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Book Writing National Cinema

Download or read book Writing National Cinema written by Jeffrey Middents and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Peruvian Cinema and the role of criticism in forming a national cinematic vision

Book Journal of the University Film Association

Download or read book Journal of the University Film Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kurosawa

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  • Author : Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780822325192
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Kurosawa written by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work will become not only the newly definitive study of Kurosawa, but will redefine the field of Japanese cinema studies, particularly as the field exists in the west.

Book The University Film Journal

Download or read book The University Film Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollywood s Embassies

Download or read book Hollywood s Embassies written by Ross Melnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power.

Book Turkish Cinema

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  • Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 1861895836
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Turkish Cinema written by Gönül Dönmez-Colin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films often act as a prism that refracts the issues facing a nation, and Turkish cinema in particular serves to encapsulate the cultural and social turmoil of modern-day Turkey. Acclaimed film scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin examines here the way that national cinema reveals the Turkish quest for a modern identity. Marked by continually shifting ethnic demographics, politics, and geographic borders, Turkish society struggles to reconcile modern attitudes with traditional morals and centuries-old customs. Dönmez-Colin examines how contemporary Turkish filmmakers address this struggle in their cinematic works, positing that their films revolve around ideas of migration and exile, and give voice to previously subsumed “denied identities” such as that of the Kurds. Turkish Cinema also crucially examines how these films confront taboo subjects such as homosexuality, incest, and honor killings, issues that have only become viable subjects of discussion in the new generation of Turkish citizens. A deftly written and thought-provoking study, Turkish Cinema will be invaluable for scholars of Middle East studies and cinephiles alike.

Book Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures

Download or read book Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures written by Masha Salazkina and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity. Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The essays in this volume work to realize the radical societal democratization that shows up in amateur cinema around the world. In particular, diverse contributors highlight the significance of amateur filmmaking, the exhibition of amateur films, the uses and availability of film technologies, and the inventive and creative approaches of filmmakers and advocates of amateur film. Together, these essays shed new light on alternative cinema in a wide range of cities and countries where amateur films thrive in the shadow of commercial and conventional film industries.

Book The Skin of the Film

Download or read book The Skin of the Film written by Laura U. Marks and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world. Much of intercultural cinema, Marks argues, has its origin in silence, in the gaps left by recorded history. Filmmakers seeking to represent their native cultures have had to develop new forms of cinematic expression. Marks offers a theory of “haptic visuality”—a visuality that functions like the sense of touch by triggering physical memories of smell, touch, and taste—to explain the newfound ways in which intercultural cinema engages the viewer bodily to convey cultural experience and memory. Using close to two hundred examples of intercultural film and video, she shows how the image allows viewers to experience cinema as a physical and multisensory embodiment of culture, not just as a visual representation of experience. Finally, this book offers a guide to many hard-to-find works of independent film and video made by Third World diasporic filmmakers now living in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. The Skin of the Film draws on phenomenology, postcolonial and feminist theory, anthropology, and cognitive science. It will be essential reading for those interested in film theory, experimental cinema, the experience of diaspora, and the role of the sensuous in culture.

Book Post Cinematic Affect

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  • Author : Steven Shaviro
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1846944317
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Post Cinematic Affect written by Steven Shaviro and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.

Book The Process Genre

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  • Author : Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-20
  • ISBN : 1478007079
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book The Process Genre written by Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.

Book Cinematic Ethics

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  • Author : Robert Sinnerbrink
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 1317336119
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Cinematic Ethics written by Robert Sinnerbrink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional understanding and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging style, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to ethics in contemporary film theory and philosophy using detailed case studies of cinematic ethics across different genres, styles, and filmic traditions. Written in a lucid and lively style that will engage both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book is ideal for use in the academic study of philosophy and film. Key features include annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and a filmography of movies useful for teaching and researching cinematic ethics.

Book Film and Domestic Space

Download or read book Film and Domestic Space written by Stefano Baschiera and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis and Todd Haynes, Amos Gitai, Martin Ritt, John Ford, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine - this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.

Book The New Brazilian Cinema

Download or read book The New Brazilian Cinema written by Lúcia Nagib and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid-1990s Lucia Nagib explores what has become known as the 'renaissance of Brazilian cinema'. Besides explaining the recent boom, this book explores the aesthetic tendencies of recent productions and their relationships to earlier works.

Book Journal of the University Film Producers Association

Download or read book Journal of the University Film Producers Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illinois Classical Studies

Download or read book Illinois Classical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cinema Cie

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  • Author : Adriano D'Aloia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-31
  • ISBN : 9788869770227
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Cinema Cie written by Adriano D'Aloia and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurofilmology. audiovisual Studies and the challenge of Neuroscience Adriano d'Aloia and ruggero Eugeni, Neurofilmology: An Introduction Temenuga Trifonova, Neuroaesthetics and Neurocinematics: Reading the Brain/Film through the Film/Brain Maria Poulaki, Neurocinematics and the Discourse of Control: Towards a Critical Neurofilmology Patricia Pisters, Dexter's Plastic Brain: Mentalizing and Mirroring in Cinematic Empathy Enrico Carocci, First-Person Emotions: Affective Neuroscience and the Spectator's Self Maarten Coegnarts and Peter kravanja, The Sensory-Motor Grounding of Abstract Concepts in Two Films by Stanley Kubrick Pia Tikka and Mauri kaipainen, Phenomenological Considerations on Time Consciousness under Neurocinematic Search Light vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra, The Feeling of Motion: Ca-mera Movements and Motor Cognition New Studies olivier Asselin, Cinema d'exposition 2.0: Mixed-Reality Games in and around the Museum livia Giunti, L'analyse du film a l'ere numerique. Annotation, geste analytique et lecture active Christian Gosvig olesen, Panoramic Visions of the Archive in EYE's Panorama: A Case Study in Digital Film Historiography francesco Pitassio, Distant Voices, Still Cinema? Around the Movies projects & abstracts reviews / comptes-rendus

Book Laura Mulvey  Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema  1975

Download or read book Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 1975 written by Laura Mulvey and published by Koenig Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" has been an enduring point of reference for artists, filmmakers, writers and theorists. Mulvey's compelling polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge preconceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the celebrated New York-based video artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay's frame of reference. Drawing on 18th- and 19th-century fairy tales, and observing how their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose created collages that connect these pre-cinematic illustrations to what Mulvey describes in her essay--cinema flattening sexuality into visuality.