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Poetics of slow cinema : nostalgia, absurdism, boredom
This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism. Slow films dispense with narrative progression in favour of a contemplative mood, which is stretched out to the extreme in order to impel viewers to confront cinematic temporality in all its undivided glory. Despite its critical reputation as an oblique mode of film practice, slow cinema continues to attract, challenge and provoke audiences. Focusing on filmmakers Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this book identifies nostalgia, absurd humour and boredom as intrinsic dimensions of slow cinema and explores the ways in which these directors negotiate local filmmaking conventions with the demands of a global cinephile niche. As the first study to treat slow cinema both as an aesthetic style and as an institutional discourse, Poetics of Slow Cinema offers an illuminating perspective on the tradition's historical genealogy and envisions it with a Janus-faced disposition in the age of digital technologies - lamenting at once the passing of difficult, ambiguous modernist film and capitalizing on the yearning for its absence.
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A companion to the gangster film
A companion to the study of the gangster film's international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia
A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While gangster films are one of America's most popular genres, gangster movies appear in every film industry across the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, A Companion to the Gangster Film explores the popularity of gangster films across three major continents, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The authors acknowledge the gangster genre's popularity and examine the reasons supporting its appeal to twenty-first century audiences across the globe.
The book examines common themes across all three continents such as production histories and reception, gender race and sexuality, mafia mythologies, and politics. In addition, the companion clearly shows that no national cinema develops in isolation and that cinema is a truly global popular art form. This important guide to the gangster film genre:
* Reveals how the gangster film engages in complex and contradictory themes
* Examines the changing face of the gangster film in America
* Explores the ideas of gangsterism and migration in the Hispanic USA, Latin America and the Caribbean
* Discusses the wide variety of gangster types to appear in European cinema
* Contains a review of a wide-range of gangster films from the Americans, Europe, and Asia
Written for academics and students of film, A Companion to the Gangster Film offers a scholarly and authoritative guide exploring the various aspects and international appeal of the gangster film genre.
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Hear Me with Your Eyes
Hear Me with Your Eyes examines the intrusion of the voice
into the cinematographic gaze and the intersections (and ruptures)
of the sound-image in Argentine women filmmakers from a feminist
perspective. In different ways, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Lita Stantic,
Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, Maria Victoria Menis, Lucia
Puenzo, Sabrina Farji, Paula de Luque, Anahi Berneri, Sandra
Gugliotta, and Gabriela David explore the visual realm through the
continuities, intrusions, irrelevancies, harmonies, and
desynchronizations of the voice. Or, instead, they explore
different voices and their modulations, including whispers,
screams, singing, echoes, breathing, resonance, sighs, and the
transcendent voice, the narrative voice, the silenced voice, the
articulated and unarticulated voice, and that which is none of the
above. These voices suggest another relationship with the
audiovisual realm, one that seems to include a closeness that
erases, if only intermittently, the unalterable relationship
between subject and object that characterizes the patriarchal
visual regime.
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A companion to early cinema
An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault Caters to renewed interest in film studies’ historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context
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A companion to eastern european cinemas
A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.
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Hollywood's America
Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood's America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events.
* A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history
* This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online
* Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day
* Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film
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The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of
ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in
several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries
during the final years of the French colonial empire.
Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch, Chris
Marker, and Alain Resnais, author Laure Astourian elucidates their
striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to
scrutinizing their own French urban culture. As awareness of the
ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan
France, these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white,
urban, bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the
colonies: the ethnographic gaze.
Featuring some of the most canonical and best-loved films of the
French tradition, such as Moi, un Noir , La jetée ,
and Muriel , this is an essential book for readers
interested in national identity and cinema.
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