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Book Synopsis The Challenge of the Silver Screen by : Freek L. Bakker
Download or read book The Challenge of the Silver Screen written by Freek L. Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 only two years after the invention of film the first feature film about Jesus appeared. This and other films about Jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other important religious figures like Rama, Buddha and Muhammad. Although religious leaders did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believers. This book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status among human beings. This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of the Silver Screen by : Freek L. Bakker
Download or read book The Challenge of the Silver Screen written by Freek L. Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the most important depictions in film of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad and the religious and cultural background to portraying individuals who disclose the divine. It also addresses the reactions of religious leaders to these films.
Download or read book Silver Screen written by Justina Robson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Savior on the Silver Screen by : Richard C. Stern
Download or read book Savior on the Silver Screen written by Richard C. Stern and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savior on the Silver Screen examines nine movies about the life of Jesus - ranging from the traditional to the provocativeand explores how the image of Jesus in each reflects the time and culture in which the film was produced. The selections encompass silent, foreign, epic, and musical films. Both entertaining and insightful, Savior on the Silver Screen is structured for easy use in classroom, small group, and individual settings and includes rental information and practical tips for using the book. For each film there is an introduction, pre-viewing and post-viewing questions, and a discussion of its major features. -- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Shadows of the Silver Screen by : Christopher Edge
Download or read book Shadows of the Silver Screen written by Christopher Edge and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the past in this spine-tingling historical adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge. Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful . Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one knows she's the author. One day a mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn their sinister stories into motion pictures. Filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. As Penelope is drawn into the mysteries surrounding the filming she soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare penned by her own hand... Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late? Spine-tingling historical adventure series with a supernatural twist! From the acclaimed author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright and The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day . Related discussion notes and activity ideas available on the Nosy Crow website.
Book Synopsis The Couch and the Silver Screen by : Andrea Sabbadini
Download or read book The Couch and the Silver Screen written by Andrea Sabbadini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves. This composite approach offers a fascinating insight into the world of cinema. The Couch and the Silver Screen is illustrated with stills throughout and Andrea Sabbadini's introduction provides a theoretical and historical context for the current state of psychoanalytic studies of films. The book is organised into four clear sections - Set and Stage, Working Through Trauma, Horror Perspectives and Documenting Internal Worlds - which form the basis for engaging chapters including: easily readable and jargon-free film reviews. essays on specific subjects such as perspectives on the horror film genre and adolescent development. transcripts of live debates among film directors including Bernardo Bertolucci, actors, critics and psychoanalysts discussing films. The cultural richness of the material presented, combined with the originality of multidisciplinary dialogues on European cinema, makes this book appealing not only to film buffs, but also to professionals, academics and students interested in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the arts.
Book Synopsis Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen by : Sabine Schwientek
Download or read book Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen written by Sabine Schwientek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an international star. To this day, Veidt is considered an icon of early horror film. He showed his acting range in more than a hundred films, among them masterpieces such as The Indian Tomb (1921), Orlac's Hands (1924), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and Casablanca (1942). Conrad Veidt used his acting career to become socially and politically involved, starting with the film Anders als die Anderen, the first film to advocate homosexual rights, in 1919. After the Nazis came to power, he left Germany to protest anti-Semitism and Nazi rule. Along with his biography, this book provides insights into the development of filmmaking from its beginnings through the 1940s, an epoch of cinematic art marked by technical innovations like sound and color film and by world-shaking events, including two world wars.
Book Synopsis Silver Screen Buddha by : Sharon A. Suh
Download or read book Silver Screen Buddha written by Sharon A. Suh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do contemporary films depict Buddhists and Buddhism? What aspects of the Buddhist tradition are these films keeping from our view? By repeatedly romanticizing the meditating monk, what kinds of Buddhisms and Buddhists are missing in these films and why? Silver Screen Buddha is the first book to explore the intersecting representations of Buddhism, race, and gender in contemporary films. Sharon A. Suh examines the cinematic encounter with Buddhism that has flourished in Asia and in the West in the past century – from images of Shangri-La in Frank Capra's 1937 Lost Horizon to Kim Ki-Duk's 2003 international box office success Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring. The book helps readers see that representations of Buddhism in Asia and in the West are fraught with political, gendered, and racist undertones. Silver Screen Buddha draws significant attention to ordinary lay Buddhism, a form of the tradition given little play in popular film. By uncovering the differences between a fictionalized, commodified, and exoticized Buddhism, Silver Screen Buddha brings to light expressions of the tradition that highlight laity and women, on the one hand, and Asian and Asian Americans, on the other. Suh engages in a re-visioning of Buddhism that expands the popular understanding of the tradition, moving from the dominance of meditating monks to the everyday world of raced, gendered, and embodied lay Buddhists.
Book Synopsis Civil Servants on the Silver Screen by : Michelle C. Pautz
Download or read book Civil Servants on the Silver Screen written by Michelle C. Pautz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how government bureaucracy is portrayed in the top ten box office grossing films from 2000–2015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, government is generally portrayed poorly, but individual government bureaucrats are typically depicted positively.
Book Synopsis Danger on the Silver Screen by : Scott McGee
Download or read book Danger on the Silver Screen written by Scott McGee and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner Classic Movies presents a heart-racing look into the world of stunt work featuring films that capture the exhilaration of a car chase, the comedy of a well timed prat fall, or the adrenaline rush from a fight scene complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and hundreds of photographs. Buckle in and join TCM on a action-packed journey through the history of cinema stunt work in Danger on the Silver Screen. This action-packed guide profiles 50 foundational films with insightful commentary on the history, importance, and evolution of an often overlooked element of film: stunt work. With insightful commentary and additional recommendations to expand your repertoire based on your favorites, Danger on the Silver Screen is a one-of-a-kind guide, perfect for film lovers to learn more about or just brush up on their knowledge of stunt work and includes films such as Ben-Hur (1925 & 1959), The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), The Thing from Another World (1951), Bullitt (1968), Live and Let Die (1973), The Blues Brothers (1980), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Matrix (1999), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), John Wick (2014), Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), and many more.
Book Synopsis Indian Silver Screen by : Dr. Paramveer Singh
Download or read book Indian Silver Screen written by Dr. Paramveer Singh and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Silver Screen Television in India has been a medium of entertainment as well as social and economic awareness. It was started under government control as a medium of social awareness, but now this medium has become an industry. There was a time when Doordarshan was the only channel on television in India, but today, hundreds of channels broadcast programs day and night. In India today, there are many channels based on sports, news, film, documentary, and music. There was a time when television programs could be viewed only through television sets, but today, through devices such as computers, laptops, and mobiles, viewers can watch their favorite programs at their convenient location, and time. The main objective of this book written on Indian television is to make students aware of the history and status of Indian television. The book begins with the story of the introduction of television in various countries. It describes the development of television in Britain, America, Australia, China, Africa, and other countries of the continent of Asia. After this, the early experiments, projects, and history and current status of television in India are told. Many of the chapters in the book are about the major television business groups in India that have deep penetration into the Indian television industry. The book also introduces programs that have become famous in India, which have proved to be milestones in Indian television history and reached heights of popularity. Apart from this, the book describes the laws of India which have been implemented to control the television industry. A chapter in the book is written about various television broadcasting techniques practiced in the country. Apart from this, there is a chapter about Direct to Home, which tells the story of the development of DTH in India. Television rating points determine the popularity of television channels and programs. The book introduces various agencies and institutions that determine TRP in India. In addition to this, the history of television journalism in India has also been discussed. A chapter about television journalism in various languages of India such as Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, and Assamese is described in detail. The last chapter of the book discusses various international television channels that are broadcasting in India.
Book Synopsis Bible and Cinema by : Adele Reinhartz
Download or read book Bible and Cinema written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible and Cinema: An Introduction is a comprehensive examination of how the Bible has been used and represented in mainstream cinema to develop its plots, characters, and themes. The book considers two general types of films: Bible movies that retell biblical stories, such as the Exodus and the life of Jesus, and Bible-related movies that make use of biblical books, stories, verses, and figures, and Bibles themselves to tell non-biblical, often fictional, narratives. Topics covered include: the contribution of Bible and Bible-related movies to the history of the Bible’s reception; the ways in which filmmakers make use of scripture to address and reflect their own time and place; the Bible as a vehicle through which films can address social and political issues, reflect human experiences and emotions, explore existential issues such as evil and death, and express themes such as destruction and redemption; the role of the Bible as a source of ethics and morality, and how this role is both perpetuated and undermined in a range of contemporary Hollywood films; and film as a medium for experiences of transcendence, and the role of the Bible in creating such experiences. This thoroughly updated second edition includes insightful analysis of films such as Noah, Gods and Men, Mary Magdalene, and The Shawshank Redemption, paying attention to visual and aural elements as well as plot, character, and dialogue. The book also includes pedagogical resources including discussions of film theory, as well as key words and discussion questions. Teachers, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of Bible and cinema will find this an invaluable guide to a growing field.
Book Synopsis The Golden Gate and the Silver Screen by : Geoffrey Bell
Download or read book The Golden Gate and the Silver Screen written by Geoffrey Bell and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1984 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Silver Screen by : Maureen Howard
Download or read book The Silver Screen written by Maureen Howard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twilight days of silent film, Isabel Maher renounces the glitter and glamour of Hollywood to pursue a life as a wife and mother, as her three children struggle against the lives she has scripted for them--Joe, a Jesuit priest; Rita, who runs off with a gangster who turns state's evidence; and Gemma, angry and ambitious, who pursues fame as a photographer. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Silver Screen to Digital by : Carlo Montanaro
Download or read book Silver Screen to Digital written by Carlo Montanaro and published by John Libbey Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An era has ended. After one hundred and twenty-five years, a change has taken place in cinemas. The thousands of figures formed by silver and coloured pigments can no longer be viewed through transparent film, instead, everything has become digital, compressed, virtual and built into the rapid alternation of millions (hopefully, for quality's sake) of dots, or pixels within a very neat and minuscule grid. But projection is just the last link in a chain that is transforming the most direct language invented by humanity over the centuries. The other links – shooting, editing, special effects, re-elaboration and sound reproduction – have by now undergone radical transformations that have often signified progress. Perhaps, it is worth the trouble, then, having accepted this transformation-revolution once and for all, to understand where we started out from, how cinematographic language was born and how its grammar first and later its syntax evolved thanks to technological development. Without lightweight equipment for sound recording, sensitive emulsions, portable and compact lighting, it would not have been possible, at the end of the 50s, for example, to create identifiable "currents" of experimentation and concept under such titles as free cinema or nouvelle vague, which were largely based on footage from life and no longer reconstructed in the studio. That which filmmakers today can achieve even more effectively thanks to a range of digital technologies, paradoxically, involves working with even more-minimal equipment such as a smartphone in front of green or blue screens, against absolutely virtual backgrounds. In short: no more silver and more and more pixels.
Book Synopsis Popular Ethiopian Cinema by : Michael W. Thomas
Download or read book Popular Ethiopian Cinema written by Michael W. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this book offers a sustained and detailed appreciation of Amharic-language cinema. Michael Thomas considers 'fiker'/love as an organising principle in national Ethiopian culture and, by extension, Amharic cinema. Placing 'fiker' as central to understanding Amharic film genres also illuminates the continuous negotiations at play between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of love in these films. Thomas considers the production and exhibition of films in Ethiopia, charting fluctuations and continuities between the past and the present. Having done so, he offers detailed textual readings of films, identifying important junctures in the industry's development and the emergence of new genres. The findings of the book detail the affective characteristics that delineate most Amharic genres and the role culturally specific concepts, such as fiker, play in maintaining the relevance of commercial cinemas reliant on domestic audiences.
Book Synopsis Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews by : Shaina Hammerman
Download or read book Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews written by Shaina Hammerman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema.” —American Jewish History Motivated by Woody Allen’s brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity, multiculturalism, belonging, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen—questions relevant to any minority in present-day America and Europe.
