The Films Of Jean Vigo

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Jean Vigo

Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719056321
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Jean Vigo written by Michael Temple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zéro de Conduite still inspire young audiences today. Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career and asks why it has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture, not just in France, but also for generations of filmmakers, critics, and moviegoers around the world. Accessibly written, this will be essential reading for students, teachers, film enthusiasts, and researchers.

Science is Fiction

Author : Andy Masaki Bellows
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262523189
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Science is Fiction written by Andy Masaki Bellows and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the work of maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve.

Jean Vigo

Author : Michael Temple
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141531
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Jean Vigo written by Michael Temple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films 'L'Atalante' and 'Zéro de conduite' still inspire young audiences today. Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career and asks why it has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture, not just in France, but also for generations of filmmakers, critics, and moviegoers around the world. Each film is examined under four headings: - social and political context - the making of the film, from conception to release -detailed analysis of narrative structure, main stylistic features and dominant themes - the reception of the film and its critical reputation Accessibly written, this will be essential reading for students, teachers, film enthusiasts and researchers, indeed for anyone who is interested in the cinema as a living art form

Jean Vigo

Author : Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520016767
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Jean Vigo written by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the seminal French filmmaker who influenced New Wave cinema.

Zoological Surrealism

Author : James Leo Cahill
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959226
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Zoological Surrealism written by James Leo Cahill and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé Before Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevé, a pioneering French scientific and nature filmmaker with a Surrealist’s eye. Creator of more than two hundred films, his studies of strange animal worlds doubled as critical reimaginations of humanity. With an unerring eye for the uncanny and unexpected, Painlevé and his assistant Geneviève Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and insatiable predatory insects. Zoological Surrealism draws from Painlevé’s early oeuvre to rethink the entangled histories of cinema, Surrealism, and scientific research in interwar France. Delving deeply into Painlevé’s archive, James Leo Cahill develops an account of “cinema’s Copernican vocation”—how it was used to forge new scientific discoveries while also displacing and critiquing anthropocentric viewpoints. From Painlevé’s engagements with Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Franju, and competing Surrealists to the historiographical dimensions of Jean Vigo’s concept of social cinema, Zoological Surrealism taps never-before-examined sources to offer a completely original perspective on a cutting-edge filmmaker. The first extensive English-language study of Painlevé’s early films and their contexts, it adds important new insight to our understanding of film while also contributing to contemporary investigations of the increasingly surreal landscapes of climate change and ecological emergency.

Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Author : Richard Porton
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847022
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Film and the Anarchist Imagination written by Richard Porton and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives.these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes while offering an authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. From the early cinema of Griffith and René Clair, to the work of Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Lizzie Borden and Ken Loach, Porton analyzes portrayals of anarchism in film, presenting commentaries and critiques of such classics as Zéro de Conduite, Tout Va Bien, and Love and Anarchy. In addition, he provides an excellent guide to the complex traditions of anarchist thought, from Bakunin and Kropotkin to Emma Goldman and Murray Bookchin, disclosing a rich historical legacy that encompasses the Paris Commune, the Haymarket martyrs, the anarcho-syndicalists of the Spanish Civil War, as well as more familiar contemporary avatars like the Situationists and the enragés of May 1968.

My Lunches with Orson

Author : Henry Jaglom
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805097252
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book My Lunches with Orson written by Henry Jaglom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.

ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474456030
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry written by Marcelline Block and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.

Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520952006
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950s. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual.

Ozu's Tokyo Story

Author : David Desser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484350
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Ozu's Tokyo Story written by David Desser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural specificity, this collection of specially commissioned essays demonstrates the multiple planes on which the film may be appreciated. The introduction outlines Ozu's career as both a contract director of a major studio and as a singular figure in Japanese film history, and also analyses the director's cinematic style, particularly his narrative strategies and spatial compositions. Other essays situate Ozu's cinema in its relationship to Hollywood film-making: his relationship to aspects of Japanese tradition, situating the film within artistic modes, religious systems and beliefs, and socio-cultural and familial formations. Also included is an analysis of how Ozu has been misunderstood in Western criticism.

Masks Or Faces?

Author : William Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Masks Or Faces? written by William Archer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masks or Faces? : A Study in the Psychology of Acting by William Archer, first published in 1888, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The Red Devil Battery Sign

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780811210478
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Red Devil Battery Sign written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.

The Films of Jean Vigo

Author : William Gerard Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Jean Vigo written by William Gerard Simon and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radical Documentary and Global Crises

Author : Ryan Watson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058023
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Radical Documentary and Global Crises written by Ryan Watson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by advocating for a particular outcome. Ryan Watson calls this "militant evidence." In Radical Documentary and Global Crises, Watson centers the discussion on extreme conflict, such as the Iraq War, the occupation of Palestine, the war in Syria, mass incarceration in the United States, and child soldier conscription in the Congo. Under these conditions, artists and activists aspire to document, archive, witness, and testify. The result is a set of practices that turn documentary media toward a commitment to feature and privilege the media made by the people living through the terror. This footage is then combined with new digitally archived images, stories, and testimonials to impact specific social and political situations. Radical Documentary and Global Crises re-orients definitions of what a documentary is, how it functions, how it circulates, and how its effect is measured, arguing that militant evidence has the power to expose, to amass, and to adjudicate.

Werner Herzog

Author : Kristoffer Hegnsvad
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144116
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Werner Herzog written by Kristoffer Hegnsvad and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968); Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972); The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974); and Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog became the subject of public debate, particularly due to his larger than life characters, often played by the wild Klaus Kinski. After the success of his documentary Grizzly Man (2005), Herzog became a leading force in a new form of hybrid documentary, and his tough attitude toward life and film made him a director’s director for a new generation of aspiring filmmakers. Kristoffer Hegnsvad’s award-winning book guides the reader through films depicting gangster priests, bear whisperers, shoe eating, revolutionary filmmakers . . . and a penguin. It is full of rare insights from Herzog’s otherwise secretive Rogue Film School, and features interviews with Herzog.

Mists of Regret

Author : Dudley Andrew
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691239444
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Mists of Regret written by Dudley Andrew and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as Renoir, Carné, Gremillon, Duvivier, and Chenal routinely captured the prizes for best film at every festival and in every country, and their accomplishments led to general agreement that the French were the first to give maturity to the sound cinema. Here the distinguished film scholar Dudley Andrew examines the motivations and consequences of these remarkable films by looking at the cultural web in which they were made. Beyond giving a rich view of the life and worth of cinema in France, Andrew contributes substantially to our knowledge of how films are dealt with in history. Where earlier studies have treated the masterpieces of this era either in themselves or as part of the vision of their creators, and where certain recent scholars have reacted to this by dissolving the masterpieces back into the system of entertainment that made them possible, Andrew stresses the dialogue of culture and cinema. In his view, the films open questions that take us into the culture, while our understanding of the culture gives energy, direction, and consequence to our reading of the films. The book demonstrates the value of this hermeneutic approach for one set of texts and one period, but it should very much interest film theorists and film historians of all sorts.

Radical Cinema

Author : Christian Lebrat
Publisher : Eyewash Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Cinema written by Christian Lebrat and published by Eyewash Books. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cinéma Radical, first published in French in 2008, the artist Christian Lebrat reflects on a cinema that “follows its own rules and questions the very definition of the medium.” His essays analyse the work of major film artists, including Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Fernand Léger, Maurice Lemaître, Man Ray, Jonas Mekas, Paul Sharits, and Michael Snow, among others.