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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema
During the 2010s in Turkey, LGBTQ activists, groups, and
individuals persisted against social, political, and legal
adversity. Erasure during the Gezi Park Protests in 2013, a Pride
parade ban in Istanbul in 2016, and indefinite ban on all LGBTQ
events in Ankara in 2017 directly aimed at ending the activities,
visibility, and existence of LGBTQ organization in the two biggest
cities in Turkey. This work examines the ways in which LGBTQ
activists engaged in talkback against these restrictions that
impacted the lives of LGBTQ individuals and how said individuals
endured such adversity. Focusing on the elements of discourse used
by LGBTQ activists, this work argues oppositional discourses need
to address as well as remedy the various elements of normative
discourses-constructions of space, time, and affect-in order to be
deemed a talkback, instead of merely perpetuating the normativities
of oppressive discourses.
Over the years, Mondo has received global recognition for its
incredible art posters that bring to life classic films, TV shows,
and comics in a refreshing and utterly striking new way, offering a
unique perspective on everything from Star Wars to Robocop, Back to
the Future, Jurassic Park, Game of Thrones, Godzilla, Kill Bill,
and many, many more. For the first time, The Art of Mondo will
bring together this much sought-after art in one deluxe volume that
showcases the incredible ingenuity of the studio's diverse stable
of artists whose vastly different styles are united by one guiding
principle: limitless passion for their subject matter. This richly
imaginative work is fueled by a love of pop culture that fans
recognize and identify with, giving Mondo's output a rare and
valuable synergy with its audience. While these posters are
normally produced in a limited quantity and sell out in minutes,
The Art of Mondo will allow fans to explore the studio's remarkable
back catalog, including Olly Moss's iconic Star Wars trilogy work,
Laurent Durieux's brilliantly subtle Jaws poster, and Tyler Stout's
Guardians of the Galaxy art. Other key Mondo artists such as Jock,
Martin Asin, and Aaron Horkey will also feature. Definitive,
visually stunning, and filled with art that celebrates some of the
biggest and best-loved properties in pop culture, The Art of Mondo
will be the ultimate book for cult art fans everywhere.
Volume 1 of 3. Learn from the feature players of Hollywood what it
was like to work on films during its Golden Era. Enjoy their often
humorous and exciting stories as they lived out their lives and
careers behind and in front of the camera.
The cinematic tale of Harrison Marks' nudist feature "Naked As
Nature Intended, the iconic naturist film that brought us bare
breasts on Porthcurno beach, donkey-stroking in Clovelly and Pamela
Green in her birthday suit. Behind the scenes exclusives and never
before seen pictures.
This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film
across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific
movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and
future. Since the mid-1970s, American cinema has gone through
enormous changes, such as the birth of the modern summer
blockbuster, the rise of the independent film industry, ongoing
technological advancements in special effects, and the
ever-evolving models for film distribution. Written by a
professional film critic and film buff, this book tells the story
of contemporary American cinema in a unique and engaging way: by
examining 25 key movies that demonstrated a significant creative,
technological, or business innovation that impacted the industry at
large. Each chapter in this chronological survey of contemporary
film is divided into two sections: "The Film," which offers a
critical overview of the film in question; and "The First," which
describes the specific innovation achieved by that film and places
that achievement in the larger historical context. Two additional
appendices in each chapter explore other significant aspects of
both the film and its groundbreaking nature. The broad
coverage-ranging from action movies to horror films to science
fiction favorites-ensures the work's appeal to all film fans. Takes
stock of the 2000s and explains how this period built on what came
before and predicts how American cinema will continue to evolve in
the next decade Provides up-to-the-minute, contemporary treatment
of contemporary cinema that will appeal to and resonate with young
readers and film buffs in particular Presents a historical
perspective on 40 years of American film within the framework of a
list of 25 essential movies to effectively capture readers'
attention and expand their cinematic horizons beyond the latest
Hollywood blockbuster production Utilizes a film-by-film approach
that also allows for the inclusion of appendices that focus upon
ideas, subjects, and people in modern film, such as comic books,
key actors and actresses, and video games
The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive
intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to
understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology. In attempting
to do more than merely identify harmful stereotypes, research on
'films and race' appropriates ideas from post-structuralist theory.
But on those platforms, the field takes intellectual and political
positions that place its anti-racist efforts at an impasse. While
presenting theoretical ideas in an accessible way, Gerald Sim's
historical materialist approach uniquely triangulates well-known
work by Edward Said with the Neo-Marxian writing about film by
Theodor Adorno and Fredric Jameson. The Subject of Film and Race
takes on topics such as identity politics, multiculturalism,
multiracial discourse, and cyborg theory, to force film and media
studies into rethinking their approach, specifically towards
humanism and critical subjectivity. The book illustrates
theoretical discussions with a diverse set of familiar films by
John Ford, Michael Mann, Todd Solondz, Quentin Tarantino, Keanu
Reeves, and others, to show that we must always be aware of
capitalist history when thinking about race, ethnicity, and films.
In the first book of its kind in the English language historian Dr.
John Dunbar provides an overview of attempts throughout film
history to put historical topics on screen in the United States and
Great Britain. The earliest attempts were biographic films about
famous people and a some great epic films such as Gone With the
Wind that were not claimed to be accurate histories of a period.
World War Two paved the way for post war developments through the
evolution of the documentary film that were often accurate
portrayals of events in the war. After WW 2 a number of social,
political, technical and economic developments opened the way for
the making of historically accurate films. The dissolution of the
Studio System in Hollywood, the disappearance of film censor
boards, the arrival of television and later the internet, the
appearance of greater market segments than those traditionally
served by motion picture all opened up market opportunities for
films of greater historical accuracy than had traditionally been
available. The emergence of film makers and production companies
dedicated to the accurate telling of history now engages the
resources of professional historians in the making of films of
unequalled accuracy. As items in the modern world of media literacy
and political discourse, these films play an important role in the
sustenance of the open society in which the ideals of the European
Enlightenment can be continually realized.
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