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Ingmar Bergman
Av Robin Wood, Barry Keith Grant
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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At a time when few reviewers and critics were taking the study of film seriously, Robin Wood released a careful and thoroughly cinematic commentary on Ingmar Bergman’s films that demonstrated the potential of film analysis in a nascent scholarly field. The original Ingmar Bergman influenced a …
Cinemagritte
René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice
Av Lucy Fischer
Inbunden, 2019
1040 kr
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Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898-1967) and the cinema-a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and art criticism. Magritte once said that he used …
Imitations of Life
Reader on Film and Television Melodrama
Av Marcia Landy
Häftad, 1991
357 kr
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Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting …
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films
From ""Rope"" to ""Vertigo
Av Walter Raubicheck, Walter Srebnick
Häftad, 1991
352 kr
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Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order
Understanding the American Avant-garde Cinema
Häftad, 1994
334 kr
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Full of Secrets
Critical Approaches to ""Twin Peaks
Av David Lavery
Häftad, 1994
315 kr
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Full of Secrets is the complete source book on ""Twin Peaks"", the first foray into television for prominent film director David Lynch. Addressing a wide variety of topics, including the series' cult status, its obsession with doubling, and its silencing of women, this diverse group of essays …
German Cinema
Texts in Context
Häftad, 1995
352 kr
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In the history of German cinema, film directors have developed visual and narrative responses to the anxieties and excesses of their own times and those of Germany's past. This book provides a detailed historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings …
New Latin American Cinema Vol. 1
Av Michael T. Martin, Michael T. Martin
Häftad, 1997
332 kr
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Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, essays and interviews is devoted to the study of a theorized, dynamic and unfinished cinematic movement. Forged by Latin America's post-colonial environment of …
New Latin American Cinema Vol. 2
Av Michael T. Martin, Michael T. Martin
Häftad, 1997
473 kr
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Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, esays and interviews is devoted to the study of a theorized, dynamic and unfinished cinematic movement. Forged by Latin America's post-colonial environment of …
Cinemas of the Black Diaspora
Diversity, Dependence and Oppositionality
Häftad, 1996
445 kr
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This is a study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora. With contributions by film scholars, film critics, and film-makers from Europe, North America and the Third World, this diverse collection provides a critical reading of film-making in the black Diaspora that …
Bertolucci's the Last Emperor
Multiple Takes
Av Ellen Handler Spitz, Bruce H. Sklarew m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
352 kr
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In this anthology, filmmakers, psychoanalysts, film scholars and cultural historians use a psychoanalytic approach to examine Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film ""The Last Emperor"" (1988). Evolving out of a conference on Bertolucci's work, the essays interweave psychological, political and cinematic …
Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media
Häftad, 1999
360 kr
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Violence has been a topic of continued concern within American culture and society. Although there have been numerous sociological and historical studies of violence and its origins, there is relatively little systematic analysis of violence within media representation, even as this issue becomes …
Leaving Springfield
The ""Simpsons"" and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture
Av John Alberti
Häftad, 2003
360 kr
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This is a study of the television programme ""The Simpsons"" which focuses on the show's dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass media hit. Since its first appearance as a series of cartoon vignettes in 1987 and its debut as a weekly programme in 1990, ""The Simpsons"" has had …
Zones of Anxiety
Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade
Häftad, 2005
367 kr
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The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within early cinematic paradigms. Made during 1913 to 1920, the series of six films share not only a consistency of narrative structure and style but also a …
Im Kwon-Taek
The Making of a Korean National Cinema
Av Kyung Hyun Kim, David E. James m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of 40 years, after Korea was liberated from …
Reading Cavell's the World Viewed
A Philosophical Perspective on Film
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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In their study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of ""The World …
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
Cinemas of Girlhood
Av Frances Gateward, Murray Pomerance
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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From ""The Wizard of Oz"" to ""Lolita"", from ""Heathers"" to ""Spice Girls - The Movie"", images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Films have depicted society's problematic expectations of girls together with the dreams, anxieties and tensions experienced by …
House Made of Light
Essays on the Art of Film
Av George Toles
Häftad, 2001
352 kr
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When the lights go down and the film starts to roll, we give ourselves over to the magic of movies. But as George Toles observes, what we experience in this house of light may strike closer to home than we imagine. In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of …
Writing in Light
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Häftad, 2001
342 kr
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While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's ""pure film movement"" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of …
To Change Reels
Film and Film Culture in South Africa
Av Isabel Balseiro, Ntongela Masilela
Häftad, 2003
352 kr
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With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. This collection offers an exploration of a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both representation and production - and which now must overcome collusion between racist ideology and …
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters
A Hollywood History
Av Wayne State University Press
Häftad, 2010
427 kr
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This title considers the history of the American blockbuster - the large-scale, high-cost film - as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, …
New Zealand Filmmakers
Häftad, 2007
429 kr
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This volume contains twenty in-depth studies of prominent New Zealand directors, producers, actors, and cinematographers. ""New Zealand Filmmakers"" outlines and examines three major constituent groups who are responsible for the industry as it appears today: those involved in pioneering film in …
Light Motives
German Popular Cinema in Perspective
Av Randall Halle, Margaret McCarthy
Häftad, 2003
412 kr
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Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of films like ""Das Boot"" (1981), ""The Never-Ending Story"" (1984) ""Run Lola Run"" (1998) and recent German comedies, all representing a body of work outside the parameters of high culture. This success …
Searchers
Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western
Av Arthur M. Eckstein, Peter R. Lehman
Häftad, 2004
360 kr
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In many ways a traditional western, ""The Searchers"" (1956) is considered by critics to be one of the greatest Hollywood films, made by the most influential of western directors. But John Ford's classic work, in its complexity and ambiguity, was a product of post-World War II American culture and …
Framing Hitchcock
Selected Essays from the "Hitchcock Annual
Av Sidney Gottlieb, Christopher Brookhouse
Häftad, 2002
382 kr
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In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This selection of writings offers an overview of …
More Than a Method
Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance
Av Cynthia L. Baron, Diane Carson m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance features twelve essays that analyze performance in post-1950s film, addressing …
Contact Zones
Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema
Häftad, 2008
388 kr
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This title explores the contributions of black diasporic filmmakers and thinkers to contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses.Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, …
Horror International
Av Steven Jay Schneider, Tony Williams
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected …
Where the Boys Are
Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth
Av Murray Pomerance, Frances Gateward
Häftad, 2005
412 kr
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The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now there has been little scholarship available that discusses aspects of boyhood and its relation to cinema - in particular, the process whereby masculinities are socially, historically, economically, …
