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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Screen Interiors
Book SynopsisPat Kirkham is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Centre, USA, and Associate Research Fellow at the Cinema and Television Research History Centre, De Montfort University, UK.Sarah A. Lichtman is Assistant Professor of Design History at Parsons School of Design, USA.Trade ReviewThis engaging and highly readable collection is the most comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the subject available, but it reads like a lively conversation among friends. From broad cultural themes to minute details, the essays included here answer myriad questions about how interiors, props, and visual cues shape our reactions to on-screen stories and images. An indispensable resource for anyone who has ever wondered how movies and TV shows are made and why they matter so much to us, this book is both a remarkable achievement and a delight to read. -- Alice Friedman, Glace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, USAInnovative and exciting—fascinating topics, new research, wide-ranging approaches, and fresh interpretations, marshalled with sophisticated editorial expertise. Screen Interiors is a much needed cross-disciplinary intervention that stakes out new ground in studies of film, television, and design. -- Catherine Whalen, Associate Professor, American Material Culture Studies, Bard Graduate Center, USAScreen Interiors is a milestone in the literature on production design for film and television. Exploring how moving-image interiors reveal the inner lives of protagonists, the book offers multiple perspectives on a wide range of genres, countries, and time periods and investigates social themes such as gender, class, and sexuality. The book contributes insightful perspectives on popular films and their makers, while shedding light on productions and people. Equally valuable is the book’s concise history of production design and its historiography. -- Donald Albrecht, Independent Curator, USATable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA) Section One: House and Home: Space, Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation 1. Comfort and the Domestic Interior in Soviet Fiction Cinema of the 1920s, Eleanor Rees (University of College London, UK) 2. Furnishing I Love Lucy (1951-57), Marilyn Cohen (Parsons School of Design, USA) 3. From the Country House Film to the House in the Country Film: Space, Class, and Generation, Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow, UK) 4. Space, Interiors, and 1980s Hollywood Teen Films, Patrick O'Neill (Kingston University, UK) Section Two: The Curated Home 5. Mobilizing Material Culture: Collecting and Interiority in Luchino Visconti’s Conversation Piece (1974), Shax Reigler (Architectural Digest, USA) 6. From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Minimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s, Timothy M. Rohan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 7. “Home furnishing takes a cue from Paris, too”: The Fashion Professional at Work and Home in Postwar Hollywood Films, c. 1957–1961, Rebecca C. Tuite (Bard Graduate Center, USA) Section Three: Framing Interiors and Interiorities: Inside and Out 8. Framing Interiorities: Interiors, Objects, and Hidden Desires in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960), Imma Forino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 9. Frames, Veils, and Windows: Modern Cinematic Set Design in Early Russian Films by Evgenii Bauer, Maria Korolkova (University of Greenwich, UK) Section Four: Screening Queerness: Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ambiguity, Authorit, and Power 10. Interiors, Class, Perversity, and Ambiguity in The Servant (1963), Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK) 11. In Plain View: London Commercial Interiors as Queer spaces in Three 1960s British Films: Victim (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Killing of Sister George (1968), Andrew Stephenson (University of East London, UK) 12. Queer Interiors: Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1992), Adam Vaughan (University of Southampton, UK) Section Five: Horror and Homicide 13. The Horror of the Homicidal Floor: Destabilized Elements of Interior Architecture, Alexandra Brown (Monash University, Australia) and Kirsty Volz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 14. Designed to Destroy: Action Film Interiors and the Construction of Killscapes, Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium) Section Six: Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors 15. Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past, Present, and Future, in Serenity’s Domestic Spaceship Interior, Sorcha O’Brien (Kingston University, UK) 16. Cosmic Heterotopia: Banality and Disjunction in the Interiors of Passengers (2016), Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University, UK) Author Biographies Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introducing Philosophy Through Film
Book SynopsisIntroducing Philosophy through Film Introducing Philosophy Through Film is a truly wonderful introduction to the core problems of philosophy. Its combination of great films, classic articles from both historical and contemporary philosophers, wonderfully clear introductions to each section, and provocative questions for discussion make for an introduction that is as compelling as it is rigorous. Richard Foley, New York University Fumerton and Jeske have compiled an excellent anthology, filled with dozens of classic texts on the central problems of philosophy most often addressed in introductory philosophy courses. And the films they suggest will help introduce students to philosophy in the most enjoyable way possible. Michael Huemer, University of Colorado From Monty Python and The Matrix to Casablanca and A Clockwork Orange, popular films offer surprisingly perceptive insights into complex philosophical concepts. IntroduTable of ContentsPreface Source Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction: Philosophical Analysis, Argument, and the Relevance of Thought Experiments Films: Monty Python, "The Argument Skit"; Pulp Fiction; Seinfeld episode: The Soup Part II: The Problem of Perception Films: Total Recall; The Matrix; Star Trek TV episode: The Menagerie Introduction 1. First Meditation and excerpt from Sixth Meditation: René Descartes 2. Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation: John Locke 3. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: George Berkeley 4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy: David Hume 5. The Self and the Common World: A. J. Ayer 6. Brains in a Vat: Hilary Putnam 7. The Structure of Skeptical Arguments and its Metaepistemological Implications: Richard Fumerton 8. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick Part III: Philosophy of Mind Films: What Dreams May Come; Bicentennial Man; Heaven Can Wait; The Sixth Day; The Prestige; Multiplicity; Star Trek TV episode: Turn About Intruder Introduction 9. Second Meditation: René Descartes 10. Descartes’ Myth: Gilbert Ryle 11. Sensations and Brain Processes: J. J. C. Smart 12. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: Thomas Nagel 13. What Mary Didn’t Know: Frank Jackson 14. Minds, Brains, and Programs: John R. Searle 15. Mad Pain and Martian Pain: David Lewis 16. Eliminative Materialism: Paul Churchland 17. Of Identity and Diversity: John Locke 18. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams 19. From Reasons and Persons: Derek Parfit 20. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality: John Perry 21. On the Immortality of the Soul: David Hume Part IV: EthicsA. Act Consequentialism and its Critics Films: Abandon Ship!; Fail Safe; Dirty Harry; Sophie’s Choice; Saving Private Ryan; Judgment at Nuremberg; Minority Report: 24 (Season 3: 6.00–7.00 a.m.); Titanic; Vertical Limit Introduction 22. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill 23. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant 24. What Makes Right Acts Right?: W. D. Ross 25. A Critique of Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams 26. An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics: J. J. C. Smart 27. Intending Harm: Shelly Kagan 28. United States v. Holmes (1842) 29. The Queen v Dudley and Stephens 30. War and Massacre: Thomas Nagel B. Obligations to Intimates Films: The English Patient; Casablanca; The Third Man; The Music Box; High Noon; Nick of Time; 24 (Season 1: 7.00–8.00 a.m.) Introduction 31. From Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle 32. Self and Others: C. D. Broad 33. Filial Morality: Christina Hoff Sommers 34. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality: Peter Railton 35. Relatives and Relativism: Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton 36. Families, Friends, and Special Obligations: Diane Jeske 37. An Ethic of Caring: Nel Noddings Part V: Philosophy of Time Films: Somewhere in Time; Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Frequency; A Sound of Thunder Introduction 38. Making Things to Have Happened: Roderick M. Chisholm and Richard Taylor 39. Space and Time: Richard Taylor 40. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis Part VI: Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Determinism Films: Minority Report: The Boys From Brazil: A Clockwork Orange: The Omen: Compulsion: Law and Order ("black rage" defense), Season 5, Episode 69414, Rage (2/01/95) Introduction 41. From De Interpretatione: Aristotle 42. Of Liberty and Necessity: David Hume 43. Meaning and Free Will: John Hospers 44. Determinism: J. R. Lucas 45. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt 46. The M’Naghten Rules (1843): House of Lords 47. The Insanity Defense (1956): The American Law Institute 48. What Is So Special About Mental Illness?: Joel Feinberg Part VII: Philosophy of Religion Films: Jason and the Argonauts; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Dogma; YouTube: Mr Deity and the Evil Introduction 49. The Wager: Blaise Pascal 50. The Ontological Argument: Anselm 51. The Cosmological and Design Arguments: William L. Rowe 52. Evil and Omnipotence: J. L. Mackie 53. Why I Am Not a Christian: Bertrand Russell
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fatal Attraction
Book SynopsisThe perfection of Leonard's volume as a teaching text made itself manifest to me not only in its wonderfully detailed analyses, but in the many moments that I found myself seamlessly entering into a discussion with them.Trade Review?The book is well written and well organized. It makes some compelling points.? (PsycCRITIQUES, 2009)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. “I’m Not Going to be Ignored, Dan”: Narrative Cues for Suspense and Intimidation. 2. American Genres in Fatal Attraction. 3. Career Women of the 1980s: Feminism and the Reception History of Fatal Attraction. 4. Erotic Sexuality, AIDS, and the Case for Staying Faithful. 5. Female Identities and Postfeminist Paradigms. Notes. Works Cited. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Top Hat
Book SynopsisPeter Evans' immensely readable volume uses this classic film to explore questions not only of integration across the Hollywood musical in general, but the ambiguities of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple.Trade Review"Its considerable claims to Art and its resonant magic are the dual focus of this insightful and highly readable study by Peter William Evans . . . Evans approaches this most celebratory of musical comedies in celebratory mode but also with a deserved seriousness devoid of solemnity. " (Times Literary Supplement , 24 June 2011) Table of ContentsList of Figures vi Synopsis vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Making of Top Hat 6 2. Fred Astaire: "Outlaw" Stylist of the Dance 19 3. Ginger Rogers: Confirming and Defying Convention 26 4. Introduction to Narrative and Number: The Bumpy Road to Love 35 5. The Numbers 43 6. Querying National and Sexual Identity 85 Conclusion: A Perfectly Swell Romance 101 Notes 104 Bibliography 106 Index 114
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Dictionary of Film Terms
Book SynopsisNow in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for the study of films and filmmaking. This trusted and practical handbook clearly and concisely defines the essential terms of film analysis and film art, with a special focus on the aesthetic parameters and values of filmmaking.The updated and expanded edition includes new definitions ranging from bullet-time optical effects, to the coming-of-age narrative, and LED lighting technology in science fiction films such as Gravity. More than 200 film title references not cited in previous editions have been added. Many classic and contemporary photo stills are included to illustrate terms. Extensive cross-referencing among individual definitions ensures easy access to interrelated terms, and a comprehensive topical index relates to larger concepts of film art.This up-to-date and comprehensive resource is a useful companion for film students and filmgoers, whoTrade Review«The beauty of Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms is not simply the precision and depth of the individual entries, nor the range of film beyond the Hollywood narrative that is covers, but the citation of a broad range of concrete examples for many of the entries. Beaver's command of motion picture history shines through. He assembles excellent examples – both historical and contemporary – that help the reader call to mind the specific film technique, technical process, narrative device, genre, etc. Beaver's Dictionary is anything but dry Ὰ it's more like reading an enlightening catalog of all the things we love about motion pictures.» (Michael Frierson, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) «I was so fortunate to get Frank Beaver's Dictionary of Film Terms in my first ever film class. This updated edition promises to deliver on multiple cylinders for the new generation of filmmakers. It expands to cover new trends in the film industry, technological developments, as well as exhibition platforms. It is concise while also managing to be thorough and cover a plethora of subjects. Not only does it provide a platform for understanding individual film topics, it also helps one understand how different elements of cinema are connected. Talking the talk is an essential part of navigating the film industry, from production to development, and this handbook will equip you with the tools to get where you need to go.» (Sultan Sharrief, Award-Winning Filmmaker/Media Educator) «As cinema’s Samuel Johnson, Frank Beaver has thoroughly catalogued the essential terms used in the world of film production and scholarship. He has, for decades, been a trusted guide and companion, helping us to fluently negotiate the many tongues of the motion picture medium. The practitioner, the scholar, the student and the film buff, will all find this text an essential reference.» (Mick Hurbis-Cherrier, Hunter College – CUNY)Table of ContentsContents: Term Index – Movie Index – Topical Index – Artist Index.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Transatlantic Gaze Italian Cinema American
Book SynopsisTracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.In The Transatlantic Gaze, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors, and screenwriters on American film. Working across a variety of genres, including neorealism, comedy, the Western, and the art film, Carolan explores how and why American directors from Woody Allen to Quentin Tarantino have adapted certain Italian trademark techniques and motifs. Allen''s To Rome with Love (2012), for example, is an homage to the genius of Italian filmmakers, and to Federico Fellini in particular, whose Lo sceicco bianco/The White Sheik (1952) also resonates with Allen''s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) as well as with Neil LaBute''s Nurse Betty (2000). Tarantino''s Kill Bill saga (2003, 2004) plays off elements of Sergio Leone''s spaghetti Western C''era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a transatlantic conversation about the Western that continues in Tarantino''s Oscar-winning Django Unchained (2012). Lee Daniels''s Precious (2009) and Spike Lee''s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), meanwhile, demonstrate that the neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, which arose from the political and economic exigencies of postwar Italy, is an effective vehicle for critiquing social issues such as poverty and racism in a contemporary American context. The book concludes with an examination of American remakes of popular Italian films, a comparison that offers insight into the similarities and differences between the two cultures and the transformations in genre, both subtle and obvious, that underlie this form of cross-cultural exchange.
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DK The Movie Book
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[The Big Ideas Simply Explained books] are beautifully illustrated with shadow-like cartoons that break down even the most difficult concepts so they are easier to grasp. These step-by-step diagrams are an incredibly clever learning device to include, especially for visual learners." — Examiner.com"Clever and engaging" — Booklist"Perfect coffee table fodder for your home theater." — Uncrate.com"[A] great refresher for films you haven't seen in a while and an even better resource for populating your watchlist with shows you may have missed." — GeekDad"Richly illustrated." — Parade.com"A fine introduction for budding film buffs." — School Library Journal"A wonderful contribution to film history collections." — Voice of Youth Advocates
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DK Behind the Horror
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Arcadia Publishing New Mexico Filmmaking
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Ciros Nightclub of the Stars Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. Paramount Studios 19402000 Images of America
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History Press Hollywood Tiki
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Frank Lloyd Wright in the Movies
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Amazon Publishing David Lynch The Man from Another Place 10 Icons
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Sideways Uncorked
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Hal Leonard Corporation Robin Hood FAQ All Thats Left to Know about
Book SynopsisROBIN HOOD FAQ:ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT ENGLANDS GREATEST OUTLAW AND HIS BAND OF ME
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Interpreting Star Wars
Book SynopsisUpon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified nothing. Four decades later, the significations are multiple as interpretations of the film's strange imagery and metaphoric potential continue to pile up. Interpreting Star Wars analyses and contextualises the dominant trends in Star Wars interpretation from the earliest reviews, through Lucasfilm's attempts to use its position as copyright holder to promote a single meaning, to the 21st century where the internet has rendered such authorial control impossible and new entries to the canon present new twists on old hopes.Trade ReviewInterpreting Star Wars does something unique and important: it traces the cultural shifts of a broader culture when examining the products of the franchise, itself. As a result, Interpreting Star Wars is a work allowing for a deep insight on how each film interacted with the time period of its release as well as its influence moving forward. Especially cogent are Booy’s look at the religious and mythic underpinnings of the series and how those foundations is a pathway understanding the abilities of the franchise to both reflect and influence culture. This is a must-have book both for fans and for scholars. * Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editor of Finding the Force in the Star Wars Franchise (2006) and Adjunct Professor of American Studies and English, Pace University, USA *So many thousands of words have been written about the Star Wars phenomenon that one started to wonder whether there was anything left to say. As this carefully researched, engagingly written and often strikingly original book demonstrates, the answer is yes, there is. Even for the most well-informed scholar and the most dedicated fan much is to be learned here. The emphasis is on the evolution of the Star Wars universe across more than four decades, on how the increasing number of stories set in it relate to each other and on how ever-changing currents of critical writing have generated a wealth of interpretations. * Peter Krämer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2020), Dr. Strangelove (2019) and The General (2019) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Star Wars vs. Secularity 2. Leftist Political Critique 3. Late Seventies Promotion and Spin-off Materials 4. Myth Criticism 5. The Liberation Reading 6. Prequels and Sequels Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Exile Editions Technicolored
Book SynopsisCinematic and literary, this collection of poems reflects on the film icons of the 20th century, offering a fresh look at legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and Béla Lugosi. This work exhibits meticulous tone and language while delving into the opulent world of classic films. Of interest to fans of both contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood, this collection further explores the intersection between film and literature.Trade ReviewHis literary daring is the fresh heart of this gripping poetry which rolls over you like a warm evocation of life; and life that is being experienced for the first time . . . a wave, like a violin's scream of beauty." —Austin Clarke, author, The Polished Hoe, winner of The Giller Prize
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Chicago Review Press Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film
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Temple University Press,U.S. Teenagers And Teenpics: Juvenilization Of
Book Synopsis"Teenagers and Teenpics" tells the story of two signature developments in the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of that strange new creature, the American teenager. Hollywood's discovery of the teenage moviegoer initiated a progressive 'juvenilization' of film content that is today the operative reality of the American motion picture industry. The juvenilization of the American movies is best revealed in the development of the 1950s 'teenpic', a picture targeted at teenagers even to the exclusion of their elders. In a wry and readable style, Doherty defines and interprets the various teenpic film types: rock 'n' roll pictures, j.d. films, horror and sci-fi weirdies, and clean teenpics. Individual films are examined both in light of their impact on the motion picture industry and in terms of their important role in validating the emerging teenage subculture. Also included in this edition is an expanded treatment of teenpics since the 1950s, especially the teenpics produced during the age of AIDS. Author note: Thomas Doherty is Associate Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of two previous books, including "Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934", which was a "New York Times" 'Notable Book' for 1999.Trade Review"Thomas Doherty is a wonderful film historian, as well as an astute cultural observer and a scholarly live wire. His account of Hollywood youth movies is as sensitive to the craziness of the marketplace as that of the movies themselves-smart, detailed, and near-definitive." --J. Hoberman, film critic, The Village Voice "Thomas Doherty's Teenagers and Teenpics, a fascinating study of Hollywood's response to the newly discovered youth market in the 1950s, felicitously brings together solid research, sensitive critical analysis, and an engaging writing style. Too long out of print, Doherty's book, which now brings the saga of 'teenpics' up to date, remains an indispensable guide to a significant aspect of American culture." --Michael Anderegg, author Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture "For an example of real scholarship in the field of cultural studies, one cannot do better than Thomas Doherty's Teenagers and Teenpics--an astute introduction to the 'juvenilization,' not just of Hollywood, but of America's post-war pop culture more generally." --James Miller, Director of Liberal Studies, New School University, and author of Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. American Movies as a Less-than-Mass Medium 2. A Commercial History 3. The Teenage Marketplace 4. Rock 'n' Roll Teenpics 5. Dangerous Youth 6. The Horror Teenpics 7. The Clean Teenpics 8. Generation after Generation of Teenpics Notes Selected Filmography Index to Film Titles General Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Andy Warhol'S Blow Job
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking and provocative book, Roy Grundmann contends that Andy Warhol's notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive metaphor for post-war American society's relation to homosexuality. Arguing that Blow Job epitomizes the highly complex position of gay invisibility and visibility, Grundmann uses the film to explore the mechanisms that constructed pre-Stonewall white gay male identity in popular culture, high art, science, and ethnography.Grundmann draws on discourses of art history, film theory, queer studies, and cultural studies to situate Warhol's work at the nexus of Pop art, portrait painting, avant-garde film, and mainstream cinema. His close textual analysis of the film probes into its ambiguities and the ways in which viewers respond to what is and what is not on screen. Presenting rarely reproduced Warhol art and previously unpublished Ed Wallowitch photographs along with now iconic publicity shots of James Dean, Grundmann establishes Blow Job as a consummate example of Warhol's highly insightful engagement with a broad range of representational codes of gender and sexuality.Trade Review"A whole book on one short film may seem excessive, but when the film is Andy Warhol's Blow Job—a pivotal document of the productive tensions between pop and art, pornography and avant-garde, gay and straight, visible and invisible 'sex'—one book hardly seems enough. Roy Grundmann has produced the definitive analysis from every possible perspective of this most fascinating of self-reflexive films. The amazing thing is how vital and compelling each of these perspectives seems."—Linda Williams, Director of Film Studies, U.C. Berkeley, and author of Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson"Roy Grundmann has extended Andy Warhol's diabolical plot to make respectable 1960s film critics say a naughty expression for an illegal sex act, making an academic book title out of it forty years later! He has also done the near impossible, written a book on a single-take film, more talked about than seen for most of those forty years, that is a masterful synthesis of queer history, cultural theory, and film studies. Grundmann has deftly demonstrated the centrality of the minimalist masterpiece that is Blow Job—and of its sly author—to postwar Western avant-gardes and to the sexual and racial cultures they inhabit."—Thomas Waugh, Professor of Film Studies and Director, Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University"Finally, the longest reaction shot in film history has found its ideal analyst. Roy Grundmann has written a thoughtful, funny, accessible, yet deeply theorized book that situates Warhol's most (in)famous film in all its polymorphous contexts. This book shows just how rich 'close reading' can be, yet it offers a window on the entire underground of a Warholian century."—Caroline A. Jones teaches contemporary art and theory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has written about Warhol in her Machine in the Studio, among other places"Andy Warhol's Blow Job is a tour de force, a virtuosic elaboration of a myriad of resonances, implications, and subtexts to what appears to be one of the simplest films possible. The control of the film scholarship is impeccable and there's hardly a missed beat in the writing. Grundmann's book is a terrific addition to film studies, Warhol studies and queer studies. It wears its learning lightly and with grace."—David James, Critical Studies, School of Cinema, USC"Grundmann’s strength lies in his theoretical improvisation on a theme, his wandering off into Hollywood film, hypochondria, Mailer, Kinsey, and whatever else his keen analytical eye alights on."—Cineaste"...the book wields its greatest strength from its reader-based cultural studies methodology."—Film International"[T]he book is...impressive vital, even moving."—Film and History"Roy Grundmann, a self-conscious enthusiast of the film, has made a sometimes compelling, always scholarly and I think finally unarguable case for Blow Job's importance and interest.... this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Warhol, and especially the Warhol films."—GENRETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Myths from the Underground 2. Shadows and Myths 3. White Gay Male Identity Between Passing and Posing 4. Gay Masculinity Between (De)Construction and Demontage 5. Andy Warhol, James Dean, and White Gay Men 6. Darkness as Metaphor Notes Index
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Zephyr Press Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog
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Autonomedia The Ordinary Man of Cinema
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Other Press LLC Lacan and Contemporary Film
Book SynopsisThis unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. Though Lacanian theory has long had a privileged place in the analysis of film, film theory has tended to ignore some of Lacan''s most important ideas. As a result, Lacanian film theory has never properly integrated the disruptive and troubling aspects of the filmic experience that result from the encounter with the Real that this experience makes possible. Many contemporary theorists emphasize the importance of the encounter with the Real in Lacan''s thought, but rarely in discussions of film. By bringing the encounter with the Real into the dialogue of film theory, the contributors to this volume present a new version of Lacan to the world of film studies.These essays bring this rediscovered Lacan to bear on contemporary cinema through analysis of a wide variety of films, including Memento, Eyes Wide Shut, Breaking the Waves, and Fight Club. The films discussed here demand a turn to Lacanian theory because they emphasize the disruptive role of the Real and of jouissance in the experience of the human subject. There is a growing number of films in contemporary cinema that speak to film''s power to challenge and disturb the complacency of spectators, and the essays in Lacan and Contemporary Film analyze some of these films and bring their power to light.Because of its dual focus on developments in Lacanian theory and in contemporary film, this collection serves as both an accessible introduction to current Lacanian film theory and an introduction to the study of contemporary cinema. Each essay provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of one or more important films, and at the same time, each explains and utilizes key concepts of Lacanian theory. The collection stages an encounter between Lacanian theory and contemporary cinema, and the result is the enrichment of both.
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The Library of America American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the
Book SynopsisAn anthology of unparalleled scope, American Movie Critics charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art,—Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Molly Haskell, among them. Here too are notable American writers, including Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken, Susan Sontag, and John Ashbery, weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences. The volume''s narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of today''s reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes additional material reflecting the impact of the Internet and DVDs on film criticism.
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The Library of America The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline
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University of New Orleans Press Habsburgs Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to
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Michigan State University Press Contemporary African Cinema
Book SynopsisAfrican and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema.Drawing on more than 1,500 articles, reviews, and interviews written over the past fifteen years, Olivier Barlet identifies the critical questions brought about by the evolution of African cinema. In the process, he offers us a personal and passionate vision, making this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.
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Michigan State University Press African Filmmaking: Five Formations
Book SynopsisThis volume attempts to join the disparate worlds of Egyptian, Maghrebian, South African, Francophone, and Anglophone African cinema - that is, five “formations” of African cinema. These five areas are of particular significance - each in its own way.The history of South Africa, heavily marked by apartheid and its struggles, differs considerably from that of Egypt, which early on developed its own “Hollywood on the Nile.” The history of French colonialism impacted the three countries of the Maghreb - Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco - differently than those in sub-Saharan Africa, where Senegal and Sembène had their own great effect on the Sahelian region. Anglophone Africa, particularly the films of Ghana and Nigeria, has dramatically altered the ways people have perceived African cinema for decades.History, geography, production, distribution, and exhibition are considered alongside film studies concerns about ideology and genre. This volume provides essential information for all those interested in the vital worlds of cinema in Africa since the time of the Lumière brothers.
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Chicago Review Press First King of Hollywood
Book SynopsisDouglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film star Mary Pickford, he founded United Artists. Pickford and Fairbanks ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a decade. Now a cache of newly discovered love letters from Fairbanks to Pickford form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood's first king, the man who did his own stunts, built his own studio, and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own wealth outside the studio system. Fairbanks was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and his story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, and romance.Trade Review"For years, Fairbanks and Pickford reignedover Hollywood as its first king and queenand, here, in The First King Of Hollywood,weve the first, if not also the weightiest,Fairbanks biography. Acting out his ownstunts, Fairbanks, we learn, helped shape ourenduring concept of the Hollywood Hero.Worth reading for the legacy value alone....5 Stars" Philip Turner and Leslie Waller Screen Trade Magazine"one of the most delightful Hollywood biographies to slide down the mast in years." New York Times Sunday Review"Tracey Goessel's biography of Douglas Fairbanks is impeccably researched and elegantly written. It gives new relevance to one of the seminal figures of 20th century movies and manhood, and at the same time it gives us an amazingly intimate view of the tragic love affair between Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. This is not merely a worthy book, it's a necessary book." Scott Eyman, author of John Wayne: The Life and Legend and Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille"Tracey Goessel gives us for the first time the real, three-dimensional man, in all his vibrancy, creativity, and sexiness. Beyond being a mega-star, he was a daring, hands-on producer and industry leader." Cari Beauchamp, historian, journalist, and author of Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
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Time Inc Home Entertaiment Gone with the Wind: The Great American Movie 75
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Trine Day Echoes From the Set
Book SynopsisDuring her decades-long career in film, author Katherine Ann Wilson has amassed an amazing collection of movie memorabilia from 50 different major motion pictures. There are close to 500 photographs of these artifacts, from wardrobe sketches to call sheets, and some rather encyclopedic items like images of crew badges and set cranes. Katherine has been a mentor for film students as well—starting them as gofers, teaching them set etiquette, then taking them all the way through screenplay, set design, camera composition, auditioning, editing, soundtrack composition, copyright, marketing, premieres, film festivals, and world-wide distribution. More than a resource for film mentors like Katherine, this book answers the most unanswered question: How did you get into the movie business? For readers wanting to know how to stay in it, and how to succeed in it, Katherine delves into the art of filmmaking and her personal experiences.
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Semiotext (E) Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
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Counterpoint Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of
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Graywolf Press Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
Book SynopsisA searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take the Answer In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, white, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply into his adolescence in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Riyadh, his role as a father and the loss of his own mother, and his friendships with men bound by the troubled camaraderie depicted in action and sci-fi blockbusters. Along with excursions into the conflicted pleasures of cosplay and first-person shooters, he imagines himself beside the poet and memoirist Paul Monette, who wrote the novelization of the movie while his partner was dying of AIDS.A sincere and playful book that lovingly dissects the film, Predator also offers questions and critiques of masculinity, fandom, and their interrelation with acts of mass violence. In a stirring reversal, one chapter exposes Monson through the Predator's heat-seeking vision, asking him, What do you know about the workings of the hidden world? As Monson brings us into the brilliant depths of the film and its universe, the hunt begins.
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building:
Book SynopsisEarly Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Naida García-Crespo argues that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures. This book aims to contribute to recently expanding discussions of cultural networks by analyzing how Puerto Rican cinema navigates the problems arising from the connection and/or disjunction between nation and state. The author argues that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation puts pressure on traditional conceptions of national cinema, which tend to rely on assumptions of state support or a bounded nation-state. She also contends that the cultural and business practices associated with early cinema reveal that transnationalism is an integral part of national identities and their development. García-Crespo shows throughout this book that the development and circulation of cinema in Puerto Rico illustrate how the “national” is built from transnational connections. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review“Well-written and vigorously researched, this book will be of much value to scholars of the history of cinema, Puerto Rican history, sociology, and political science. It sheds new light on important aspects of Puerto Rico's early transition from a Spanish to a U.S. colony.” -- Margherita Tortora * Yale University *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"The book makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Puerto Rican cinema and culture. Serving as a counterweight to traditional national histories of early cinema, it would make a great addition to syllabi in global film courses as well." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"García-Crespo's professional, methodical approach is particularly to be emphasized....[A]n in-depth history of the film's beginnings in Puerto Rico." * Rezensionen Medienwissenschaft *"This book brings into conversation a wide array of disciplines, methodologies, and fields of study, a quality that makes Early Puerto Rican Cinema an excellent choice for both undergraduate and graduate courses. García-Crespo offers a significant contribution not only to the field of Puerto Rican studies but also to media, culture, and Caribbean studies. The monograph is an excellent companion to previous works." * Centro Journal *“Well‐written and vigorously researched, this book will be of much value to scholars of the history of cinema, Puerto Rican history, sociology, and political science. It sheds new light on important aspects of Puerto Rico's early transition from a Spanish to a U.S. colony.” -- Margherita Tortora * Yale University *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"The book makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Puerto Rican cinema and culture. Serving as a counterweight to traditional national histories of early cinema, it would make a great addition to syllabi in global film courses as well." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"García-Crespo's professional, methodical approach is particularly to be emphasized....[A]n in-depth history of the film's beginnings in Puerto Rico." * Rezensionen Medienwissenschaft *"This book brings into conversation a wide array of disciplines, methodologies, and fields of study, a quality that makes Early Puerto Rican Cinema an excellent choice for both undergraduate and graduate courses. García-Crespo offers a significant contribution not only to the field of Puerto Rican studies but also to media, culture, and Caribbean studies. The monograph is an excellent companion to previous works." * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Established Frames and Images of Puerto Rican Cinema Conceptions of the Puerto Rican Nation… An Alternative Approach to the Study of Puerto Rican National Cinema This Study’s FrameworkCHAPTER ONE- Contexts for a National Cinema: Cultural, Political, and Economic Movements in Puerto Rico 1860-1952 Late Spanish Colonialism through 1898 Circumstances and Consequences of the U.S. Invasion Initial U.S. Congressional Rule and the Formation of Puerto Rican Identity Puerto Rican Conceptions of the Nation from 1930 OnwardCHAPTER TWO- Cinema Comes to Puerto Rico: Historical Uncertainties and Ambiguous Identities (1897-1909) Film Exhibition in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico Rumors of War Footage Representing U.S. Colonial Puerto RicoCHAPTER THREE- Stateless Nationhood, Transnationalism and the Difficulties of Assigning Nationality: Rafael Colorado in Puerto Rican Historiography (1912-1916) Rafael Colorado, Film Exhibition, and the Transnational Circulation of Cultural Subjects Rafael Colorado as Cinematic Producer: Negotiating the Local and the Global Citizenship in a Stateless Nation: Constructing the Puerto Rican SubjectCHAPTER FOUR- In the Company of the Elites: The Discourses and Practices of the Tropical Film Company (1916-1917) Inconsistencies in the Received Histories of the Tropical Film Company The Educational/Cultural Project of the Tropical Film Company The Tropical Film Company’s Commercial Aims The End of the Beginning: The Tropical Film Company’s Demise and LegacyCHAPTER FIVE- Perilous Paradise: American Assignment and Appropriation of “Puerto Ricanness” (1917-1925) From Big Stick to Good Neighbor: Puerto Rico as Test Site for American Foreign Policy Fictional Puerto Rico and Colonial Angst Puerto Rico’s Commercial Production Model U.S. Cinema Falls in Love with the Tropics The MacManus/Pathé Productions Famous Player-Lasky/Paramount Comes to the Island Beyond Fiction: Other Aspects of the Puerto Rican Film Industry in the 1920sCHAPTER SIX- Making the Nation Profitable: Industry-Centered Transnational Approaches to Filmmaking (1923-1940) The Film Enthusiast: The Career of Juan E. Viguié Cajas Romance tropical: Re-making the Dream The Film Impresario: The Career of Rafael Ramos Cobián Mis dos amores: The Union of Hollywood and Latin America Los hijos mandan: The Separation of Hollywood and Latin America The End of an Era: The Local Government as ProducerCONCLUSION- Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Stateless Nation Building Finding the National in the Transnational ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema
Book SynopsisPedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical trauma—from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime—and explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. Trade Review"The editors of Indiscreet Fantasies have compiled a significant collection of essays that will be of interest to film scholars because they analyze cinema that sheds a new light on the representations of Iberian cultures and identities." -- Isabel Estrada * author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo *"The editors of Indiscreet Fantasies have compiled a significant collection of essays that will be of interest to film scholars because they analyze cinema that sheds a new light on the representations of Iberian cultures and identities." -- Isabel Estrada * author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech Part I: Into the Realm of Sexual Provocations Chapter 1: The Queer Gothic Regime of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (1970) Ann Davies Chapter 2: A Queer Path to “Normal”: Pablo Berger’s Torremolinos 73 (2003) Meredith Lyn Jeffers Part II: Queer Intimacy—Within the Household Chapter 3: Turning Around Altogether: Gyrodynamics, Family Fantasies, and Spinnin’ (2007), by Eusebio Pastrana Nina L. Molinaro Chapter 4: Framing Queer Desire: The Construction of Teenage Sexuality in Krámpack (2000), by Cesc Gay Ana Corbalán Chapter 5: Bridging Sexualities: Polyamory, Art, and Temporary Space in Castillos de cartón (2009), by Salvador García Ruiz Jennifer Brady Part III: Queering Iberian Politics Chapter 6: Eloy de la Iglesia’s El diputado (1978): On the Margins of Spanish Democracy Lena Tahmassian Chapter 7: A Blatant Failure in Francoist Censorship: Jaime de Armiñán’s Mi querida señorita (1971) Conxita Domènech Chapter 8: Social Danger and Queer Nationalism in Ignacio Vilar’s A esmorga (2014) Darío Sánchez González Chapter 9: A Basque-Themed Film and the Performativity of Identity in Roberto Castón’s Ander (2009) Ibon Izurieta Part IV: Queer Catalonia—Destroying Essential Representations Chapter 10: The Barbarians’ Inheritance: Memory’s Brittleness and Tragic Lucidity in Ventura Pons’s Amic/Amat (1998) and Forasters (2008) Joan Ramon Resina Chapter 11: Intertextual Representations and Lesbian Desire in Marta Balletbò-Coll’s Sévigné (Júlia Berkowitz) (2004) María Teresa Vera-Rojas Chapter 12: “Com si fóssim la pesta”: Francoism and the Politics of Immunity in Agustí Villaronga’s Pa negre (2010) William Viestenz Part V: Burning Counterpoints with Religiosity Chapter 13: Bound and Cut: João Pedro Rodrigues’ O ornitólogo (2016) Kelly Moore Chapter 14: Queering Lisbon in Paulo Rocha’s A raíz do coração (2000): Santo António Festivities, Politics, and Drag Queens Rui Trindade Oliveira Chapter 15: Entre tinieblas (1983): Pedro Almodóvar, a Reformer of Catholicism? Andrés Lema-Hincapié Acknowledgments Bibliography Index Notes on Contributors
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Intellect Books Directory of World Cinema: Brazil
Book SynopsisBest known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well-versed in the topic. It brings into sharp focus some of the most important movements, genres and themes from across the eras of Brazilian cinema, from cinema novo to musical chanchada, the road movie to cinema de bordas, avant-garde to pornochanchada. Delving deep beyond the surface of cinema, the volume also addresses key themes such as gender, indigenous and diasporic communities and Afro-Brazilian identity. Situating Brazilian cinema within the country's changing position in the global capitalist system, the essays consider uneven modernization, class division, dictatorship, liberation struggles and globalization alongside questions of entertainment and of artistic innovation.Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editors Film of the Year 5 x Favela, Now By Ourselves Star Study Carmen Miranda Film-makers Glauber Rocha José Mojica Marins Walter Salles Cultural Crossover Cinema de Bordas in Brazil The Re-emergence of Brazilian Cinema: A Brief History Festival Focus Film Festivals in Brazil Early Years Cinema Novo Gender Music Afro-Brazilian Identity The Representation of the Brazilian Indian Diaspora DocumentaryAdaptation Comedy Road Movie
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Intellect Books Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget
Book SynopsisPiercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville’s photographs with a black cloth, tripod and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan. Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.Trade Review'This is an interesting and entertaining book that complements Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project (CH, Apr'OO, 37-4262). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.' -- Choice, B. P. Chalifour'A handsome and hefty volume' -- Prefix Photo, Andrea PicardTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction A Paris Diagonal Rephotographic Practices Marville Rephotographs Paris: 1865 and 1877 Atget and Rephotography Methodologies Performing the City: Cultural Heritage and Modernity Avenue de l’Opéra Le Percement de l’avenue de l’Opéra Charles Marville and the Aesthetics of Ruins – Shalini Le Gall Halles - Auxerre Constructing Nineteenth-Century Paris through Cartography and Photography – Min Kyung Lee Ile-de-la-Cité Saint-Séverin - Place Maubert Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève La Bièvre - Rue Monge Saint-Marcel - Gobelins The Marville Archive Technical Notes Bibliography Indexes
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Reaktion Books Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam
Book SynopsisThe film review can be a little art form, not just a consumer guide, as this collection shows. Covering more than 30 years of film releases, celebrated critic Adam Mars-Jones guides us through the most entertaining, most appalling, most fantastic films of his viewing lifetime, interleaving his original film reviews with new insights and reflections. Mars-Jones answers the questions that no other book has even bothered to ask. What is Twister really about? How many Steven Spielbergs are there? (Spoiler: he counts thirteen). How many of them are worth anything? Who had the greatest slow-burn career in the movies. (Clue: he taught Montgomery Clift how to roll a cigarette.) Which science-fiction film features the most haunting use of slime? Funny, combative and revealing, Second Sight is a celebration of the art form that maintains the strongest hold on the modern imagination.
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Vallentine Mitchell The Outsiders Who Built Irish Entertainment
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Intellect Books Directory of World Cinema: Russia
Book SynopsisBe they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama, The Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explosion, this volume explores the sociopolitical impact of the cinema of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Introductory essays establish key players and situate important genres within their cultural and industrial milieus, while reviews and case studies analyse individual titles in considerable depth. For the film studies scholar, or for all those who love Russian cinema and want to learn more, Directory of World Cinema: Russia will be an essential companion.Trade ReviewA provocative and illuminating volume. Even seasoned Russian film experts stand to learn something from this volume, whether because it invited them to reevaluate their basic historiographical assumptions or because it introduces them to a number of under-the-radar films. -- Hannah Frank, Slavic and East European JournalPeppered with high-quality film stills and questions to consider while viewing, Directory of World Cinema: Russia encourages its reader to hunt out lesser-known films and to revisit his/her favourites. -- Rosemari Baker, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Film of the Year Vasilii Sigarev’s Wolfy (2009) Interview Vasilii Sigarev and Iana Troianova Film Production in Russia: An Industry? Festival Focus Kinotavr What Does zhanr Mean in Russian? Directors Evgenii Bauer Sergei Eisenstein Dziga Vertov Andrei Tarkovskii Nikita Mikhalkov Aleksandr Sokurov Historical Film War Film Comedy and Musical Comedy Melodrama Literary Adaptation Biopic Action/Red Western Children’s Films Animation Documentary
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Intellect Books Directory of World Cinema: Italy
Book SynopsisItalian cinema has proved very popular with international audiences, and yet a surprising unfamiliarity remains regarding the rich traditions from which its most fascinating moments arose. Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural study in which to situate some of Italian cinema’s key aspects, from political radicalism to opera and from the arthouse to popular genres. Essays by leading academics about prominent genres, directors and themes provide insight into the cinema of Italy and are bolstered by reviews of significant titles. From silent spectacle to the giallo, the spaghetti western to the neorealist masterworks of Rossellini, this book offers a comprehensive historical sweep of Italian cinema that will appeal to film scholars and cinephiles alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor Film of the year I Io sono l'amore Film of the year II Le quattro volte Industry spotlight Valerio Jalongo interview Cultural crossover Opera and Cinema Directors Federico Fellini Nanni Moretti Silent cinema Neorealism Melodrama Comedy Giallo Gothic horror Peplum Spaghetti western Political cinema Contemporary cinema
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Verso Books In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After
Book SynopsisFrom plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when the public is increasingly free but also increasingly resistant to the emotive force of the pictures flashing around us. Moving deftly from philosophy of mind to film theory, from architectural practice to ethics, from Leon Battista Alberti to Orson Welles, Gabriele Pedullà examines the revolution that is reshaping the entire system of the arts and creativity in all its manifestations.Trade ReviewCharming and highly readable ... the book is well observed and gives a concise sense of what may be at stake in the current technological transformations of film viewing. * Artforum *Insights abound, and the author's facility with so many different disciplines-from ancient Greek philosophy to 20th century semiotics-will ensure that casual filmgoers and academics alike find something salient to ponder in Pedullà's treatise. * Publishers Weekly *Technical reproducibility of the work of art and anatomy of the society of the spectacle: Pedullà's book is the first to take a real step forward from the analyses of Walter Benjamin and Guy Debord. -- Paolo Virno, author of A Grammar of the MultitudeA welcome shift in focus ... A compelling archeology of the darkened spectatorial space, ranging back to Greek antiquity and the Renaissance. -- Jonathan Crary, Columbia UniversityA novel film theory ... Thanks to the reasoned revelations of Pedullà we see just how challenged-if not endangered-audiovision has become in the century before us. -- Thomas Harrison, UCLAA surprising journey between present and past, theory and history, places and narratives, Pedullà's book casts new light (daylight?) to show where post-cinema stands today. -- Francesco Casetti, Yale UniversityFascinating ... A lucid analysis that considers everybody, from the pure cinephile to the household consumer, to understand who we were, who we are today, and above all where we are likely to end up. -- Tiberia De Matteis * Il Temp *An intelligent and penetrating book. -- Marco Belpoliti * La Stampa *A courageous book, which through an exacting analysis demolishes the fetishism of the work of art. -- Andrea Di Consoli * L’Unità *A book both lovely and useful ... an example of engaged criticism that aims to explode the inveterate stereotypes of cinephilia. -- Massimo Raffaeli * Il manifesto-Alias *A Copernican Revolution. -- Franco Cordelli * Il Corriere della Sera *Going to the cinema used to be the only way you could watch a film. Now you can do it anywhere. Pedullà's interesting little book announces that the age of the cinema theatre as the form's primary 'aesthetic device' is over. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *[Pedulla's] concise, surprising essay... is worked up to via a careful engagement with Stanley Cavell on tragedy and Serge Daney on the question of the ethical position available to the post-cinematic viewer. * Sight & Sound *
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Carcanet Press Ltd Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
Book Synopsis'The Humphrey Jennings Film reader' tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. it reprints all of his unpublished critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC, and a selection of his poems.
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University of Exeter Press Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in
Book SynopsisThe British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation. The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists – practitioners, academics and individual researchers – who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era. Trade Review ‘Virtually everything in this admirable volume deserves to be noticed.’ (Screening the Past, Issue 22, Jan. 2008) ‘It is the first of these proceedings to be published by the University of Exeter Press, which offers a new and more attractive design, and the contributons themselves are equally good’ (Early Popular Visual Culture: 6,3. November 2008) Table of ContentsContents: Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Alan Burton and Laraine Porter; Location, Location, Location: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930; Bryony Dixon (Curator of Silent Film at the BFI's National Film and Television Archive); On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence; Tony Fletcher (founder member of The Cinema Museum in London); The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema; Paul Moody (lecturer in Media Studies at Uxbridge College); Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films; Simon Brown (senior lecturer in Film Studies at Kingston University); Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema; Christine Gledhill (Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sunderland); "The Plucky Girl" and the "Pigeon to Pluck": Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London; Judith Cowan (archive researcher at the ITN archive working on the Reuters Collection); Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama; Judith McLaren (teacher of English at St Paul's School in London); The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature; Ivo Blom (lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Comparative Arts Studies of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam); The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study; Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College London); Everyone's Doing the Riviera Because It's So Much Nicer in Nice; Amy Sargeant (Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art and Architecture); The City of the Future; Patrick Keiller (films include London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997); research fellow at the Royal College of Art in London); Co-operation and the Contestation of Public Space; Alan Burton (teacher at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria); Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life; Mick Eaton (recent TV work includes 'Shipman', a factual drama about Britain's most prolific serial murderer); Index.
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University of Exeter Press Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in
Book SynopsisThe British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation. The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists – practitioners, academics and individual researchers – who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era. Trade Review ‘Virtually everything in this admirable volume deserves to be noticed.’ (Screening the Past, Issue 22, Jan. 2008) ‘It is the first of these proceedings to be published by the University of Exeter Press, which offers a new and more attractive design, and the contributons themselves are equally good’ (Early Popular Visual Culture: 6,3. November 2008) Table of ContentsContents: Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Alan Burton and Laraine Porter; Location, Location, Location: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930; Bryony Dixon (Curator of Silent Film at the BFI's National Film and Television Archive); On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence; Tony Fletcher (founder member of The Cinema Museum in London); The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema; Paul Moody (lecturer in Media Studies at Uxbridge College); Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films; Simon Brown (senior lecturer in Film Studies at Kingston University); Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema; Christine Gledhill (Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sunderland); "The Plucky Girl" and the "Pigeon to Pluck": Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London; Judith Cowan (archive researcher at the ITN archive working on the Reuters Collection); Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama; Judith McLaren (teacher of English at St Paul's School in London); The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature; Ivo Blom (lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Comparative Arts Studies of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam); The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study; Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College London); Everyone's Doing the Riviera Because It's So Much Nicer in Nice; Amy Sargeant (Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art and Architecture); The City of the Future; Patrick Keiller (films include London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997); research fellow at the Royal College of Art in London); Co-operation and the Contestation of Public Space; Alan Burton (teacher at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria); Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life; Mick Eaton (recent TV work includes 'Shipman', a factual drama about Britain's most prolific serial murderer); Index.
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd From Nuremberg to Hollywood: The Holocaust and
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