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Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973)
2-volume Set
2025
798 kr
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The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by …
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts
Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his late …
Revolution for the Screen
Abel Gance's Napoleon
Av Paul Cuff
Häftad, 2025
749 kr
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Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts - with devastating results for the movie and for film history. The struggle …
Beyond the Essay Film
Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology
Av Julia Vassilieva, Deane Williams
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long durée' of the 20th century and into the 21st. By raising the issue of …
Caro and Jeunet
Crafting French Cinema
Häftad, 2026
749 kr
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The first book to fully focus on French cult filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Caro & Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema brings a scholarly perspective to the filmmakers’ collaborative and solo artistic projects as outliers in approach and content. Studying from their beginning passion for …
Cine-Dispositives
Essays in Epistemology Across Media
Av Maria Tortajada, François Albera
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives - the Foucauldian concept of a strategic and technical configuration of practices and discourses - from the emergence of film studies as a field in the 1960s to more recent …
Cinema and Narrative Complexity
Embodying the Fabula
Av Steffen Hven
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative …
Color and Empathy
Essays on Two Aspects of Film
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on …
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Objectivists in Cinema
Häftad, 2025
811 kr
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Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Corneille, …
Disaster Cinema in Historical Perspective
Mediations of the Sublime
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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How do we experience disaster films in cinema? And where does disaster cinema come from? The two questions are more closely related than one might initially think. For the framework of the cinematic experience of natural disasters has its roots in the mid-eighteenth century when the aesthetic …
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces
Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other temporary public settings. This desire to turn ruins, pubs, galleries, parks, village halls, and even …
Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts
Av Teri Higgins, Catherine Fowler
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of …
Film Festivals
From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world’s most famous festivals – Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam – Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that began in the midst of geopolitical disputes in war-torn Europe. De Valck shows …
Film Phenomenology and Adaptation
Sensuous Elaboration
Häftad, 2025
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Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining …
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940
Operational Detection
Av Ilka Brasch
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature. Through …
Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933
Tracing the Social Life of Cinema
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations designed to assimilate and …
Films That Work Harder
The Circulation of Industrial Film
Av Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the emergence of new forms of applied knowledge in …
Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema
Av Owen Lyons
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic. The newly interconnected world economy was barely understood and yet it was increasingly made visible in the films of the time. The complexities of this system were reflected …
Futurist Cinema
Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film
Häftad, 2025
749 kr
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Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a …
German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism
Av Hester Baer
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the …
Hands on Film
Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development …
Hollywood in Cannes
The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout. He traces the growing influence of the Hollywood studios on the festival's rise to the key film …
Hollywood is Everywhere
Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era
Av Melis Behlil
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact …
How Film Histories Were Made
Materials, Methods, Discourses
Av Malte Hagener, Yvonne Zimmermann
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions …
Improvising Cinema
Häftad, 2025
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This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as …
Labour in a Single Shot
Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
Av Roy Grundmann, Peter Schwartz m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities …
LGBTQ Film Festivals
Curating Queerness
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical …
Melodrama After the Tears
New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood
Av Jörg Metelmann, Scott Loren
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging …
Modern Ghost Melodramas
'What Lies Beneath'
Häftad, 2025
686 kr
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The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United …
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power of visual art – across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of …
