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Limit Cinema

Author : Chelsea Birks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501352873
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Limit Cinema written by Chelsea Birks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Best First Book Award 2023 Limit Cinema explores how contemporary global cinema represents the relationship between humans and nature. During the 21st century this relationship has become increasingly fraught due to proliferating social and environmental crises; recent films from Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) address these problems by reflecting or renegotiating the terms of our engagement with the natural world. In this spirit, this book proposes a new film philosophy for the Anthropocene. It argues that certain contemporary films attempt to transgress the limits of human experience, and that such 'limit cinema' has the potential to help us rethink our relationship with nature. Posing a new and timely alternative to the process philosophies that have become orthodox in the fields of film philosophy and ecocriticism, Limit Cinema revitalizes the philosophy of Georges Bataille and puts forward a new reading of his notion of transgression in the context of our current environmental crisis. To that end, Limit Cinema brings Bataille into conversation with more recent discussions in the humanities that seek less anthropocentric modes of thought, including posthumanism, speculative realism, and other theories associated with the nonhuman turn. The problems at stake are global in scale, and the book therefore engages with cinema from a range of national and cultural contexts. From Ben Wheatley's psychological thrillers to Nettie Wild's eco-documentaries, limit cinema pushes against the boundaries of thought and encourages an ethical engagement with perspectives beyond the human.

Movie Wars

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556529937
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Movie Wars written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever—we just can't see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ranging from the New York Times's coverage of the Cannes film festival to the anticommercial practices of Orson Welles, Movie Wars details the workings of the powerful forces that are in the process of ruining our precious cinematic culture and heritage, and the counterforces that have begun to fight back.

Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema

Author : James Batcho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319764217
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema written by James Batcho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick’s cinema – its expressions of unseeing and hearing. ‘Unseeing’ is Malick’s means of transcending the moment in order to enter the life that unfolds; to treat cinema as a real experience for those who live its reality. In this way, Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema moves beyond film theory to advance a work of original philosophy, bringing together two thinkers not normally associated with one another: Gilles Deleuze and Søren Kierkegaard. It investigates how Malick’s gatherings of time allow one to explore new philosophical questions about immanence and transcendence, ethics and faith, time and infinity, and the foldings of subjectivity that are central to both philosophers. Beyond cinema, it offers a way to think about our everyday repetitions and recollections and our ephemeral points of connection with those we love.

CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

Author : Paolo Jedlowski
Publisher : Luigi Pellegrini Editore
ISBN 13 : 8868224429
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana written by Paolo Jedlowski and published by Luigi Pellegrini Editore. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla complessità del nostro presente. Per la prima volta riunite e tradotte in inglese in un’unica pubblicazione, queste conversazioni offrono al lettore una costellazione unica di autori e temi per pensare il cinema a partire dal nostro presente e viceversa. 24 conversations originally published by Fata Morgana with important scholars and artists who have intended cinema as a place of thought and a form of life. A unique constellation of authors and themes in which cinema and the image, more than any other art form, are inextricably intertwined with the complexity of the contemporary. Edited and translated into English for the first time, these conversations offer to the reader a unique constellation of authors and themes, which leads one to reconsider cinema starting from our present and vice versa. Roberto De Gaetano is full professor of Filmology at the University of Calabria (Italy). He is the author of important books on the relationship between cinema and philosophy (Il cinema secondo Gilles Deleuze, Bulzoni, 1996; Il visibile cinematografico, Bulzoni, 2002; La potenza delle immagini, Ets, 2012), cinema and the contemporary (L’immagine contemporanea. Cinema e mondo presente, Marsilio, 2010), and authors and forms of Italian cinema (Il corpo e la maschera. Il grottesco nel cinema italiano, Bulzoni, 1999; Nanni Moretti. Lo smarrimento del presente, Pellegrini, 2015). He is the Editor of the three-volume edition Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2014-2016), and the Editor in Chief of Fata Morgana. Francesco Ceraolo (PhD, Qmul) teaches Film Analysis and Theater and Opera at the University of Calabria (Italy). His work mainly focuses on the relationship between philosophy, performing and visual arts. Among his recent publications are Verso un'estetica della totalità. Una lettura critico-filosofica del pensiero di Richard Wagner (Mimesis, 2013) and the chapter entitled ‘Opera’ in Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2015). He has edited and translated into Italian Alain Badiou’s writings on the theater (Rapsodia per il teatro. Arte, politica, evento, Pellegrini, 2015). In 2015 he was awarded the ‘Arthur Rubinstein – A Life In Music’ Prize by Teatro La Fenice for his musicological scholarship. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Fata Morgana.

What Moroccan Cinema?

Author : Sandra Gayle Carter
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739131877
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book What Moroccan Cinema? written by Sandra Gayle Carter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the country's independence in 1956. In What Moroccan Cinema? A Historical and Critical Study, 1956-2006, Sandra Gayle Carter chronicles the changes in Moroccan laws, institutions, ancillary influences, individuals active in the field, representative films, and film culture during this fifty-year span. Focusing on Moroccan history and institutions relative to the cinema industry such as television, newspaper criticism, and Berber videomaking, What Moroccan Cinema? is an intriguing study of the ways in which three historical periods shaped the Moroccan cinema industry. Carter provides an insightful and thorough treatment of the cinema institution, discussing exhibition and distribution, censorship, and cinema clubs and caravans. Carter grounds her analysis by exploring representative films of each respective era. The groundbreaking analysis offered in What Moroccan Cinema? will prove especially valuable to those in film and Middle Eastern studies.

European Cinema

Author : Jill Forbes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137080345
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book European Cinema written by Jill Forbes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The survival of cinema in Europe and the analysis of its heritage are key issues for the new century. This book asks how we can define European cinema and how it should be studied. It provides an overview of the problems, traditions and key questions that have informed the study of European cinema, investigating the links and tensions between Europe and Hollywood and exploring the different experiences of national identities within a common European framework. Twelve case studies of individual European films ranging from The Battleship Potemkin and The Lodger, to La Haine and Trainspotting, illustrate the distinctiveness and variety of cinema in Europe as well as the various critical methods by which it can be studied. With its detailed analysis of films from several European countries including Britain and Russia, the book encourages a comparative approach and raises urgent questions about the future of European cinema in the context of globalization. It will be of interest to students in Film Studies, European Studies and Modern European Languages and Cultures.

Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933

Author : Francesco Finocchiaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319582623
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 written by Francesco Finocchiaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist composers’ exploration of cinema reached such a degree of pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic paradigm for the very process – of deliberate misinterpretation, creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of the Classic-Romantic tradition – which realized the “dream of Otherness” of the Modernist generation.

American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between

Author : Rebecca A. Sheehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190949732
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between written by Rebecca A. Sheehan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium? Taking up this crucial question for the emergent field of film philosophy, American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between argues that the films of the American avant-garde do in fact do philosophy and illuminates the ethical stakes of their aesthetic interventions. Author Rebecca A. Sheehan contends that American avant-garde cinema's characteristic self-reflexivity is an interrogation of the modes and stakes of our engagement with the world on and beyond the screen. The book demonstrates this with the theory of the in-between: a pervasive figure that helps clarify how avant-garde cinema's reflections on the creation of images construct an ethics of perception itself, a responsibility to perpetuate thought in an enduring re-encounter with the world and with meaning's unfinished production. The book is structured by a taxonomy of the multiple in-betweens evident in American avant-garde filmmaking. Rather than systematically seeking reproductions of particular philosophers' ideas in avant-garde films, Sheehan derives categories of analysis and the philosophical claims they disclose from close readings of the films themselves. This methodology opposes mapping preconfigured philosophical concepts and values onto these films, as too many philosophical approaches to cinema have done, silencing the philosophies uniquely articulated by these films in the interest of making them ventriloquize philosophies advanced elsewhere. The chapters of this book trace three modes of the in-between that function philosophically in American avant-garde cinema: the material, the dimensional, and the conceptual. Although the chapters are organized around discrete aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations that unify several filmmakers, these three presentations of the in-between cut through all the chapters, allowing the subjects of each to converse over the course of the book.

Cinema and Sentiment

Author : Clive Marsh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625643489
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Sentiment written by Clive Marsh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema & Sentiment Film's challenge to Theology What do films do to people? What do people do with films? All film-watching happens within a cultural context. Exploring cinema-going as leisure activity and by comparing film-watching with worship, Clive Marsh demonstrates aspects of the religious function of film-watching in Western culture. Through a variety of case-studies, including a look at the films of Robin Williams and the Coen brothers, Marsh's study shows how film-watching as a regular practice contributes to the shaping of human living. Engaging with rapidly changing social and religious behaviour patterns in Western culture, Cinema and Sentiment suggests a need to recover a positive sense of 'sentiment', both in theology and film. Marsh locates his findings within recent studies of theology and film. In his final chapter he offers to church leaders, students of theology and film studies and all those with an interest in contemporary culture some very practical suggestions.

Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628920866
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game written by Todd McGowan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Film Theory in Practice Series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The first book in the series, Psychoanalytic Film Theory and The Rules of the Game, offers a concise introduction to psychoanalytic film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Jean Renoir's classic film. It traces the development of psychoanalytic film theory through its foundation in the thought of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan through its contemporary manifestation in the work of theorists like Slavoj Žižek and Joan Copjec. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of film theory and bring the concepts of psychoanalytic film theory into practice through a detailed interpretation of the film.

No Borders, No Limits

Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Cinema Classics (Paperback)
ISBN 13 : 9781903254431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book No Borders, No Limits written by Mark Schilling and published by Cinema Classics (Paperback). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the new Cinema Classics Collection from FAB Press! Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Nikkatsu Action pictures blended East and West, movie-fuelled fantasies and gritty realities of life in postwar Japan. No Borders No Limit includes a history of the studio, profiles of stars and directors, film reviews and career interviews with top figures including Joe Shishido, Toshio Masuda and Seijun Suzuki. It is the first ever book in English devoted entirely to this hugely influential film genre, and it is packed with colour illustrations.

The Film Renter and Moving Picture News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Film Renter and Moving Picture News written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster

Author : Simon R. Troon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Encounters with Disaster written by Simon R. Troon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries from the US and elsewhere, and auteurist-realist cinema from Europe and Asia. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that often inform thinking about cinema, this book contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations. Framed by contemporary concerns around the global climate crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene, questions about how films can best offer responses to historical exigency guide the book's explorations of spectacular 2010s blockbusters like Gravity (2013) and San Andreas (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic An Inconvenient Truth (2006), post-disaster films by auteurs including Abbas Kiarostami and Lav Diaz, and more. Conceiving of disaster as intersubjective ethics between humans and nonhuman alterity – forces of nature, errant technology, monsters, ghosts, and other entities – it analyses how formal techniques and narrative strategies render encounters in which human protagonists are confronted with the threat of death and respond in ways that can be instructive for our planet's present juncture.

Film Year Book

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

yann beauvais On Films 1976 - 1998

Author : yann beauvais
Publisher : Eyewash Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book yann beauvais On Films 1976 - 1998 written by yann beauvais and published by Eyewash Books. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist yann beauvais was perhaps the single most significant contributor to the history of experimental film in France in the last quarter of the 20th century. When he withdrew from the Paris scene in 2000, his legacy included books, museum exhibitions, the Light Cone distribution cooperative, and a rich body of his own film work This book surveys his prodigious creative activity in this period both through his reflections on his own films and articles he published on the work of others.

Cinema's Missing Children

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364505
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Missing Children written by Emma Wilson and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar's All About My Mother.