Traditions in World Cinema – serie
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Traditions in World Cinema
Av Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics …
Japanese Horror Cinema
Av Jay McRoy
Häftad, 2005
410 kr
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A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition’s most significant trends and themes. The book examines the genre’s dominant aesthetic, cultural, …
Czech and Slovak Cinema
Theme and Tradition
Av Peter Hames
Inbunden, 2009
1451 kr
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This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre, and visual style, and looks at the ways in …
Czech and Slovak Cinema
Theme and Tradition
Av Peter Hames
Häftad, 2010
657 kr
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This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre, and visual style, and looks at the ways in …
African Filmmaking
North and South of the Sahara
Av Roy Armes
Inbunden, 2006
1413 kr
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African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara is the first comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which …
International Film Musical
Av Corey K Creekmur, Linda Y Mokdad
Häftad, 2013
354 kr
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This is the first comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as 'native' rather …
Italian Neorealist Cinema
Inbunden, 2012
1368 kr
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How has Italian neorealist cinema changed the boundaries of cinematic narration and representation? In this new study, Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment based on individual optiques. She accounts for the tradition’s coherence in terms of its moral commitment to creating …
Italian Neorealist Cinema
Häftad, 2013
718 kr
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How has Italian neorealist cinema changed the boundaries of cinematic narration and representation? In this new study, Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment based on individual optiques. She accounts for the tradition’s coherence in terms of its moral commitment to creating …
Spanish Horror Film
Häftad, 2014
589 kr
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Spanish Horror Film is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror boom' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the most recent production in the current renaissance of Spanish genre cinema, through a study of its production, circulation, regulation and consumption. The …
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe
Av Aga Skrodzka
Inbunden, 2012
2095 kr
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Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe explores the interlocking complexities of two liminal concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a fascinating hybrid that resonates with dominant currents in contemporary thought on transnationalism, globalisation and regionalism. In this …
New Neapolitan Cinema
Inbunden, 2011
1413 kr
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Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples …
New Romanian Cinema
Av Dana Duma, Christina Stojanova
Inbunden, 2019
2250 kr
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Covering more than forty films made since 2001 – including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills – this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically. …
New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas
Inbunden, 2018
1718 kr
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Several Latin American films ('Amores Perros', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien', 'Cidade de Deus', 'Central do Brasil', 'Nueve Reinas', 'El Hijo de la Novia') enjoyed an unprecedented level of critical and commercial success in the world film market. These films were considered transnational as they benefited …
New Neapolitan Cinema
Häftad, 2012
672 kr
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Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples …
American Smart Cinema
Häftad, 2013
373 kr
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American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.Connecting the 'smart' sensibility to issues of expressive irony, generational divide and …
New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus
Moving Within and Beyond the Frame
Inbunden, 2014
1413 kr
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In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between ‘art-house’ and commercially viable films is heavily emphasized. However, since the democratization of the political landscape in Taiwan, Taiwanese cinema has become internationally fluid. As the case studies in this book demonstrate, filmmakers …
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi
Av Adam Bingham
Inbunden, 2015
2015 kr
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This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In several cases it considers in detail the ways in which individual films have both drawn and departed from those films that have comprised the key works and trends in these generic categories, and in others it looks at some …
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema
Häftad, 2013
410 kr
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Unlike countries like France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement. However, while new artistic schools were emerging in many other countries, Italy was undergoing its most dramatic social and economic transformations. Those violent changes, …
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe
Av Aga Skrodzka
Häftad, 2014
718 kr
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Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe explores the interlocking complexities of two liminal concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a fascinating hybrid that resonates with dominant currents in contemporary thought on transnationalism, globalisation and regionalism. In this …
International Noir
Av Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer
Inbunden, 2014
1383 kr
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Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst, influencing new trends in European and Asian filmmaking. International Noir examines film noir’s influence on the cinematic traditions of Britain, France, Scandinavia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and India. …
Australian International Pictures (1946 - 75)
Av Adrian Danks, Constantine Verevis
Inbunden, 2023
1168 kr
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Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in AustraliaProvides vibrant textual studies of under-evaluated Australian international picturesDevelops an understanding of international film production in the years following WWII and before the Australian film …
Nordic Genre Film
Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace
Av Tommy Gustafsson, Pietari Kääpä
Inbunden, 2015
1305 kr
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Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema. It discusses a range of internationally renowned examples, from Nordic noir such as the television show The Bridge and films like Insomnia to high concept ‘video generation’ productions …
Films on Ice
Cinemas of the Arctic
Av Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Inbunden, 2014
1413 kr
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A comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes – the ArcticThe first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and …
Slow Cinema
Av Tiago de Luca, Nuno Barradas Jorge
Häftad, 2015
410 kr
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In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal …
Post-beur Cinema
North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000
Av Will Higbee
Häftad, 2014
410 kr
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Since the early 1980s and the arrival of Beur cinema filmmakers of Maghrebi origin have made a key contribution French cinema's representation of issues such as immigration, integration and national identity. However, they have done so mostly from a position on the margins of the industry. In …
French-language Road Cinema
Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'
Av Michael Gott
Inbunden, 2016
2095 kr
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Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, …
The New Russian Documentary
Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism
Av Masha Shpolberg, Anastasia Kostina
Inbunden, 2025
1150 kr
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Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity unseen since the 1920s, when Soviet documentarians helped pioneer the mode. What started as a trickle of artistically minded films in the 1990s, expanded in the 2000s to include a …
The New Russian Documentary
Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism
Av Masha Shpolberg, Anastasia Kostina
Häftad, 2026
332 kr
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Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity unseen since the 1920s, when Soviet documentarians helped pioneer the mode. What started as a trickle of artistically minded films in the 1990s, expanded in the 2000s to include a …
The New Russian Documentary
Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism
Av Masha Shpolberg, Anastasia Kostina
E-bok, 2025
1417 kr
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Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity unseen since the 1920s, when Soviet documentarians helped pioneer the mode. What started as a trickle of artistically minded films in the 1990s, expanded in the 2000s to include a …
The New Russian Documentary
Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism
Av Masha Shpolberg, Anastasia Kostina
E-bok, 2025
1460 kr
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Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity unseen since the 1920s, when Soviet documentarians helped pioneer the mode. What started as a trickle of artistically minded films in the 1990s, expanded in the 2000s to include a …
