Author : David Pierce
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
"Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Film Preservation Board."
Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674551633
The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.
Author : Costica Bradatan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317385675
Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The contributors to this volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.
Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0547539479
A classic on the aesthetics of filmmaking from the pioneering Soviet director who made Battleship Potemkin. Though he completed only a half-dozen films, Sergei Eisenstein remains one of the great names in filmmaking, and is also renowned for his theory and analysis of the medium. Film Form collects twelve essays, written between 1928 and 1945, that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jay Leyda, this volume allows modern-day film students and fans to gain insights from the man who produced classics such as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible and created the renowned “Odessa Steps” sequence.
Author : James Donald
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780304335169
Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.
Author : Thomas Schatz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 1981-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.
Author : Giorgio Bertellini
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520301366
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon.
Author : Michel Chion
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231078993
Deals with issue of sound in audio-visual images
Author : Robert C. Reimer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 158510857X
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema is an English-language text that serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history. In its second edition, German Culture through Film expands on the first edition, providing additional chapters with context for understanding the era in which the featured films were produced. Thirty-three notable German films are arranged in seven chronological chapters, spanning key moments in German film history, from the silent era to the present. Each chapter begins with an introduction that focuses on the history and culture surrounding films of the relevant period. Sections within chapters are each devoted to one particular film, providing film credits, a summary of the story, background information, an evaluation, questions and activities to encourage diverse interpretations, a list of related films, and bibliographical information on the films discussed.
Author : Pamela Wintle
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
