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Cycling and Cinema

Author : Bruce Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1906897999
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Cycling and Cinema written by Bruce Bennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world. In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child's toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.

Hollywood Rides a Bike

Author : Steven Rea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883318635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Rides a Bike written by Steven Rea and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before cycling was uber-trendy, the hottest film stars were pedalling their way to glory on the big screen. Renowned film critic Steven Rea presents a stunning homage to the humble bicycle by showing Hollywood's biggest stars on two (and sometimes three) wheels. This beautiful collection of over 125 rare vintage photographs showcases classic stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart... on wheels! Hollywood Rides a Bike includes a special index about bikes especially for cycling aficionados, as well as an index devoted to a 'Who's Who' of Hollywood.

Culture on Two Wheels

Author : Jeremy Withers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803269722
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Culture on Two Wheels written by Jeremy Withers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"--

Routledge Companion to Cycling

Author : Glen Norcliffe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000575403
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Cycling written by Glen Norcliffe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society The volume synthesizes a rapidly growing body of research on the bicycle, its past and present uses, its technological evolution, its use in diverse geographical settings, its aesthetics and its deployment in art and literature. From its origins in early modern carriage technology in Germany, it has generated what is now a vast, multi-disciplinary literature encompassing a wide range of issues in countries throughout the world.

Cycle of Violence

Author : Colin Bateman
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559703499
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Cycle of Violence written by Colin Bateman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller's ever-so-smart aleck mouth has earned him a disciplinary transfer from his downtown Belfast beat to Crossmaheart, a beleaguered and depressed outpost where the preferred response to murder is a hilarious one-liner. Miller is replacing a reporter who has disappeared - to no one's great surprise in this postterrorist ghetto full of leftover guns, plentiful whiskey, and a secret more sordid than the locals' resumes of political "activism". Crossmaheart is a notoriously fatal place in which to ask questions, and Miller is determined to forgo his professional curiosity, to compromise his journalist's integrity in the interest of staying alive. He is particularly intent on keeping himself clear of whatever involvements caused the job opening at the Crossmaheart Chronicle in the first place. But once he falls for his predecessor's troubled girlfriend, Marie - a former Catholic schoolgirl to complement Miler's own Protestant heritage - his plan begins to fall apart.

Cycling and Cinema

Author : Bruce Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1912685035
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri Di Biciclette)

Author : Robert S. C. Gordon
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1844572382
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Bicycle Thieves (Ladri Di Biciclette) written by Robert S. C. Gordon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment. One of a cluster of extraordinary films to come out of post-war, post-Fascist Italy - loosely labelled 'neorealist' – Bicycle Thieves won an Oscar in 1949, topped the first Sight and Sound poll of the best films of all time in 1952 and has been hugely influential throughout world cinema ever since. It remains a necessary point of reference for any cinematic engagement with the labyrinthine experience of the modern city, the travails of poverty in the contemporary world, the complex bond between fathers and sons, and the capacity of the camera to capture something like the essence of all of these. Robert S. C. Gordon's BFI Film Classics volume shows how Bicycle Thieves is ripe for re-viewing, for rescuing from its worthy status as a neorealist 'classic'. It looks at the film's drawn-out planning and production history, the vibrant and riven context in which it was made, and the dynamic geography, geometry and sociology of the film that resulted. ROBERT S. C. GORDON is Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Bicycle Diaries

Author : David Byrne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101464399
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Bicycle Diaries written by David Byrne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.

Seven Deadly Sins

Author : David Walsh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501133195
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins written by David Walsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the upcoming major motion picture The Program directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena), starring Chris O'Dowd as journalist David Walsh and Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong. When Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999, the sports world had found a charismatic new idol. Journalist David Walsh was among a small group covering the tour who suspected Armstrong’s win wasn’t the feel-good story it seemed to be. From that first moment of doubt, the next thirteen years of Walsh’s life would be focused on seeking the answers to a series of hard questions about Armstrong’s astonishing success. As Walsh delved ever deeper into the shadow world of performance-enhancing drugs in professional athletics, he accumulated a mounting pile of evidence that led a furious Armstrong to take legal action against him. But he could not make Walsh—or the story—go away, and in the autumn of 2012, Walsh was vindicated when the cyclist was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. With this remarkable book, Walsh has produced both the definitive account of the Armstrong scandal, and a testament to the importance of journalists who are willing to report a difficult truth over a popular fantasy.

Culture on Two Wheels

Author : Jeremy Withers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290454
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Culture on Two Wheels written by Jeremy Withers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger–idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history. Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle’s flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett’s modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer’s pilgrims via bicycle. Listen to an interview with the author.

The Urban Biking Handbook

Author : Charles Haine
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
ISBN 13 : 1592536956
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Biking Handbook written by Charles Haine and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclists are everywhere, the cautionary bumper stickers tell you. More than ever before, bicycle culture is everywhere, too: from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, city planners are making big changes to city infrastructure for the increasing numbers of people who are leaving their cars at home (or deep-sixing them altogether) and upgrading to two wheels. Biking in the city is no longer just for bike messengers with a death wish. Biking's benefits are myriad: better fitness, smaller environmental footprint, quiet and low profile, cheaper, greater accessibility. For each new, non-competitive cyclist in the consumer marketplace, there is at least one bicycle that needs to be fixed, maintained, and customized. Cyclists are looking for communities of like-minded people to learn the basics of repair and maintenance, the tricks of the trade, and get some super inspiring ideas for making their bike reflect their lifestyle choices. Quarry's The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living is a hardworking, illustrated guide to the cycling lifestyle. Not only does it teach tons of repair and maintenance techniques, it shows such popular skills as converting a multiple-gear bike into a fixed-gear bike (or fixie), building your own wheels, and how to build a Frankenbike from parts scavenged from several bikes. All the techniques and projects are framed by spotlights on urban bike culture worldwide: profiles of bike mechanics, bike builders, bike artists, and more.

Need for the Bike

Author : Paul Fournel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220390
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Need for the Bike written by Paul Fournel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book like no other, Paul Fournel's Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and things pass by way of the bike. In compact and suggestive prose, Fournel conveys the experience of cycling--from the initial charm of early outings to the dramas of the devoted cyclist. An extended meditation on cycling as a practice of life, the book recalls a country doctor who will not anesthetize the young Fournel after he impales himself on a downtube shifter, speculates about the difference between animals that would like to ride bikes (dogs, for instance) and those that would prefer to watch (cows, marmots), and reflects on the fundamental absurdity of turning over the pedals mile after excruciating mile. At the same time, Fournel captures the sound, smell, feel, and language of the reality and history of cycling, in the mountains, in the city, escaping the city, in groups, alone, suffering, exhausted, exhilarated. In his attention to the pleasures of cycling, to the specific "grain" of different cycling experiences, and to the inscription of these experiences in the body's cycling memory, Fournel portrays cycling as a descriptive universe, colorful, lyrical, inclusive, exclusive, complete.

Art and Electronic Media

Author : Edward A. Shanken
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714868585
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Art and Electronic Media written by Edward A. Shanken and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, including mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the web.

Hero on a Bicycle

Author : Shirley Hughes
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076366359X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Hero on a Bicycle written by Shirley Hughes and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first novel, beloved author Shirley Hughes presents a World War II adventure proving that in extraordinary circumstances, people are capable of extraordinary things. Italy, 1944: Florence is occupied by Nazi forces. The Italian resistance movement has not given up hope, though — and neither have thirteen-year- old Paolo and his sister, Costanza. As their mother is pressured into harboring escaping POWs, Paolo and Costanza each find a part to play in opposing the German forces. Both are desperate to fight the occupation, but what can two siblings — with only a bicycle to help them — do against a whole army? Middle-grade fans of history and adventure will be riveted by the action and the vividly evoked tension of World War II.

Put Me Back on My Bike

Author : William Fotheringham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446435873
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Put Me Back on My Bike written by William Fotheringham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Britain’s ultimate cyclist and his ill-fated race during the 1967 Tour de France, from the bestselling author of Half Man Half Bike Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He died a tragic early death during the 1967 Tour. A man of contradictions, Simpson was one of the first cyclists to admit to using banned drugs, and was accused of fixing races, yet the dapper 'Major Tom' inspired awe and affection for the obsessive will to win which was ultimately to cost him his life. Put Me Back on My Bike revisits the places and people associated with Simpson to produce the definitive story of Britain's greatest ever cyclist. The fully revised and updated edition of William Fotheringham's classic biography features a new foreword and postscript further exploring the truth behind the legend. ‘The best cycling biography ever written' Velo ‘A beautiful explanation of why Simpson's legend still exerts such a powerful hold’ Sunday Times

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

Author : Song Hwee Lim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824839234
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness written by Song Hwee Lim and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture. Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. Through detailed analysis of aspects of stillness and silence in cinema, Lim delineates the strategies by which slowness in film can be constructed. By drawing on writings on cinephilia and the films of directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, he makes a passionate case for a slow cinema that calls for renewed attention to the image and to the experience of time in film. Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness will speak to readers with an interest in art cinema, queer studies, East Asian culture, and the question of time. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film and in life, this book invites us to pause and listen, to linger and look, and, above all, to take things slowly.

Management Lessons from Movies

Author : Gokul Santhanam
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1946515280
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Management Lessons from Movies written by Gokul Santhanam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema is often a bold reflection of the world we live in. It speaks for the voiceless, aspires for the meek and brings hope to the despairing. Cinema is all encompassing, cinema is liberating! Wouldn't a medium as powerful as this, definitely have a lesson or two for management professionals as well? Ever wondered how Sidney Lumet's '12 Angry Men' can be linked to performance appraisals? What can Mickey and Malory from the controversial 'Natural Born Killers' teach young management professionals? What links the movie 'Boyhood' and 'Business Continuity Planning'? Management Lessons from Movies is your concise, easy-to-read book of movies and principles in management. The book unveils 100 management thoughts and covers 200 must watch movies. Explained through movies, the management concepts unearthed are sure to last with you for a long time! This book is definitely a must-have in your library!