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Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema

Author : John Orr
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748642307
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema written by John Orr and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism that has been much neglected in the study of UK cinema and downplayed in the development of Western cinema. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a fresh perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped British cinema history.Covering the period between 1929 and the present, this book examines outstanding directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Carol Reed, Nicholas Roeg, Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and articulates two genres vital to British cinema - the fugitive film and the trauma film - which bridge the gap between romantic and modern forms. Two detailed chapters also assess the powerful impact of major expatriate directors like Losey, Antonioni, Polanski, Kubrick and Skolimowski on modernism in the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed critical readings explore Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Black Narcissus, Odd Man Out, The Passionate Friends, The Innocents, Lawrence of Arabia, The Servant, Blow-Up, A Clockwork Orange, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, Moonlighting, the Bill Douglas trilogy and The Long Day Closes. The book concludes with an analysis of the persistence of romantic and modernist forms in the 21st century in two recent prize-winning features, Control and Hunger.

British art cinema

Author : Paul Newland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133148
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book British art cinema written by Paul Newland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. Film history has tended to view British filmmakers as aesthetically conservative, but the truth is they have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream. Beginning with the silent period and running up to the 2010s, the book draws attention to this tradition while acknowledging that art cinema in Britain is a complex and fluid concept that needs to be considered within broader concerns. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of British cinema history, film genre, experimental filmmaking, and British cultural history.

Historical Dictionary of British Cinema

Author : Alan Burton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810880261
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of British Cinema written by Alan Burton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of British Cinema has a lot of ground to cover. This it does with over 300 dictionary entries informing us about significant actors, producers and directors, outstanding films and serials, organizations and studios, different films genres from comedy to horror, and memorable films, among other things. Two appendixes provide lists of award-winners. Meanwhile, the chronology covers over a century of history. These parts provide the details, countless details, while the introduction offers the big story. And the extensive bibliography points toward other sources of information.

War Representation in British Cinema and Television

Author : Kevin M. Flanagan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030302032
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book War Representation in British Cinema and Television written by Kevin M. Flanagan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores alternatives to realist, triumphalist, and heroic representations of war in British film and television. Focusing on the period between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Falkland War but offering connections to the moment of Brexit, it argues that the “lost continent” of existential, satirical, simulated, and abstractly traumatic war stories is as central to understanding Britain’s martial history as the mainstream inheritance. The book features case studies that stress the contribution of exiled or expatriate directors and outsider sensibilities, with particular emphasis on Peter Watkins, Joseph Losey, and Richard Lester. At the same time, it demonstrates concerns and stylistic emphases that continue to the present in television series and films by directors such as Lone Scherfig and Christopher Nolan. Encompassing everything from features to government information films, the book explores related trends in the British film industry, popular culture, and film criticism, while offering a sense of how these contexts contribute to historical memory.

Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film

Author : Howard Finn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350242586
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film written by Howard Finn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly is the relationship between cinema and modernism? Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film explores how in the early twentieth century cinema came to be seen as one of the new technologies which epitomised modernity and how cinema itself reflected ideas, hopes and fears concerning modern life. Howard Finn examines the emergence of a new 'international style' of cinema, combining a poetic aesthetic of the image with genre-based fictional narrative and documentary realism. He provides concise accounts of how theorists such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière have discussed this cinematic aesthetic, clarifying debates over terms such as 'realism', 'classical' and 'avant-garde' as well as recent controversies over terms such as 'slow cinema' and 'vernacular modernism'. He further argues the influence of modernism through close readings of many contemporary films, including films by Abbas Kiarostami, Béla Tarr, Jia Zhangke, and Angela Schanelec. Drawing on a broad range of examples, including Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, postwar new waves and the 'new cinema' of Taiwan and Iran, this book explores the cultural significance of modernism and its lasting influence over cinema.

Fantasy/Animation

Author : Christopher Holliday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351681400
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy/Animation written by Christopher Holliday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).

Aesthetics and Neo-Romanticism in Film

Author : Stella Hockenhull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755698615
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and Neo-Romanticism in Film written by Stella Hockenhull and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary study of Film is dominated by narrative theory - yet Films include scenes and images which do not perform a narrative task but nevertheless provoke an emotional response. Stella Hockenhull looks at the painterly dimensions inherent In the medium of Film, arguing that an aesthetic analysis enables a fuller appreciation of the visual 'spectacle' of cinema. In a reading of the formal aspects In Film imagery In contemporary British Films spanning social realist, melodrama and horror genres, Hockenhull demonstrates how the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature mobilise a Neo-Romantic effect. She traces the influence of Romanticism and notions of the Sublime In key British Films including Sweet Sixteen, The Queen, Ratcatcher, Eden Lake, 28 Days Later, My Summer of Love and The Last Great Wilderness. Operating at the intersection between Film theory, art theory and Aesthetics, this is a vital contribution which enables a fuller, multidimensional understanding of cinematic experience.

Rock and Romanticism

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319726889
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Rock and Romanticism written by James Rovira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music are not only influenced by but are an expression of Romanticism continuous with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century influences. Figures such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Friedrich, Schlegel, and Hoffman are brought alongside the music and visual aesthetics of the Rolling Stones, the New Romantics, the Pretenders, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Tom Verlaine, emo, Eminem, My Dying Bride, and Norwegian black metal to explore the ways that Romanticism continues into the present in all of its varying forms and expressions.

The Man Who Got Carter

Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772309X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Got Carter written by Andrew Spicer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Klinger was the most successful indpendent producer in the British film industry over a 20 year period from 1960 to 1980, responsible for 32 films, including classics such as Repulsion (1965) and Get Carter (1971). Despite working with many famous figures- including actors Michael Caine, Peter Finch, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Mickey Rooney and Susannah York; directors Claude Chabrol,Mike Hodges and Roman Polanski and author Wilbur Smith- Klinger's contribution to British cinema has been almost largely ignored. This definitive book on Micheal Klinger, largely based on his previously unseen personal papers, examines his origins in Sixties Soho 'sexploitation' cinema and 'shockumentaries' through to major international productions including Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976). It reveals how Klinger deftly combined commercial product-the hugely popular 'Confessions' series (1974-78)- with artistic, experimental cinema that nurtured young talent, including Polanski and Hodges, Peter Colinson, Alastair Reid, Linda Hayden and Moshe Mizrahi, the Israeli director of Rachel's Man (1975). Klinger's career is contextualised through a reassessment of the British film industry during a period of unprecedented change and volatility as well as highlighting the importance of his Jewishness. The Man Who Got Carter offers a detailed analysis of the essential but often misunderstood role played by the producer.

Picturing home

Author : Hollie Price
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526138220
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Picturing home written by Hollie Price and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period re-imagined modes of address that had been used during the interwar years to promote ideas about domestic modernity. Picturing home provides a close analysis of domestic life as constructed in eight films, contextualising them in relation to a broader, offscreen culture surrounding the suburban home, including magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and displays at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so, it offers a new reading of British 1940s films, which demonstrates how they trod a delicate path balancing prewar and postwar, traditional and modern, private and public concerns.

David Lean

Author : Melanie Williams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526110849
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book David Lean written by Melanie Williams and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A rule of mine is this’, said William Goldman in 1983, ‘there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.’ One of the best known and most admired of British film makers, David Lean had a directorial career that spanned five decades and encompassed everything from the intimate black-and-white romance of Brief Encounter (1945) to the spectacular Technicolor epic of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). This book offers comprehensive coverage of every feature film directed by Lean, yielding new insights on the established classics of his career as well as its lesser-known treasures. Its analysis prioritises questions of gender and emphasises the often-overlooked but highly significant recurrence of female-centred narratives throughout Lean’s career. Drawing extensively on archival historical materials while also presenting nuanced close readings of individual films, David Lean offers a fascinating and original account of the work of a remarkable British film maker.

Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago

Author : Ysanne Holt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351187694
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago written by Ysanne Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection, including contributors from the disciplines of art history, film studies, cultural geography and cultural anthropology, explores ways in which islands in the north of England and Scotland have provided space for a variety of visual-cultural practices and forms of creative expression which have informed our understanding of the world. Simultaneously, the chapters reflect upon the importance of these islands as a space in which, and with which, to contemplate the pressures and the possibilities within contemporary society. This book makes a timely and original contribution to the developing field of island studies, and will be of interest to scholars studying issues of place, community and the peripheries.

Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464688
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context written by Ewa Mazierska and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces a novel treatment of Polish cinema by discussing its international reception, performance, co-productions, and subversive émigré auteurs, such as Andrzej Zulawski and Walerian Borowczyk.

Figuring the Past

Author : Belén Vidal
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 908964282X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Figuring the Past written by Belén Vidal and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring the past" geeft een nieuwe kijk op kostuumdrama's die aan het begin van deze eeuw gemaakt zijn en onderzoekt de manieren waarop de hedendaagse cinema het historische verleden herschept. De auteur verkent de relatie tussen visuele motieven en culturele representaties in een aantal belangrijke films van onder anderen James Ivory, Martin Scorsese en Jane Campion. Door te kijken naar de maniëristische voorkeur voor citatie, detail en stilering, pleit de auteur voor een esthetiek van fragmenten en figuren die centraal staan in de historische kostuumdrama's als een0internationaal genre. In gedetailleerde casestudies worden drie belangrijke kenmerken van het genre - het huis, het tableau en de brief - in relatie gebracht met de veranderende begrippen van visuele stijl, melodrama en geslacht.

Revolutionary Romanticism and Cinema

Author : Paul Dave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Romanticism and Cinema written by Paul Dave and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stages an encounter between conflicting varieties of cinematic romanticism and different forms of history writing. Focused primarily on British cinema and examples of mainstream Hollywood cinema that have significant historical relationships to British and English culture and history, it is configured, loosely, around three key emblematic motifs - country, land, people - that are simultaneously core values and rallying cries of distinctive varieties of conservative, restitutionist and revolutionary romanticism. Ultimately, the book seeks to establish the continuing relevance of the revolutionary romantic critique of capitalist modernity, as it surfaces in film, to pressing contemporary political concerns such as the fate of the proletariat, populism, Brexit post-nationalism, ecocide and the Anthropocene. Paul Dave has taught at the University of East London, UK, and latterly at Teesside University, UK, where he was Reader in Film and Cultural Theory. His research focuses on the representation of class and capitalism and he has published widely on British cinema and literature.

Dead of Night

Author : Jez Conolly
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800346808
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dead of Night written by Jez Conolly and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ealing Studios horror anthology film Dead of Night featured contributions from some of the finest directors, writers and technicians ever to work in British film; this is the first time a single book has been dedicated to its analysis

American Independent Cinema

Author : Anna Backman Rogers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748693610
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book American Independent Cinema written by Anna Backman Rogers and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining films by Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and Sofia Coppola to highlight their use of cinematic time as a mode of philosophical thought, this book brings new and exciting perspectives to American independent cinema.