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Download or read book American Films and Filmmakers Through the Filter of Soviet Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804823
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book 2666 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
Author : Natalia Voinova
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN 13 : 3954895587
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)
Download or read book The Cold War in Science Fiction: Soviet and American Science Fiction Films in the 1950s written by Natalia Voinova and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will compare the USSR and the United States according to their cinematic use of science fiction in the late 1950s and 1960s in order to coincide with the period of de-Stalinisation and thaw in the USSR, and late McCarthyism in the United States. The genre provides an opportunity to express the two powers' scientific stand-off through fiction, and serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of ideas and propaganda. Post-1956 marks the time when the period of de-Stalinisation officially began and science fiction saw a carefully crafted rebirth for it served as a tool that could reflect the socialist ideal and quasi-religious faith in science that was promoted by the party. Science fiction uniquely demands for an imaginative view of the future, and therefore, corresponds with the Marxist- Leninist future-oriented ideology. For this period, the themes for American science fiction are hyperbolised monsters and invasion, and reflect the fear of the otherness of the Soviet Union, and its threat on domestic ideals. These themes are reflected in movies as 'Angry Red Planet', and 'Them!'. On the other hand, Soviet science fiction movies focus on the heroic Soviet man who frequently receives calls for help from outer space, and overcomes great trials to save those not living in utopia. This storyline is represented in 'Towards a Dream', and 'The Sky is calling'. The author gives special attention to the Soviet movie 'The Sky is calling' and the subsequent redubbed American version 'Battle beyond the Sun'. Further, she addresses alterations or plot, and subtle propaganda messages in the Soviet movies 'Planet of Storms', and the Hollywood remake 'Journey to the Prehistoric Planet'.
Author : Louis Menashe
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 098458322X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Moscow Believes in Tears written by Louis Menashe and published by New Academia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of writings and interviews highlights the important role that cinema can play for understanding Russian history, politics, culture and society in all phases-Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet. "This is the book for the Russian movie aficionado - personal, pointed, funny, frank and full of all kinds of inside stories and political folk tales. It is a fascinating window on Soviet/Russian pop culture that only a cultural Marco Polo and fanatical movie-goer like Louis Menashe would even dare attempt."-Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Russians and The New Russians"Menashe combines an encyclopedic knowledge of Russian history and society of the past 50 years with a broad-ranging and sensitive eye for cinematic meaning and detail."-Anthony Anemone, The New School University"This sparkling collection of film reviews, essays and interviews with filmmakers is a cultural history of Russia over the past 25 years. Highly recommended to everyone interested in Russia and the movies."-Denise J. Youngblood, University of Vermont, and author of Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds."A great national cinema is explored in its myriad colors and textures. Not a traditional history, the book is an archive of insights captured across years of passionate viewing."-Jerry W. Carlson, The City College and Graduate Center CUNY, host of the popular program, "City Cinematheque.""Menashe allows us to see both Russia's present and her past through his crisp, clear and fresh lens of a true expert who loves the country and its films, but always remains critical enough to see their flaws and merits."-Birgit Beumers, University of Bristol
Author : DeBlasio Alyssa DeBlasio
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474444512
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Filmmaker's Philosopher written by DeBlasio Alyssa DeBlasio and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the 'Georgian Socrates' of Soviet philosophy, Merab Mamardashvili was a defining personality of the late-Soviet intelligentsia. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught required courses in philosophy at Russia's two leading film schools, helping to educate a generation of internationally prolific directors. Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation - including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov. This multidisciplinary study offers an innovative way to think about film, philosophy and the philosophical potential of the moving image.
Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199587264
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Film Studies written by Annette Kuhn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers all aspects of film studies, including critical terms, concepts, movements, national and international cinemas, film history, genres, organizations, practices, and key technical terms and concepts. It is an ideal reference for students and teachers of film studies and anyone with an interest in film studies and criticism.
Author : Patricia Aufderheide
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199720398
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction written by Patricia Aufderheide and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders--Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows readers to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the ethical and practical considerations that arise with every aspect of documentary production. A particularly useful feature of the book is an appended list of "100 great documentaries" that anyone with a serious interest in the genre should see. Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a film scholar and critic, this book is the perfect introduction not just for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for those who aspire to make documentaries themselves. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wide Angle written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A quarterly journal of film history, theory, criticism, and practice" (varies slightly).
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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Author : Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850522
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov written by Jeremi Szaniawski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films (broaching many of his documentaries in the process), this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's films as equally mournful and passionate, intellectual, and sensual, and also identifies in them a powerful, if discursively repressed, queer sensitivity, alongside a pattern of tensions and paradoxes. This book thus offers new keys to understand the lasting and ever-renewed appeal of the Russian director's Janus-like and surprisingly dynamic cinema – a deeply original and complex body of work in dialogue with the past, the present and the future.
Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349929093
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The French Cinema Book written by Michael Temple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.
Author : Bernard A. Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815340584
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Europe Since 1945 written by Bernard A. Cook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing 286 scholars, this two volume encyclopedia contains entries on post-World War II European political history and groups, significant events and persons, the economy, religion, education, the arts, women's issues, writers, and more.
Author : Lee Carruthers
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438460856
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Doing Time written by Lee Carruthers and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer. Doing Time addresses two areas of interest in recent film studyfilm temporality and film philosophyto propose an innovative theorization of cinematic time that sees it as a dynamic process of engagement, or something we do as viewers. This active relation to cinematic time, which discloses a films temporal character, is called its timeliness. Here it is traced across a range of fascinating case studies from Hollywood and the global art cinema, uncovering each films characteristic way of doing time. Throughout, the ambiguities of filmic time are held as powerful attractions as they modulate film viewing: such pauses, gaps, repetitions, and stretches of time illuminate a living field that extends from viewing activity. Drawing on the writings of French film critic and theorist André Bazin, as well as the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Lee Carruthers forwards a claim about the value of cinematic time for thinking. She also raises the tasks of film analysis and interpretation to renewed visibility. By prioritizing the viewers experience of filmic temporality, and offering a rich vocabulary for describing this exchange, Carruthers articulates a new sphere of theoretical inquiry that invites film viewers (and readers) to participate. Lee Carruthers makes an original and powerful argument about the importance of timeliness, providing a much-needed alternative approach to that of Deleuze to thinking seriously about the temporality of cinema. Her chapters, including one on The Tree of Life, are masterful criticism. William Rothman, author of Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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Total Pages : 2168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Murray Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198871074
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Engaging Characters written by Murray Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, judge their actions, and respond to them with anger, amusement, and affection - indeed the whole palette of human emotions. Powerfully drawn characters transcend their stories, entering into our imaginations and deliberations about the actual world, acting as analogies and points of reference. And yet there has been remarkably little sustained and systematic reflection on these creatures that absorb so much of our attention and emotional lives. In Engaging Characters, Murray Smith sets out a comprehensive analysis of character, exploring the role of characters in our experience of narrative and fiction. Smith's analysis focuses on film, and also illuminates character in literature, opera, song, cartoons, new and social media. At the heart of this account is an explanation of the capacity of characters to move us. Teasing out the various dimensions of character, Smith explores the means by which films draw us close to characters, or hold us at a distance from them, and how our beliefs and attitudes are formed and sometimes reformed by these encounters. Integrating these arguments with research on emotion in philosophy, psychology, evolutionary theory, and anthropology, Engaging Characters advances an account of the nature of fictional characters and their functions in fiction, imagination, and human experience. In this revised, twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Engaging Characters, Smith refines and extends the arguments of the first edition, with a substantial new introduction reviewing the debates on emotion, empathy, and film spectatorship that the book has inspired.
Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748632433
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History written by Evgeny Dobrenko and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Soviet film worked with time, the past, and memory. It looks at Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. Cinema's role in the legitimization of Stalinism and the production of a new Soviet identity was enormous. Both Lenin and Stalin saw in this 'most important of arts' the most effective form of propaganda and 'organisation of the masses'. By examining the works of the greatest Soviet filmmakers of the Stalin era--Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigorii Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Fridrikh Ermler--the author explores the role of the cinema in the formation of the Soviet political imagination.
Author : Christopher Lyon
Publisher : Perigee Books
ISBN 13 : 9780399511783
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Films written by Christopher Lyon and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
