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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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A Short History of Film, Third Edition
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
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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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Déjà Viewed
Situates the remake as one of the primary responses to
Bollywood's globalization and corporatization.
Focused on post-1990 Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films,
Déjà Viewed tells a larger story of the
rapidly changing Indian film industry in the wake of
globalization and corporatization. It situates the remake as a
gendered response to these changes, drawing on approaches from
film theory, gender studies, and cultural studies. The book
looks at films from a variety of genres and modes, including
the Bollywood family film, romantic comedy, noir, and
melodrama, and each film's close analysis is accompanied by
attention to concerns related to remake theory, such as homage,
anxiety of influence, defamiliarization, and pastiche. Seeking
to historicize how gender and genres become translated and
transformed in the Bollywood remake, the book contributes to
transnational understandings of gender and genre as media texts
move across various borders—geographic, cinematic,
economic, and aesthetic.
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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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Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting
More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness.Each effect is rich in symbolism, evoking a world of danger and doppelgangers.But what happens if we set aside the symbolism?.
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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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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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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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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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