Individual film directors Books
Amsterdam University Press Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists
Book SynopsisDanièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Corneille, Arnold Schoenberg, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini. The impact of their work comes in part from a search for radical objectivity, a theme present in certain underground currents of modernist art and theory in the writings of Benjamin and Adorno as well as in the "Objectivist" movement, a crucial group within American modernist poetry whose members included Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, with connections to William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Through a detailed analysis of the films of Straub and Huillet, the works they adapted, and Objectivist poems and essays, Benoît Turquety locates common practices and explores a singular aesthetic approach where a work of art is conceived as an object, the artist an anonymous artisan, and where the force of politics and formal research attempt to reconcile with one another.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS I. EROTIC BARBARITY: OTHON 1. A Play, A Film 2. Principles 3. Tradition and Opacity II. OBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITIES 1. Huillet and Straub-style 'Objectivity' 2. Objectivities 3. The Objectivists: A History 4. Objectivist Poetic Theory PART TWO: LANGUAGE/AUTHORITY III. THE POWER OF SPEECH (OR THE VOICE), OF SEEING AND THE PATH: MOSES AND AARON 1. Moses, Aaron, Schoenberg, Huillet & Straub 2. The Cinematic Form of (the Absence of) God: 'The Calling of Moses' 3. Language Remains 4. Birth of a Nation: Act II and End 5. Objective on Objective: Huillet and Straub's Position IV. SPEECH AGAINST POWER, OR POETRY, LOVE, AND REVOLUTION: 'A'-9 1. A Poem, History 2. The Form of 'A'-9 3. Value and Meaning: Capitalism and Abstraction 4. Love as a Poetic/Revolutionary Technique PART THREE: INTERRUPTIONS V. CINEMA, POETRY, HISTORY: IMMOBILIZATIONS 1. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's 'Musical Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene': Motion and Pause, Cinema as History 2. From Ideogram to Fugue: Poetry/Cinema 3. Interruptions 4. Continuities 5. History Without a Name 6. Braiding, Cutting PART FOUR: TRIALS, SERIES VI. INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION FOR THE LAST TIME: CLASS RELATIONS 1. Trials 2. On Space VII. ON DISSOLUTION 1. Speech Without Authority: The Death of Empedocles 2. On Dismantling: Testimony and Workers, Peasants CONCLUSION INDEX
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Amsterdam University Press Women in the Work of Woody Allen
Book SynopsisConsidering the current climate of the treatment of women in Hollywood following the Harvey Weinstein case, many male celebrities have been brought forward on charges of sexual harassment, including Woody Allen, who has once again appeared in the press in relation to historic charges of molestation. Within the context of the #MeToo era, this edited volume brings together researchers to consider how women are represented in the broader sphere of Hollywood cinema, to consider the notion of the male perspective on writing women, and to explore the various approaches to relationships with and between women on screen – all through the lens of the work of Woody Allen. While acknowledging the problematic consideration of the autobiographical nature of filmmaking, this book explores the role and representation of women throughout Allen’s films, plays, stand-up comedy, and other writings. With more recent industrial attention towards the production of his work (notably Amazon Studios refusing to distribute a completed film), the work of Woody Allen remains markedly problematic and demands interrogation, demonstrating the timeliness of this current volume.Table of ContentsIntroduction – (Martin Hall) Temptation, Destruction and Collapse (Sophie T. Belot) - ‘The Woman Destroyed’ in Blue Jasmine (John D. Ayres) - Narrative Storytelling and the Vexing Role of Women in Manhattan (1979) Art and the Family (D E. Wynter) – Hannah and her Father: Lost in a (Philosophical) Masquerade (Lauren Stephenson) - Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the politics of toxic female friendship. (Topher Booth) - Nineteenth-Century Opera as Feminist Voice in Match Point Intertextuality (Michael Newton) - The Remade Woman: Replaying the Woman’s Part in Woody Allen’s movies (Roberta Mock) - Negotiating “Dis-ease”: Celebrating Jewish women through the work of Woody Allen Sound and Body (Steve Rawle) - The Silent (Film) Woman: Sweet and Lowdown’s mute muse (Klara Szlezák) - “Symbolism’s extra”: The Prostitute in Woody Allen’s Oeuvre The Muse and Inspiration (Jason Lee) - Too Much Too Young? Allen’s life, work and his young women – a re-evaluation (Martin Hall) - Elaine May’s Collaborative Relationship with Woody Allen (Claire Mortimer) - Keaton and Allen: Ageing Collaboration and the Screwball Couple in Manhattan Murder Mystery
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Amsterdam University Press Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema
Book SynopsisWomen Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond. The book delineates and conceptualizes their cinematic and trans-media practices within an evolving, multifaceted feminist intimate-public commons. The films by these experienced and emerging filmmakers, including Huang Yu-shan, Yau Ching, Ai Xiaoming, Wen Hui, Huang Ji and others, represent some of the most innovative and socially engaged work in both fictional and non-fictional modes in Chinese-language cinema as well as global women’s cinema. Their narrative, documentary, and experimental film practices from the 1980s to the present, along with their work in sister media such as dance, theater, literature, and contemporary art, their activities as scholars, educators, activists, and film festival organizers or jurors, have significantly reshaped the landscape of Sinophone film culture and expanded the borders of world cinema.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction Projecting Sinophone Cine-feminisms: Towards an Intimate-Public Commons 1. Migrating Hearts: Sinophone Geographies of Sylvia Chang’s “Woman’s Film” 2. Floating Light and Shadows: Huang Yu-shan’s Chronicles of Modern Taiwan 3. From Sidewalk Realism to Spectral Romance: Yang Lina’s Post-Socialist Beijing and Beyond 4. Eggs, Stones, and Stretch Marks: Haptic Visuality and Tactile Resistance in Huang Ji’s Personal Cinema 5. “Spicy-painful” Theater of History: Wen Hui’s Documentary Dance with Third Grandmother 6. In Praise of Trans-Asian Sisterhood: Labor, Love and Homecoming in Jasmine Ching-hui Lee’s Money and Honey 7. “We Are Alive”: Minor Transnationalism and Yau Ching’s Queer Experimental Filmmaking 8. Outcries and Whispers: Digital Political Mimesis and Radical Feminist Documentary Epilogue: At Home in the World Chinese Glossary Bibliography Filmography List of Figures Index
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National University of Singapore Press Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
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Hong Kong University Press No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien,
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Five Continents Editions Pier Pasolini Everything is Sacred: The Body
Book SynopsisThis volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini — sacredness — with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a poet, writer, director, and artist and on the cultural influence he wielded. This is the catalogue for the show at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which is devoted to face, voice, costume, Pasolini’s relationship with women, and mockery. Text in English and Italian.Table of Contents10 Il corpo poetico Giuseppe Garrera, Cesare Pietroiusti, Clara Tosi Pamphili 18 volto – le persone sono santi 60 dileggio – il linguaggio dei padri 92 femminile – il sacro che ci è tolto 124 abiti – i costumi del corpo 146 voci – di popolo e di poeta 164 partitella – la vera Italia, fuori dalle tenebre 174 roma – la città in strada 175 roma – complice Sodoma 195 apparati – materiali in mostra 219 (English translations) The Body Poetic
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Five Continents Editions Pier Pasolini Everything is Sacred: The Political
Book SynopsisThis volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini — sacredness — with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a poet, writer, director, and artist and on the cultural influence he wielded. This is the catalogue for the exhibition at Fondazione MAXXI, which explores the many facets of Pasolini’s political engagement. Texts, images, movies, notes, and documents will narrate the beginning of a protest that has endured to this day, with interpretations of Pasolini’s work is seen through the voices of contemporary artists. An essay by Anne Violaine Houcke analyses Pasolini’s final period, while Ara Merjan’s text explores his aesthetics. Marco Belpoliti explores the 1975 timeline, giving special attention to the political events most closely connected to Pasolini. Incudes contributions by Eleonora Cardinale, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia De Laude, Fabio Francione, Giuseppe Garrera, and Vincenzo Trione. Text in English and Italian.Table of Contents8 Foreword Giovanna Melandri 10 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is Sacred. The Political Body Bartolomeo Pietromarchi 20 “It Was Indeed a Firefly, in the Crack of a Wall.” 1975 – 2022 Giulia Ferracci 58 Pasolini and the Inferno of the Present: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Roberto Chiesi 64 Pasolini. Volgar’eloquio Fabio Francione 70 Lutheran Letters Eleonora Cardinale 76 Pasolini the Lutheran and the Apostle Exercises in Sanctity Giuseppe Garrera 84 Beast of Style Eleonora Cardinale 92 Petrolio Silvia De Laude 105 Works on Display 106 Noor Abed 108 Sammy Baloji 110 Elisabetta Benassi 112 Paul Chan 114 Alvin Curran 116 Dante Ferretti 118 Claire Fontaine 120 Jorge Fuembuena Loscertales 122 Aziz Hazara 124 Huang Yong Ping 126 Nalini Malani 128 Fabio Mauri 130 Marzia Migliora 132 Giulio Paolini 134 Pino Pascali 136 Francesco Vezzoli 138 Ming Wong 140 Yan Pei-Ming 144 Let’s Imagine It, Together! Notes on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Influences on the Global Contemporary Art World Hou Hanru 158 Pasolini and the Metaphysical Experience Paul Chan 166 Hieratical Empiricism: On Pasolini’s “Technical Sacrality” Ara H. Merjian 180 Pasolini and the Form of the Revolution Anne-Violaine Houcke 196 The Glorious Body. Pasolini and Soccer Vincenzo Trione 206 1975: The Final Year Marco Belpoliti
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Independently Published I'm Just The Guy Who Says Action
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Dream Come True
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Films of Martin Scorsese
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