Film Figures
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Film Figures
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Author : Warwick Mules
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-01-11
Film Figures written by Warwick Mules 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 2024-01-11 with Philosophy categories.
Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides the framework of analysis. Situating films in the quantum field of spacetime relativity as a field of cosmic views, inquiry into film figures begins with disturbances in the experience of films themselves, posing questions of the relation between the dead past and the living future in film story-telling. By breaking the façade of the continuing present through self-questioning, we open films to their figural dimensions in the counter-movement of drive as negentropic resistance. Following the back-movement of drive switches our perception to the figural register in which characters become figures probing blindly for what the film will have been in another time – a time yet to be lived. By following the anterior possibilities of this other time, we open films to the archival future in which a new future comes forth. This book provides theoretical and analytical concepts as well as strategies for taking a step into this future, guided by questions of the right path to take given the relativity of views in which the film can be experienced. Films analysed include Murnau's The Last Laugh, Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Hitchcock's Rear Window, Welles's The Lady from Shanghai, Fellini's Intervista, Antonioni's L'Eclisse, Bresson's Une Femme Douce, and Zeller's The Father.
Action Figures
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Author : M. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-02-04
Action Figures written by M. Gallagher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-04 with Social Science categories.
What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been Hollywood's most profitable global exports for most of its history, their male heroes the subject of much fascination and derision. Bestselling literary thrillers, from The Hunt for Red October to Into Thin Air , have also contributed markedly to popular understandings of male activity. Action Figures takes stock of action narratives' many appeals and recognizes how contemporary crises of gender identity manifest themselves in popular commercial texts.
Figures Of Desire
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Author : Linda Williams
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Figures Of Desire written by Linda Williams and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave
Outlaw Heroes As Liminal Figures Of Film And Television
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Author : Rebecca A. Umland
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-04-20
Outlaw Heroes As Liminal Figures Of Film And Television written by Rebecca A. Umland and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-20 with Performing Arts categories.
Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of outlaw hero, one who lives between the law and his own personal code. In times of crisis, when the law proves inadequate, the liminal outlaw negotiates between the social imperatives of the community and his innate sense of right and wrong. While society requires his services, he necessarily remains apart from it in self-preservation. The modern outlaw hero of film and television is rooted in the knight errant, whose violent exploits are tempered by his solitude and devotion to a higher ideal. In Hollywood classics such as Casablanca (1942) and Shane (1953), and in early series like The Lone Ranger (1949-1957) and Have Gun--Will Travel (1957-1963), the outlaw hero reconciles for audiences the conflicting impulses of individual freedom versus serving a larger cause. Urban westerns like the Dirty Harry and Death Wish franchises, as well as iconic action figures like Rambo and Batman, testify to his enduring popularity. This book examines the liminal hero's origins in medieval romance, his survival in the mythology of the Hollywood western and his incarnations in the urban western and modern action film.
Figures Of Light
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Author : Stanley Kauffmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Figures Of Light written by Stanley Kauffmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Anthologies categories.
Film reviews covering the period 1967-70.
Figures Traced In Light
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Author : David Bordwell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-03
Figures Traced In Light written by David Bordwell and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with Performing Arts categories.
Staging and style -- Feuillade, or, Storytelling -- Mizoguchi, or, Modulation -- Angelopoulos, or, Melancholy -- Hou, or, Constraints -- Staging and stylistics.
Saints Clergy And Other Religious Figures On Film And Television 1895 2003
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Author : Ann C. Paietta
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
Saints Clergy And Other Religious Figures On Film And Television 1895 2003 written by Ann C. Paietta and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-24 with Performing Arts categories.
The portrayal of clergy, saints, missionaries, monks, and other spiritual leaders dates back to the very beginnings of motion pictures and television. Over the years, filmmakers have portrayed religious figures as heroes and villains, sinners and saints, and nearly everything in between. Through their works, filmmakers have influenced how society viewed these religious figures and, by extension, religion itself. This work details over 900 films and television series made from the 1890s through 2003 in which a religious figure plays a prominent or recurring role, or in which a character poses as a religious figure. For each motion picture, full filmographic data are provided--including title, studio, running time, year of release, director, producer, writer, and cast--along with a synopsis focusing on the role of the religious figure. Television series are covered in a separate section. For each show, the entry includes the title under which the show was commonly known; the original broadcast network; the years the show ran, running time, and cast; and a brief discussion of the religious character's role in the overall series. Extensively indexed.
Figures Of Light
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Author : Carole Zucker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Figures Of Light written by Carole Zucker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Performing Arts categories.
It is a rare and remarkable book that provides a forum for actors to discuss, in their own words, their experiences, their craft, and the creative process that makes and informs a brilliant performance. This book of original interviews is just such a treasure.
Beyond The Stars Stock Characters In American Popular Film
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Author : Paul Loukides
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1990
Beyond The Stars Stock Characters In American Popular Film written by Paul Loukides and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Social Science categories.
Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.
The Figure In Film
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Author : N. Roy Clifton
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1983
The Figure In Film written by N. Roy Clifton and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Performing Arts categories.
An application of the classical figures of speech to the criticism of the motion picture. The author defines and illustrates each figure by literary analysis, then presents the filmic analogies. The occurrence in film of fantasy, allegory, and abstraction are also discussed.
