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Czech and Slovak cinema
The first study in English to examine key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema. Linking interwar and postwar cinemas together with developments during the post-Communist period, the volume considers interactions among theme, genre, and visual style and the way in which a range of styles and traditions has extended across different historical periods and political regimes. Czech and Slovak cinema are a unique avenue into Central European film history.
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Binging with Babish : 100 recipes recreated from your favorite movies and TV shows
Each espiode of the YouTube cooking show Binging with Babish involves Andrew Rea teaching a recipe based on a favorite TV show or film, such as the babka from the classic Seinfeld episode, the beef bourguignon from Julie & Julia, or the timpano from Big Night. This cookbook includes these and other fan-favorite recipes. Some are so delicious that you'll want to make them for dinner right away, like Bubba's shrimp from Forrest Gump, while others can be saved for impressing a loved one -- like the chocolate lava cake from Jon Favreau's Chef. Complete with behind-the-scenes stories and never-seen-before photos, as well as answers to frequently asked fan questions.
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Hyper-Narrative Interactive Cinema
Hyper narrative interactive cinema refers to the possibility for users or \"interactors\" to shift at different points in an evolving film narrative to other film narrative trajectories. Such works have resulted so far in interactor distraction rather than sustained engagement. Contrary to post-modern textual and cognitive presumptions, film immersion and computer game theories, this study uses dual coding theory, cognitive load theory, and constructivist narrative film theory to claim that interactive hyper-narrative distraction results from cognitive and behavioral multi-tasking, which lead to split attention problems that cannot be cognitively handled. Focus is upon split attention resulting from the non-critical use of de-centered and non-cohering hyper-narrative and audio-visual formations, and from interaction. For hyper-narrative interactive cinema to sustain deep engagement, multi-tasking split attention problems inhering in such computer-based works have to be managed, and - most importantly - made to enhance rather than reduce engagement. This book outlines some viable solutions to construct deep cognitive-emotional engagement of interactors with hyper-narrative interactive cinema.
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Slow movies
\"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility,\" Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.
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Fictions Inc
Fictions Inc.explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation-Frank Norris'sThe Octopus-Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to \"individual,\" and from American industry to multinational \"Other.\" Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such asNetwork,Ghostbusters,Gung Ho,Office Space, andMichael Clayton; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television'sThe Officeand the comic stripsLife Is HellandDilbert.
Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of \"corporate bodies,\"Fictions Inc.shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system.
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Der phantastische Film
Während die Literaturwissenschaft auf eine mittlerweile vier Jahrzehnte andauernde intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen und Begriff des Phantastischen zurückblicken kann, hat die Filmwissenschaft bislang keine vergleichbaren Ansätze einer Engfassung und Theoretisierung des phantastischen Films entwickelt.
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