is exemplary Classical Reception practice. -- Maxine Lewis, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia) Part 1: The Colonial Past – Classical Influences in White Australasia 1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand 2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century Part 2: Theatre – Then and Now 3. Laura Ginters (University of Sydney, Australia): Agamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney 4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann 5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Wesley Enoch's Black Medea 6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): What Women Critics Know that Men Don't Part 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand 7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon 8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Clodia Through the Looking Glass Part 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities 9. Nicolas Liney (University of Oxford, UK): Parilia Poscor - David Malouf Remembers the Parilia (Fasti 4.721) 10. Elizabeth Hale (University of New England, Australia): Imaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy 11. Babette Pütz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby 12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy Part 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas 13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli Series 14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig, Germany): Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World Part 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen 15. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia): Temporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now 16. Hannah Parry (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth Trilogies 17. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle, Australia): Shifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris’ Penelope Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Douglas Sirk
Book SynopsisIt would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk''s films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk''s films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama.The visual style, story and characters of films like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are explored to argue for Sirk as an incredibly nuanced moral thinker. Instead of imposing moralising judgements on his characters, Sirk presents them as people who do ''wrong'' things often without understanding why or how, creating a complex and unsettling ethics. Pippin argues that it this moral ambiguity and ironic richness enables Sirk to produce films that grapple with important themes such as race, class and gender witTrade ReviewWho needs Hegel, Heidegger,or Derrida when you’ve got Douglas Sirk? Once again, Robert B. Pippin shows that philosophy still has a lot to learn from the movies. In the bold colors and improbable plots of Sirk’s melodramas he finds important lessons not just about race, class, and gender, but also—and perhaps more importantly—about the limits of moral inquiry. * Martin Woessner, Associate Professor of History & Society, Center for Worker Education, The City College of New York (CUNY), USA *Professor Pippin’s book provides extraordinary and perceptive insights into Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood films. The book unravels a range of arguments with admirable clarity while paying attention to Sirk’s visual style, as well to as his uses of story and character. Pippin argues that characters in these films often perform actions in ways that are beyond their understanding. This provides these films with a very particular moral atmosphere in which good characters do ‘wrong’ things, but in ways that, for the most part, engage our sympathy and admiration. * Richard Rushton, Senior Lecturer in Film, Lancaster University, UK *In this wonderfully provocative study, Robert Pippin explores three of Sirk’s most famous American melodramas, finding in their excesses and irony a philosophical rigour. Ingeniously, Pippin explains how Sirk’s sumptuously pessimistic world forecloses, for the characters, any real possibility of love, mutuality and self-knowledge, despite the putative happy endings. For viewers willing to give Sirk’s films a “second” or “third thought”, however, Pippin teaches us to see past the surface of bourgeois morality and discover a more difficult but worthwhile reckoning with “the politics of American emotional life” and our own complicities with its sympathetic registers. * Jennifer Fay, Professor and Chair of Cinema & Media Arts and Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA *Table of Contentspreface acknowledgements Chapter One. Introduction: Irony as Subversion Chapter Two. Love and Class in All That Heaven Allows Chapter Three. Misplaced Moralism in Written on the Wind Chapter Four. Living Theater in Imitation of Life Conclusion bibliography index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Book SynopsisAgainst the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of indigenous media, that is, the use of audio-visual-digital media for the social and cultural purposes of indigenous peoples themselves. Drawing on examples from cinema, literature, music, video, painting and stand-up comedy, Stam shows how indigenous artists, intellectuals and activists are responding to the multiple crises -Trade ReviewWith this book, Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze: Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought, the always brilliant scholar Bob Stam has given us another tour de force. In this new work he tracks how -- over 500 years -- the possibilities of contemporary Indigenous media emerged in the Americas, with special attention to Brazil. He traces the colonial circumstances and European imaginaries that produced “the Protocols of Anti-Indigenism,” morphed into the “transnational Indian”, and landed in the rich dialogue emerging from contemporary Indigenous media. Witty, erudite, and politically engaged, this book is essential reading for those who hope to decolonize cinema studies and locate Indigenous media making in a rich historical context. -- Faye Ginsburg, Kriser Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU, USA.Building on research in media studies, anthropology, and social philosophy, this timely book offers an in depth account of the recent indigenous turn in global scholarship, politics, and culture. Particularly impressive is Stam’s ability to relationalize processes and events from diverse historical epochs and geographical regions. -- Sérgio Costa, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin, GermanyEclectic and breathtaking in its scope, transnational and trans-medial, this book puts on full display Stam’s unique capacity to think across myriad sources and cultural forms in an insightful, sophisticated, and generous way. The book should be an important contribution not only to scholars across but also to cultural producers, activists, and even nonspecialized readers interested in the past and future of indigenous people. -- Gustavo Furtado, Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Co-Director of the Amazon Humanities Laboratory at Duke University, USAThrough a "trans-methodology" that crosses disciplines and boundaries of historical periods and countries, Stam shows us how indigenous peoples have constructed a global and intercontinental response to colonialism over the centuries. As a result, the modern world's history emerges as an "intertextual mise-en-abyme", in which indigenous progressive social thought, political practices and arts interpose the colonial imaginary. -- Joana Brandão, Tavares Professor at Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Terms of Debate A 1492 Project: Conquest and Discovery The Protocols of Anti-Indigenism The Sacred Land Native Arts and Aesthetics Indigenous Media Chapter One: From France Antartique To Shamanic Critique: The Tupinization Of Social Thought France Antartique and Tupi Theory Filming France Antartique Montaigne and Tupi Theory From France Antartique to the Carib Revolution From the French Philosophes to the American Revolution The French Missions, Lévi-Strauss, and the Indian Pierre Clastres, the Anarchist Indigene, and the Wari The Franco-Brazilian Dialogue and the Politics of The Falling Sky Chapter Two: The Indigenous “Cunhã:” The Metamorphosis of a Gendered Trope The Tupinization of Manhattan The “Cunhã” as Filmmaker The Cunhã as Myth: Paraguaçu Caramuru: The Invention of Brazil The Filmic and Televisual Cunhã The Cunhã Degraded The Cunhã as Warrior The Cunhã as Forest Princess The Cunhã as Hyper-Woman The Ecological Cunhã The “Cunhã” as Activist/Artist Myths of Extinction: The Return of the Vanished Indigene Chapter Three: The Transnational “Indian” Land and the Frontier Western Going Native Europe’s “White Indians” The Indian Hobbyists Transmedial Indigeneity The Strategic Uses of Humor Painterly Tricksterism Indigeneity and Music First Peoples, First Features Indigenization of Horror Chapter Four: Cross-National Comparabilities: The Indigenization Of Brazilian Media Centennial Commemorations and First Contact Films Variations on a Westward Theme Proto-Indigenist Cinema in Brazil Indigenous Media in Brazil Video nas Aldeias The Archival Turn Corumbiara: on the Trail of Massacres The Guaraní and Contrapuntal Narration The Martyrdom of the Guaraní-Kaiowá The Transmediatic Indigene of Popular Culture Chapter Five: Triumphs and the Travails of the Yanomami Juan Downey and “The Laughing Alligator” Crossed Filmic Gazes The Poetics of The Falling Sky The Cinematic Imaginary of the Yanomami Cinematizing Shamanism: Xapiri The Last Forest Conclusion: The Theoretical Indigene: Becoming Indian, And The Elsewhere Of Capitalism Colonial Ambivalence and the Transnational Gaze Transformational Becomings From Republican Constitutions to the Carib Revolution The Theoretical Indigene Indigeneity and the Postcolonial Left Before and After the Nation-State Postcolonialism and the Nurture of Nature The Fear of a Red Academe: Indigenous Decoloniality The Power of Shamanic Critique Capitalism vs. the Planet The Transnational Trope of Indigenous Happiness Coda Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experimental Filmmaking and Punk
Book SynopsisJust as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new punk audio visual aesthetic. A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical coTrade ReviewGirls to the front! Garfield’s book places female filmmakers at the forefront of experimental film and video. Reclaiming the energy of punk, DIY, deflation, the kitchen table aesthetic and the amateur to enthuse a new generation of filmmakers, where the emphasis is on making and being heard rather than slick production values and aspiring to mainstream monotony. Oh bondage! Up yours! I wish I’d had this book growing up. -- Abbe Leigh Fletcher, Kingston University, UKDensely research, fiercely argued, Garfield’s book goes a good way toward toggling our view of punk and No Wave film toward the exhilaration of feminist autonomy. -- Michael Atkinson, Long Island University, USAExperimental Filmmaking and Punk is the rare study that not only captures subcultural counter-histories (in this case, of music and film) but traces social, political, and aesthetic interconnections that have never fully been acknowledged, simultaneously offering a completely new way of thinking about life and creativity in this place and time. -- Amelia Jones, University of Southern California, USAGarfield writes a new lineage of experimental film, convincingly rendering the filmmakers’ shared stance of “oppositional modernism”. Celebrating edgy incompleteness, rhythm rather than plot, multiplicity instead of unity, DIY instead of glossy production values, Garfield sides with the heady, messy and personal. -- Abigail Child, Emeritus Professor, Tufts University, USAExperimental Filmmaking and Punk restores complexity and nuance to an inspiring body of work that has, until now, been under-known and under-valued. Rachel Garfield draws on her deep knowledge of the punk movement to shed light on a generation of important yet marginalised female filmmakers. Exploring the impact of punk’s anti-authoritarian spirit, she discusses how women refused gender norms in ‘art’ as well as ‘life.’ The DIY and kitchen table aesthetics described here are bound to resonate with the prosumer tactics of contemporary artists and cultural producers. -- Helena Reckitt, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.Rachel Garfield searches out the scuzzy filmic scenarios, kitchen table aesthetics and DIY approaches that characterise the “punk films” of overlooked feminist artists in the 1970s and 1980s. In doing so, Experimental Filmmaking and Punk convinces us to look beyond the avant-garde milieux of the day and instead towards punk rock to understand why these women made the films they did. Whilst not forgetting the importance of pioneering filmmakers that came before, Garfield shows how punk exemplars of gender non-conformity like Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex and Ari Up of The Slits demonstrated a riotous new ethic of self-fashioning for feminist filmmaking. As Styrene herself sang: “Anti-art was the start”! -- Gavin Butt, Northumbria University, UKIn her joining of the dots between the key subject matter and the ‘contextualising scaffold’ of punk, as well as her situating of the filmmakers’ art practices within the wider economic, cultural and political contexts, Garfield’s work is a thoroughly informative, entertaining and riveting book. * Punk & Post-Punk *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Do it Yourself and the Amateur 2. The Last of the Modern Two - Visualizing Women, Otherness and the Cosmopolitan Punk 3. Feminism, Visualising the Kitchen Table and Do-It-Yourself: in Praise of the Fragment Part 1 4. Kracauer Disintegration and Punk: In Praise of the Fragment Part 2 5. Representation and the Inability to Situate: the Undecidability of Women's Punk Conclusion Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art in the Cinema
Book SynopsisIn the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais's Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, Art in the Cinema draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others.Trade ReviewThis remarkable book charts the development, as well as the public and critical acceptance, of the art film documentary at the mid-point of the 20th century. In a series of elegantly written and deeply perceptive essays by some of the most respected authorities in the field, such classic films as The Mystery of Picasso (1956), Henry Moore (1951), and the experimental feature film Pictura (1951) are brought back to public attention in a volume that is an essential text for both cinema historians and art lovers as well. A dazzling volume in every respect – bravo! -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USAIt is not well-known today that in the aftermath of World War II, emerging trends in media and international alliances, ideas about mass communication and the democratization of culture, and representation of national identity converged to produce a "golden age" of films about art and artists in Europe and the U.S. Art in Cinema is an invaluable resource on the mid-century heyday of the art documentary. -- Susan Felleman, Professor, Art History & Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina, USATable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 1. The Institutional Breeding Grounds of the Postwar Film on Art, Birgit Cleppe (Ghent University, Belgium) 2. American Art Comes of Age: Documentaries and the Nation at the Dawn of the Cold War, Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 3. Art History with a Camera: Rubens (1948) and Paul Haesaerts’s Concept of Cinéma Critique, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Joséphine-Charlotte Vandekerckhove (Ghent University, Belgium & Verona University, Italy) 4. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti’s Critolfims and Beyond: From Cinema to Information Technology, Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy) 5. André Bazin’s Art Documentary in Saintonge, Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 6. Projecting Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Politics, Films on Art, and Willard Van Dyke’s The Photographer, Natasha Ritsma (Loyola University Museum of Art, USA) 7. Henry Moore and A Sculptor’s Landscape: Modernity, the Land and the Bomb in Two Television Films by John Read, John Wyver (University of Westminster, UK) 8. Creative Process, Material Inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashton’s Figures in a Landscape (1953), Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK) 9. Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky’s Experimental Films on Art, Henning Engelke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography About the Authors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Representing the New AI in Film and Television
Book SynopsisGraham Allen is Professor of English Literature at University College Cork, Ireland.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Theory Now
Book SynopsisHannah McCann is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research sits within critical femininity studies, and explores femme identity, beauty culture, and queer fandom. She is the author of Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2018).Whitney Monaghan is an Assistant Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Australia. She has a background in screen, media and cultural studies and her research examines queer representation on screen. She is the author of Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not Just a Phase' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).Trade ReviewQueer Theory Now is a thorough synthesis of thirty years of queer theory and its precursors. It should be required reading in classrooms around the world. An essential primer! * Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, USA *Queer Theory Now is an invaluable resource for newcomers to queer theory. McCann and Monaghan define key terms with outstanding clarity. Centering the work of theorists of colour and trans theorists, the authors uncover the variegated histories that have converged on, and diverged from, queer theory. Eminently teachable. * Jean-Thomas Tremblay, New Mexico State University, USA *This is a rigorous and pedagogically designed introduction to queer theory that covers not only the field’s foundations but also more recent debates. Moreover, the inclusion of case studies, definitions of key terms and film recommendations makes complex ideas accessible for students finding their way in queer theory. – Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Sam McBean, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Part disciplinary history, part field assessment, part critical reference, Queer Theory Now is perhaps most importantly a primer for the queer work ahead. It will be a welcome queer pedagogy text in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. * Matt Brim, College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA *An absolute must read! Queer Theory Now, carefully crafted by McCann and Monaghan, is an incredibly timely, necessary and rich resource. Undergraduates and post-graduate students interested in engaging with historical and contemporary debates in queer theories will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book. * Leanne Coll, Deakin University, Australia *The last real primer for queer theory was Annemarie Jagose’s Queer Theory over 20 years ago. Queer Theory Now fills that enormous gap, covering key areas such as intersectionality, the global dimensions of queerness, and the history of the field, while remaining attentive to the difficulties of defining the complex and ever-evolving perspectives on sexuality and gender. * Ross Forman, University of Warwick, UK *The most concise and comprehensive explanation of the past, present and future of queer theory available today. This book traces queer theory’s significant histories and locates its renewed relevance in contemporary times. It makes queer theory’s evolution and complexities easy to access and is a must-have for any university library. * Joanna McIntyre, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *McCann and Monaghan have written one of the most insightful overviews of queer theory currently on the market. It is highly recommended for those seeking an accessible guide to key ideas, issues, developments, and controversies in this field. The writers deserve credit for their ample demonstration of queer theory's applicability to a range of disciplines, lives, and events. * Páraic Finnerty, University of Portsmouth *Table of Contents1. Defining Queer Theory 2.From Pathology to Pride 3.Sexuality and Feminism 4.AIDS and Acting Up 5.Outing the Closet 6.Theory Meets Identity 7.Negotiating Intersections 8.Temporality and Queer Utopias.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Money Behind the Screen
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susan Seidelman
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly work to focus on the work of American director and producer, Susan SeidelmanTrade Review"This ground breaking collection on the work of under recognized film and television director Susan Seidelman illustrates both difficulties and the potentialities of centralizing women's desires, voices, and perspectives. By looking broadly at Seidelman's oeuvre, this book deftly categorizes and contextualizes the contributions she has made to the feminist media archive." -Suzanne Leonard, Simmons University
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Claire Denis
Book SynopsisUpdates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent workTrade Review"This beautifully wide-ranging collection approaches Claire Denis's films through an impressively diverse set of methodologies. Thinking across dimensions of ethics and otherness, the body and its environments, the familial and the worldly, The Films of Claire Denis opens exciting new ways to encounter this rich body of work." -Rosalind Galt, King's College London
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Kim KiYoung
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in EnglishTrade Review"This illuminating volume on one of South Korea's most fascinating and eccentric directors provides in-depth readings of Kim's films, while at the same time examining key themes relevant to Korean cinema as a whole: national identity, gender, state control, and Korea's complex relationship with its former colonizer Japan." -Darcy Paquet, author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves
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Edinburgh University Press The Late and PostDictatorship Cinephilia Boom and
Book SynopsisExamines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia within South Korean cinema
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Holocaust Representations in Animated
Book SynopsisExamines representations of the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their descendants in animated documentaries
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Edinburgh University Press Vampires in Silent Cinema
Book SynopsisOne of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.
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Edinburgh University Press Masculinity in British Cinema 19902010
Book SynopsisExplores British cinematic representations of masculinity.Trade Review"With this analysis of masculinity in British cinema at the turn of the century, Godfrey is both wide ranging and sharply focused, considering the representations of British men from lad culture to the margins, and in relation to fatherhood, class, race and violence. Godfrey goes deep into meaningful filmic examples, setting them at the intersections of neoliberalism and postfeminism, and within the industrial context of British cinema in a particularly fruitful period when it challenged and reinvented masculine archetypes.? This feminist intervention is a compelling analysis of British men in postfeminist movies, and a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary discourses of intersectional masculinity." -Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of London
£23.74
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Despite All Adversities SpanishAmerican Queer Cinema SUNY series Genders in the Global South
Book SynopsisProvides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Despite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America''s most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea''s and Juan Carlos Tabío''s Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993), Marcelo Piñeyro''s Plata quemada (Burnt Money, 2000), Barbet Schroeder''s La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000), Lucía Puenzo''s XXY (XXY, 2007), Francisco J. Lombardi''s No se lo digas a nadie (Don''t Tell Anyone, 1998), Arturo Ripstein''s El lugar sin límites (Hell Without Limits, 1978), among others. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.
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