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The Endless End of Cinema

Author : Gianluca Sergi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501348574
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Endless End of Cinema written by Gianluca Sergi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some 120 years on, the old dog's ability to come up with new tricks and live another day remains as surprising and effective as ever. This book is an exploration of film's ability to escape its own 'The End' title card. It charts the history of cinema's development through a series of crises that could, should, ought to have 'ended' it. From its origins to Covid - via a series of unlikely friendships with sound, television and the internet - the book provides industry professionals, scholars and lovers of cinema with an informing and intriguing journey into the afterlife of cinema and back to the land of the living. It is also a rare collaboration between an Oscar-winning filmmaker and a film scholar, a chronicle of their attempt to bridge two worlds that have often looked at each other with as much curiosity as doubt, but that are bound by the deep love of cinema that they both share.

The Endless End of Cinema

Author : Gianluca Sergi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501348566
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Endless End of Cinema written by Gianluca Sergi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some 120 years on, the old dog's ability to come up with new tricks and live another day remains as surprising and effective as ever. This book is an exploration of film's ability to escape its own 'The End' title card. It charts the history of cinema's development through a series of crises that could, should, ought to have 'ended' it. From its origins to Covid - via a series of unlikely friendships with sound, television and the internet - the book provides industry professionals, scholars and lovers of cinema with an informing and intriguing journey into the afterlife of cinema and back to the land of the living. It is also a rare collaboration between an Oscar-winning filmmaker and a film scholar, a chronicle of their attempt to bridge two worlds that have often looked at each other with as much curiosity as doubt, but that are bound by the deep love of cinema that they both share.

Ends of Cinema

Author : Richard Grusin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517910587
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Ends of Cinema written by Richard Grusin and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of what was deemed cinema: analog celluloid production, darkened public movie theaters, festival culture. The notion of the "end of cinema" had already been broached repeatedly over the course of the twentieth century--from the introduction of sound and color to the advent of television and video--and in Ends of Cinema, contributors reinvigorate this debate to contemplate the ends, as well as directions and new beginnings, of cinema in the twenty-first century. In this volume, scholars at the forefront of film and media studies interrogate multiple potential "ends" of cinema: its goals and spaces, its relationship to postcinema, its racial dynamics and environmental implications, and its theoretical and historical conclusions. Moving beyond the predictable question of digital versus analog, the scholars gathered here rely on critical theory and historical research to consider cinema alongside its media companions: television, the gallery space, digital media, and theatrical environments. Ends of Cinema underscores the shared project of film and media studies to open up what seems closed off, and to continually reinvent approaches that seem unresponsive. Contributors: Caetlin Benson-Allott, Georgetown U; James Leo Cahill, U of Toronto; Francesco Casetti, Yale U; Mary Ann Doane, U of California Berkeley; André Gaudreault, U de Montréal; Michael Gillespie, City College of New York; Mark Paul Meyer, EYE Filmmuseum; Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Woodbury U, Los Angeles; Amy Villarejo, Cornell U.

Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema

Author : Paul Cuff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319388185
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema written by Paul Cuff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the creation and destruction of Abel Gance’s most ambitious film project, and seeks to explain why his meteoric career was so nearly extinguished at the end of silent cinema. By 1929, Gance was France’s most famous director. Acclaimed for his technical innovation and visual imagination, he was also admonished for the excessive length and expense of his productions. Gance’s first sound film, La Fin du Monde (1930), was a critical and financial disaster so great that it nearly destroyed his career. But what went wrong? Gance claimed it was commercial sabotage whilst critics blamed the director’s inexperience with new technology. Neither excuse is satisfactory. Based on extensive archival research, this book re-investigates the cultural background and aesthetic consequences of Gance’s transition from silent filmmaking to sound cinema. La Fin du Monde is revealed to be only one element of an extraordinary cultural project to transform cinema into a universal religion and propagate its power through the League of Nations. From unfinished films to unrealized social revolutions, the reader is given a fascinating tour of Gance’s lost cinematic utopia.

Cinema of the Occult

Author : Carrol Lee Fry
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780934223959
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Cinema of the Occult written by Carrol Lee Fry and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides useful information on the occult religions and applies this discussion to selected films. Readers will find excellent background on these paths as well as perceptive commentary of film adaptations of them and their relevance to understanding our culture.--Publisher's note.

The End of Japanese Cinema

Author : Alexander Zahlten
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372460
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The End of Japanese Cinema written by Alexander Zahlten and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

The Cinema of Wim Wenders

Author : Alexander Graf
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364291
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Wim Wenders written by Alexander Graf and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway is a new study of the films of this most prominent of German directors, and penetrates the seductive sounds and images for which he is best known. The book analyses the individual films in the context of a preoccupation central to all of Wenders' work and writings: why modern cinema - a recording art, solely composed of sounds and images - naturally developed into a primarily narrative medium, a domain traditionally associated with words and sentences? With its emphasis on analysing the films themselves, this book identifies and critically elucidates Wenders' chief artistic motivation: that the act of seeing can constitute a creative act in its own right.

The Cinema of Eric Rohmer

Author : Jacob Leigh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441198318
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Eric Rohmer written by Jacob Leigh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents in chronological order the themes and ideas of his twenty-three feature films, and the complexity of their cinematic style.

Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy

Author : Kate Taylor-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501306138
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy by : Kate Taylor-Jones

Download or read book Divine Work, Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy written by Kate Taylor-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many East Asian nations, cinema and Japanese Imperialism arrived within a few years of each other. Exploring topics such as landscape, gender, modernity and military recruitment, this study details how the respective national cinemas of Japan's territories struggled under, but also engaged with, the Japanese Imperial structures. Japan was ostensibly committed to an ethos of pan-Asianism and this study explores how this sense of the transnational was conveyed cinematically across the occupied lands. Taylor-Jones traces how cinema in the region post-1945 needs to be understood not only in terms of past colonial relationships, but also in relation to how the post-colonial has engaged with shifting political alliances, the opportunities for technological advancement and knowledge, the promise of larger consumer markets, and specific historical conditions of each decade.

The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded

Author : Wanda Strauven
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053569456
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded written by Wanda Strauven and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase “cinema of attractions” to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium’s earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies. The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair’s debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games. With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars—and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well—The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.

New Zealand Patent Office Journal

Author : New Zealand. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book New Zealand Patent Office Journal written by New Zealand. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today

Author : Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630585
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Indie Science Fiction Cinema Today written by Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000. Since then, a key theme has been: what happens when the future no one anticipated arrives faster than anyone expected? Focusing on 21st century independent science fiction films, the author describes a seismic shift in subject matter as society moves into a new technological age. Independent films since the millennium are more daring, incisive and even plausible in their depiction of possible futures than blockbuster films of the same period. Twenty-one chapters break down today's subgenres, featuring interviews with the filmmakers who created them.

Modern European cinema and love

Author : Richard Rushton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526149427
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Modern European cinema and love written by Richard Rushton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the ‘couple’.

No Man an Island

Author : James Udden
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139223
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book No Man an Island written by James Udden and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan is a peculiar place resulting in a peculiar cinema, with Hou Hsiao-hsien being its most remarkable product. Hou’s signature long and static shots almost invite critics to give auteurist readings of his films, often privileging the analysis of cinematic techniques at the expense of the context from which Hou emerges. In this pioneering study, James Udden argues instead that the Taiwanese experience is the key to understanding Hou’s art. The convoluted history of Taiwan in the last century has often rendered fixed social and political categories irrelevant. Changing circumstances have forced the people in Taiwan to be hyperaware of how imaginary identity—above all national identity—is. Hou translates this larger state of affairs in such masterpieces as City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster, and Flowers of Shanghai, which capture and perhaps even embody the elusive, slippery contours of the collective experience of the islanders. Making extensive uses of Chinese sources from Taiwan, the author shows how important the local matters for this globally recognized director. In this new edition of No Man an Island, James Udden charts a new chapter in the evolving art of Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose latest film, The Assassin, earned him the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Hou breaks new ground in turning the classic wuxia genre into a vehicle to express his unique insight into the working of history. The unconventional approach to conventions is quintessential Hou Hsiao-hsien. “An excellent and groundbreaking volume. This book’s very precise analyses of the films as well as their context make it the primary source for any scholar working on Hou in English.” —Chris Berry, King’s College London “In this first book-length study on Hou Hsiao-hsien James Udden illuminates the most intriguing yet mystifying filmmaker in world cinema. No Man an Island is without doubt a major contribution to the fields of Chinese-language cinema and film studies.” —Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Postcinematic Vision

Author : Roger F. Cook
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961239
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Postcinematic Vision written by Roger F. Cook and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology, Postcinematic Vision offer a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing startling new insights into the so-called divide between cinematic and digital media. Starting with the argument that film viewing has long altered neural circuitry in our brains, Roger F. Cook proceeds to reevaluate film’s origins, as well as its merger with digital imaging in the 1990s. His animating argument is that film has continually altered the relation between media and human perception, challenging the visual nature of modern culture in favor of a more unified, pan-sensual way of perceiving. Through this approach, he makes original contributions to our understanding of how mediation is altering lived experience. Along the way, Cook provides important reevaluations of well-known figures such as Franz Kafka, closely reading cinematic passages in the great author’s work; he reassesses the conventional wisdom that Marshall McLuhan was a technological determinist; and he lodges an original new reading of The Matrix. Full of provocative and far-reaching ideas, Postcinematic Vision is a powerful work that helps us see old concepts anew while providing new ideas for future investigation.

A Cinema of Loneliness

Author : Robert Kolker
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199738882
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book A Cinema of Loneliness written by Robert Kolker and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, Kolker reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, as he examines works like Munich, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, and Funny People, in addition to classics by Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman.

MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema

Author : Matthew Coniam
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244466904
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema written by Matthew Coniam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Coniam, author of 'The Annotated Marx Brothers' and 'Egyptomania Goes To The Movies' would dearly love to dedicate his energies to the higher things in life. But alas, cinephilia infected him at a young age and, as yet, there is no cure. In this collection of essays on movies and moviemakers culled from several years' worth of blog posts, magazine articles and book chapters, he shares some of the symptoms in the hope of spreading it further.