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Foreign Films in America

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481625
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Films in America written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of World War I, however, the United States' film industry was strong enough to challenge that foreign presence and foreign films in America have been insignificant ever since. For about a century, the Hollywood cartel has dominated the production, distribution, and exhibition of movies domestically and around the world. This work traces the history of the foreign film in America from its domination in the early days to its low standing in the present, looking at the attempts made by foreign producers to increase their presence on American cinema screens, the responses by Hollywood to those attempts, and the oligopoly of Hollywood's few producers. The work discusses the cultural differences between foreign artistic expression and the commercialism of the American film and analyzes Hollywood's explanations for the lack of a foreign presence: Americans have "unique" tastes, they don't like subtitles, foreign films are immoral or badly made, trade union pressure, and so on. An appendix detailing the all-time gross earnings of foreign-language films and a full bibliography conclude the work, which is illustrated with stills and posters.

The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299247937
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973 written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini’s Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new “cinephile” generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.

Foreign Language Films and the Oscar

Author : Michael S. Barrett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674205
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Language Films and the Oscar written by Michael S. Barrett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy Awards--that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour and glitz of the international film industry--is highly revered yet has been minimally explored beyond the category of Best Picture. Over the last decade, more than 2,000 films have been submitted for the title of Best Foreign Language Film. Of those, 312--including Italy's 8 1⁄2, Sweden's Through a Glass Darkly and Mexico's Pan's Labyrinth, as well as Denmark's lesser-known Harry and the Butler, Yugoslavia's I Even Met Happy Gypsies and Nicaragua's Alsino and the Condor--have received nominations. This guide lists each nominee--from the first-honored Shoeshine in 1948 through Iran's second Oscar winner, The Salesman, in 2017--chronologically and includes synopses, basic facts about personnel and production qualities, and rankings among annual competitors that often differ from those of the Academy.

Using Film and Media in the Language Classroom

Author : Dr. Carmen Herrero
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788924495
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Using Film and Media in the Language Classroom written by Dr. Carmen Herrero and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the positive impact of using film and audiovisual material in the language classroom. The chapters are evidence-based and address different levels and contexts of learning around the world. They demonstrate the benefits of using moving images and films to develop intercultural awareness and promote multilingualism, and suggest Audiovisual Translation (AVT) activities and projects to enhance language learning. The book will be a valuable continuing professional development resource for language teachers and those involved in curriculum development, as well as bringing the latest research, theory and pedagogical techniques to teacher training courses.

How to Maintain Languages

Author : Robin MacPherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781987400601
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book How to Maintain Languages written by Robin MacPherson and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning a foreign language truly is a wonderful experience that opens up doors into new worlds and enriches our lives beyond measure. Unfortunately, many people all over the world come back to their foreign language to find the door locked, because we don't talk enough about how to actually maintain language skills once we've acquired them. The good news is that the process of properly maintaining a foreign language is just a beautiful as learning one. In fact, I would argue that it can be even more enjoyable. This book is not just for people who have already learned a foreign language to a high level. It is packed full of useful tips and advice, and properly understanding this process while you are learning will help you set yourself up for a successful and sustainable, multilingual lifestyle. This book also teaches how to maintain multiple foreign languages, for aspiring polyglots. It also comes with some free, downloadable resources and an accompanying YouTube series where Robin implements all of the advice from his book.(https://goo.gl/2CgJfW) Whatever your reasons are for maintaining your foreign language(s), and whatever challenges you are facing to that end, this book will teach you a variety of simple but effective techniques and strategies for achieving your goals.

(Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films

Author : Vincenza Minutella
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030566382
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book (Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films written by Vincenza Minutella and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the dubbing process of English-language animated films produced by US companies in the 21st century, exploring how linguistic variation and multilingualism are used to create characters and identities and examining how Italian dubbing professionals deal with this linguistic characterisation. The analysis carried out relies on a diverse range of research tools: text analysis, corpus study and personal communications with dubbing practitioners. The book describes the dubbing workflow and dubbing strategies in Italy and seeks to identify recurrent patterns and therefore norms, as well as stereotypes or creativity in the way multilingualism and linguistic variation are tackled. It will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, linguistic variation, film and media.

World Affairs in Foreign Films

Author : Roberta Seret
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786464722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book World Affairs in Foreign Films written by Roberta Seret and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing so engaging, so true to life as film to transport students to unfamiliar places. This textbook introduces foreign cultures and global concepts through 13 award-winning films from around the world: Osama (Afghanistan); Persepolis (Iran/France); Water (India); Beijing Bicycle (China); Tokyo Sonata (Japan); Tsotsi (South Africa); Hotel Rwanda (Rwanda); War Dance (Uganda); Central Station (Brazil); March of the Penguins (Antarctica/France); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Germany); The Counterfeiters (Austria); Pearl (U.S.A., Chickasaw Nation). Each is chosen for its richness as a basis for discussions in history, geography, economics, government, literature, music, and art. This multi-disciplinary primer encourages critical thinking and group activities and offers new perspectives on international affairs. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Breathless

Author : Jean-Luc Godard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512532
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Breathless written by Jean-Luc Godard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Jean-Luc Godard's film "breathless"

Hollywood

Author : Jill Tietjen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493037064
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood written by Jill Tietjen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment to storytelling followed in her footsteps. Working in all aspects of the movie industry, they collaborated with others to create memorable images on the screen. This book pays tribute to the spirit, ambition, grit and talent of these filmmakers and artists. With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on. Stunning photographs capture and document the women who worked their magic in the movie business. Perfect for anyone who enjoys the movies, this photo-treasury of women and film is not to be missed.

Film

Author : Susan Stempleski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780194372312
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Film written by Susan Stempleski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes ideas on how to integrate film into a general course and how to set up film projects. Contains a glossary of helpful terms. No previous film knowledge is required.

Curse This House

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596528834
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Curse This House written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her mother's death in 1857, Leyla's only links with her heritage and family are a letter and her last name—Pemberton. Resolved to seek out her past, she travels from London to the brooding countryside mansion of Pemberton Hurst. Leyla longs to find a loving family, but more important, she needs to uncover the truth of her past. But the Pembertons seem strangely reluctant to discuss family history, and the house feels smothered by the weight of untold secrets. Increasingly torn between the safety of life with her sophisticated fiancé in London and a new, dangerous love, Leyla is no longer sure where to turn and whom to trust. Then terror strikes. A murderer roams the corridors of Pemberton Hurst, and Leyla is suddenly thrown into a maelstrom of deceit, madness, and horror. With her life in jeopardy, Leyla must uncover the truth of her past before it destroys her.

100 Shakespeare Films

Author : Daniel Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714081
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book 100 Shakespeare Films written by Daniel Rosenthal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.

The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed Or Almost Forgotten

Author : A. O. Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312343620
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed Or Almost Forgotten written by A. O. Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For movie fans seeking a guide to intelligent, engaging films, this handbook by five "New York Times" film critics offers newly updated reviews of 500 movies, all available on DVD.

All about Oscar

Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780826414526
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book All about Oscar written by Emanuel Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Academy Awards by sharing historical and political information about the event, as well as facts relating to how the Oscars came to fruition and past winners in several categories.

A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films

Author : Robert Spadoni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520958764
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films written by Robert Spadoni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect concise guide to the formal analysis of film. Designed to be used by readers at many levels of knowledge, this book moves systematically through the elements that make up most films, focusing on aspects of the art of cinema that are common across history and national cinemas. From form and narrative to mise-en-scène and cinematography to editing and sound, Robert Spadoni introduces and explains the principles and conventions of film in engaging, straightforward language. In addition to illustrating film techniques with almost 200 images—most of them in color—the book explains ways to find patterns and meaning in films through such concepts as motifs, development, and motivation. Thumbnail readings of exemplary films further lay out the essentials of formal analysis. Film illustrations include frame enlargements from Stagecoach, Psycho, Jeepers Creepers, Persepolis, Groundhog Day, Take Shelter, and more. Modestly priced and packed with images, A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films is ideal for students in a wide range of film courses who are looking for an easy-to-read guide to film analysis to accompany and enhance their course materials.

The Films of Bong Joon Ho

Author : Nam Lee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978818920
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Bong Joon Ho written by Nam Lee and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers. The Films of Bong Joon Ho demonstrates how he hybridizes Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to create a cinema that foregrounds the absurd cultural anomie Koreans have experienced in tandem with their rapid economic development. Film critic and scholar Nam Lee explores how Bong subverts the structures of the genres he works within, from the crime thriller to the sci-fi film, in order to be truthful to Korean realities that often deny the reassurances of the happy Hollywood ending. With detailed readings of Bong’s films from Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) through Parasite (2019), the book will give readers a new appreciation of this world-class cinematic talent.

Making a Film

Author : Federico Fellini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940625096
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Making a Film written by Federico Fellini and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) is one of the most renowned figures in world cinema. Director of a long list of critically acclaimed motion pictures, including La strada, La dolce vita, 81/2, and Amarcord, Fellini's success helped strengthen the international prestige of Italian cinema from the 1950s onward. Often remembered as an eccentric auteur with a vivid imagination and a penchant for quasi-autobiographical works, the carnivalesque, and Rubenesque women, Fellini's inimitable films celebrate the creative potential of cinema as a medium and also provide thought-provoking evocations of various periods in Italian history, from the years of fascism to the age of Silvio Berlusconi's media empire. In Making a Film Fellini discusses his childhood and adolescence in the coastal town of Rimini, the time he spent as a cartoonist, journalist, and screenwriter in Rome, his decisive encounter with Roberto Rossellini, and his own movies, from Variety Lights to Casanova. The director explains the importance of drawing to his creative process, the mysterious ways in which ideas for films arise, his collaborations with his wife, Giulietta Masina, his thoughts on fascism, Jung, and the relationship between cinema and television. Often comic, sometimes tragic, and rife with insightful comments on his craft, Making a Film sheds light on Fellini's life and reveals the motivations behind many of his most fascinating movies. Available for the first time in its entirety in English, this volume contains the complete translation of Fare un film, the authoritative collection of writings edited and reworked by Fellini and initially published by Giulio Einaudi in 1980. The text includes a new translation of the Italo Calvino essay "A Spectator's Autobiography," an introduction by Italian film scholar Christopher B. White, and an afterward by Fellini's longtime friend and collaborator Liliana Betti.