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La Dolce Morte

Author : Mikel J. Koven
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461664160
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book La Dolce Morte written by Mikel J. Koven and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend to ignore horror cinema in general and the giallo specifically. Critics often deride these films, which reveal more about the reviewers' own prejudices than any problem with the works themselves. As a counter to such biases, Mikel J. Koven argues for an alternative approach to studying these films, by approaching them as vernacular cinema—distinct from "popular cinema." According to Koven, to look at a film from a vernacular perspective removes the assumptions about what constitutes a "good" film and how a particular film is in some way "artistic." In La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, Koven explores the history and evolution of this aspect of cinema, and places these films within the context of Italian popular filmmaking. He addresses various themes, motifs, and tropes in these films: their use of space, the murders, the role of the detective, the identity of the killer, issues of belief, excess, and the set-piece.

La Dolce Morte

Author : Mikel J. Koven
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810858703
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book La Dolce Morte written by Mikel J. Koven and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to being the first academic study of the giallo film in English, this book surveys more than fifty films of this subgenre. The works of twenty-five different filmmakers are considered, including Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Pupi Avati, and Umberto Lenzi. Koven explores the interrelationships between these films; how one influences the others, how certain filmmakers take ideas and expand on them, and how those ideas are further transformed by other filmmakers. Koven also discusses the impact of the giallo on the later North American slasher genre."--BOOK JACKET.

The Sweet Death

Author : James Ellison Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467541787
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Death written by James Ellison Wills and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Est Antigoriu

Author : Claudia Zedda
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291686967
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Est Antigoriu written by Claudia Zedda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Federico Fellini

Author : Frank Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431530
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Federico Fellini written by Frank Burke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director’s films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini’s works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini’s birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini’s films and illustrates Fellini’s importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini’s early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of “Short Takes” sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini’s work Discusses Fellini’s creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini’s influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini’s work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini’s work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.

The Art of Pure Cinema

Author : Bruce Isaacs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190889950
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Pure Cinema written by Bruce Isaacs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This is not a book about Hitchcock. There are many of those in critical circles, and I wouldn't presume to add a great deal more to the landmark studies of scholars such as Raymond Bellour, Robin Wood, and William Rothman, among many others. But it is a book that attempts to situate Hitchcockian cinema, and more specifically, an aspect of the Hitchcockian style in the aftermath of Hitchcock's rich, complex, and sometimes unwieldy filmmaking career. In a series of discussions with François Truffaut in 1962, Hitchcock, then at the height of his influence as a filmmaker and prior to the perceived decline of his cinema in the later 1960s, gestures toward an artistic disposition in the following exchange on Rear Window (1954): "Truffaut: I imagine that the story appealed to you primarily because it represented a technical challenge: a whole film from the viewpoint of one man, and embodied in a single, large set. Hitchcock: Absolutely. It was a possibility of doing a purely cinematic film. You have an immobilized man looking out. That's one part of the film. The second part shows what he sees and the third part shows how he reacts. This is actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea." ""--

Critical Perspectives on the Western

Author : Lee Broughton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442272430
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on the Western written by Lee Broughton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western film continues to be reexamined by scholars, and this collection offers engaging essays on a variety of films and television shows that represent the genre. Essays in this volume consider star/celebrity studies, the representation of race, overviews of Western subgenres, and international Westerns. In all, this collection provides a diverse selection of chapters that represent current thinking on this enduring genre.

Gothic Mash-Ups

Author : Natalie Neill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793636583
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Mash-Ups written by Natalie Neill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

Federico Fellini

Author : Tullio Kezich
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429923253
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Federico Fellini written by Tullio Kezich and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema master With the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work by which all other biographies of the filmmaker are sure to be measured. In this moving and intimately revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Kezich uses his friendship with Fellini as a means to step outside the frame of myth and anecdote that surrounds him—much, it turns out, of the director's own making. A great lover of women and a meticulous observer of dreams, Fellini, perhaps more than any other director of the twentieth century, created films that embodied a thoroughly modern sensibility, eschewing traditional narrative along with religious and moral precepts. His is an art of delicate pathos, of episodic films that directly address the intersection of reality, fantasy, and desire that exists as a product of mid-century Italy—a country reeling from a Fascist regime as it struggled with an outmoded Catholic national identity. As Kezich reveals, the dilemmas Fellini presents in his movies reflect not only his personal battles but those of Italian society. The result is a book that explores both the machinations of cinema and the man who most grandly embraced the full spectrum of its possibilities, leaving his indelible mark on it forever.

Early Music History: Volume 21

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818872
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Early Music History: Volume 21 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 21 include: Aaron's interpretation of Isidore and an illustrated copy of the Toscanello; Musica mundana, Aristotelian natural philosophy and ptolemaic astronomy; The Triodia Sacra as a key source for late-Renaissance music in southern Germany; The debate over song in the Accademia Fiorentina.

The Routledge Companion to European Cinema

Author : Gábor Gergely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000512290
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to European Cinema written by Gábor Gergely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this wide-ranging collection of 43 original chapters asks what European cinema tells us about Europe. The book engages with European cinema that attends to questions of European colonial, racialized and gendered power; seeks to decentre Europe itself (not merely its putative centres); and interrogate Europe’s various conceptualizations from a variety of viewpoints. It explores the broad, complex and heterogeneous community/ies produced in and by European films, taking in Kurdish, Hollywood and Singapore cinema as comfortably as the cinema of Poland, Spanish colonial films or the European gangster genre. Chapters cover numerous topics, including individual films, film movements, filmmakers, stars, scholarship, representations and identities, audiences, production practices, genres and more, all analysed in their context(s) so as to construct an image of Europe as it emerges from Europe’s film corpus. The Companion opens the study of European cinema to a broad readership and is ideal for students and scholars in film, European studies, queer studies and cultural studies, as well as historians with an interest in audio-visual culture, nationalism and transnationalism, and those working in language-based area studies.

Muscles in the Movies

Author : John D. Fair
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274501
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Muscles in the Movies written by John D. Fair and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fair and David Chapman tell the story of how filmmakers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice, deeply rooted in western epistemological traditions, evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry, arguing that the sight of muscles in action induced a higher degree of viewer entertainment. From Eugen Sandow to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, muscular actors appear capable of performing the miraculous, and with the aid of stuntmen and filming contrivances, they do. By such means, muscles are used to perfect the art of illusion, inherent in movie-making from its earliest days.

Italian Horror Cinema

Author : Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074869353X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Italian Horror Cinema written by Stefano Baschiera and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the Italian horror cinema genre.

Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957äóñ1969

Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619891
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957äóñ1969 written by Roberto Curti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Gothic” style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to the supernatural and to eroticism, with the presence of menacing yet seductive female witches, vampires and ghosts. Thanks to such filmmakers as Mario Bava (Black Sunday), Riccardo Freda (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock), and Antonio Margheriti (Castle of Blood), as well the iconic presence of actress Barbara Steele, Italian Gothic horror went overseas and reached cult status. The book examines the Italian Gothic horror of the period, with an abundance of previously unpublished production information drawn from official papers and original scripts. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, home video releases, plot summary and the author’s analysis. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and actors are included. The foreword is by film director and scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi.

Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots

Author : Michael Sevastakis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624186
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots written by Michael Sevastakis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian giallo film genre--the equivalent of the American whodunit but incorporating extreme violence and sex--was based on popular British and American fiction of the 30s and 40s, adapted to the explicitly liberal filmmaking of 1970s and 1980s Europe. Seldom released in American theaters, these films were usually distributed as redacted bootlegs, awaiting digital technology to be restored to their original content and pristine visual form. This book analyzes the censored sex and violence of giallo films, finding in them an inherent beauty and tracing their literary antecedents to the elements of the fairy tale as described by Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Each chapter covers a film and its director, from 1962 to 1987. The author argues that despite their formulaic production and designation as "Euro-sleaze," these films are works of individuality and artistic virtue.

Live Arts at The Met

Author : Limor Tomer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397629
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Live Arts at The Met written by Limor Tomer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Met has been a popular venue for the performing arts and has hosted a wide range of world-renowned musicians, composers, and dancers, including Nina Simone, Merce Cunningham, Leonard Bernstein, and Twyla Tharp. Live Arts at The Met celebrates this rich history of performance at the Museum and features recollections by artists Lee Mingwei, Bijayini Satpathy, Andrea Miller, Silas Farley, Louisa Proske, and Vijay Iyer, who all share how their engagements with The Met influenced their music, dance, sound, or theater. An interview by Adam Gopnik with Limor Tomer, Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager of Live Arts, provides additional context on the last decade of groundbreaking projects and suggests an exciting new future for performance at The Met.

James Bond and Popular Culture

Author : Michele Brittany
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477938
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book James Bond and Popular Culture written by Michele Brittany and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recognizable fictional spy and one of the longest running film franchises, James Bond has inspired a host of other pop culture contributions, including Doctor Who (the Jon Pertwee era), the animated television comedy series Archer, Matt Kindt's comic book series Mind MGMT, Japan's Nakano Spy School Films, the 1960s Italian Eurospy genre, and the recent 007 Legends video game. This collection of new essays analyzes Bond's phenomenal literary and filmic influence over the past 50-plus years. The 14 essays are categorized into five parts: film, television, literature, lifestyle (emphasis on fashion and home decor), and the Bond persona reinterpreted.