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Author : COLEMAN.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474464789
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (647 download)
Download or read book KILLERS, CLIENTS AND KINDRED SPIRITS written by COLEMAN. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Coleman Lindsay Coleman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411835
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits written by Coleman Lindsay Coleman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won the prestigious Kinema Jumpo Best One award, the late Imamura Shohei was one of Japan's leading and most controversial film directors. This book is one of the first to study all of Imamura's major films alongside his television and theatrical documentaries, focusing on his major themes and concerns. By giving shape to Imamura's career, the book positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.
Author : Hideaki Fujiki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844576817
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Cinema Book written by Hideaki Fujiki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions. The Japanese Cinema Book is divided into seven inter-related sections: · Theories and Approaches · * Institutions and Industry · * Film Style · * Genre · * Times and Spaces of Representation · * Social Contexts · * Flows and Interactions
Author : Poshek Fu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429757298
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Cold War and Asian Cinemas written by Poshek Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus. This volume makes a major contribution to constructing a cultural and popular cinema history of the global Cold War. Its geographical focus is set on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. In adopting such an inclusive approach, it draws attention to the different manifestations and meanings of the connections between the Cold War and cinema across Asian borders. Many essays in the volume have a transnational and cross-regional focus, one that sheds light on Cold War-influenced networks (such as the circulation of socialist films across communist countries) and on the efforts of American agencies (such as the United States Information Service and the Asia Foundation) to establish a transregional infrastructure of "free cinema" to contain the communist influences in Asia. With its interdisciplinary orientation and broad geographical focus, the book will appeal to scholars and students from a wide variety of fields, including film studies, history (especially the burgeoning field of cultural Cold War studies), Asian studies, and US-Asian cultural relations.
Author : Lennard Dominic Lennard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444265X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Other Hollywood Renaissance written by Lennard Dominic Lennard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the Hollywood Renaissance. However, critical study of the period is generally associated with its so-called principal auteurs, slighting a number of established and emerging directors who were responsible for many of the era's most innovative and artistically successful releases.With contributions from leading film scholars, this book provides a revisionist account of this creative resurgence by discussing and memorializing twenty-four directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period. Including filmmakers such as Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Mike Nichols, and Joan Micklin Silver, this more expansive approach to the auteurism of the late 1960s and 1970s seems not only appropriate but pressing - a necessary element of the re-evaluation of 'Hollywood' with which cinema studies has been preoccupied under the challenges posed by the emergence and flourishing of new media.
Author : Tomoyuki Sasaki
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438491018
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Cinema of Discontent written by Tomoyuki Sasaki and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Japan experienced an unprecedented level of economic growth, transforming itself from a war-devastated country to a global economic power. Our image of postwar Japan has been shaped by this event, and we tend to see its history as a story of great national success. Cinema of Discontent challenges this view and details the tensions generated by massive and intense capitalist development through analyses of popular cinema produced during the era of high-speed growth. The films discussed in this book, directed by Kawashima Yūzō, Masumura Yasuzō, Inoue Akira, Ezaki Mio, and Kumashiro Tatsumi, attracted broad audiences yet remain understudied. Cinema of Discontent contextualizes these films in relation to the politics, economy, intellectual discourse, and cultural texts of the time. By doing so, it demonstrates how these films address problems immanent to Japan's postwar capitalism, including uneven development, increasing corporate control over individuals, precarious and contingent work, and militarized peace and prosperity.
Author : Felicity Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429559941
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Women's Music for the Screen written by Felicity Wilcox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound shines a long-overdue light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers. Bringing together composer profiles, exclusive interview excerpts, and industry case studies, this volume showcases their achievements and reflects on the systemic gender biases women have faced in an industry that has long excluded them. Across 16 essays, an international array of contributors present a wealth of research data, biographical content, and musical analysis of film, television, and video game scores to understand how the industry excludes women, the consequences of these deficits, and why such inequities persist – and to document women’s rich contributions to screen music in diverse styles and genres. The chapters amplify the voices of women composers including Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, Anne Dudley, Rachel Portman, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Mica Levi, Winifred Phillips, and more. From the mid-twentieth century to the present, and from classic Hollywood scores to pioneering electronic music, these are the stories and achievements of the women who have managed to forge successful careers in a male-dominated arena. Suitable for researchers, educators, and students alike, Women’s Music for the Screen urges the screen music industry to consider these sounds and stories in a way it hasn’t before: as voices that more accurately reflect the world we all share.
Author : Claude Lessiter-Jones
Publisher : Artemis Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907785000
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Dark Killers written by Claude Lessiter-Jones and published by Artemis Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Puckett
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595327494
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by Brian Puckett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That place is evil. Fernwood has always been a house of death." More than a century of secrets have been locked away in a house abandoned decades ago. Now the McCaslin family comes to the seaside Northern California hamlet of Golden Bay with the promise of a fresh start in a home some say is haunted. "The people that used to live there are all dead." "That house puts a lot of people on edge. Some people believe Fernwood is cursed." "...Every member of the Fernwood family fell victim to the curse. Even people who were close to them died freakish deaths. You see, the curse is like a contagious disease, spreading to anyone who has ever had dealings with the family or comes in contact with that house." But tragedy extends beyond the overgrown grounds of the stately manor. A body found in the swollen waters of a nearby creek triggers a major murder investigation--the first in over 50 years. Confounding police and shocking locals, the widening probe affects the lives of some of Golden Bay's most prominent citizens--both living and dead. "I know some secrets, some I shouldn't tell."
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816069875
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers written by Michael Newton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopaedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition provides accurate information on hundreds of serial murder cases - from early history to the present. Written in a non-sensational manner, this authoritative encyclopaedia debunks many of the myths surrounding this most notorious of criminal activities. New major serial killers have come to light since the first edition was published, and many older cases have been solved (such as the Green River Killer) or further investigated (like Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer). Completely updated entries and appendixes pair with more than 30 new photographs and many new entries to make this new edition more fascinating than ever. New and updated entries include: Axe Man of New Orleans; BTK Strangler; Jack the Ripper; Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the Sniper Killers; Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer; and Harold Frederick Shipman.
Author : Ron D. Drain
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595096328
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by Ron D. Drain and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rural town of New Hope may have lived up to its name at one time in its history…but that was over eight decades ago. Today it is more concerned with hiding its secrets from the glances of curious tourists and vacation travelers. Randall Garner was one of those who happened on the small community virtually by accident. Even he didn’t see the haunting forces that lurked behind the friendly smiles and the quaint storefronts. Of course, his perception was thrown slightly off center by the mysterious young woman, Casandra Blankenship. And Garner would discover much too late that histories long dead and buried...often prefer to stay that way. The journey continues…
Author : Ray W. Hinks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542359252
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by Ray W. Hinks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours, the assassination of a famous mentalist, Simon Holmes, occurs on the steps of his London town-house, without apparent cause. His step-father, Adrian, is the City of London's Chief Superintendent of police. He is called to his son's murder scene and vows to find the killer. His Mother, Sarah, is a reluctant spiritualist and is astonished to find that her son is able to attune to her conscious mind beyond his death, by invading her detective-husband's subconscious being. This interaction, is woven into Adrian's investigations in following twisted paths of criminality and terrorism, where the fate of London itself is at stake.
Author : Diane Wei Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176042
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Powers of the Real written by Diane Wei Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema’s persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Diane Wei Lewis shows how representations of women and signifiers of femininity were used to characterize new forms of pleasure and fantasy enabled by consumer culture and technological media. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, she analyzes the role that images of women played in articulating the new expressions of identity, behavior, and affiliation produced by cinema and consumer capitalism. In the process, Lewis traces new discourses on the technological mediation of emotion to the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and postquake mass media boom. The earthquake transformed the Japanese film industry and lent urgency to debates surrounding cinema’s ability to reach a mass audience and shape public sentiment, while the rise of consumer culture contributed to alarm over rampant materialism and “feminization.” Demonstrating how ideas about emotion and sexual difference played a crucial role in popular discourse on cinema’s reach and its sensory-affective powers, Powers of the Real offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.
Author : Jenny Lawson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425261018
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Let's Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
Author : Qi Wang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748692347
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema written by Qi Wang and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China. Showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity in over sixteen selected works that range from narrative film and documentary to experimental video and digital media (even including a multimedia avant-garde play), this book presents a provocative portrait of the independent filmmakers as a peculiarly pained yet active group of historical subjects of the transitional, post-socialist era. Through a connected investigation of cultural and cinematic concepts including historical consciousness, personal memory, narrative, performance, subjectivity, spatiality, and the body, Wang weaves a critical narrative of the formation of a unique post-socialist cultural consciousness that enables independent cinema and media to become a highly significant and effective conduit for historical thinking in contemporary China. Covering directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye, Meng Jinghui, Wang Bing, Wang Guangli, Duan Jinchuan, Cui Zi'en, Shi Tou, and Tang Danhong, this book is essential reading for all students and scholars in Chinese film.
Author : Ann Rule
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982197765
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Mortal Danger written by Ann Rule and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Ann Rule, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling true-crime author, could lend her sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted--but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can kill. Original.
Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412688
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong Neo-Noir written by Esther Yau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.
