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Film restoration : the culture and science of audiovisual heritage
\"Film Restoration: The Culture and Science of Audiovisual Heritage is the first monograph-length work intended to enable the general public and readers with a humanities background to understand what film restoration does and does not involve. In doing so, Enticknap engages with current debates on audio-visual artefacts and identifies the ways in which traditional methods and approaches within film studies, history and cultural studies fail to provide the tools needed to study and criticise restored films meaningfully and reliably. The book also includes a technical glossary of over 150 terms related to the processes of film restoration. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism
This book offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city. Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
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Contents tourism and pop culture fandom : transnational tourist experiences
\"The term 'contents tourism' has been defined as 'travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture...'. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Korean Cinema in Global Contexts
Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history.
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Global cinema networks
\"Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection's esteemed contributors excavate sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction and amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence, focusing primarily on recent films made across Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Moving beyond the digital as a harbinger of transformation, the volume offers new ways of thinking about cinema networks in a historical continuum, from \"international\" to \"world\" to \"transnational\" to \"global\" frames\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From fidelity to history
Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies— including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.
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Exporting perilous Pauline : Pearl White and the serial film craze
The American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these \"serial queens\" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium. This collection of essays explores the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception, and historiographic importance.
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Dead Funny
Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner
plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror
directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis
to Jordan Peele. So how might horror and humor overlap more than we
would expect? Dead Funny locates humor as a key element in
the American horror film, one that is not merely used for
extraneous \"comic relief\" moments but often serves to underscore
major themes, intensify suspense, and disorient viewers. Each
chapter focuses on a different comic style or device, from the use
of funny monsters and scary clowns in movies like A Nightmare
on Elm Street to the physical humor and slapstick in movies
ranging from The Evil Dead to Final Destination .
Along the way, humor scholar David Gillota explores how horror
films employ parody, satire, and camp to comment on gender,
sexuality, and racial politics. Covering everything from the
grotesque body in Freaks to the comedy of awkwardness in
Midsommar , this book shows how integral humor has been to
the development of the American horror film over the past century.
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Irreversible
\"Gaspar Noâe's Irreversible is uncompromising and visceral, an essential piece of modern cinema. Punctuated by dazzling avant-garde techniques, the film depicts, in reverse-chronological order, a woman's rape and her boyfriend and friend's subsequent hunt for vengeance through the underworld of Paris. Confrontational yet influential, Irreversible has polarized audiences since its release in 2002, making it until now almost impossible to study dispassionately. This first book-length study of Irreversible situates Noâe's work in the ecosystem of contemporary French media, exploring how Irreversible and a larger-scale Cinâema du corps actually inspired France's film resurgence in the early twenty-first century. From there, Palmer shows Irreversible to be one of the most subversive star vehicles in recent world cinema, in the form of its iconic lead performers, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Albert Dupontel. Investigating the spectrum of reactions created by Noâe's film -- through its pugnacious stylistic design, its on-screen deconstruction of Paris, its international critical reception and its unexpectedly utopian counterpoints to violence and despair -- the book generates a new rational dialogue about Irreversible that challenges any instinct simply to reject or condemn it. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cinema Counts: The Computational Turn and Quantitative Methods in Film Studies
The aim of this text is a critical analysis of current develop-
ments and potential applications of quantitative methods
in film studies. Within its scope, a concise reconstruction
of the methodological foundations, historical development,
and key achievements of statistical, experimental, and dig-
ital humanities tools in relation to audiovisual media re-
search is conducted. This involves a review of the phenom-
ena that have developed so far as well as a philosophical
consideration of the sources, consequences, and potential
limitations of quantitative thinking in an area traditionally
occupied by the humanities. Quantitative methods are not
considered here as a replacement for existing paradigms,
but rather as their complement, extension, and often in-
spiration. This allows to understand the current transfor-
mations but also integrate them with traditional research
approaches, and identify the pitfalls and difficulties asso-
ciated with this paradigm shift.
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