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Cinema & Counter-History

Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253016193
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Cinema & Counter-History written by Marcia Landy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite claims about the end of history and the death of cinema, visual media continue to contribute to our understanding of history and history-making. In this book, Marcia Landy argues that rethinking history and memory must take into account shifting conceptions of visual and aural technologies. With the assistance of thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cinema and Counter-History examines writings and films that challenge prevailing notions of history in order to explore the philosophic, aesthetic, and political stakes of activating the past. Marshaling evidence across European, African, and Asian cinema, Landy engages in a counter-historical project that calls into question the certainty of visual representations and unmoors notions of a history firmly anchored in truth.

Counter-Archive

Author : Paula Amad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231509073
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Archive written by Paula Amad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influences, such as the philosopher Henri Bergson, the geographer Jean Brunhes, and the biologist Jean Comandon, Paula Amad maps an alternative landscape of French cultural modernity in which vitalist philosophy cross-pollinated with early film theory, documentary film with the avant-garde, cinematic models of temporality with the early Annales school of history, and film's appropriation of the planet with human geography and colonial ideology. At the heart of the book is an insightful meditation upon the transformed concept of the archive in the age of cinema and an innovative argument about film's counter-archival challenge to history. The first comprehensive study of Kahn's films, Counter-Archive also offers a vital historical perspective on debates involving archives, media, and memory.

Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema

Author : Matthias Wittmann
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474479769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema written by Matthias Wittmann and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

Author : Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135041857
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture written by Ailsa Grant Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in the light of postmodern modes of representation. The book considers the nature of the Shakespearean inter-text in subcultural political contexts concerning the politicized aesthetics of a Shakespearean ‘body in pieces,’ the carnivalesque, and notions of Shakespeare as counter-hegemonic weapon or source of empowerment. Representative films use Shakespeare (and his accompanying cultural capital) to challenge notions of capitalist globalization, dominant socio-cultural ideologies, and hegemonic modes of expression. In response to a post-modern culture saturated with logos and semiotic abbreviations, many such films play with the emblematic imagery and references of Shakespeare’s texts. These curious appropriations have much to reveal about the elusive nature of intertextuality in late postmodern culture and the battle for cultural ownership of Shakespeare. As there has yet to be a study that isolates and theorizes modes of Shakespearean production that specifically demonstrate resistance to the social, political, ideological, aesthetic, and cinematic norms of the Western world, this book expands the dialogue around such texts and interprets their patterns of appropriation, adaptation, and representation of Shakespeare.

Cinema Against Doublethink

Author : David Martin-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317440765
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Cinema Against Doublethink written by David Martin-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored, and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world’s memories. The most enchanting and disturbing films of recent years – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain, The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance – create ethical encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel (transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema, acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era.

Projecting the Past

Author : Maria Wyke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317796063
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Projecting the Past written by Maria Wyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projecting the Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present. The book engages contemporary debates about the nature of the classical tradition, definitions of history, and the place of the past in historical film.

Countervisions

Author : Darrell Y. Hamamoto
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566397766
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Countervisions written by Darrell Y. Hamamoto and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency--that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their own cinematic images. One of the anthology's key contributions is to trace the evolution of Asian American independent film practice over thirty years. Essays on the Japanese American internment and historical memory, essays on films by women and queer artists, and the reflections of individual film makers discuss independent productions as subverting or opposing the conventions of commercial cinema. But Countervisions also resists simplistic readings of "mainstream" film representations of Asian Americans and enumerations of negative images. Writing about Hollywood stars Anna May Wong and Nancy Kwan, director Wayne Wang, and erotic films, several contributors probe into the complex and ambivalent responses of Asian American audiences to stereotypical roles and commerical success. Taken together, the spirited, illuminating essays in this collection offer an unprecedented examination of a flourishing cultural production. Author note: Darrell Y. Hamamoto is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology, Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Poltics of Television Representation, and New American Destinies: a Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration. Sandra Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Celebrating 1895

Author : John Fullerton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781864620153
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating 1895 written by John Fullerton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 27 of the finest papers presented at The Centenary of Cinema conference in June 1995

The Routledge Companion to Film History

Author : William Guynn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136899405
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Film History written by William Guynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Film History is an indispensable guide for anyone studying film history for the first time. The approach taken presents a substantial and readable overview of the field and provides students with a tool of reference that will be valuable throughout their studies. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a set of eleven essays that approaches film history around the following themes: History of the moving image Film as art and popular culture Production process Evolution of sound Alternative modes: experimental, documentary, animation Cultural difference Film’s relationship to history The second is a critical dictionary that explains concepts, summarizes debates in film studies, defines technical terms, describes major periods and movements, and discusses historical situations and the film industry. The volume as a whole is designed as an active system of cross-references: readers of the essays are referred to dictionary entries (and vice versa) and both provide short bibliographies that encourage readers to investigate topics.

History by HBO

Author : Rebecca Weeks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813195322
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book History by HBO written by Rebecca Weeks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at the forefront of these changes, leading the way for many network, cable, and streaming services into the "post-network" era. Despite this, most scholarship has been dedicated to analyzing historical feature films and documentary films, leaving TV and the long-form drama hungry for coverage. In History by HBO: Televising the American Past, Rebecca Weeks fills the gap in this area of media studies and defends the historiographic power of long-form dramas. By focusing on this change and its effects, History by HBO outlines how history is crafted on television and the diverse forms it can take. Weeks examines the capabilities of the long-form serial for engaging with historical stories, insisting that the shift away from the network model and toward narrowcasting has enabled challenging histories to thrive in home settings. As an examination of HBO's unique structure for producing quality historical dramas, Weeks provides four case studies of HBO series set during different periods of United States history: Band of Brothers (2001), Deadwood (2004–2007), Boardwalk Empire (2012–2014), and Treme (2010–2013). In each case, HBO's lack of advertiser influence, commitment to creative freedom, and generous budgets continue to draw and retain talent who want to tell historical stories. Balancing historical and film theories in her assessment of the roles of mise-en–scène, characterization, narrative complexity, and sound in the production of effective historical dramas, Weeks' evaluation acts as an ode to the most recent Golden Age of TV, as well as a critical look at the relationship between entertainment media and collective memory.

A Companion to the Historical Film

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119169577
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Historical Film written by Robert A. Rosenstone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies

Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema

Author : P. McGee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137012536
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema written by P. McGee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds .

Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema

Author : Angelos Koutsourakis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474418910
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema written by Angelos Koutsourakis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920sÃǾ2ƠÂ01960s.

The Ancient World in Silent Cinema

Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701610X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient World in Silent Cinema written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.

The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History

Author : Daniel Biltereyst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317353951
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History written by Daniel Biltereyst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History presents the most recent approaches and methods in the study of the social experience of cinema, from its origins in vaudeville and traveling exhibitions to the multiplexes of today. Exploring its history from the perspective of the cinemagoer, the study of new cinema history examines the circulation and consumption of cinema, the political and legal structures that underpinned its activities, the place that it occupied in the lives of its audiences and the traces that it left in their memories. Using a broad range of methods from the statistical analyses of box office economics to ethnography, oral history, and memory studies, this approach has brought about an undisputable change in how we study cinema, and the questions we ask about its history. This companion examines the place, space, and practices of film exhibition and programming; the questions of gender and ethnicity within the cinematic experience; and the ways in which audiences gave meaning to cinemagoing practices, specific films, stars, and venues, and its operation as a site of social and cultural exchange from Detroit and Laredo to Bandung and Chennai. Contributors demonstrate how the digitization of source materials and the use of digital research tools have enabled them to map previously unexplored aspects of cinema’s business and social history and undertake comparative analysis of the diversity of the social experience of cinema across regional, national, and continental boundaries. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History enlarges and refines our understanding of cinema’s place in the social history of the twentieth century.

History on Film/Film on History

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100096339X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book History on Film/Film on History written by Robert A. Rosenstone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. In the fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events. This book examines what history films convey about the past and how they convey it, demonstrating the need to learn how to read and understand this new visual world and integrating detailed analysis of films such as Schindler’s List, Glory, October, and Reds. Advocating for the dramatic feature as a legitimate way of doing history, this edition includes a new Preface and a new chapter that focuses on films produced in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, India, and East Asia. Examining the codes and conventions of how these films tell us about the past and providing guidance on how to effectively analyse films as historical interpretations, this book is an essential introduction to the field for students of history and film.

An Investigative Cinema

Author : Fabrizio Cilento
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319926810
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book An Investigative Cinema written by Fabrizio Cilento and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the “truth” promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the “economic miracle” in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour.