Download or read book Importing Asta Nielsen written by Martin Loiperdinger and published by JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen became a brand name in movie houses around the globe in the early 1900s. Known simply as "The Asta," she exhibited both a subtle eroticism and a naturalistic style in her performances, which propelled her into international stardom. Nielsen's worldwide fame was made possible by film distributors adept at contracting long runs for films in cinemas around the world. This volume examines the role of these newly developed film distribution strategies and the resulting emergence of the international film star.
Download or read book Attitudes Arabesques written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cameras into the Wild written by Palle B. Petterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cinematographers and directors who shot film in wilderness areas at the turn of the 19th century are some of the unsung heroes of documentary film-making. Apart from severe weather conditions, these men and women struggled with heavy and cumbersome equipment in some of the most unforgiving locales on the planet. This groundbreaking study examines nature, wildlife and wilderness filming from all angles. Topics covered include the beginnings of film itself, the first attempts at nature and expedition filming, technical developments of the period involving cameras and lenses, and the role film has played in wilderness preservation. The individual contributions of major figures are discussed throughout, and a filmography lists hundreds of nature films from the period.
Download or read book Principles of Visual Anthropology written by Paul Hockings and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.
Download or read book Anatole France written by Georg Brandes and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊThe true author is recognisable by the existence on every page of his works of at least one sentence or one phrase which none but he could have written. Take the following sentence: "If we may believe this amiable shepherd of souls, it is impossible for us to elude divine mercy, and we shall all enter ParadiseÑunless, indeed, there be no Paradise, which is exceedingly probable." It treats of Renan. It must be written by a disciple of Renan's, whose humour perhaps allows itself a little more licence than the master's. More we cannot say. But take this: "She was the widow of four husbands, a dreadful woman, suspected of everything except of having lovedÑconsequently honoured and respected." There is only one man who can have written this. It jestingly indicates the fact that society forgives woman everything except a passion, and communicates this observation to the reader, as it were with a gentle nudge. Or take the following: "We should not love nature, for she is not lovable; but neither should we hate her, for she is not deserving of hatred. She is everything. It is very difficult to be everything. It results in terrible heavy-handedness and awkwardness." There is only one man who would excuse Nature for her indifference to us human beings in these words: "It is very difficult to be everything." Read this passage: "It is a great infirmity to think. God preserve you from it, my son, as He has preserved His greatest saints and the souls whom He loves with especial tenderness and destines to eternal felicity." It is an AbbŽ who speaks thus, and who speaks without a trace of irony. One is conscious of the author's smile behind the Abbe's seriousness. Few are so pithy in their irony as France. He says: "Cicero was in politics a Moderate of the most violent description." Few are so picturesque in their satire as he. Others have used the phrase: Equality before the lawÑthat means equality before the laws which the well-to-do have made for the poor, and men for women. Others have maintained that the ideal of justice would be an inequality before the law adjusted to the differences between individuals. Others have said: If there is inequality in law itself, where is equality to be found? But there is only one man who can have written: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." This one man is Anatole France. Most noticeable in this style is its irony; it stamps him as a spiritual descendant of Renan. But in spite of the relationship, France's irony is of a very different description from Renan's. Renan, as historian or critic, always speaks in his own name, and we are directly conscious of himself in the fictitious personages of his philosophic dramas, and even more so in those of his philosophic dialogues. France's irony conceals itself beneath na•vetŽ. Renan disguises himself, France transforms himself. He writes from standpoints which are directly the opposite of his ownÑprimitive Christian, or medi¾val CatholicÑand through what is said we apprehend what he means. Other writers may be as witty, may be or appear as delicately ironicalÑthey still do not resemble him. If we enter the dŽp™t of some famous china manufactory with a piece of china from some other factory, as faultless and as beautiful in colour as those by which we are surrounded, the saleswoman takes it into her hand, looks at it, and says: "The paste is different."
Download or read book Ibsen s Houses written by Mark B. Sandberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark B. Sandberg analyses reception materials to explore the architectural metaphors that Ibsen's plays introduced into mainstream Western thought.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vitello Wants a Dad written by Kim Fupz Aakeson and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitello never gets to see his dad and needs a decent one to show off to his friends. But where does one borrow a dad? Vitello lives in a terraced house by a ring road with his mum, where the traffic is noisy and his friends are annoying. He’s had other adventures and been in other scrapes too.
Download or read book Theory of Film written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. It includes an introduction which examines "Theory of Film" in the context of Kracauer's extensive film criticism from the 1920s, and provides a framework for appreciating its significance in contemporary film theory.
Download or read book Slow Cinema written by Tiago de Luca and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.
Download or read book My Only Great Passion written by Jean Drum and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would later be made famous by better known contemporaries such as Sergei Eisenstein and D.W. Griffith. Now, in My Only Great Passion, the first full-length English language biography of Dreyer, Jean and Dale D. Drum restore his reputation to its rightful place. Based on extensive and exclusive interviews with both Dreyer and the people who worked with him—including personal correspondence dating back to 1952—this biography provides the most comprehensive critical examination to date of both Dreyer's life and his approach to filmmaking. A valuable resource for film critics and historians, those in the film industry, and university cinema departments, as well as anyone with an interest in Danish art and culture, My Only Great Passion provides long neglected insights into the man who first raised European film above the level of entertainment and placed it in the realm of art.
Download or read book Interviews written by Jan Lumholdt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer
Download or read book Trier on Von Trier written by Lars von Trier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trier is a rare item in contemporary cinema and a restless innovator and polemicist, as his participation in the backto-basics Dogme 95 movement attests. These conversations with Stig Bjorkman trace the evolution of the mercurial Danish director's career and thought.
Download or read book The Comintern written by Duncan Hallas and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comintern, from its years as a school of strategy and tactics, to its Stalinist demise.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases
Download or read book Arctic Clothing written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a look at the field of contemporary Arctic clothing. Questions of identity, the semiotics and function of dress, and the ownership of design are explored along with the nature of people's creativity. Many essays address areas such as fish-skin clothing, hairnets, the use of grass, birds and costume, and kayak clothing.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library 1919 1962 written by University of California, Los Angeles. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
