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139 produkter
East Asian Cinemas
Exploring Transnational Connections on Film
E-bok, 2010
405 kr
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Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores …
Theorizing World Cinema
Av Lúcia Nagib, Chris Perriam m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
405 kr
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This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. The editors and distinguished group of …
Brazil on Screen
Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia
Av Lúcia Nagib
E-bok, 2007
421 kr
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Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a …
East Asian Cinemas
Exploring Transnational Connections on Film
E-bok, 2010
414 kr
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Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores …
Lebanese Cinema
Imagining the Civil War and Beyond
Av Lina Khatib
E-bok, 2008
404 kr
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Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book …
New Argentine Cinema
E-bok, 2011
418 kr
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Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the country's profound political, social and cultural crisis during the same period. Jens …
Performing Authorship
Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
E-bok, 2013
401 kr
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The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities and the recycling of works, Performing …
Impure Cinema
Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film
E-bok, 2013
417 kr
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Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary progressive film criticism, ideas of purity, …
Basque Cinema
A Cultural and Political History
Av Rob Stone, Maria Pilar Rodriguez
E-bok, 2015
2026 kr
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Cinema has always been a vital medium for articulating the Basque region's unique identity and politics. The first definitive study of Basque cinema, this book provides a systematic analysis of the key Basque films, directors and cinematic institutions. Its narrative moves from the romanticised …
Basque Cinema
A Cultural and Political History
Av Rob Stone, Maria Pilar Rodriguez
E-bok, 2015
2020 kr
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Cinema has always been a vital medium for articulating the Basque region's unique identity and politics. The first definitive study of Basque cinema, this book provides a systematic analysis of the key Basque films, directors and cinematic institutions. Its narrative moves from the romanticised …
Performing Authorship
Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
E-bok, 2013
390 kr
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The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities and the recycling of works, Performing …
Impure Cinema
Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film
E-bok, 2013
466 kr
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Andre Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinema impur: defense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or racial resonances the word 'impure' might have. 'Impure Cinema' goes back to Bazin's original title …
Stars in World Cinema
Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures
Av Andrea Bandhauer, Michelle Royer
E-bok, 2015
2182 kr
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Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and …
Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
The Politics of Beauty
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
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Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2020 Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, …
Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
The Politics of Beauty
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
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Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2020 Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, …
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema
Av Stephen Teo
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, …
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema
Av Stephen Teo
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, …
New Generation in Chinese Animation
Inbunden, 2021
1461 kr
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In 1995 Chinese animated filmmaking ceased to be a state-run enterprise and was plunged into the free market. Using key animated films as his case studies, Shaopeng Chen examines new generation Chinese animation in its aesthetic and industrial contexts. He argues that, unlike its predecessors, this …
New Generation in Chinese Animation
E-bok, 2021
1605 kr
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In 1995 Chinese animated filmmaking ceased to be a state-run enterprise and was plunged into the free market. Using key animated films as his case studies, Shaopeng Chen examines new generation Chinese animation in its aesthetic and industrial contexts. He argues that, unlike its predecessors, this …
New Generation in Chinese Animation
E-bok, 2021
1605 kr
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In 1995 Chinese animated filmmaking ceased to be a state-run enterprise and was plunged into the free market. Using key animated films as his case studies, Shaopeng Chen examines new generation Chinese animation in its aesthetic and industrial contexts. He argues that, unlike its predecessors, this …
Cinema of Jia Zhangke
Realism and Memory in Chinese Film
E-bok, 2019
434 kr
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Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Despite his films being subjected to censorship and denigration in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country''s leading independent film director internationally. Seen as one of world cinema''s foremost auteurs, he has played a …
Cinema of Jia Zhangke
Realism and Memory in Chinese Film
E-bok, 2019
434 kr
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Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Despite his films being subjected to censorship and denigration in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country''s leading independent film director internationally. Seen as one of world cinema''s foremost auteurs, he has played a …
Thai Cinema
The Complete Guide
Av Mary J. Ainslie, Katarzyna Ancuta
Inbunden, 2019
1388 kr
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One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to this major centre of creative filmmaking, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, …
Film Archipelago
Islands in Latin American Cinema
Av Antonio Gómez, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Inbunden, 2022
1431 kr
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How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in …
Film Archipelago
Islands in Latin American Cinema
Av Antonio Gómez, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
E-bok, 2021
497 kr
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How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in …
Film Archipelago
Islands in Latin American Cinema
Av Antonio Gómez, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
E-bok, 2021
497 kr
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How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema? Comprising 15 essays and a critical introduction, The Film Archipelago: Islands in Latin American Cinema addresses this question by examining a series of intersections between insular spaces and filmmaking in …
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence
Av Douglas Mulliken, Lúcia Nagib
Inbunden, 2022
1431 kr
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This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century’s distinctly political filmmakers. By examining the broad concept of violence and how it is represented on-screen, Douglas Mulliken …
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence
E-bok, 2022
497 kr
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This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century''s distinctly political filmmakers. By examining the broad concept of violence and how it is represented on-screen, Douglas Mulliken …
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence
E-bok, 2022
497 kr
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This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of the 21st century''s distinctly political filmmakers. By examining the broad concept of violence and how it is represented on-screen, Douglas Mulliken …
Cinema in the Arab World
New Histories, New Approaches
Av Ifdal Elsaket, Daniël Biltereyst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1272 kr
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Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of plot, style, ideologies, or examination of the biographies of prominent directors or actors.This innovative new volume shifts the focus on Arab cinema …
