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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales Le cinema de Wojciech J. Has au miroir de la litterature
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage offre une réflexion sur l'adaptation cinématographique de la littérature, en prenant pour moteur la filmographie du réalisateur polonais Wojciech J. Has (1925-2000). Celui-ci a en effet fréquemment recouru à l'adaptation de textes littéraires, que ce soient ceux de Jean Potocki, de James Hogg ou d'Anton Tchekhov. Ses films parviennent d'ailleurs à créer un véritable dialogue entre ces textes littéraires pourtant très différents, tant au niveau de leur époque que de leurs thèmes. Cet ouvrage étudie ainsi plus précisément les films Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (1965), La Poupée (1968) ou encore La Clepsydre (1973), trois œuvres d'auteurs aux caractéristiques très différents Jean Potocki, Boleslaw Prus et Bruno Schulz , écrites de la fin des Lumières à l'entre-deux guerres mondiales.. Il explore ainsi l'univers cinématographique incomparable du réalisateur polonais, et étudie la manière dont ce dernier construit, grâce à l'adaptation, de nouveaux modes d'intertextualité. Quelles interprétations des textes peuvent dès lors apparaître ? D'autre part, le choix de sources littéraires opéré par Has montre-t-il, de manière cryptée, certaines ressemblances repérées a posteriori entre ces divers textes eux-mêmes ? Les films de Wojciech Has permettent de stimuler l'étude du phénomène de l'adaptation et la redécouverte de trois œuvres littéraires riches et étonnantes .
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Dis Voir Raul Ruiz - the Wit of the Staircase
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JRP Ringier Jef Cornelis: Summer of 1966
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JRP Ringier Jef Cornelis: Biennale de Paris 1985
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JRP Ringier Derek Jarman
Book SynopsisWritings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher TurnerGathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specificand sometimes lesser-knownaspects of the artist''s life and work, and extensive portfolios spanning his oeuvre, this volume offers an accessible overview of Derek Jarman (194294), one of the legendary cultural figures of the postwar era. Jarman was an artist, filmmaker, musician and gay activist who powerfully marked British culture, from his first feature film Sebastiane (1976) to his videos for the Pet Shop Boys and Marianne Faithfull in the 1980s, from his AIDS activism to his cult film Blue (1993).Conceived as a reader, this volume includes essays by cultural critic Elisabeth Lebovici, curator Claire Le Restif and garden historian Marco Martella; an interview with Jarman's collaborator James Mackay; testimonies by actress Tilda Swinton and musician Simon Fisher Turner; and an illustrated chronology. Jarman''s militant Queer Paintings series (1992), his Super8 films from the mid-1970s and his assemblages made at his legendary garden at Prospect Cottage in Kent are all discussed.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Henry Brandt: Cinéma et photographie
Book SynopsisHenry Brandt (1921–1998) was a legendary figure in Swiss postwar film-making, a photographer and a pioneer of the “nouveau cinéma suisse.” His second film Les Nomades du soleil, an ethnographic documentary shot in 1953–54 about a nomadic people in Niger, earned him international renown. At the 1964 Swiss national exhibition Expo 64 in Lausanne, Brandt left his mark on the memory of an entire generation: his five short films La Suisse s’interroge questioned the countries affluent Swiss society in a hitherto unknown form and were the initial spark for the sociologically incisive film-making in francophone Switzerland that later gave rise to masterpieces by Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta. This first monograph on Henry Brandt spans the entire oeuvre of this versatile cinematographer, which includes numerous documentaries, photo reportages, and TV productions. The essays investigate Brandt’s works and provide insights into his efforts to combine the description of the local with the exploration of the distant. The book highlights that Henry Brandt’s commissioned work as well as his own independent productions are critical testimonies to global inequality and thus more relevant today than ever. Text in French.
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Springer International Publishing AG Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth
Book SynopsisThis book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two distinct systems at work in Spielberg's application of style. One is the use of deep space compositions and staging, a form that was commonly seen in Hollywood cinema until the rise of the 'New Hollywood' in the early 1970s. The other system is based on the ubiquitous shot, reverse shot arrangement most commonly used for dialogue scenes, and which Spielberg has modified into what the author describes as wide reverses. Through the integration of both systems, Spielberg is able to create a more complete visual sense of scenographic space and a more comprehensive world of the narrative, while still remaining within the conventional boundaries of classical style. The wide reverse system also permits him to present a more highly developed version of Hollywood's conventional practice of rendering style as transparent or unnoticed. This volume shows that this, together with the wide reverse further enables Spielberg to create a narrative that offers the spectator both a more immersive and more affective experience. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Setting the Scene.- Section I: Origin Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Classical Narration.- Chapter 3: Spielberg as Filmmaker.- Chapter III: Continuity Editing as System.- Section II: Function.- Chapter 4: Deep Space Composition and Staging.- Chapter 5: Space and the Wide Reverse Strategy.- Chapter 6: The Wide Reverse and Extended Variation.- Section III: Effect, Affect and Precedent.- Chapter 7: The Wide Reverse, Cognition and Affect.- Chapter 8: Manifestations of the Wide Reverse in Mainstream Narrative Cinema.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Style by Stealth.
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Peter Lang AG Film Mavericks in Action: New Hollywood, New
Book SynopsisThe book’s ambition is to uniquely yoke familiar histories of New Hollywood with aspects of critical theory that, since the 1950s, have embraced advances in the New Rhetoric as pioneered by literary theorist, philosopher, social analyst and educator Kenneth Burke (1897–1993). The study tracks the career arcs of Hollywood film directors Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola whose productions are regarded as Burkean perspectives by incongruity. This analysis is contextualized within an overview that, from the 1920s to the present, considers Hollywood as a "languaged industry" that is grounded in Burkean principles of Order, identification, hierarchy, courtship and ambiguities of substance. The project is designed to serve the interests of colleagues and students in Rhetorical Theory, Film Education, Creative Writing, American Studies, Production Studies, and Film and Media Studies.Table of ContentsNew Rhetoric – Hollywood – Kenneth Burke – Coppola – Bogdanovich – Scorsese – Cimino
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Peter Lang AG Lessons from the East: Representations of East
Book SynopsisThis book analyses representations of East Asia, mainly China and Japan, in selected Anglophone novels and films. Starting with the earliest texts and accounts, the first two chapters explore wider historical and cultural contexts of the mutual influences between the cultures of the East and West. The subsequent three chapters discuss symptomatic examples of contemporary Anglophone films and novels and seek to show how various cultural flows have continued to mould Western images of East Asia. The book focuses on narratives that highlight Western subjects transforming or becoming reinvigorated under the East Asian influence and explores such issues as the impact of East Asian martial arts and religious practices on Western masculinities, East Asian motifs in utopian and dystopian fiction, and contemporary depictions of Asian-Western romantic relationships.Table of ContentsRepresentations of East Asia in Western film and literature – Representation of the Other – Orientalism in the East Asian context – Ethnic stereotypes in film and literature – American popular culture – Masculinity – Asian spiritualities in the West – Martial arts
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Peter Lang AG Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present:
Book SynopsisThe author analyzes appropriately selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory in relation to film. Cultural and moral foundations of national identity are also taken into account. Spielberg films particularly valuable for this comparative analysis are: «Schindler’s List», «Amistad», «Saving Private Ryan» and «Lincoln»; crucial Wajda films include: «Korczak», «Holy Week», «Katyń and Wałęsa». These works are analyzed in relation to the problem of representing the Holocaust, self-scrutiny in historical memory, commemoration of sacrifices for the national community during war, and foundation myths evoked through national heroes. The larger thematic framework for the above concerns is the underlying sense of covenant present within the two national communities that Spielberg and Wajda draw upon, a sense that explores the possibility of moral renewal under contemporary circumstances.Table of ContentsSacred and Moral Sources of National Identity and Historical Memory – Spielberg and Wajda in Their National Cinemas – The Holocaust and the Extension of National Covenant – Historical Self-Scrutiny and Moral Memory – The Glorious Dead and Commemoration – Foundation Myths in a Post-heroic Age
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Peter Lang AG Robert Musil und Amos Gitaï: Die Ethik des
Book SynopsisDie literaturwissenschaftliche Studie widmet sich den Werken des österreichischen Schriftstellers Robert Musil (18801942) und des israelischen Filmemachers Amos Gitaï (*1950). Die Analyse erbringt erstmalig den Nachweis, dass sich Gitaï in seinen Filmen mit dem berühmten Musilschen Möglichkeitsdenken auseinandersetzt. Vor dem aktuellen Hintergrund des Israel-Palästina-Konfliktes wird der Möglichkeitssinn dabei als innovatives und visionäres Modell erkennbar, das sich sowohl in ethischer, in medienphilosophischer und letztlich auch in aktuell-politischer Hinsicht als Transmedium einer beweglichen kritischen Praxis auszeichnet.
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Brill U Fink Die Filme Fatih Akins
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Brill U Fink Authentizitat Nach Pasolini
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Hirmer Verlag Barbara Hammer: Evidentary Bodies
Book SynopsisBarbara Hammer (b. 1939) is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. In October 2017, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art will present a comprehensive solo exhibition to celebrate the depth and expa nse of Hammer’s five decades of art making. Bringing together both known and previously unseen works of film and video, installations, works on paper, and material from her archive, the exhibition addresses critical themes that appear in Hammer’s work, inc luding: lesbian representation, subjectivity, and sexuality; intimacy and sensation; and conditions and maintenance of life and illness. This exhibition highlights the resonating impact of Hammer’s artistic narrative and material experimentation across dis ciplines within queer art history. Additionally, as part of this exhibition, we are putting together a publication that will touch on different aspects of Hammer’s body of wor k and practice. The material included will look at her work in relationship to experimental queer cinema; lesbian sexuality and lesbian feminist history; hapticity and wildness; viruses, medicine, and environment; to name a few. We desire for the book to f eature a wide range of responses, from academic analysis to poetic interpretation, sprinkled with personal and artistic anecdotes. More of a hybrid monograph and catalogue raisonne, we are very excited that this book will be the first of its kind that cele brates five decades of Hammer's work.
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Hirmer Verlag Ericka Beckman
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot against black, spatially ambiguous backdrops, her moving image works are structured according to the logic of child’s play, games, folklore, or fairy tales, and populated by archetypical characters and toy-like props in bright, primary colours. Throughout her work, Beckman engages profound questions of gender, role-playing, competition, power and control. The publication will include selected works spanning thirty years of Beckman’s career, providing the first opportunity to survey her contribution to the art world. With new scholarly essays on Beckman’s work that offer an art-historical consideration of her early Super-8 Films and a critical situating of the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with the structures of games, gambling, and capitalism, the exhibition catalogue contextualizes Beckman’s practice on the occasion of this major survey exhibition. More than 20 colour images in the catalogue include photo- documentation of Beckman’s works since 1983 and installation views of the MIT List Center exhibition.
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Prestel Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework
Book SynopsisOne of today's most important documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin has dedicated her life's work to shining a light on the injustices experienced by Canada's Indigenous peoples. This retrospective monograph features an extensive interview with Obomsawin and includes images and written reflections on her entire career, including her most recent series devoted to the rights of Indigenous children. Never shying away from controversy, Obomsawin's films have played a critical role in exposing ongoing systemic bias toward Indigenous populations-from fishing rights and education to health care and treaty violations. Obomsawin is also a graphic artist, and she incorporates her often dream-inspired etchings and prints into many of her films. The book includes illuminating essays exploring Obomsawin's practice and mission as well as personal commentary from collaborators, archival material, and photographs from the filmmaker's personal life and professional practice. As Obomsawin approaches her ninth decade of life-fifth behind the camera-this beautifully illustrated record of her astounding body of work is an inspiring celebration of the power of film to change the course of history. Authors include Karrmen Crey, Richard Fung, Monika Kin Gagnon, Candice Hopkins, Jessica L. Horton, Elizabeth Povinelli, Lisa Steele, and Jesse Wente.
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Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work: Film by Film,
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Taschen GmbH The Stanley Kubrick Archives
Book Synopsis“The Stanley Kubrick Archives showed up one morning in our offices, where my editor and I circled it like curious apes.” —Time Out, New York This is the first book to explore Stanley Kubrick’s archives and the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date. In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience…. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content.” The philosophy behind Part 1 of The Stanley Kubrick Archives borrows from this line of thinking: from the opening sequence of Killer’s Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick’s complete films are presented chronologically and wordlessly via frame enlargements. A completely nonverbal experience. The second part of the book brings to life the creative process of Kubrick’s filmmaking by presenting a remarkable collection of mostly unseen material from his archives, including photographs, props, posters, artwork, set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules. Accompanying the visual material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubrick’s best interviews.Trade Review"This book is the first to explore Kubrick’s archives and the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date. It would be a must for any film buff.” * Inbalancemagazine.com *
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Taschen Los Archivos Personales de Stanley Kubrick
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Taschen GmbH Alfred Hitchcock. The Complete Films
Book SynopsisThe name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspense—that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling suspense. With triumphs such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho, Hitchcock (1899–1980) fashioned a new level of cinematic intrigue and fear through careful pacing, subtlety, and suggestiveness. This complete guide traces Hitchcock’s life and career from his earliest silent films right through to his last picture in 1976, Family Plot. Updated with fresh images, the book combines detailed entries for each of Hitchcock’s 53 films, an incisive essay that sheds light on his fear-inducing devices, photos of the master at work, and an illustrated list of each of his cameos, together adding up to a movie buff’s dream.Trade Review“A real treat… This book provides a real insight into Hitchcock’s unique and complex approach to film-making.” * The New Zealand Herald *
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TASCHEN The Ingmar Bergman Archives
Book SynopsisSince his release of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in 1957, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in international cinema. In a career that spanned 60 years, he wrote, produced, and directed 50 films that defined how we see ourselves and how we interact with the people we love, through works like Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander.Before his death in 2007, Bergman gave TASCHEN and the Swedish publishing house Max Ström complete access to his archives at the Bergman Foundation as well as permission to reprint his writings and interviews, many of which have never been seen outside of Sweden. Picture researcher Bengt Wanselius, who was Bergman's photographer for 20 years, scoured photo archives all over Sweden, discovered previously unseen images from Bergman's films, and selected unpublished images from many photographers' personal archives.This re-edition draws from our out-of-print Bergman Archives, the most complete book on the director to date. For this award-winning production, TASCHEN Editor Paul Duncan gathered a team of Bergman experts who have researched and written a narrative that, for the first time, combined all of Bergman's working life in film. Such is the depth of Bergman's writings that most of the story is told in his own words. This book also features an introduction by Bergman's close friend and collaborator, actor Erland Josephson.On November 24, 2008, Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius won the 2008 August Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book published in Sweden. This is the most prestigious literary prize in Sweden, voted on by booksellers and librarians throughout the country.
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ibidem-Verlag Reisen außerhalb der Zeit Strategien der
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Peter Liechti Dedications
Book SynopsisPeter Liechti (1951-2014) was a Swiss film author and director, cinematographer, and producer. Many of his more than 100 documentaries, music and experimental films have been shown at international festivals. His last and unfinished project Dedications he began when he already suffered from his terminal illness. Originally intended to become a trilogy dedicated to the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956), the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1880), and to "the unknown Sudanese Chief", the progress of his illness made him to alter his concept to a very personal review and reflection on his life's most significant personal and artistic impressions and moments. Liechti's widow and working partner Jolanda Gsponer, together with a group of his former collaborators, has assembled all the material of Dedications in three parts to preserve it and make the work visible. Part one is a filmed reading by Liechti from the diary he kept during his stays at the hospital and which was intended to be the film's underlying text. Part two is an audio-visual installation of the raw material for Dedications.Part three is this book, a self-contained publication of Liechti's entire diary, illustrated with some 100 video stills with captions, and including a DVD with the film's unedited 15 opening minutes.
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Willem de Rooij: About
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Romuald Karmakar
Book SynopsisRomuald Karmakar's work in the fields of fiction and documentary holds a unique place in European film. It also stands in clear opposition to the dominant ways of the German film industry - both aesthetically and in its head-on treatment of several sore spots in German history. Time and again the 45-year-old director has engaged with "impossible" characters and "borderline" subjects: mercenaries, a notorious Nazi speech, the terror of being in a relationship, an imprisoned serial killer, or what it means to truly experience electronic and techno music. The book presents Karmakar's work in its entirety for the first time. It includes a 130-page essay by Olaf Möller, several conversations with the artist, an annotated filmography, and selected writings by Romuald Karmakar, including a number of unproduced treatments.Trade ReviewOlaf Möller's knowledge about Karmarkar is vast, and each page here is proof of a striking conversation between a critic and a filmmaker. * TAZ – Die Tageszeitung *
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Werner Schroeter
Book SynopsisIn a four-decade-long career that generated more than forty films and numerous stage productions, Werner Schroeter became one of the most important directors in Germany and Europe since the late 1960s. After making a flurry of short films in a climate of feverish artistic experimentation and political upheaval, Schroeter soon gained recognition for Eika Katappa (1969) and The Death of Maria Malibran (1971), early mature works showcasing avant-garde performance as iconoclastic expression of rebellion and pathos. Following a decade of uncompromising experimental work, his deeply humanist features Il Regno di Napoli (1979) and Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) brought him broader success. Yet Schroeter maintained his reputation as an enfant terrible of the German cultural scene with controversial stagings of operas and plays and with smartly observed documentaries on art, film, and politics.This volume traces Schroeter’s career as a filmmaker from early and rarely discussed works such as Salome (1971) and Willow Springs (1973) to his late 1970s breakout hits and later complex and mature art-house productions such as The Rose King (1986), Malina (1991), and Nuit de Chien (2008). The volume is supplemented by Schroeter’s own writings and conversations and includes an interview with his long-time collaborator Elfi Mikesch as well as an authoritative and completely updated filmography.Trade ReviewThis beautiful collection is yet another example of Grundmann’s tireless attempts at making the work of filmmakers considered “difficult” palatable to viewers brought up on the easy fare of Hollywood narrative cinema. * EuropeNow *
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Guy Debord – Das filmische Gesamtwerk
Book SynopsisIn his films Guy Debord (1931–1994) worked according to the following principle: do nothing you should, do everything you should not. Created between 1952 and 1978, all the films reflect this rule and confirm what he referred to as his “detestable ambition.”Gathered in a single volume for the first time in German, this publication unites the texts of all of Guy Debord’s films in a new translation: from his first film made in affiliation with the Lettrist group led by Isidore Isou, Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952), an alteration of black and white sequences devoid of images; to works that originated in the course of his participation in the Situationist International, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (1959) and Critique de la séparation (1961); to the adaptation of his best known theoretical work, La Société du spectacle (1973), followed by the response to his critics entitled Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu'hostiles, qui ont été jusqu'ici portés sur le film "La Société du spectacle" (1975) and his résumé, intended as an act of closure: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978).Texts and images are true to the French original edition and complemented by a list of sources for the quotes, Debord’s notes on his films, drafts of unrealized film projects, as well as the text of the TV documentary he coauthored, Guy Debord, son art et son temps (1994).
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Ruth Beckermann
Book SynopsisViennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. Her work is both deeply personal and political. She discusses the complex relationship between history and the present and reflects on her identity as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe. Tropes of travel and migration feature heavily in her work as means of experiencing the world and of staying alive, literally as well as artistically.Beckermann’s films speak about identity conflicts and class struggle (Suddenly, a Strike), her family history in the Habsburg monarchy (Paper Bridge), and the war generation as it confronts the crimes of the Wehrmacht (East of War). In 2016, she turned the love affair between poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann in postwar Vienna into an unconventional feature film (The Dreamed Ones). In her latest project, The Waldheim Waltz (2018), Beckermann uses 1980s archival footage of the “Waldheim Affair” to reflect on the mechanisms of populism and the media.This is the first English-language publication on Ruth Beckermann’s filmic oeuvre, including an original essay by Nick Pinkerton, an in-depth conversation with the artist conducted by Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta, and a detailed filmography by Michael Omasta and Brigitte Mayr.Trade Review“Do you know Ruth Beckermann?” I do not know her, I say. But as soon as I take the Paper Bridge, its paths, its voices, its mists, its rivers, its passages, I realize that I recognize her, that I have always already known her. With joy I make her acquaintance again [re-connais], and I salute her, poet in images, painter in words, Voice that listens to the voices of old, the voices of the ages, today. -- Hélène Cixous
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Archive Books Film Material N 5: The Cast
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Archive Books Da Capo: Fifteen Films
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Spector Books The Third Life of Agnès Varda
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Loretta Fahrenholz - Seven Films
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Satyajit Ray: Essays 1970-2005
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Ediciones Ctedra Fernando FernánGómez
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Museum Tusculanum Press Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners
Book SynopsisLone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig''s Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe''s most noteworthy women directors. Danish and international critics lavished praise on Scherfig and her film, and their reactions harmonized with those of festival juries. Battered by life, but by no means defeated or destroyed, the characters in Italian for Beginners are all in touch at some deep intuitive level with the truth that is the film''s basic message: that happiness and a sense of self-worth are sustained by loveby romantic love, to be sure, but also by inclusion in a community of like-minded people. The book includes the Dogme manifesto and interviews with the filmmaker as well as with the cast and crew.
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At Last Books Privilege
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Silvana Ewa-Mari Johansson: Image 2000-2008
Book SynopsisEwa-Mari Johansson's personal research should be interpreted as a general work-in-progress. It is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that appears as stages of a single dialectic path without a real beginning or a definite end. Ewa-Mari Johansson's work is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that appears as stages of a single dialectic path without a real beginning or a definite end. But it has developed in a circular manner - often returning to investigate the same field, but each time with a different and heightened critical and aesthetic awareness. Text in English and Italian.
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Gremese Editore All About Sergio Leone: The Definitive Anthology.
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a new series ("All about...Cinema!) dedicated to the most American of Italian directors, a master who will celebrate a double anniversary in 2019: 90 years since his birth (3 January) and 30 years since his death (30 April).A definitive anthology dedicated to the most American of the Italian directors, who's way of doing cinema has influenced tens of filmakers (Tarantino above all). The book provides a detailed examination of films, personal memories of the director and of the many collaborators who worked with him (from Bertolucci to Dario Argento, from Ennio Morricone to Clint Eastwood), script excerpts and beautiful photographs. The volume - written by De Fornari, an experienced Italian film critic (who knew Leone pretty well) and author of another insightful book about Leone - also includes a preface by filmaker Giuseppe Tornatore (Academy Award winner), a collection of quotes arranged alphabetically and an essay (Six Ways Not to Resemble John Ford) that explains what distinguishes Leone from the myriad of Italian and American Western movies directors.
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Humboldt Fara Fara: A Film Not Made
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Leiden University Press Camering: Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image
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Amsterdam University Press Fellini
Book Synopsis"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." This beautifully designed volume taps into the sources of Federico Fellini's baroque imagination bringing the power of his work into the limelight, and providing new insights into the dazzling talent of the man behind La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8‚ . Fellini's career spanned forty years and made him perhaps the most illustrious of all the Italian filmmakers. Twenty years after Fellini's death, the author tells the story of the director's themes and obsessions through movie stills, set photos, posters and his own drawings. The book is organised in four parts. Popular Culture concentrates on Fellini's engagement with the popular culture of the time. Fellini at Work shows the director on the set. The City of Women concerns Fellini's most important subject and obsession: Woman, in all her many guises. Finally, Biographical Imagination presents his various doppelgangers, each reflecting a different aspect of his personality, with particular focus on his 'Book of Dreams'. Packed with images and quotes, this visually stunning book offers a magical journey through Fellini's compelling universe.Table of ContentsFellini - 2 Contents - 3 Preface - 4 The Parade of Images - 5 Popular Culture - 11 Fellini at Work - 36 The City of Women - 46 Biographical Imagination - 66
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Amsterdam University Press The Serious Game: Ingmar Bergman as Stage
Book SynopsisThough Ingmar Bergman became famous as a filmmaker, his roots-and, to some extent, his heart-were in the theater. He directed more than one hundred plays in his career, and The Serious Game takes a close look at fourteen productions he staged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Looking closely at the relationship between the verbal and the visual, this book gives even longtime Bergman fans a new understanding of his sensitivity to nuance, his versatility, and his dedication to craftsmanship. **INCLUDES DVD WITH FOURTEEN VIDEO RECORDINGS, ALL IN COLOUR**Trade Review"Egil Törnqvist's contribution to the field of "Bergman studies" cannot possibly be overestimated. *The Serious Game*, alas, was to be his last book. However untimely, it is thus a fitting testament not only to Bergman's theatre work, but to Törnqvist's great capabilities of sharing his remarkable insights about it." - Jan Holmberg, CEO Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Stockholm "This is the strongest aspect of the book — Törnqvist’s ability of vivid description and thoughtful choice of evocative details of the production (he intently choose only productions he witnessed himself or these which are videodocumented, which allows him to provide, when necessary, detailed transcripts of stage action). The analytical chapters serve very well as particular arguments supporting the general characterization of Bergman’s view on theatre as shown in the preface." - David Drozd, *Theatralia: Journal for Theatre Studies*, 2019Table of ContentsPreface 1. B & Co. 2. William Shakespeare, King Lear 3. August Strindberg, Miss Julie 4. August Strindberg, A Dream Play 5. William Shakespeare, Hamlet 6. Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night 7. Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade 8. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House 9. Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt 10. William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale 11. J.B.P. Molière, The Misanthrope 12. Euripides, The Bacchae 13. August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata 14. Friedrich von Schiller, Mary Stuart 15. Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts 16. The Serious Game Production Data Bibliography DVD list Index
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Amsterdam University Press A Revolution for the Screen: Abel Gance's
Book SynopsisAbel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts - with devastating results for the movie and for film history. The struggle across ensuing decades to restore and reintegrate Gance's film has formed a backdrop to an array of formal, contextual, and ideological battles. In this book, Paul Cuff takes account of those battles and challenges received opinion on Gance's view of both his film and its subject.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on formatting Acknowledgements Foreword Preface: Critical perspective 1. Napoleonic ambition and historical imagination 2. Shaping expectations: The young Napoléon Bonaparte 3. Civilization and savagery: Visions of the French Revolution 4. Mortal gods: Voices of power and of providence 5. The dark light of Napoleonic cinema 6. A view from the margins of history 7. Melodrama and the formulations of family 8. Worlds in transition: Class, consumption, corruption 9. Death and transf.iguration Conclusion: The case for enthusiasm Filmography and bibliography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History
Book SynopsisOne of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein’s writings is the first-ever English-language edition of his newly discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in 1946-47 before his death in 1948. In his writings, Eisenstein presents the main coordinates of a history of the cinema without mentioning specific directors or films: what we find instead is a vast genealogy of all the media and of all the art forms that have preceded cinema’s birth and accompanied the first decades of its history, exploring the same expressive possibilities that cinema has explored and responding to the same, deeply rooted, “urges” cinema has responded to. Cinema appears here as the heir of a very long tradition that includes death masks, ritual processions, wax museums, diorama and panorama, and as a medium in constant transformation, that far from being locked in a stable form continues to redefine itself.The texts by Eisenstein are accompanied by a series of critical essays written by some of the world’s most qualified Eisenstein scholars.Trade Review"Unpublishable during his lifetime, [Eisenstein's] elliptical, often cryptic texts were only recently exhumed from the Eisenstein archive; they are published in this impressive volume along with extended reflections contributed by eminent international film scholars (editors included) on the director's later film theory. Highly recommended" - S. Liebman, *Choice Magazine* "The notes for [Eisenstein's] publication, [...] accompanied by smart essays by a wide range of cinema scholars, all lovingly edited by Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini, reveal Eisenstein at his most intellectually ambitious and capacious." - *Film Quarterly* "This volume, to its great credit, expands productively the study of Eisenstein’s film theory as well as prompting new approaches to film history through discontinuities, jumps, and the resonance of past and present developments in art." - Zdenko Mandu¿ic, Saint Louis University, *Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television*, 2017 Vol. 37Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Editorial Criteria Naum Kleiman, Foreword Antonio Somaini, Cinema as "Dynamic Mummification," History as Montage: Eisenstein's Media Archaeology Part 1 Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema 1. The Heir 2. Dynamic Mummification. Notes for a general history of cinema 3. Revelation in Storm and Thunder 4. In Praise of the Cine-chronicle 5. The Place of Cinema in the General System of the History of the Arts 6. Pioneers and Innovators Part 2: Essays 1. Ada Ackerman, What Renders Daumier's Art so Cinematic for Eisenstein? 2. François Albera, "The Heritage We Renounce?" Eisenstein in Historio-graphy 3. Luka Arsenjuk, The "Notes for a General History of Cinema" and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image 4. Nico Baumbach, Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eisenstein 6. Jane Gaines, Eisenstein's Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project 7. Abe Geil, Dynamic Typicality 8. Vinzenz Hediger, Archaeology vs. Paleontology: A Note on Eisenstein's "Notes for a General History of Cinema" 9. Mikhail Iampolski, Point - Pathos - Totality 10. Arun Khopkar, Distant Echoes 11. Pietro Montani, "Synthesis" of the Arts or "Friendy Cooperation" between the Arts? The "General History of Cinema" According to Eisenstein 12. Philip Rosen, Eisenstein's Mummy Complex: Temporality, Trauma, and a Distinction in Eisenstein's "Notes for a General History of Cinema" 13. Masha Salazkina, Natalie Ryabchikova, Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet Models for the Sydt of Cinema: 1920s-1940s Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names
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Lund University Press,Sweden Ingmar Bergman: An Enduring Legacy
Book SynopsisThis unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman’s birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses. Established themes such as Bergman’s interest in philosophy and psychology are addressed, but also less familiar topics, notably his relationship with Hollywood and his elaborate use of film music and autobiographical writing that characterised his later work. There are new analyses of aspects of Bergman’s most famous films, including Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander, but also insightful readings of lesser-known works, such as Saraband and Sawdust and Tinsel.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198557718/9789198557718.xmlTable of ContentsIngmar Bergman at 100: an introduction – Erik Hedling1 Ingmar Bergman on the international scene – Peter Cowie2 Bergman transnational: Munich–Rome–Los Angeles, or ‘the last temptation of Ingmar Bergman’ – Thomas Elsaesser3 Bergman and the business: notes on the director’s ‘worth in the market’ – Olof Hedling4 Bergman, writing, and photographs: the auteur as an ekphrastic ghost – Maaret Koskinen5 The playfulness of Ingmar Bergman: screenwriting from notebooks to screenplays – Anna Sofia Rossholm6 Cinema as a detour: Ingmar Bergman, writer – Jan Holmberg7 Laughing through tears: the soundscape of Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night – Alexis Luko 8 Sound, act, presence: classical music in the films of Ingmar Bergman—a lecture recital – Anyssa Neumann9 Film-musical moments in Ingmar Bergman’s films – Ann-Kristin Wallengren10 Where does music come from? Musical meaning and musical discourse in Ingmar Bergman’s films – Per F. Broman11 Bergman, Janov, and Autumn Sonata – Paisley Livingston12 Persona’s penis – Daniel Humphrey13 Battlefield family: Ingmar Bergman, Henrik Ibsen, and television – Michael Tapper14 Bergman/Birdman/Vogler: an ecocritical examination of the birds of Bergman – Linda Haverty Rugg15 Visionaries and charlatans: Ingmar Bergman’s filmmaking – Laura Hubner16 Imagined without dialogue: Sawdust and Tinsel and Dreams – Dan Williams17 The ghost in the machine: Saraband – Lars Gustaf Andersson18 Return to the bourgeoisie: Fanny and Alexander in Swedish politics – Erik HedlingIndex
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Tulika Books Kumar Shahani – The Shock of Desire and Other
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Amsterdam University Press The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema
Book SynopsisThe Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes the spatial dynamics of his cinema, particularly as it pertains, from within a phenomenological framework, to the viewer's experience of films. This book redirects scholarly attention to the way Malick's directorial work shapes time and duration, laying new groundwork for the analysis of how films unsettle nature-culture binaries in modernity. The study performs this intervention through a rigorous engagement with Walter Benjamin's work on time, violence and technologies and the emergent figural approach to aesthetics in film studies. Each of these methods has important precedents in film studies and other fields. The combination of methods performed in this book contributes to understanding the relevance of a time-based approach to Malick's films and the practical implications of a time-based relation to history in contemporary ecocinema discourses.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Framing Nature and History in Malick Scholarship Ecocritical Film Studies and the Problem of Space The Figural Approach to Analysis in Film Studies Benjamin's Concept of Time in Film Studies Terrence Malick's Work: Time-Based Ecocinema 1. From Myth, Tragedy and Narrative to Allegory, Trauerspiel and Film in Badlands and Days of Heaven Symbolic and Allegorical Nature in Badlands Tragedy and Trauerspiel in Days of Heaven Prehistory and Second Technologies in Badlands and Days of Heaven The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology: Splinters of Messianic Time in Badlands and Days of Heaven Conclusion: from Mythic to Figural Temporal Relations in Films 2. Time and History in The Thin Red Line and The New World The Thin Red Line Between Historical and Mechanical Nature Critiquing Violence in Nature and History Timidity and Courage in The Thin Red Line and The New World Camera Work as Pure Mediality Conclusion: Time-Based Phenomenology 3. Looking at Evolutionary Narratives in The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time Replaying Life's Tape? Competing Mythological Narratives in Malick's The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time Reconfiguring Modern Aesthetics in Evolutionary Narratives Figural Space beyond Idealism and Nihilism Materialist Theology in The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time: Life's Journey Conclusion: Counterfactual Histories in Evolutionary Narratives 4. The Wastelands of Progress in To the Wonder, Knight of Cups and Song to Song The End of Teleological Time in To the Wonder The Pilgrim's Progress in Knight of Cups Twenty-First Century's Histories and Technologies in Song to Song Contemporary Ecocinema in Song to Song Conclusion: Finite Freedom and Materialist Theology in Ecocinema Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Studying Film with André Bazin
Book SynopsisThe impact of French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his lifetime, his ideas have been challenged, defended and revived throughout his afterlife. Studying Film with André Bazin offers an entirely original interpretation of major concepts from Bazin’s legacy, such as auteur theory, realism, film language and the influence of film on other arts (poetry and painting in particular). By examining mostly unknown and uncollected texts, Blandine Joret explains Bazin’s methodology and adopts it in a contemporary reading, linking his ideas to major philosophical and scientific frameworks as well as more recent media practices such as advertising, CGI, 3D cinema and Virtual Reality. In tune with 21st-century concerns in media culture and film studies, this book addresses a wide readership of film scholars, students and cinephiles.Table of ContentsPREFACE CHAPTER I -- STUDYING FILM 1.1 YOUNG ART, OLD CRITICS 1.1.1 MYTH VERSUS HISTORY 1.1.2 CASE STUDY: CHAPLIN AND THE TALKIES 1.2 IN SEARCH OF A METHOD 1.2.1 THE ASEPTIC STUDY OF FILMOLOGY 1.2.2 A SOCIAL STUDY OF FILM 1.3 BAZIN'S MAYONNAISE THEORY CHAPTER II - THE ART OF REALITY 2.1 PARADOX: THE EXISTENCE OF FILM 2.1.1 EDITING PROHIBITED? CGI AND THE DUMMY OF DANGER 2.1.2 AUTHENTICITY: BAZIN'S SHARK AND SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT 2.1.3 THIS IS CINEMA! 2.2 INTEGRAL REALISM: REALITY AND CINEMA 'ULTIMATELY EQUAL' 2.2.1 NO MOMENT SUPRÁME: BAZIN OPPOSES ELLIPSIS (AND PHOTOGÉNIE) 2.2.2 BAZIN ON UMBERTO D: REFORMULATING THE PREGNANT INSTANT 2.2.3 THE ASYMPTOTE OF REALITY: REALITY ? CINEMA 2.3 BAZIN'S WAGER 2.3.1 CALCULATED RISK 2.3.2 LES JEUX SONT FAITS: RIEN NE VA PLUS? CHAPTER III - FILM AND THE OTHER ARTS 3.1 DEBATES ON CONTEMPORARY ART: BAZIN, MARCEL AND PORTMANN 3.1.1 THE INVENTION OF CINEMA IS A MYTH 3.1.2 BRUEGEL CINEMATOGRAPHER 3.1.3 'HOW EVERYTHING TURNS AWAY': ICARUS AS ANTI-WAR STATEMENT 3.2 CINEMA AND PAINTING 3.2.1 TWO REVOLUTIONS ON FILM: GEOGRAPHIC TEMPORALITY 3.3 CASE STUDY: VAN GOGH'S EAR 3.3.1 MYTHIC REALITY BECOMES FLESH 3.3.2 SELF-PORTRAITS WITH BANDAGED EAR: MIRROR AND MASK 3.4 RECREATION: THE LANGUAGE OF FILM CHAPTER IV - A MATTER OF FORM 4.1 FORM + CONTENT 4.1.1 FROM ADVERTISING TO POETRY IN BAZIN 4.1.2 DEPTH, WATER AND THE EVOLUTION OF FORMS 4.1.3 ON FLOATING BODIES: SERGE DANEY AND THE CASE OF LE GRAND BLEU 4.2 PERSPECTIVES ON 3-D 4.2.1 FROM A REALIST PERSPECTIVE: 'THE IMAGINARY IMAGE' 4.2.2 'WILL THIS BE THE TRIUMPH OF THE FAT?' 4.3 BAZIN PUT TO THE TEST: GODARD AND WENDERS 4.3.1 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 4.3.2 3D AS REALIST GRAMMAR 4.4 VR: COMPLETE FILM, OR TOTAL CINEMA? EPILOGUE: UNKNOWN ARTS, NEW MEDIA ICARUS IS THE INVENTOR OF FILM BAZIN'S HYPOTHESIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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