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In Music Videos As Audiovisual Art, Joanna Evans dissects music videos as an art in popular culture.

Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the same double blow, the end of the world and the end of the film. It is the consummation and the (self-)consumption of cinema, in the form of an acinema that Lyotard evoked as the nihilistic horizon of filmic economy. The innumerable countdowns, dazzling radiations, freeze-overs, and seismic cracks and crevices are but other names and pretexts for staging film itself, with its economy of time and its rewinds, its overexposed images and fades to white, its freeze-frames and digital touch-ups. The apocalyptic genre is not just one genre among others: It plays with the very conditions of possibility of cinema. And it bears witness to the fact that, every time, in each and every film, what Jean-Luc Nancy called the cine-world is exposed on the verge of disappearing. In a Postface specially written for the English edition, Szendy extends his argument into a debate with speculative materialism. Apocalypse-cinema, he argues, announces itself as cinders that question the "ultratestimonial" structure of the filmic gaze. The cine-eye, he argues, eludes the correlationism and anthropomorphic structure that speculative materialists have placed under critique, allowing only the ashes it bears to be heard.

Reedicion del libro publicado en 2006. Actualmente existe una revision del mismo, "El Guion Musical en el Cine," mucho mas completo y con nuevos conceptos desarrollados. Las claves y los principios para entender la musica como herramienta narrativa en el medio cinematografico. El libro analiza las caracteristicas de la musica en el cine como herramienta narrativa y como conductora de emociones. En sus diversos capitulos, el especialista Conrado Xalabarder desgrana los rasgos fundamentales para poder comprender la musica de cine en toda su dimension. La obra es fruto de varios anos de investigacion y analisis, que el autor expone de modo sencillo y claro pensando en un amplio sector de publico: musicos, estudiantes de cine y de musica, realizadores y aficionados al cine y a la musica de cine en general. Cada apartado ilustra con abundantes ejemplos las diversas posibilidades narrativas y creativas que goza la musica en su aplicacion cinematografica. Este libro ayudara al interesado tanto en su analisis como en su creacion. Musica de cine. Una ilusion optica es un libro altamente recomendado para quienes quieran dedicarse a la musica en el cine, para los estudiosos y para los cinefilos en general."

1981 liess Sam Raimi die Teufel tanzen. Mit seinem Film "Tanz der Teufel" erregte er weltweit die Gemuter, besonders aber in Deutschland, wo ein jahrelanger Rechtsstreit die Folge war, in dem es darum ging, den Film vor der Beschlagnahme zu bewahren. Mit "Tanz der Teufel 2" und "Armee der Finsternis" gab es zwei Fortsetzungen, die mehr auf den Humor setzten. Mit ihnen wurde Bruce Campbell als Stehaufmannchen Ash zum echten Genre-Helden. Ein von Sam Raimi produziertes Remake schickt sich nun an, den schockierendsten Film aller Zeiten fur ein modernes Publikum neu zu erfinden. "Dead by Dawn" befasst sich mit allen vier Filmen, dem Kampf mit der Zensur und den Personen, die fur "Evil Dead" am wichtigsten waren und sind: Sam Raimi und Bruce Campbell