Cinema and Modernity – serie
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13 produkter
Shoot!
The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator
Häftad, 2005
225 kr
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Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with …
Possessed
Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema
Inbunden, 2008
454 kr
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Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows …
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
Av Ian Christie
Häftad, 2019
325 kr
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The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only crucial figures in its inception. Telling the story …
Alexander Medvedkin Reader
Inbunden, 2016
1629 kr
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Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, and for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet …
Alexander Medvedkin Reader
Häftad, 2016
354 kr
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Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of "total" documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, and for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet …
Screening Modernism
European Art Cinema, 1950-1980
Inbunden, 2008
910 kr
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Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs such as Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, "Screening Modernism" is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to …
Screening Modernism
European Art Cinema, 1950-1980
Häftad, 2008
372 kr
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Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs such as Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, "Screening Modernism" is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to …
Film, Music, Memory
Inbunden, 2019
1148 kr
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Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of …
Film, Music, Memory
Häftad, 2019
440 kr
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Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of …
Shoot!
The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator
Inbunden, 2005
630 kr
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Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with …
In Excess
Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico
Inbunden, 2009
488 kr
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During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals - including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky - who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the …
Amorous History of the Silver Screen
Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937
Av Zhang Zhen
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in …
Amorous History of the Silver Screen
Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937
Av Zhang Zhen
Inbunden, 2006
1074 kr
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Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in …
