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Book The Film Society Programmes  1925 1939

Download or read book The Film Society Programmes 1925 1939 written by Film Society and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Film Society Programmes  1925 1939

Download or read book Film Society Programmes 1925 1939 written by Film Society (London, England). and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Film Society Programmes  1925 1939

Download or read book The Film Society Programmes 1925 1939 written by Film Society and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Film Society Programmes 1925 1939

Download or read book The Film Society Programmes 1925 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Media  Old Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780415942249
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book New Media Old Media written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

Book Close Up  Cinema And Modernism

Download or read book Close Up Cinema And Modernism written by James Donald and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.

Book The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded

Download or read book The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded written by Wanda Strauven and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase “cinema of attractions” to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium’s earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies. The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair’s debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games. With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars—and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well—The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.

Book Close Up 1927 1933

Download or read book Close Up 1927 1933 written by James Donald and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as "the only magazine devoted to film as an art," promising readers "theory and analysis: no gossip." The journal was edited by the writer and filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, the novelist Winifred Bryher, and the poet H. D., and it attracted contributions from such major figures as Dorothy Richardson, Sergei Eisenstein, and Man Ray. This anthology presents some of the liveliest and most important articles from the publication's short but influential history. The writing in Close Up was theoretically astute, politically incisive, open to emerging ideas from psychoanalysis, passionately committed to "pure cinema," and deeply critical of Hollywood and its European imitators. The articles collected here cover such subjects as women and film, "The Negro in Cinema," Russian and working-class cinema, and developments in film technology, including the much debated addition of sound. The contributors are a cosmopolitan cast, reflecting the journal's commitment to internationalism; Close Up was published from Switzerland, printed in England and France, and distributed in Paris, Berlin, London, New York, and Los Angeles. The editors of this volume present a substantial introduction and commentaries on the articles that set Close Up in historical and intellectual context. This is crucial reading for anyone interested in the origins of film theory and the relationship between cinema and modernism.

Book A Light Affliction  a History of Film Preservation and Restoration

Download or read book A Light Affliction a History of Film Preservation and Restoration written by Michael Binder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of film preservation and restoration, telling the story from the earliest days of the cinema to the modern days of digital restorations. The cinema was invented in the Victorian era, but for the first four decades of its existence almost no effort was made to preserve the millions of feet of celluloid which rolled through the cameras and projectors of the world. As a result, thousands of movies were lost forever. In the 1930s, the first concerted attempts at film preservation were begun by pioneering individuals such as Iris Barry at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Ernest Lindgren at the British Film Institute, and the indomitable Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque française, a man who performed heroics in occupied France to save the world's cinematic heritage from destruction by the Nazis. The 1980s video boom encouraged the studios finally to instigate asset protection programmes and in the digital age new methods of producing, exhibiting and restoring motion pictures emerged.

Book Moving Forward  Looking Back

Download or read book Moving Forward Looking Back written by Malte Hagener and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full critical overview of the film avant-garde, ushers in a new approach—and in the process creates its own subject. While many books have studied particular aspects of the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Moving Forward, Looking Back provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement, while also emphasizing aspects of the period that have been overlooked. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational movement, the book also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives. It will be essential to anyone interested in the influential movement and the film culture it created.

Book Cinema 16

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Macdonald
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 1439905304
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Cinema 16 written by Scott Macdonald and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Cinema 16--the nation's first film society--through letters, programs, interviews, and the society's own documents.

Book Cinema and the Swastika

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roel Vande Winkel
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2007-02-07
  • ISBN : 0230289320
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Cinema and the Swastika written by Roel Vande Winkel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.

Book Film Society History  1925 1938

Download or read book Film Society History 1925 1938 written by Film Society (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature  Cinema and Politics 1930 1945

Download or read book Literature Cinema and Politics 1930 1945 written by Lara Feigel and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed by the rise of fascism in Europe and by the widening gulf separating the classes at home, these writers turned to cinema as a popular and hard-hitting art form. Lara Feigel crosses boundaries between high modernism and social realism and between 'high' and 'popular' culture, bringing together Virginia Woolf with W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen with John Sommerfield, Sergei Eisenstein with Gracie Fields. The book ends in the Second World War, an era when the bombs and searchlights rendered everyday life cinematic. Feigel interrogates the genres she maps, drawing on cultural theories from the 1920s onwards to investigate the nature of the cinematic and the literary. While it was not possible directly to transfer the techniques of the screen to the page any more than it was possible to 'go over' to the working classes, the attempts nonetheless reveal a fascinating intersection of the visual and the verbal, the political and the aesthetic. In reading between the frames of an unexplored literary tradition, this book redefines 1930s and wartime literature and politics.

Book The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

Download or read book The Sounds of the Silents in Britain written by Julie Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. Britain, a key cultural player in the entertainment world both at the time and now, has a different history than the US of musical cultures and film production.

Book Adventures of Perception

Download or read book Adventures of Perception written by Scott MacDonald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States. In this collection of thematically related personal essays and conversations with filmmakers, he takes us on a fascinating journey into many under-explored territories of cinema. MacDonald illuminates topics including race and avant-garde film, the political implications of the nature film, the inventive single shot films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, why men use pornography and what they are looking at when they do, poetry and the poetic in avant-garde film, the widespread failure of film studies academicians to honor those who keep film exhibition alive, and other topics. Several of the interviews--those with Korean filmmaker Gina Kim, French nature filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou (Microcosmos), Canadian media artist Clive Holden, formalist/conceptualist David Gatten, and New York's Film Forum director Karen Cooper--are the first substantial conversations with these filmmakers available in English."--Publisher's description.