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Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): K. Gandal Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
K. Gandal
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Rich girl meets poor boy who liberates her then dies.' Or, 'low-life girl is trashed by lower-life boy.' The contemporary middle-class fictions of poverty that inform films such as "Titanic" and "Kids" are a far cry from the nineteenth-century genres: rags-to-riches stories and seduction tales. Our fictions of class turn the older tales upside down. By the surprising juxtaposition of recent films and the classic writings and unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller, and Michel Foucault, the book shocks the reader into a reappraisal of these authors' works and lives, our myths about class, and poststructural theory.

Take Two - A Film Teacher's Unconventional Story (Hardcover): Frank Manchel Take Two - A Film Teacher's Unconventional Story (Hardcover)
Frank Manchel
R1,342 Discovery Miles 13 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man from the Third Row - Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman (Hardcover): Fredrik Gustafsson The Man from the Third Row - Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman (Hardcover)
Fredrik Gustafsson
R3,011 Discovery Miles 30 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the filmography of his occasional collaborator (and frequent rival) Ingmar Bergman. This comprehensive introduction-the first ever in English-follows Ekman's career from his early days as a film journalist, through landmark films such as Girl with Hyacinths (1950), to his retirement amid exhaustion and disillusionment. Combining historical context with insightful analyses of Ekman's styles and themes, this long overdue study considerably enriches our understanding of Swedish film history.

2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Daniel Bristow 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Daniel Bristow
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow offers a study that goes beyond, as the film did. He extends Lacan's late topological insights, delves into conceptualisations of desire, in G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Kojeve, and Lacan himself, and deals with the major themes of cuts (filmic and psychoanalytic); space; silence; surreality; and 'das Ding', in relation to the movie's enigmatic monolith. This book is a tour de force of psychoanalytic theory and space odyssey that will appeal to academics and practitioners of psychoanalysis and film studies, as well as to any fan of Kubrick's work.

Horribly Awkward - The New Funny Bone (Paperback, New): Edwin Page Horribly Awkward - The New Funny Bone (Paperback, New)
Edwin Page
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A celebration of contemporary comedy which focuses on the trend for discomfort and the extreme, this title covers major hits of recent years from Borat, Little Britain and The Office.

Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture - Studies in Erotic Epistemology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): James D. Bloom Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture - Studies in Erotic Epistemology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
James D. Bloom
R3,486 Discovery Miles 34 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This study recounts how the author's own coming-of-an-age as a gazer became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O'Brien, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O'Hara, Italo Calvino, John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification' itself.

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox (Hardcover): D. Varndell Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox (Hardcover)
D. Varndell
R2,118 R1,930 Discovery Miles 19 300 Save R188 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsession with remaking and rebooting classic and foreign films. Through an analysis of cinematic repetition and difference, the book approaches remakes from a range of philosophical perspectives.

Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics - African Spirituality in American Cinema (Hardcover): Kameelah L. Martin Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics - African Spirituality in American Cinema (Hardcover)
Kameelah L. Martin
R3,356 Discovery Miles 33 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney's Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called 'black magic'. Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in the American popular imagination. Martin interrogates seventy-five years of American film representations of black women engaged in conjure, hoodoo, obeah, or Voodoo to discern what happens when race, gender, and African spirituality collide. She develops the framework of Voodoo aesthetics, or the inscription of African cosmologies on the black female body, as the theoretical lens through which to scrutinize black female religious performance in film. Martin places the genre of film in conversation with black feminist/womanist criticism, offering an interdisciplinary approach to film analysis. Positioning the black priestess as another iteration of Patricia Hill Collins' notion of controlling images, Martin theorizes whether film functions as a safe space for a racial and gendered embodiment in the performance of African diasporic religion. Approaching the close reading of eight signature films from a black female spectatorship, Martin works chronologically to express the trajectory of the black priestess as cinematic motif over the last century of filmmaking. Conceptually, Martin recalibrates the scholarship on black women and representation by distinctly centering black women as ritual specialists and Black Atlantic spirituality on the silver screen.

CineTech - Film, Convergence and New Media (Hardcover, 2006 Ed.): Stephen Keane CineTech - Film, Convergence and New Media (Hardcover, 2006 Ed.)
Stephen Keane
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to regard cinema as technology? How do special effects change our experience of contemporary film? How important is the Internet to the film industry and film fans? "CineTech" explores these debates and examines the important intersection between film and new media. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the digital practices used in film, this book moves from historical perspectives to up-to-date analysis. Applying these debates through specific case studies, examples are drawn from recent Hollywood blockbusters such as the "Star Wars" prequels and the "Matrix" trilogy. Case studies, exercises, and suggestions for further study make this an ideal resource for courses and student assignments in both film and media studies.

Projected Passion (Hardcover): Richard Nash, Frogg Moody Projected Passion (Hardcover)
Richard Nash, Frogg Moody
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Scale in Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg Scale in Literature and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.

Film Noir - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover): Ian Brookes Film Noir - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
Ian Brookes
R3,385 Discovery Miles 33 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Film noir may seem a familiar term to many, with its use of a complex narrative structure, flashbacks and voiceover narration, and with such archetypal characterisations as the femme fatale and private eye. But this introduction is not so much an account of what film noir is, but more an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a particular group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' With this sharply focused question active throughout the book, students will benefit from an introductory text designed to provide a sophisticated treatment of the problems inherent in the category. This will be the first critical introduction to film noir which takes into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of straightforward definition and classification.

Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder (Hardcover, New):... Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder (Hardcover, New)
Nora Henry
R2,789 Discovery Miles 27 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these German and Austrian emigres and their influence on American culture. Aware of the influential power of their films, these filmmakers strove to raise the intellectual standard and the positive educational value of the American film. Brief individual biographies describe their heritage, major influences, and goals and draw connections among the three filmmakers in their preference for German and Austrian literature, which focuses on social criticism, ethics, and the problem of identity. Detailed analyses of their individual styles of filmmaking and readings of selected films reveal how they put their philosophies into practice and to what extent they influenced one another. Films analyzed include "The Merry Widow, " "The Wedding March," "Heaven can Wait, To Be or Not To Be, Sunset Boulevard, "and "The Fortune Cookie "among others. By delineating their contributions to the development of modern film, this research explores the filmmakers impact on film and cultural history.

The convergence of social and philosophical inquiry film-history in this study of Lubitsch, Wilder, and von Stroheim will appeal to scholars of film, of German literature and culture, and of American cultural history. Separate chapters discuss each filmmaker and his movies. A glossary of technical terms and a selected filmography are included.

Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror (Hardcover): Dan Shaw, Kingsley Marshall, James Rocha Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror (Hardcover)
Dan Shaw, Kingsley Marshall, James Rocha
R3,207 Discovery Miles 32 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon. It is a creative and sometimes shocking examination of modern society and the improbable consequences of technological progress. The episodes - typically set in an alternative present, or the near future - usually have a dark and satirical twist that provokes intense question both of the self and society at large. These kind of philosophical provocations are at the very heart of the show. Philosophical reflections on Black Mirror draws upon thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault to uncover how Black Mirror acts as 'philosophical television' questioning human morality and humanity's vulnerability when faced with the inexorable advance of technology.

To Each His Own Dolce Vita - in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema 1948-1972 (Hardcover): John Francis Lane To Each His Own Dolce Vita - in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema 1948-1972 (Hardcover)
John Francis Lane; Edited by Paul Sutton
R1,063 R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Save R95 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism - Filming on an Uneven Field (Hardcover): D. Thornley Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism - Filming on an Uneven Field (Hardcover)
D. Thornley
R1,850 Discovery Miles 18 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind of relationship to cross-cultural cinema that invites further conversations between filmmakers and audiences, indigenous and others.

Laurel & Hardy - From the Forties Forward (Hardcover, 2nd Revised and Expanded ed.): Scott MacGillivray, Macgillivray Scott... Laurel & Hardy - From the Forties Forward (Hardcover, 2nd Revised and Expanded ed.)
Scott MacGillivray, Macgillivray Scott Macgillivray
R876 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scott MacGillivray is the author of The Soundies Book (with Ted Okuda), Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven (with Jan MacGillivray), and Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide.

Scott MacGillivray's "Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward" was the first book to fully chronicle the later careers of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and everything that followed, from theatrical reissues to home videos. If you enjoyed the book the first time, you'll like this new edition even more. The author has expanded the original text by more than 50 percent, to include new insights, new information, and new discoveries in Laurel & Hardy history, never before published. (Which Laurel & Hardy comedy of the 1940s was withheld from release for almost four years? Which "forties" movie was their all-time biggest hit? Which movie was almost shut down by federal intervention?) You'll read much more about Stan and Ollie's unrealized projects, including five more feature films, two TV series, and two Broadway shows. A must-read for Stan and Ollie's fans everywhere, "Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward" is better than ever

Praise for the first edition of "Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward."..

"What a marvelous book I read it straight through, getting happier by the minute to think that more and more material is being set into history about the boys. The writing is so lucid - and that in this day of film books that aren't is high praise. Really wonderful "
- JOHN McCABE, Laurel & Hardy's authorized biographer

"Scott MacGillivray has accomplished something that most historians can only dream of doing: overturning the conventional wisdom... he rewrites the book on the movie-comedy team."
- BOSTON HERALD

"All the world's admirers of Laurel & Hardy will now forever be indebted to Scott MacGillivray for providing so much new information about two of the world's most beloved figures."
- STEVE ALLEN

"Displays a knowledge and affection for its subject that one would be hard pressed to find in most academic texts."
- CLASSIC IMAGES

"To write a book about screen performers as well covered as these two and still present a wealth of heretofore unpublished information is quite an accomplishment."
- FILM QUARTERLY

"MacGillivray takes great pains to provide the context necessary to reassess these films after so many years of knee-jerk dismissal and neglect... His book will remain the definitive study of the late years of the Laurel and Hardy phenomenon."
- ARNE FOGEL, Minnesota Public Radio

Film and Female Consciousness - Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (Hardcover, New): L. Bolton Film and Female Consciousness - Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (Hardcover, New)
L. Bolton
R1,989 Discovery Miles 19 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.

Women Directors - The Emergence of a New Cinema (Hardcover): Barbara Quart Women Directors - The Emergence of a New Cinema (Hardcover)
Barbara Quart
R2,516 Discovery Miles 25 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Quart here extends her previous writings on what she terms the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking. Quart addresses American, Western European, and Eastern European directors, closing with Third World examples. Arguing that independent filmmaking best serves the quest for a woman's voice and vision, Quart chronicles the survival of women directors. She traces a heritage of women directors inside the Hollywood system and beyond. . . . This excellent study . . . is] recommended for undergraduates in film and women's studies. "Choice"

The current level of activity among women directors is unequalled in the history of feature films. This unprecedented study examines major contemporary women directors of narrative feature film--their themes, their art, and the circumstances under which they work. Quart contends that women are creating a film language and film sensibility that are unique, strong, and--until now--unexplored. Her discussion centers on the ties between women directors, rather than on a survey of women who direct films. Beginning with the antecedents to today's burgeoning number of women directors, the study progresses to American women directors. Subsequent chapters focus on womenn directors in Western Europe and Eastern Europe, with some attention as well to Asia and Latin America.

The Films of Judy Garland (Paperback): James L. Neibaur The Films of Judy Garland (Paperback)
James L. Neibaur
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Judy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media. This film-by-film study of her work follows her progression from pig-tailed child to a top motion picture star, with such timeless classics as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, and A Star is Born. Garland's talent and versatility as an actress are explored through each of her movie roles. More than just a reference filmography, this work examines how Garland's talents were realized and understood by producers and the world. It analyzes the star's relatonships with various co-stars and directors and details how she balanced her painful insecurities with her often focused and driven approach to her work. Through the context of her work on film, Judy Garland's innate and enduring star power is readily appreciated and acknowledged.

Murder by Design - The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento (Hardcover): Troy Howarth Murder by Design - The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento (Hardcover)
Troy Howarth; Contributions by Rob Ruston
R3,053 R2,450 Discovery Miles 24 500 Save R603 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (Hardcover): Stay Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (Hardcover)
Stay
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent"--Provided by publisher.

Fictions of the City - Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (Hardcover): Matthew Taunton Fictions of the City - Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (Hardcover)
Matthew Taunton
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many studies of fictions of city life take the flneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.

The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (Paperback): David Larocca The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (Paperback)
David Larocca; Contributions by Samuel A. Chambers
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the Academy Award--winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award--nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), writer Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films. Although he only recently made his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York (2008), most fans and critics refer to "Kaufman films" the way they would otherwise discuss works by directors Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, or the Coen brothers. Not only has Kaufman transformed our sense of what can take place in a film, but he also has made a significant impact on our understanding of the role of the screenwriter. The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, edited by David LaRocca, is a collection of essays devoted to a rigorous philosophical exploration of Kaufman's work by a team of accomplished scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Including a new preface by the editor, this volume offers original philosophical analyses as well as extended reflections on the nature of film and innovative models of film criticism.

Spiritual Sensations - Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred (Hardcover): Sarah K. Balstrup Spiritual Sensations - Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred (Hardcover)
Sarah K. Balstrup
R3,551 Discovery Miles 35 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice. Powerful feelings of dissociation and indescribable significance typical of mystical testimony appear in viewer responses to these films, demonstrating the continued sacralisation of such states of mind. In their own way, each film confronts the viewer with an apocalyptic revelation of the impersonal forces of the universe, moving away from personhood and the human narrative, into pure sensation. They present a non-deterministic spiritual truth that can be intuited but not explained, mirroring developments in the religious sphere. Investigating the relationship between cinematic technique and religious experience, Spiritual Sensations offers an alternative approach to the study of religion and film that has been principally focused on narrative symbolism and the dramatisation of values. Spiritual Sensations makes a further contribution to the field by analysing films contextually, considering viewers' subjective responses in light of religious and cultural change.

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