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Ex Centric Cinema
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Author : Janet Harbord
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Ex Centric Cinema written by Janet Harbord and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Performing Arts categories.
In the beginning, cinema was an encounter between humans, images and machine technology, revealing a stream of staccato gestures, micrographic worlds, and landscapes seen from above and below. In this sense, cinema's potency was its ability to bring other, non-human modes of being into view, to forge an encounter between multiple realities that nonetheless co-exist. Yet the story of cinema became (through its institutionalization) one in which the human swiftly assumed centrality through the literary crafting of story, character and the expression of interiority. Ex-centric Cinema takes an archaeological approach to the study of cinema through the writings of philosopher Giorgio Agamben, arguing that whilst we have a century-long tradition of cinema, the possibility of what cinema may have become is not lost, but co-exists in the present as an unexcavated potential. The term given to this history is ex-centric cinema, describing a centre-less moving image culture where animals, children, ghosts and machines are privileged vectors, where film is always an incomplete project, and where audiences are a coming community of ephemeral connections and links. Discussing such filmmakers as Harun Farocki, the Lumiere Brothers, Guy Debord and Wong Kar-wai, Janet Harbord draws connections with Agamben to propose a radically different way of thinking about cinema.
Ex Centric Migrations
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Ex Centric Migrations
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Author : Hakim Abderrezak
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-20
Ex Centric Migrations written by Hakim Abderrezak and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-20 with Social Science categories.
“Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration.” —Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) no longer systematically target France as a destination, but instead aspire toward other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. In addition, the author investigates other migratory patterns that entail the repatriation of émigrés. His analysis reveals that the films, novels, and songs of Mediterranean artists run contrary to mass media coverage and conservative political discourse, bringing a nuanced vision and expert analysis to the sensationalism and biased reportage of such events as the Mediterranean maritime tragedies. “Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of ‘return migration’ and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France.” —H-France “Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence.” —Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism
Cinemas Dark And Slow In Digital India
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Author : Lalitha Gopalan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Cinemas Dark And Slow In Digital India written by Lalitha Gopalan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.
Rethinking Art And Visual Culture
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Author : Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Rethinking Art And Visual Culture written by Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field. Engaging with works by Ernie Gehr, John Akomfrah, Matt Saunders, David Lynch, Trevor Paglen, Zach Blas, and Low, the study considers the cultural, epistemological, and ethical values of images and sounds that are fuzzy, indeterminate, distorted, degraded, or otherwise indistinct. Rethinking Art and Visual Culture shows how opaque forms of art address problems of mediation, knowledge, and information. It also intervenes in current debates about new systems of visibility and surveillance by explaining how indefinite art provides a critique of the positivist drive behind these regimes. A timely contribution to media theory, cinema studies, American studies, and aesthetics, the book presents a novel and extensive analysis of the politics of transparency.
The Financial Image
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Author : Alasdair King
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-29
The Financial Image written by Alasdair King and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how contemporary cinema has registered recent financial and economic issues. The book focuses on how filmmakers have found formal means to explore, celebrate, and critique the increasingly important role that the financial sector plays in shaping global economic, political, ethical, and social life.
Climates Habitats Environments
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Author : Ute Meta Bauer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Climates Habitats Environments written by Ute Meta Bauer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Art categories.
Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse. Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking. Experimental in form as well as in method, Climates. Habitats. Environments. features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid’s Metamorphoses to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes—and is consumed—in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes “Water Sense” as a geontological approach to “the question of our connected and differentiated existence,” informed by the “ancestral catastrophe of colonialism.” Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore “The Posthuman City”; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Copublished with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
European Cinema
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Author : Guido Rings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
European Cinema written by Guido Rings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Aliens in motion pictures categories.
A Postmodern Cinema
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Author : Mary Alemany-Galway
language : en
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2002
A Postmodern Cinema written by Mary Alemany-Galway and has been published by Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
Alemany-Galway (media studies, Massey University, New Zealand) engages with a trend in Canadian cinema that speaks for those who are marginalized by society. She develops a rationale for a postmodern film theory to explore this trend and then focuses closely on four films: Jesus of Montreal, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Family Viewing, Life Classes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
New African Cinema
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Author : Valérie Orlando
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-15
New African Cinema written by Valérie Orlando and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-15 with Art categories.
New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights the variations in content and themes that reflect the socio-cultural and political environments of filmmakers and the cultures they depict in their films. Orlando illuminates the diverse themes evident in the works of filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembène’s Ceddo (Senegal, 1977), Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (Angola, 1972), Assia Djebar’s La Nouba des femmes de Mont Chenoua (The Circle of women of Mount Chenoua, Algeria, 1978), Zézé Gamboa’s The Hero (Angola, 2004) and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu (Mauritania, 2014), among others. Orlando also considers the influence of major African film schools and their traditions, as well as European and American influences on the marketing and distribution of African film. For those familiar with the polemics of African film, or new to them, Orlando offers a cogent analytical approach that is engaging.