AFI Film Readers – serie
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City Symphony Phenomenon
Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars
Av Steven Jacobs, Eva Hielscher m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
821 kr
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The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist …
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm
Cinema, Television, and the Archive
Av Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the …
Fantasy/Animation
Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres
Av Christopher Holliday, Alexander Sergeant
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated …
Screening Characters
Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media
Av Johannes Riis, Aaron Taylor
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing …
Cinema of Exploration
Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice
Av James Leo Cahill, Luca Caminati
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses …
Hollywood Puzzle Films
Inbunden, 2014
2929 kr
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From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to …
Hollywood Puzzle Films
Häftad, 2014
878 kr
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From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to …
Cognitive Media Theory
Av Ted Nannicelli, Paul Taberham
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally …
Cognitive Media Theory
Av Ted Nannicelli, Paul Taberham
Häftad, 2014
900 kr
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Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally …
Media Authorship
Av Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
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Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture …
Media Authorship
Av Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner
Häftad, 2012
710 kr
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Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture …
New Silent Cinema
Inbunden, 2015
2929 kr
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With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical …
New Silent Cinema
Häftad, 2015
955 kr
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With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical …
Arnheim for Film and Media Studies
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic …
Arnheim for Film and Media Studies
Häftad, 2010
695 kr
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Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic …
Slapstick Comedy
Av Tom Paulus, Rob King
Inbunden, 2010
3271 kr
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From Chaplin’s tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new …
Slapstick Comedy
Av Tom Paulus, Rob King
Häftad, 2010
753 kr
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From Chaplin’s tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new …
Pervasive Animation
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new …
Pervasive Animation
Häftad, 2013
924 kr
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This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new …
Color and the Moving Image
History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive
Av Simon Brown, Sarah Street m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the …
Color and the Moving Image
History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive
Av Simon Brown, Sarah Street m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
851 kr
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This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the …
Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture
Av Tom Brown, Belén Vidal
Inbunden, 2013
2759 kr
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The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a …
Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture
Av Tom Brown, Belén Vidal
Häftad, 2013
827 kr
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The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a …
Ecocinema Theory and Practice
Av Stephen Rust, Salma Monani m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2680 kr
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Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind—an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema’s intersections with environmental understandings. It references …
Ecocinema Theory and Practice
Av Stephen Rust, Salma Monani m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
878 kr
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Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind—an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema’s intersections with environmental understandings. It references …
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
Häftad, 1989
619 kr
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These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Yearsof Our Lives, Three Faces of …
Theorizing Documentary
Häftad, 1993
800 kr
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A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'
Black American Cinema
Inbunden, 1993
2600 kr
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This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and …
Black American Cinema
Häftad, 1993
776 kr
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This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and …
Sound Theory/Sound Practice
Av Rick Altman
Häftad, 1992
676 kr
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Dramatically broadening the previous field of research on sound, Sound Theory/Sound Practice promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as a historical perspective.
