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Technology and Film Scholarship

Author : Santiago Hidalgo
Publisher : Film Theory in Media History
ISBN 13 : 9789089647542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Film Scholarship written by Santiago Hidalgo and published by Film Theory in Media History. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / André Gaudreault -- Introduction: The Discursive Spaces Between a History of Film Technology and Technological Experience / Santiago Hidalgo -- Section I: Experience -- 1. When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures / Charles Musser -- 2. Exhibition Practices in Transition: Spectators, Audiences, and Projectors / Jan Olsson -- 3. Reel Changes: Post-mortem Cinephilia or the Resistance of Melancholia / André Habib -- 4. Walter Benjaminâ€™s Play Room: Where the Future So Eloquently Nests, or: What is Cinema Again? / Dana Cooley -- Section II: Study -- 5. Hitchcock, Film Studies, and New Media: The Impact of Technology on the Analysis of Film / David Colangelo -- 6. Film Analysis and Statistics: A Field Report / Charles Oâ€™Brien -- 7. A â€˜Distant Readingâ€™ of the â€˜Chaser Theoryâ€™: Local Views and the Digital Generation of New Cinema History / Paul Moore -- Section III: Theory -- 8. Cine-Graphism: A New Approach to the Evolution of Film Language through Technology / Tom Gunning -- 9. Can We Have the Cave and Leave It Too? On the Meaning of Cinema as Technology / Vinzenz Hediger -- 10. On Viewfinders, Video Assist Systems, and Tape Splicers: Questioning the History of Techniques and Technology in Cinema / BenoÃt Turquety -- Index.

An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies

Author : Jim Cheng
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540337
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies written by Jim Cheng and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwanese film scholars from the 1950s to 2013. Paired with An Annotated Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies (2004), which accounts for texts dating back to the 1920s, this series brings together like no other reference the disparate voices of Chinese film scholarship, charting its unique intellectual arc. Organized intuitively, the volume begins with reference materials (bibliographies, cinematographies, directories, indexes, dictionaries, and handbooks) and then moves through film history (the colonial period, Taiwan dialect film, new Taiwan cinema, the 2/28 incident); film genres (animated, anticommunist, documentary, ethnographic, martial arts, teen); film reviews; film theory and technique; interdisciplinary studies (Taiwan and mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, film and aboriginal peoples, film and literature, film and nationality); biographical materials; film stories, screenplays, and scripts; film technology; and miscellaneous aspects of Taiwanese film scholarship (artifacts, acts of censorship, copyright law, distribution channels, film festivals, and industry practice). Works written in multiple languages include transliteration/romanized and original script entries, which follow universal AACR-2 and American cataloguing standards, and professional notations by the editors to aid in the use of sources.

Cinema, Computers, and War

Author : Brendan Patrick Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Cinema, Computers, and War written by Brendan Patrick Riley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: It suggests that parallel distributed processing provides a model for pedagogy and research, applicable to both classroom and scholarly work. Cinema, Computers, and War explores the relationship between criticism, technology, and modern digital culture. It uses these technologies to invent new methods for film scholarship--not to define film studies in the age of electracy, but to make room for it.

Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture

Author : Powers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019768338X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture written by Powers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies that provided the infrastructure for experimental filmmaking at the height of its cultural impact. Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced these material resources and invested them with meanings and values adjacent to those of semiprofessional film culture. By reasserting the physicality of the body in making time-lapse and kinesthetic sequences with the Bolex, filmmakers conversed with other art forms and integrated broader spheres of humanistic and scientific inquiry into their artistic process. Drawing from the photographic qualities of stocks such as Tri-X and Kodachrome, they discovered pliant metaphors that allowed them to connect their artistic practice to metaphysics, spiritualism, and Hollywood excess. By framing film labs as mystical or adversarial, they cultivated an oppositionality that valorized control over the artistic process. And by using the optical printer as a tool for excavating latent meaning out of found footage, they posited the reworking of images as fundamental to the exploration of personal and cultural identity. Providing a wealth of new detail about the making of canonized avant-garde classics by such luminaries as Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage, as well as rediscovering works from overlooked artists such as Chick Strand, Amy Halpern, and Gunvor Nelson, Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture uses technology as a lens for examining the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and artistic commitments and communities.

Digital Humanities and Film Studies

Author : Adelheid Heftberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303002864X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Digital Humanities and Film Studies written by Adelheid Heftberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of how art could be studied and measured. This book brings those ideas to the digital age. One of the central questions the book intends to address is, “How can hypothetical notions in film studies be supported or falsified using empirical data and statistical tools?” The first stage involves manual and computer-assisted annotation of the films, leading to the production of empirical data which is then used for statistical analysis but more importantly for the development of visualizations. Studies of this type furthermore shed light on the field of visual presentation of time-based processes; an area which has its origin in the Russian formalist sphere of the 1920s and which has recently gained new relevance due to technological advances and new possibilities for computer-assisted analysis of large and complex data sets. In order to reach a profound understanding of Vertov and his films, the manual or computer-assisted data analysis must be combined with film-historical knowledge and a study of primary sources. In addition, the status of the surviving film materials and the precise analysis of these materials combined with knowledge of historical film technology provide insight into archival policy and political culture in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s.

Cinema and Sensation

Author : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328567
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Sensation written by Martine Beugnet and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cinema and Sensation: " "French Film and the Art of Transgression" looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the reemergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema s sensory impact and transgressive nature: "Adieu"; "A ma soeur"; "Baise-moi"; "Beau Travail"; "La Blessure"; "La Captive"; "Dans ma peau"; "Demonlover"; "L Humanite"; "Flandres"; "L Intrus"; "Les Invisibles"; "Lady Chatterley"; "Lecons de tenebres"; "Romance"; "Sombre"; "Tiresia"; "Trouble Every Day"; "Twentynine Palms"; "Vendredi soir"; "La Vie nouvelle"; "Wild Side"; and "Zidane, un portrait du XXIeme siecle." These films, among others, typify a willingness to explore cinema s unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually.Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Bataille, among others, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques, and motifs that allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching today s most burning sociocultural debatesfrom the growing supremacy of technology, to globalization, exile, and exclusion."

The Digital Scholar

Author : Martin Weller
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849666261
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Scholar written by Martin Weller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.

Cinematic Appeals

Author : Ariel Rogers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535783
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Appeals written by Ariel Rogers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw the viewer into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. This technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with the viewer's physical response and more with information flow, awe, and the reevaluation of spatiality and embodiment. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time.

Film and Attraction

Author : André Gaudreault
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078055
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Film and Attraction written by André Gaudreault and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important reexamination of early film history, translated from the French for the first time.

Undergraduate Research in Film

Author : Lucia Ricciardelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429939191
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Undergraduate Research in Film written by Lucia Ricciardelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergraduate Research in Film: A Guide for Students supplies tools for building research skills, with examples of undergraduate research activities and case studies on projects in the various areas in the study of film, film theory, film production, history of film, and interdisciplinary projects. Professors and students can use it as a text and/or a reference book. Essentially, what makes this volume unique is that it brings together examples of film projects and film studies courses within the framework of research skills. Following an overview chapter, the next seven chapters cover research skills including writing literature reviews, choosing topics and formulating questions,working with human subjects, collecting and analyzing data, citing sources and disseminating results. A wide variety of sub-disciplines follow in chapters 9-16 with sample project ideas from each, as well as undergraduate research conference abstracts. The final chapter is an annotated guide to online resources. All chapters begin with inspiring quotations and end with relevant discussion questions.

The Language and Style of Film Criticism

Author : Andrew Klevan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136728295
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Language and Style of Film Criticism written by Andrew Klevan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism. In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film, film criticism has been relatively marginalised, especially within the academy. This book highlights the distinctiveness of film criticism and addresses ways in which it can take a more central place within the academy and develop in dynamic ways outside it. The Language and Style of Film Criticism is essential reading for academics, teachers, students and journalists who wish to understand and appreciate the language and style of film criticism.

André Bazin's Film Theory

Author : Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190067292
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book André Bazin's Film Theory written by Angela Dalle Vacche and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, Andre Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human? For the famous French film critic, a human is simultaneously a rational animal and an irrational being. Bazin's idea of the cinema is amind-machine where the ethical implications have priority over aesthetic issues. And in its ability to function as an art form for the masses, cinema is the only medium that can address an audience at the individual and community levels simultaneously - the audience sees the same film, but eachindividual relates to the narrative in a different way. In principle, cinema can unsettle our routines in productive ways and expand our sense of belonging to a much larger picture.By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that Andre Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of biological evolution and modern technology inside our consciousness. Through the projection of recorded traces of the worldonto a brain-like screen, the cinema can open viewers up to self-interrogation and empathy towards Otherness. Bazin was neither a spiritualist nor an animist or a pantheist, yet his film theory leads also to ideas of a more cosmological persuasion: through editing and camera movement, cinemaexplores our belonging to a vast universe that extends from the microbes of the microscope to the stars of the telescope. Such ideas of connectedness, coupled with Bazin's well-known emphasis of realism, form the foundation for his film theory's embrace of Italian neorealism. Choosing to avoid aquantitative naturalism based on accumulation of details, Bazin's theory instead promotes the kind of cinema that celebrates perceptual displacement, the objectification of human behavior, and one's own critical self-awareness.

Conjuror's Box

Author : John P. Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Conjuror's Box written by John P. Powers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuror's Box examines the influence of technology on American avant-garde cinema, dating roughly from the 1960s to the present. It offers causal accounts of four technological developments--the filmstrip, optical printing, film labs, and digital video--and argues that technology is crucial for understanding avant-garde cinema's complicated relationships with aesthetics, theory, culture, and the act of art-making. This entails overlapping approaches to the material: conducting primary document research and personal interviews to reconstruct key historical developments, applying close visual analysis of film form, elaborating the working processes of film and video makers, and proposing a fresh conceptual base to link the complicated, and often surprising, influence of technology on avant-garde filmmaking. This dissertation makes several contributions. First, it argues that in exploring the boundaries of a technologically delimited medium, avant-garde filmmakers innovated radical approaches to visual transformation, one of the defining characteristics of avant-garde cinema. In particular, it focuses upon the contributions of the "minor cinema" generation, arguing that this era of avant-garde filmmaking cemented reworking and "post-production" as critical to the avant-garde project. Second, it re-examines discourses of amateurism and medium specificity, both of which have been central to the avant-garde ethos. Specifically, this dissertation confronts two commonplace assumptions: 1) The avant-garde's authenticity is bound up with its lo-fi, amateur-based approach to filmmaking technology; and 2) Technology in the avant-garde always functions reflexively, to call attention to the material and ideological dimensions of the medium. In direct rebuttal, I demonstrate the avant-garde's sophisticated approach to technology for purposes that go beyond reflexivity. Third, the dissertation broadens the "institutional turn" in recent avant-garde film scholarship by focusing on technology. Perhaps because the achievements of the cinematic avant-garde are so substantial in the face of indifference or outright hostility, there is a tendency to champion its autonomy by emphasizing its separation from mainstream industries. I argue for a more complex view that understands the avant-garde to be both autonomous and dependent, piggybacking upon a variety of technological developments that were intended to service other filmmaking markets

The DVD Revolution

Author : Aaron Barlow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024537
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The DVD Revolution written by Aaron Barlow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of the DVD marked the beginning of one of history's most successful technological innovations, and capped a 75-year development of home-viewing possibilities. Never before have film fans had access in their living rooms to something so remarkably close to the theatrical experience. In addition, because a DVD can hold much more than a single movie, it has allowed films to be marketed with a variety of extras, sparking both a new packaging industry and greater interest on the part of home viewers. This book provides an examination of the DVD's impact, both on home viewing and on film study. From film fan culture through filmmaker commentaries, from special editions to a look at where the format will go from here, author Aaron Barlow offers the first-ever exploration of this explosive new entertainment phenomenon. As the DVD becomes the popular vehicle of record for films, it is also becoming a unique and unprecedented way for the interested viewer to learn more about filmmaking than has ever been possible before. Because of its ability to reproduce the dimensions and quality of the celluloid image, film fans and scholars can have practically perfect reproductions of classic and contemporary films at their disposal. Not only will this book be of interest to the burgeoning population of DVD fans and collectors, but it will provide insights that should be of interest to both students of popular culture and of film.

Film Studies: The Basics

Author : Amy Villarejo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501177X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Film Studies: The Basics written by Amy Villarejo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Studies: The Basics is a compelling guide to the study of cinema in all its forms. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of recent scholarship, the latest developments in the industry and the explosive impact of new technologies. Core topics covered include: The history, technology and art of cinema Theories of stardom, genre and film-making The movie industry from Hollywood to Bollywood Who does what on a film set Complete with film stills, end-of-chapter summaries and a substantial glossary, Film Studies: The Basics is the ideal introduction to those new to the study of cinema.

Film 1900

Author : Annemone Ligensa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969162
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Film 1900 written by Annemone Ligensa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century. The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses transcultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema’s position in cultural history. “The capable Ligensa and Kreimeier invited a coterie of renowned Continental scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues of modernity and cinema by harking back to the fin de siècle. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” —T. Lindval, Choice

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology

Author : Andreas Fickers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110799774
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Doing Experimental Media Archaeology written by Andreas Fickers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.