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Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and
instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings
together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their
insights into the work of regional and transnational screen
legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas.
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of
the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as
represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author
suggests that this transformation is through the character's
journey towards African-based religions.
The intersection between film stardom and politics is an
understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the
Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant
sustained attention and interference. Focused on the period from
the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945, this
book examines the development of an Italian star system and
evaluates its place in film production and distribution. The
performances and careers of several major stars, including Isa
Miranda, Vittorio De Sica, Amedeo Nazzari, and Alida Valli, are
closely analyzed in terms of their relationships to the political
sphere and broader commercial culture, with consideration of their
fates in the aftermath of Fascism. A final chapter explores the
place of the stars in popular memory and representations of the
Fascist film world in postwar cinema.
The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political,
economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This
volume in three parts researches how East German and West German
authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis
of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and
cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume
not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced
but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within
the divided Germany.
Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical &
metaphorical spaces of suburbia & the evolution of modern gay
identities across a range of British & American film &
fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd
Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar
Moore & Edmund White.
This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural
influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio
era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected emigres, as
well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that
American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth
century.
This book presents the Great Depression through the lens of 13
films, beginning with movies made during the Depression and ending
with films from the 21st century, and encourages readers to examine
the various depictions of this period throughout history. The Great
Depression on Film is a unique guide to how the Great Depression
was represented and is remembered, making it an excellent resource
for students or anyone interested in film history or U.S. history.
Each film is set in a different sector of American life, focusing
on such topics as white supremacy, political protest, segregation,
environmental degradation, crime, religion, the class system, and
popular culture in the U.S. during the 1930s. This book is
indispensable for clearing away misconceptions fostered by the
movies while acknowledging the power of film in shaping public
memory. The book separates fact from fiction, detailing where the
movies are accurate and where they depart from reality, and places
them in the larger context of historical and social events.
Eyewitness or journalistic accounts are referenced and quoted in
the text to help readers differentiate between ideas, attitudes,
and events presented in the films, as well as the historical facts
which inspired those films. Provides readers with a history of the
Great Depression as it played out in the lives of many classes and
groups of people in the U.S. Presents a cultural overview of
America during that critical time, going beyond politics to include
popular music, entertainment, religion, literature, and sports
Dives into an exemplary study of the difficulty in dramatizing
history on film along with the way film images displace actual
history in popular memory Gives a detailed overview of how
Hollywood cinema represented and misrepresented life during the
Depression
What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can
cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at
Jacques Lacans theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known
works of European cinema, including films by Fellini, Truffaut,
Antonioni and Bergman.
In "Selfless Cinema?", Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of
making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of
filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms,
dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and participants'
or film-makers' rights, but Cooper approaches four representative
French film-makers - Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon,
and Agnes Varda - in a far less juridical way, drawing on the
ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She argues that, in spite
of Levinas' iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of
visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.
Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema,
an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural
forms - cinema and dance - historicizes and theorizes the material
and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of
popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of
the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the
1990s produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom,
and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of
dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private
training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven
around their dancing bodies, the book considers the "women's
question" via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some
of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie,
Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit,
and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with
those of other dancing women, including devadasis and tawaifs,
Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and
backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of
producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize
collaboration, such as the "choreomusicking body" and "dance
musicalization," aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on
treatises like the Natya Sastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, and
formal analyses of cine-choreographic "techno-spectacles," Dancing
Women offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and
music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a
very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South
Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history
co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.
Immerse yourself in the art and making of Aquaman, the movie
chronicling Arthur Curry's path to a future reign as King of the
Seven Seas. The Art and Making of Aquaman takes readers behind the
scenes of the 2018 Warner Bros. Pictures film based on the popular
DC character. Featuring previously unseen photographs and
breathtaking concept art, this book is a must-have for any fan.
Witness the epic journey of Aquaman, a Super Hero who struggles to
accept his heritage as undersea royalty, in his first solo film.
Follow along with the production team as these skilled artists
create a unique undersea world for the big screen. Exclusive
interviews highlight a comprehensive narrative that flows through
this stunning collection of concept sketches, storyboards, set and
costume photography, and effects imagery, giving readers an
unparalleled look at the making of the film. Directed by James Wan,
Aquaman features an all-star cast, with Jason Momoa, Amber Heard,
Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Ludi Lin, Yahya
Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison and Nicole Kidman.
An invaluable resource examining LGBTQIA+ portrayals in
contemporary American film. The depictions of LGBTQIA+ characters
in film have always varied immensely. However, the negative
depictions often seem to outweigh the positive, perhaps because of
the hurt they inspire or perhaps because they regrettably outnumber
the positive films. The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in
American Film explores works from the past fifty years in order to
not only discuss how LGBTQIA+ characters are portrayed in American
film, but also how these portrayals affect viewers. Contributors to
this valuable reference include film and media scholars, gender
studies scholars, journalists, LGBTQIA+ advocates, and more,
representing countries from around the world. This rich array of
perspectives provide careful and critical examinations of more than
100 films, ranging from the ethical and compassionate to the
deliberately cruel and destructive. Featuring films such as
American Beauty, Batman v Superman, Fight Club, The Grand Budapest
Hotel, Little Miss Sunshine, and Venom, this extensive volume
informs and educates scholars and general readers alike, guiding
them to see injustice more clearly and inspiring future generations
to create art that is both inclusive and thoughtful.
"Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media" contextualizes
historical films in an innovative way--not only relating them to
the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern
media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema
engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts,
the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs,
and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now
fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras
(footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that
(re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new
challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double
focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of
medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to
strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory
that have previously gone unrecognized.
"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own
popcorn"-People Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the
film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the
acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account
of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the cultural landmark film-now
updated with a new introduction by the author. In Fifth Avenue, 5
A.M., Sam Wasson goes beyond the legend to explore the woman inside
the little black dress and the film that captured the imagination
of the nation in 1961-when the staid propriety of the Eisenhower
years gave way to the glamorous modernity of the Kennedys. With a
colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head,
Givenchy, Moon River composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, the
iconic Audrey Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of
the late fifties and early sixties before Woodstock and birth
control, when an alluring, not-so-virginal girl by the name of
Holly Golightly melted hearts, raised eyebrows, and forever
transformed Americans' notions of fashion, film, sex, and culture.
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. includes an 8-page black-and-white photo
insert.
The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max
series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of
influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker
movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to
eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget
'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The
Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most
famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how
a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of
exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media
landscape.
This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock celebrates the
remarkable depth and scope of his artistic achievement in film. It
explores his works in relationship both to their social context and
to the traditions of critical theory they continue to inspire. The
collection draws on the best of current Hitchcock scholarship,
featuring the work of both new and established scholars. It
displays the full diversity of critical methods that have
characterized the study of this director's films in recent years.
The articles are grouped into four thematic sections: "Authorship
and Aesthetics" examines Hitchcock as auteur and investigates
central topics in Hitchcockian aesthetics. "French Hitchcock" looks
at Hitchcock's influence on filmmakers such as Chabrol, Truffaut
and Rohmer, and how film critics such as Bazin and Deleuze have
engaged with Hitchcock's work. "Poetics and Politics of Identity"
explores the representation of personal and political in
Hitchcock's work, and the final section, "Death and
Transfiguration" addresses the manner in which the spectacle and
figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock's
films, in particular his subversive masterpiece "Psycho,"
Contents: Volume I Part 1: Essence and Specificity 1. Ricciotto Canudo, 'The Birth of the Sixth Art', translated by Ben Gibson, Don Ranvaud, Sergio Sokota and Deborah Young, Framework, 13, Autumn 1980, pp. 3-7. (Originally published in Les Entretiens Idealistes, 25th October, 1911). 2. Vachel Lindsay, 'Sculpture-in-Motion', in The Art of the Moving Picture, (New York: Macmillan, 1915), pp. 79-96. 3. Hugo Münsterberg , 'The Means of the Photoplay', in The Photoplay: A Psychological Study, (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916), pp. 170-190. 4. Louis Delluc, 'Photogénie', in Pierre Lherminier, ed., Ecrits Cinématographiques I: Le Cinéma et les Cinéastes, (Paris: Cinémathèque Française, 1985), pp. 34-35. (Originally published in Paris, 1920). 5. Jean Epstein, 'On Certain Characteristics of Photogénie', translated by Tom Milne, Afterimage, 10, Autumn 1981, pp. 20-23. (Originally published in Jean Epstein, Le Cinématographe vu de l'Etna, Paris: Les Écrivains réunis, 1923). 6. Germaine Dulac, 'The Essence of the Cinema: The Visual Idea', translated by Robert Lamberton, in P. Adams Sitney, ed., The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, (New York: New York University Press, 1978), pp. 36-42. (Originally published in Les Cahiers du Mois, 16/17, 1925). 7. Maya Deren, 'The Instrument of Discovery and the Instrument of Invention/The Art of Film', in An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film, (New York: Alicat Bookshop Press, 1946), pp. 44-52. 8. Stan Brakhage, Extracts from 'Metaphors on Vision': subtitled 'Metaphors on Vision' and 'The Camera Eye', Film Culture, Fall 1963, unpaginated. 9. Noël Carroll, 'Concerning Uniqueness Claims for Photographic and Cinematographic Representation', Dialectics and Humanism, 14, 2, 1987, pp. 29-43. Part 2: Language 10. Sergei Eisenstein, Extract from 'The Montage of Film Attractions', translated by Richard Taylor, in Richard Taylor, ed., S. M. Eisenstein: Writings 1922-34 Selected Works Volume 1, (London: British Film Institute, 1988), pp. 39-49. (Originally published in 1924). 11. Viktor Shklovsky, 'The Semantics of Cinema', translated by Richard Taylor, in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, eds., The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), pp. 131-133. (Originally published as V. B. Shklovskii, 'Semontika kino', Kinozhumal A. R. K., 8, August, 1925). 12. V. I. Pudovkin, 'The Plastic Material', translated by Ivor Montagu, in On Film Technique: Three Essays and an Address by V. I. Pudovkin, (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929), pp. 50-72. (Originally published in 1926). 13. Lev Kuleshov, 'Montage as the Foundation of Cinematography', translated by Ronald Levaco, in Ronald Levaco, ed., Kuleshov on Film: Film Writings by Lev Kuleshov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 42-55. (Originally published in 1929). 14. André Bazin, 'The Evolution of the Language of Cinema', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray, ed., What is Cinema? Vol. 1, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 23-40. (Revised from articles originally published in 1950, 1952 and 1955). 15. Christian Metz, extract from 'The Cinema: Language or Language System?', translated by Michael Taylor, in Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), pp. 31-91. (Extract: pp. 31-57, pp. 61-65, pp. 67-69). (Originally published in Christian Metz, Essais sur la signification au cinema, 1964). 16. Peter Wollen, 'The Semiology of the Cinema', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, (London: Secker and Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1969), pp. 116-155. 17. Roland Barthes, 'The Third Meaning: Research Notes on some Eisenstein Stills', translated by Stephen Heath, in Image-Music-Text, (London: Fontana, 1977), pp. 52-68. (Originally published as 'Le troisiéme sens: Notes de recherché sur quelques photogrammes de S. M. Eisenstein', Cahiers du cinema, 222, 1970). Part 3: Technologies 18. Henry V. Hopwood, 'Past, Present, and Future', in Living Pictures: Their History, Photo-Production and Practical Working, (London: The Optician and Photographic Trades Review, 1899), pp. 225-234. 19. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Bruno Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo Balla and Remo Chiti, 'The Futurist Cinema', translated by R. W. Flint, in R. W. Flint, ed., Marinetti: Selected Writings, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1971), pp. 130-134. (Originally published as 'La cinematogria futurista' in L'Italia futurista, November 15, Milan, 1916). 20. Dziga Vertov, 'Kinoks: A Revolution', translated by Kevin O'Brien, in Annette Michelson, ed., Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 11-21. (Originally published in 1923). 21. Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', translated by Harry Zohn, in Hannah Arendt, ed., Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), pp. 219-253. (Originally published in 1936). 22. André Bazin, 'The Myth of Total Cinema', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray, ed., What is Cinema? Vol. 1, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 17-22. (Originally published as 'Le mythe du cinéma total', in Critique, 1946). 23. Claudia Springer, 'The Pleasure of the Interface', Screen, 32, 3, Autumn 1991, pp. 303-323. 24. Lev Manovich, 'Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image', in The Language of New Media, (Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 293-308. (An earlier version of this article was originally published in 1996).
Volume II Part 4: Authorship 25. François Truffaut, 'A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema', translator not specified, Cahiers du Cinema in English, 1, January 1966, pp. 30-41. (Originally published in 1954). 26. Andrew Sarris, 'Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962', Film Culture, 27, Winter 1962, pp. 1-8. 27. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'Luchino Visconti: Introduction', in Luchino Visconti, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1967), pp. 7-13. 28. Peter Wollen, 'The Auteur Theory', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1969), pp. 74-115. 29. Peter Wollen, 'Signs and Meaning in the Cinema: Conclusion', in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Revised Edition, (London: Secker & Warburg in Association with the British Film Institute, 1972), pp. 155-175. 30. John Caughie, 'Fiction of the Author/Author of the Fiction', in John Caughie, ed., Theories of Authorship: A Reader, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with the British Film Institute, 1981), pp. 199-207. 31. Timothy Corrigan, 'Auteurs and the New Hollywood', in Jon Lewis, ed., The New American Cinema, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 38-63. Part 5: Genre 32. Steve Neale, 'Definitions of Genre', in Genre and Hollywood, (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 9-29. 33. André Bazin, 'The Western or the American Film par Excellence', translated by Hugh Gray, in What is Cinema? Vol. 2, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), pp. 140-148 . (Originally published as 'Le western ou le cinéma américain par excellence', preface to J.-L. Rieupeyrout, Le western ou le cinéma américain par excellence, 7eme Art, Éditions du Cerf, 1953.) 34. Nino Frank, 'A New Kind of Police Drama: The Criminal Adventure', translated by Alain Silver, in Alain Silver and James Ursini, eds., Film Noir Reader 2, (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), pp. 15-19. (Originally published in 1946). 35. Jean-Pierre Chartier, 'Americans also Make Noir Films', translated by Alain Silver, in Alain Silver and James Ursini, eds., Film Noir Reader 2, (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), pp. 21-23. (Originally published in 1946). 36. Robert Warshow, 'The Gangster as Tragic Hero', Partisan Review, February 1948, pp.. 37. Paul Schrader, 'Notes on Film Noir', Film Comment, 8, 1, Spring 1972, pp. 8-13. 38. Jim Collins, 'Genericity in the Nineties: Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity', in Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins, eds., Film Theory Goes to the Movies: Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film, (New York: Routledge Inc., 1993), pp. 242-263. 39. Steve Neale, 'Issues, Conclusions and Questions', in Genre and Hollywood, (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 251-255. Part 6: Narrative and Narration 40. Julia Lesage, 'S/Z and Rules of the Game', Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema, 12-13, Winter 1976-77, pp. 45-51. 41. Will Wright, 'The Structure of Myth' (Extract), 'Myth as a Narrative of Social Action' and 'Individuals and Values: The Classical Plot', in Sixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 16-28 (Extract: pp. 25-28), pp. 124-129 and pp. 130-153. 42. David Bordwell, 'Principles of Narration', in Narration in the Fiction Film, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), pp. 48-62. 43. Bill Nichols, 'Form Wars: The Political Unconscious of Formalist Theory', South Atlantic Quarterly, 88, 2, Spring 1989, pp. 487-515. 44. Tom Gunning, 'Theory and History: Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System', in D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 10-30 . 45. Edward Branigan, 'Levels of Narration', in Narrative Comprehension and Film, (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 87-124. Volume III Part 7: Audiences and Spectatorship 46. Maxim Gorky, 'The Lumière Cinematograph', translated by Richard Taylor, in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, eds., The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), pp. 25-26. (Originally published as 'I.M. Pacatus', 'Beglye zametki. Sinematograf Lyum'era', Nizhegorodskii listok, 4 July 1896). 47. Emilie Altenloh, 'A Sociology of the Cinema: The Audience', translated by Kathleen Cross, Screen, 42, 3, Autumn 2001, pp. 249-293. (Originally published as Zur Soziologie des Kino, 1914). 48. Laura Mulvey 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema', Screen, 16, 3, Autumn 1975, pp. 6-18. 49. Laura Mulvey, 'Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' Inspired by Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)', Framework, 15-17, 1981, pp. 12-15. 50. Tom Gunning, 'An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the Incredulous Spectator', Art and Text, 34, Spring 1989, pp. 31-45. 51. Mary Carbine, '"The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928', Camera Obscura, 22, 1990, pp. 9-41. 52. Jackie Stacey, 'Feminine Fascinations: A Question of Identification?', in Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship, (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 126-175. Part 8: Personal Identities and Representation 53. Geraldyn Dismond, 'The Negro Actor and the American Movies', in James Donald, Anne Friedberg and Laura Marcus, eds., Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 73-79. (Originally published in Close Up, 5, 2, August 1929, pp. 6-13). 54. Parker Tyler, 'Mother Superior of the Faggots and Some Rival Queens', in Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), pp. 1-16. 55. Claire Johnston, 'Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema', in Claire Johnston, ed., Notes on Women's Cinema, (London: Society for Education in Film and Television, 1973), pp. 24-31. 56. Teresa de Lauretis, 'Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema', New German Critique, 34, Winter 1985, pp. 154-175. 57. Richard Dyer, 'White', Screen, 29, 4, Autumn 1988, pp. 44-64. 58. bell hooks, 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators' in Black Looks: Race and Representation, (London: Turnaround, 1992), pp. 115-131. 59. Judith Butler, 'Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion', in Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", (New York: Routledge Inc., 1993), pp. 121-140. 60. Yvonne Tasker, 'Women Warriors: Gender, Sexuality and Hollywood's Fighting Heroines', in Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 14-34. Part 9: Cultural Identities, Colonialism and Postcolonialism 61. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, 'Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World', translated by Julianne Burton and Michael Chanan, in Michael Chanan, ed., Twenty-five Years of the New Latin American Cinema, (London: British Film Institute and Channel Four Television, 1983), pp. 17-27. (Originally published in 1969) 62. Julio García Espinosa, 'For an Imperfect Cinema', translated by Julianne Burton, in Michael Chanan, ed., Twenty-five Years of the New Latin American Cinema, (London: British Film Institute and Channel Four Television, 1983), pp. 28-33. (Originally published in 1970). 63. The Committee on Peoples Cinema (under the Chairmanship of Lamine Merbah), 'Resolutions of the Third World Film-Makers Meeting, Algiers, Algeria, December 5-14, 1973', Cineaste Pamphlet No. 1, Cineaste Magazine, 1974, unpaginated. 64. Homi K. Bhabha, 'The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse', Screen, 24, 6, November/December 1983, pp. 18-36. 65. Teshome H. Gabriel, 'Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films', in Altaf Gauhar, ed., Third World Affairs 1985, (London: Third World Foundation, 1985), pp. 355-369. 66. Trinh T. Minh-ha 'Outside In Inside Out', in Jim Pines and Paul Willemen, eds., Questions of Third Cinema, (London: British Film Institute, 1989), pp. 133-149. 67. Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation', Framework, 36, 1989, pp. 68-81. 68. Edward Said, 'Jungle Calling: On Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan', Interview, 19, 6, June 1989, pp. 60-65 & p. 112. Volume IV Part 10: Realism and the Real 69. Siegfried Kracauer, Extract from 'Basic Concepts', in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960), pp. 27-39 (Extract: p. 27 & pp. 30-39). 70. André Bazin, 'The Ontology of the Photographic Image', translated by Hugh Gray, in Hugh Gray ed., What is Cinema? Vol. I, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), pp. 9-16. (Originally published as 'Ontologie de l'image photographique', Problemes de la peinture, 1945). 71. Rudolf Arnheim, 'Film and Nature', translated by L. M. Sieveking and Ian F. D. Morrow, in Film, (London: Faber and Faber, 1933), pp. 17-38. 72. Cesare Zavattini, 'Some Ideas on the Cinema', translated by Pier Luigi Lanza, Sight and Sound, 23, 2, October-December 1953, pp. 64-69. (Originally published in 1952). 73. Colin MacCabe, 'Realism and the Cinema: Notes on some Brechtian Theses', Screen, 15, 2, Summer 1974, pp. 7-27. 74. Raymond Williams, 'A Lecture on Realism', Screen, 18, 1, Spring 1977, pp. 61-74. 75. Stephen Prince, 'True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images, and Film Theory', Film Quarterly, 49, 3, Spring 1996, pp. 27-37. 76. Julia Hallam with Margaret Marshment, Extract from 'Space, Place and Identity: Re-viewing Social Realism', in Realism and Popular Cinema, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 184 -219 (Extract: pp. 190-219). Part 11: Modernism and Postmodernism 77. Peter Wollen, 'The Two Avant-Gardes', Studio International: Film Issue, 190, 978, November-December 1975, pp. 171-175. 78. Dziga Vertov, 'We: Variant of a Manifesto', translated by Kevin O'Brien, in Annette Michelson, ed., Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 5-9. (Originally published in 1922). 79. Sergei Eisenstein, 'The Problem of the Materialist Approach to Form', translated by Richard Taylor and William Powell, in Richard Taylor, ed., The Eisenstein Reader, (London: British Film Institute, 1998), pp. 53-59. (Originally published as 'K vopruso o materialisticheskom podkhode k forme' Kinozhurnal ARK, 4/5, April/May, 1925). 80. Peter Gidal, 'Theory and Definition of Structural/Materialist Film', Studio International: Film Issue, 190, 978, November-December 1975, pp. 189-196. 81. J. Hoberman, 'Vulgar Modernism', Artforum, 20, 6, February 1982, pp. 71-76. 82. Jean Baudrillard, 'The Evil Demon of Images', translated by Paul Patton and Paul Foss, Power Institute Of Fine Arts Publication Number 3, 1987, pp. 13-31. (Originally from 'The Evil Demon of Images', The First Mari Kuttna Memorial Lecture, The University of Sydney, 25th July 1984). 83. Fredric Jameson ,'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in Ann E. Kaplan, ed., Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices, (London: Verso, 1988), pp. 13-29. 84. Giuliana Bruno, 'Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner', October, 41, Summer 1987, pp. 61-74. 85. 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This is a scholarly study of cinematic emotions, highlighting the
relationship between spectator and film, and thematically divided
into chapters including Love, Hate, Shame and Fear. There is an
upsurge of interest in contemporary film theory towards cinematic
emotions. Tarja Laine's innovative study proposes a methodology for
interpreting affective encounters with films, not as objectively
readable texts, but as emotionally salient events. Laine argues
convincingly that film is not an immutable system of representation
that is meant for (one-way) communication, but an active, dynamic
participant in the becoming of the cinematic experience. Through a
range of chapters that include Horror, Hope, Shame and Love - and
through close readings of films such as "The Shining", "American
Beauty" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", Laine
demonstrates that cinematic emotions are more than mere indicators
of the properties of their objects. They are processes that are
intentional in a phenomenological sense, supporting the continuous,
shifting, and reciprocal exchange between the film's world and the
spectator's world. Grounded in continental philosophy, this
provocative book explores the affective dynamics of cinema as an
interchange between the film and the spectator in a manner that
transcends traditional generic patterns.
Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s,
there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of
rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics,
ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape and
its responses.
Boaz Hagin carries out a philosophical examination of the issue of
death as it is represented and problematized in Hollywood cinema of
the classical era (1920s-1950s) and in later mainstream films,
looking at four major genres: the Western, the gangster film,
melodrama and the war film.
This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of
realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television,
and the rehabilitation of realism in film and media theory. The
contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail, querying
their origins, relations, divergences and intersections from a
variety of perspectives.
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