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The Cinema's Third Machine

Author : Sabine Hake
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803223653
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema's Third Machine written by Sabine Hake and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The improvements in the technology, artistry, and distribution of motion pictures coincided with the traumas of modern Germany. It is hardly to be wondered that filmmakers frequently turned their cameras on Germany's social and political problems that propagandists regularly sought to manipulate them, that entrepreneurs tried to exploit them, and that German thinkers brooded upon the relationship between German society, politics, and the films that represented them all. From these tangled motives a rich discourse on film emerged that paralleled or anticipated discourses in the other film centers of the world. The Cinema's Third Machine reproduces the diversity of perspectives and the intensity of controversies of early German film within the broad context of German social and political history, from the aesthetic rapture of the first years to the institutionalization of film by the national socialist state. Many texts have been rediscovered and are now presented to modern scholars for the first time. Hake treats all aspects of the medium: production, promotion, education, journalism, aesthetics, and political activism, following throughout the various forms criticism assumed.

Museum Movies

Author : Haidee Wasson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520420896
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Museum Movies written by Haidee Wasson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, established in 1935. The first North American film archive and museum, the film library pioneered an expansive moving image network, comprising popular, abstract, animated, American, Canadian, and European films. More than a repository, MoMA circulated these films nationally and internationally, connecting the modern art museum to universities, libraries, women's clubs, unions, archives, and department stores. Under the aegis of the museum, cinema also changed. Like books, paintings, and photographs, films became discrete objects, integral to thinking about art, history, and the politics of modern life.

Film Criticism in Cape Town 1928-1930

Author : Michael Eckardt
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 191998061X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Film Criticism in Cape Town 1928-1930 written by Michael Eckardt and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of film criticism in Cape Town’s daily press from 1928 to 1930, using film reviews from the Cape Times and Die Burger. The character of film criticism in the period under discussion is explained by describing the general function of film criticism, as well as comparing the local with the international film press. The basis for the comparative analysis is a list of films screened in three selected cinemas in Cape Town.

Dietrich's Ghosts

Author : Erica Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715282
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Dietrich's Ghosts written by Erica Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.

The Films of Fritz Lang

Author : Tom Gunning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718850
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Fritz Lang written by Tom Gunning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lang's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative which can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin and Kracauer. From the sweeping allegorical films of the 20s to the chilly and abstract thrillers of the 50s, Lang's films, Gunning claims, are 'among the most precious records of the twentieth century'. The Films of Fritz Lang immeasurably enriches our understanding of a great artist and, in so doing, reimagines what a film arlist is: an author who fades away even in being recognised and interpreted, an enigmatic figure at the junction of aesthetics, history, biography and theory.

Medieval film

Author : Anke Bernau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141671
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Medieval film written by Anke Bernau and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval film explores theoretical questions about the ideological, artistic, emotional and financial investments inhering in cinematic renditions of the medieval period. What does it mean to create and watch a ‘medieval film’? What is a medieval film and why are they successful? This is the first work that attempts to answer these questions, drawing, for instance, on film theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies and the growing body of work on medievalism. Contributors investigate British, German, Italian, Australian, French, Swedish and American film, exploring topics such translation, temporality, film noir, framing and period film – and find the medieval lurking in unexpected corners. In addition it provides in-depth studies of individual films from different countries including The Birth of a Nation to Nosferatu, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Medieval film will be of interest to medievalists working in disciplines including literature, history, art history, to scholars working on film and in cultural studies. It will also be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and to an informed enthusiast in film or/and medieval culture.

Black Film British Cinema II

Author : Clive Nwonka
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1912685639
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Black Film British Cinema II written by Clive Nwonka and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period. Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice. This second iteration of Black Film British Cinema, marking over 30 years since the ground-breaking ICA Documents 7 publication in 1988, continues this investigation by offering a crucial contemporary consideration of the textual, institutional, cultural and political shifts that have occurred from this period. It focuses on the practices, values and networks of collaborations that have shaped the development of black film culture and representation. But what is black British film? How do such films, however defined, produce meaning through visual culture, and what are the political, social and aesthetic motivations and effects? How are the new forms of black British film facilitating new modes of representation, authorship and exhibition? Explored in the context of film aesthetics, curatorship, exhibition and arts practice, and the politics of diversity policy, Black Film British Cinema II provides the platform for new scholars, thinkers and practitioners to coalesce on these central questions. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, operating at the intersections of film studies, media and communications, sociology, politics and cultural studies. Through a diverse range of perspectives and theoretical interventions that offer a combination of traditional chapters, long-form essays, shorter think pieces, and critical dialogues, Black Film British Cinema II is a comprehensive, sustained, wide ranging collection that offers new framework for understanding contemporary black film practices and the cultural and creative dimensions that shape the making of blackness and race. Contributors Bidisha, Ashley Clark, Shelley Cobb, James Harvey, Melanie Hoyes, Maryam Jameela, Kara Keeling, Ozlem Koksal, Rabz Lansiquot, Sarita Malik, Richard Martin, So Mayer, Alessandra Raengo, Richard T. Rodríguez, Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen, Natalie Wreyford

Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany

Author : Steve Choe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441145206
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany written by Steve Choe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation. Correspondingly, recent film historians and theorists have taken up these discourses to theorize the moving image, both in analog and digital. But, many important issues are overlooked. Combining close readings of individual films with detailed interpretations of philosophical texts, all produced in Weimar Germany immediately following the Great War, Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany shows how these films teach viewers about living and dying within a modern, mass mediated context. Choe places relatively underanalyzed films such as F. W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle and Arthur Robison's Warning Shadows alongside Martin Heidegger's early seminars on phenomenology, Sigmund Freud's Reflections upon War and Death and Max Scheler's critique of ressentiment. It is the experience of war trauma that underpins these correspondences, and Choe foregrounds life and death in the films by highlighting how they allegorize this opposition through the thematics of animation and stasis.

The Hygienic Apparatus

Author : Paul Dobryden
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144980
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Hygienic Apparatus written by Paul Dobryden and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany’s Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial modernity. Examining classic films—including The Last Laugh, Faust, and Kuhle Wampe—as well as documentaries, cinema architecture, and studio practices, Paul Dobryden demonstrates how cinema envisioned and interrogated hygienic concerns about environmental disorder. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction after World War I, The Hygienic Apparatus explores cinema’s material contexts alongside its representations of housework, urban space, traffic, pollution, disability, aging, and labor. Reformers worried about the health risks associated with moviegoing but later used film to popularize hygienic ideas, encouraging viewers to see the world and themselves in relation to public health objectives. Modernist architecture and design fashioned theaters into regenerative environments for fatigued spectators. Filmmakers like F. W. Murnau and Slatan Dudow, meanwhile, explored the aesthetic and political possibilities of dirt, contagion, intoxication, and disorder. Dobryden recovers a set of ecological and biopolitical concerns to show how the problem of environmental disorder fundamentally shaped cinema’s relationship to modernity. As accessible as it is persuasive, the book adds to a growing body of scholarship on biopolitics within German studies and reveals fresh ways of understanding the apparatus of Weimar cinema.

The Semiotics of Light and Shadows

Author : Piotr Sadowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350016152
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Semiotics of Light and Shadows written by Piotr Sadowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative and emotive power of light and shadow when used in contemporary indexical media including the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, camera obscura, photography and film. In particular, Sadowski highlights the aesthetic and emotional significance of shadows. The 'cast shadow', as an indexical sign, maintains a physical connection with its near-present referent, such as a hidden person, stimulating a viewer's imagination and provoking responses including anxiety or curiosity. The 'cinematic shadow' plays a stylistic role, by enhancing image texture, depth of field, and tonal contrast of cinematic moments. Such enhancements are especially important in monochromatic films, and Sadowski interweaves the book with accounts of seminal Weimar cinema moments. Sadowski's book is distinctive for combining historical materials and theoretical approaches to develop a deeper understanding of Weimar cinema and other contemporary art forms. The Semiotics of Light and Shadows is an ideal resource for both scholars and students working in linguistics, semiotics, film, media, and visual arts.

Mediating Modernity

Author : Stefanie Harris
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047151
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Modernity written by Stefanie Harris and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.

Anders als die Andern

Author : Ervin Malakaj
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228018706
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Anders als die Andern written by Ervin Malakaj and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters celebrated the film’s moving storyline, while conservative detractors succeeded in prohibiting public screenings. Banned and partially destroyed after the rise of Nazism, the film was lost until the 1970s and only about one-third of its original footage is preserved today. Directed by Richard Oswald and co-written by Oswald and the renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, Anders als die Andern is a remarkable artifact of cinema culture connected to the vibrant pre-Stonewall homosexual rights movement of early-twentieth-century Germany. The film makes a strong case for the normalization of homosexuality and for its decriminalization, but the central melodrama still finds its characters undone by their public outing. Ervin Malakaj sees the film’s portrayal of the pain of living life queerly as generating a complex emotional identification in modern spectators, even those living in apparently friendlier circumstances. There is a strange comfort in knowing that we are not alone in our struggles, and Malakaj recuperates Anders als die Andern’s mournful cinema as an essential element of its endurance, treating the film’s melancholia both as a valuable feeling in and of itself and as a springboard to engage in an intergenerational queer struggle. Over a century after the film’s release, Anders als die Andern serves as a stark reminder of how hostile the world can be to queer people, but also as an object lesson in how to find sustenance and social connection in tragic narratives.

Karl Freund

Author : Gavin Schmitt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644020
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Karl Freund written by Gavin Schmitt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Freund is the most important film pioneer you've never heard of. From the silent film era to the rise of the American sitcom, Freund was there at every turn. Countless camera techniques can be traced back to his "unchained camera." His lighting setup for filming I Love Lucy live remains standard to this day. He was the man behind the lens for many influential and award-winning films, from Metropolis to The Good Earth to Key Largo. This biography is the first book-length look at one of the world's greatest cameramen. It details the events of his early life, his entrance into the world of film, his work in both Germany and America, and his legacy, while also putting his life and films into the historical context of the 20th century. The author gives particular attention to Freund's role in the early horror films Der Golem, Dracula, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mummy, and Mad Love.

Becoming a Nazi Town

Author : David Imhoof
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472118994
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Nazi Town written by David Imhoof and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars

A Second Life

Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053561722
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book A Second Life written by Thomas Elsaesser and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers records the stories of computing's past, enabling today's professionals to improve on the realities of yesterday. The stories in this book clearly show that modern concepts, such as data abstraction, modularity, and structured approaches, date much earlier in the field than their appearance in academic literature. These stories help capture the true evolution. The book illustrates human experiences and industry turning points through personal recollections by the pioneers ... people like Barry Boehm, Peter Denning, Watts Humphrey, Frank Land, and a dozen others.

European Film Theory

Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135902534
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book European Film Theory written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Film Theory explores the ‘Europeanness’ of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the ‘culture wars’ between ‘Continental’ and ‘Analytical’ film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship between Continental philosophy of art and philosophy of history and European film theory. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the contributors to this new volume in the AFI FILM READERS series offer fresh interpretations of European film theorists and illuminate the political potential of European film theory.

Markets and Civil Society

Author : Victor Pérez-Díaz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459377
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Markets and Civil Society written by Victor Pérez-Díaz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the currently emerging European society, which includes the economic and social transformation of Eastern and Central European countries, has been hotly debated. At its center is the relationship between markets and civil society within political and social contexts. The contributors to this volume offer perspectives from various disciplines (the social sciences, conceptual history, law, economics) and from several European countries in order to explore the ways in which markets influence various forms of civil society, such as individual freedom, social cohesion, economic effectiveness and democratic governance, and influence the construction of a civil society in a broader sense.