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Cinema Of Choice
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Author : Nitzan Ben Shaul
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-07-18
Cinema Of Choice written by Nitzan Ben Shaul and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Introduction -- Closed mindedness in movies -- Failed alternatives to optional thinking -- Optional thinking in movies -- Conclusion.
Cinema Of Choice
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Author : Nitzan Ben Shaul
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Cinema Of Choice written by Nitzan Ben Shaul and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon, Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating and rewarding.
A Cinema Of Choice
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Author : Sam Roggen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Cinema Of Choice written by Sam Roggen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Film
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Author : Geoff Andrew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Film written by Geoff Andrew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
This book takes an accessible approach to the movies: an era-by-era survey with a personal angle. This lively, compact history of film offers the most direct experience of the great movies of the 20th century to be found between covers. The book is divided into 10 chapters, each dedicated to a specific time and place in cinema history. Each is written by an eminent critic (or critics) with specialist knowledge, and consists of an introductory overview, followed by a personal selection of 15 of their favourite films. Their pick gives the reader an enormously varied selection; old favourites such as "King Kong" and "The Hustler" are found alongside rarities that have previously been the private domain of the experts. Each film is described and dissected in a self-contained essay that covers who made it and why, its artistic features and matters of technical interest, and the broader context in which it was made. Most important of all, each critic discusses his or her personal reasons for choosing it. Vividly written and lavishly illustrated with stills from the films, this book brings 100 years of film history to life.S.
Singapore Cinema
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Author : Kai Khiun Liew
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-25
Singapore Cinema written by Kai Khiun Liew and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Social Science categories.
This book outlines and discusses the very wide range of cinema which is to be found in Singapore. Although Singapore cinema is a relatively small industry, and relatively new, it has nevertheless made an impact, and continues to develop in interesting ways. The book shows that although Singapore cinema is often seen as part of diasporic Chinese cinema, it is in fact much more than this, with strong connections to Malay cinema and the cinemas of other Southeast Asian nations. Moreover, the themes and subjects covered by Singapore cinema are very wide, ranging from conformity to the regime and Singapore’s national outlook, with undesirable subjects overlooked or erased, to the sympathetic depiction of minorities and an outlook which is at odds with the official outlook. The book will be useful to readers coming new to the subject and wanting a concise overview, while at the same time the book puts forward many new research findings and much new thinking.
Cinema In Service Of The State
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Author : Lars Karl
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Cinema In Service Of The State written by Lars Karl and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a “stereoscopic” approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children’s cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.
Re Imagining Defa
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Author : Séan Allan
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Re Imagining Defa written by Séan Allan and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”
Sensitive Subjects
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Author : Leila Mukhida
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-11-01
Sensitive Subjects written by Leila Mukhida and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Art categories.
Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century. Yet, as Leila Mukhida demonstrates in this innovative study, the writings of figures like Kracauer and Walter Benjamin in fact remain an undervalued tool for understanding political cinema today. Through illuminating explorations of Michael Haneke, Valeska Grisebach, Andreas Dresen, and other filmmakers of the post-reunification era, Mukhida develops an analysis centered on film aesthetics and experience, showing how medium-specific devices like lighting, sound, and mise-en-scène can help to cultivate political sensitivity in spectators.
Questions Of Cinema
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Author : Stephen Heath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Questions Of Cinema written by Stephen Heath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Performing Arts categories.
"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
A Cinema Of Poetry
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Author : Joseph Luzzi
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-03-30
A Cinema Of Poetry written by Joseph Luzzi and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-30 with Art categories.
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation of literary sources and, more generally, the fields of rhetoric, media studies, and modern Italian culture. The book balances theoretical inquiry with close readings of films by the masters of Italian cinema: Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and others. Luzzi's study is the first to show how Italian filmmakers address such crucial aesthetic issues as the nature of the chorus, the relation between symbol and allegory, the literary prehistory of montage, and the place of poetry in cinematic expression—what Pasolini called the "cinema of poetry." While Luzzi establishes how certain qualities of film—its link with technological processes, capacity for mass distribution, synthetic virtues (and vices) as the so-called total art—have reshaped centuries-long debates, A Cinema of Poetry also explores what is specific to the Italian art film and, more broadly, Italian cinematic history. In other words, what makes this version of the art film recognizably "Italian"? "A thought-provoking and well-written investigation of the role of history and realism in Italian cinema and the role played by the centuries-long tradition of poetry (or more precisely, poesis) in this quest."—H-Italy "Ambitious, inventive, learned . . . A Cinema of Poetry . . . brilliantly analyzes the art in the art film by showing how Italian cinema uses a chorus or expresses itself through allegory . . . This impressively intelligent re-description of the tradition surely takes its place alongside other necessary histories of Italian cinema."—Choice Joseph Luzzi is a professor of comparative literature at Bard College. He is the author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; My Two Italies, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; and In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me about Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love.