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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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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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Rouch i jego banda na ścieżkach dekolonizacji
The author focuses on the asymmetry in the perspectives, approaches, and meanings inherent in discourses concerning race- and class-based social inequality and its inheritance or entanglement in historically shaped social hierarchies. Through an analysis of selected examples, including cinematic works, the author explores various aspects of this issue. An important thread of the discussion is a critical analysis of Jean Rouch’s attempt to create a ‘shared space’ within the realm of ethno-fiction, creating new figurations of social positions that reject the deterministic replication of identities marked by the historical experience of colonization. Rouch termed this approach “shared anthropology.” Despite the emergence of various contentious issues after the production of his film Moi, un Noir (1958), the work seems to question the validity of Gayatri Spivak’s remarks regarding the subaltern’s inability to articulate their own experiences. The article positions Rouch’s approach as a precursor to Homi Bhabha’s influential concept of the “third space.”
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Lviv’s Cinemas During World War II
The article discusses the functioning of cinemas in Lvivduring World War II, with a focus on the years 1941-1944.The Nazi authorities introduced a division of Lviv cinemasinto those for Germans, Poles, and Ukrainians. These threecinema categories therefore attracted different audiences(in terms of nationality), towards which the occupying au-thorities pursued separate repertoire policies. The articlewill analyse the nationality-oriented film policies of theNazi authorities towards these three groups and their filmpreferences. The period of Soviet occupation (1939-1941)will also be addressed, albeit not in detail. By taking it intoaccount, it will be possible to highlight some differences inthe approach of the Soviet and German occupiers to filmpolicy in Lviv. This research would not have been effectivewithout the use of quantitative methods to compare largesets of repertoire data.
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