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  1. Wag the Dog : A Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age
    Author: Thanouli, Eleftheria
    Published: 20130801
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic

    Wag the Dog became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is  supposed to separate reality and fiction. The examination of the historical and social context in which it was  produced, exhibited... more

     

    Wag the Dog became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is  supposed to separate reality and fiction. The examination of the historical and social context in which it was  produced, exhibited and received worldwide enables the author to illuminate a series of changes in the way a fiction film reflects and  interacts with reality, urging us to reconsider some of our central and  long-standing concepts or even paradigms in film theory. Eleftheria  Thanouli provides new insights into a series of issues from both  classical and contemporary film theory, such as the conceptual and  ontological stakes in the use of digital technology, the impact of mass  media on public memory and the political role of cinema in a globalized  and conglomerated world.

     
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  2. The Altering Eye : Contemporary International Cinema
    Author: Phillip Kolker, Robert
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, Kolker develops a pattern of cinematic invention and... more

     

    The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, Kolker develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker’s book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: movies; cinema; rainer maria fassbinder; european film; joseph losey; jean-luc godard; film; film studies; glauber rocha; new german cinema; Filmmaking
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (344 p.)
  3. Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics
    Author: Holl, Ute
    Published: 20170430
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological laboratories of the 19th century.... more

     

    Ute Holl explores cinema as a cultural technique of trance, unconsciously transforming everyday spatio-temporal perception. The archaeology of experimental and anthropological cinema leads into psycho-physiological laboratories of the 19th century. Through personal and systematic catenations, avant-garde filmmaking is closely linked to the emerging aesthetics of feedback in cybernetic models of the mind developed at the same time. Holl analyses three major fields of experimental and anthropological filmmaking: the Soviet avant-garde with Dziga Vertov and his background in Russian psycho-reflexology and theory of trance; Jean Rouch and his theory of cine-trance and the feed-back; and the New American Cinema with Maya Deren and Gregory Bateson conceptualising the organisation of time, space, movement and feedback trance in anthropological filmmaking.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789089646682; 9789048523481
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Consciousness; Cybernetics; Dziga Vertov; Jean Rouch; Physiology
  4. Fabulations nocturnes: Écologie, vitalité et opacité dans le cinéma d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Author: Bordeleau, Érik; Pape, Toni; Rose-Antoinette, Ronald; Szymanski, Adam
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    Fabulations nocturnes est un essai d’intercession. Ce n’est pas simplement un livre à propos du cinéaste Apichatpong Weerasethakul, bien qu’il se penche de près sur son œuvre. C’est plutôt un livre qui interroge en profondeur quoi d’autre pourrait... more

     

    Fabulations nocturnes est un essai d’intercession. Ce n’est pas simplement un livre à propos du cinéaste Apichatpong Weerasethakul, bien qu’il se penche de près sur son œuvre. C’est plutôt un livre qui interroge en profondeur quoi d’autre pourrait être en cause dans la mise en place des conditions de collaboration entre deux genres – le cinéma et l’écriture. Ce projet collectif est animé d’un intérêt commun pour la pragmatique de la fabulation et son geste spéculatif générateur d’un peuple à venir. Les concepts d’écologie, de vitalité et d’opacité ont surgi de la rencontre avec le dramscape d’Apichatpong pour venir articuler un ethos de fabulation qui décadre l’expérience, recompose la subjectivité et défixe le temps.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781785420436
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers
    Other subjects: experience; subjectivity; cinema; ecology; pragmatics of fabulation; time; writing; opacity; vitality; apichatpong weerasethakul
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (270 p.)
  5. Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Author: Bordeleau, Érik; Pape, Toni; Rose-Antoinette, Ronald; Szymanski, Adam
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the... more

     

    Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres: cinema and writing. This collective project is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpong’s cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time.

     
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  6. Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
    Author: Jaikumar, Priya
    Published: 20050101
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts?... more

     

    How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period. Challenging the rubric of national cinemas that dominates film studies, Priya Jaikumar contends that film aesthetics and film regulations were linked expressions of radical political transformations in a declining British empire and a nascent Indian nation. As she demonstrates, efforts to entice colonial film markets shaped Britain’s national film policies, and Indian responses to these initiatives altered the limits of colonial power in India.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822387749
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Cinema of India; Imperialism; India; Modernism; Nationalism
  7. Music and Levels of Narration in Film
    Author: Heldt, Guido
    Published: 20130513
    Publisher:  Intellect, Bristol

    This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music... more

     

    This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narratology (including contributions from German-language literature less widely known in Anglophone scholarship).

     

    The book goes beyond the current focus of film music studies on the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music (music understood to be or not to be part of the storyworld of a film), and takes into account different levels of narration: from the extrafictional to ‘focalizations’ of subjectivity, and music’s many and complex movements between them.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783202096; 9781783202102
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; film music; soundtrack; narratology; Diegesis
  8. Clásicos del cine mexicano : 31 películas emblemáticas desde la Época de Oro hasta el presente
    Contributor: Wehr, Christian (Publisher)
    Published: 20160303
    Publisher:  Iberoamericana Vervuert

    Esta antología del cine mexicano presenta 31 películas emblemáticas de todas las épocas del cine del país, desde la llamada Época de Oro de los años treinta y cuarenta hasta el cine actual, e incluye tanto obras canónicas de Sergej Eisenstein,... more

     

    Esta antología del cine mexicano presenta 31 películas emblemáticas de todas las épocas del cine del país, desde la llamada Época de Oro de los años treinta y cuarenta hasta el cine actual, e incluye tanto obras canónicas de Sergej Eisenstein, Fernando de Fuentes, Alejandro Galindo, Luis Buñuel y Arturo Ripstein como trabajos de realizadores actuales, como Jorge Fons, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jorge Fons, Alfonso Cuarón y Fernando Eimbcke. El objetivo que se ha perseguido es el de ofrecer el desarrollo histórico del cine mexicano durante 80 años, así como también el de dar a conocer la riqueza de los temas y géneros que caracteriza la producción cinematográfica de México.

    Al panorama que se ofrece aquí han contribuido renombrados especialistas que realizan un detallado análisis con los contextos políticos, sociales, culturales y estéticos que influyen en las respectivas películas que analizan.

     
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    Contributor: Wehr, Christian (Publisher)
    Language: Spanish; Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783954878543
    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Modern Languages and Linguistics; Cine; Historia de la cultura visual; Siglo XX Actualidad - XXI; México
  9. Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 1: Radical Scholarship
    Author: Keeney, Gavin
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Knowledge, Spirit, Law is a de facto phenomenology of scholarship in the age of neoliberal capitalism. The eleven essays (plus Appendices) in Book 1: Radical Scholarship cover topics and circle themes related to the problems and crises specific to... more

     

    Knowledge, Spirit, Law is a de facto phenomenology of scholarship in the age of neoliberal capitalism. The eleven essays (plus Appendices) in Book 1: Radical Scholarship cover topics and circle themes related to the problems and crises specific to neoliberal academia, while proposing creative paths around the various obstructions. The obstructions include metrics-obsessed academia, circular and incestuous peer review, digitalization of research as stalking horse for text- and data-mining, and violation by global corporate fiat of Intellectual Property and the Moral Rights of Authors. These issues, while addressed obliquely in the main text, definitively inform the various proscriptive aspects of the essays and, via the Introduction and Appendices, underscore the necessity of developing new-old means to no obvious end in the production of knowledge — that is to say, a return to forms of non-instrumentalized intellectual inquiry. To be developed in two concurrent volumes, Knowledge, Spirit, Law will serve as a “moving and/or shifting anthology” of new forms of expression in humanistic studies. Book 2: The Anti-Capitalist Sublime will be published in Autumn 2017.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; intellectual property; epistemology; anti-capitalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (234 p.)
  10. Último día cada día: Y otro escrito sobre cine y filosofía
    Author: Martin, Adrian
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Where is the film analysis today? What are you doing, in the dark, the theory of cinema? This field, as it has been professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is currently divided between historians interested in the... more

     

    Where is the film analysis today? What are you doing, in the dark, the theory of cinema? This field, as it has been professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is currently divided between historians interested in the social context that examine the great formations of modernity, and experts in the style that They demand the return of outmoded things such as authorial vision, tone, and staging. But there are also other currents, vital and inventive, of which we are hardly hearing anything in any of the official channels. Last day each day , which for this edition has been extended with the essay “Avatars of the meeting”, shines a light on one of these new and exciting ways.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Álvarez López, Cristina (Publisher)
    Language: Spanish; Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; Eric Auerbach; Siegfried Kracauer; Nicole Brenez; Douglas Sirk
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (66 p.)
  11. The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan
    Author: Doty, Alexander; Ingham, Patricia Clare
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history... more

     

    Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medieval past and modern culture. This uncanny content is compounded by the film’s formal strangeness, a mixture of quasi-documentary with fictional episodes, illustrated lectures alongside docudrama recreations and dreamscapes. Is this a documentary, a horror flick, or both? In this chapbook, authors Doty and Ingham argue that the puzzle of Christensen’s Häxan might be unraveled by attending to the film’s provocative and paradoxical medievalism, its fantasmatic rendering of the witch as a medieval monster. Such monstrous medievalism, moreover, sheds considerable light on the politics of gender and culture once the witch is rendered a female figure in a time out-of-joint.

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film; medieval studies; horror; cultural studies; witchcraft
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (84 p.)
  12. Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 2: The Anti-Capitalist Sublime
    Author: Keeney, Gavin
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Knowledge, Spirit, Law // Book 2: The Anti-capitalist Sublime takes up where Knowledge, Spirit, Law // Book 1: Radical Scholarship (2015) left off, foremost in terms of a critique of neo-liberal academia and its demotion of the book in favor of... more

     

    Knowledge, Spirit, Law // Book 2: The Anti-capitalist Sublime takes up where Knowledge, Spirit, Law // Book 1: Radical Scholarship (2015) left off, foremost in terms of a critique of neo-liberal academia and its demotion of the book in favor of various mediatic practices that substitute, arguably, for the one form of critical inquiry that might safeguard speculative intellectual inquiry as long-form and long-term project, especially in relationship to the archive or library (otherwise known as the “public domain”). This ongoing critique of neo-liberal academia is a necessary corrective to processes underway today toward the further marginalization of radical critique, with many of the traditional forms of sustained analysis being replaced by pseudo-empirical studies that abandon themes only presentable in the Arts and Humanities through the “arcanian closure” that the book as long-form inquisition represents (whether as novel, non-fictional critique, or something in-between). As a tomb for thought, this privileging of the shadowy recesses of the book preserves, through the very apparatuses of long- and slow-form scholarship, the premises presented here as indicative of an anti-capitalist project embedded in works that might otherwise shun such a characterization.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447356
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; university studies; Chris Marker; digital humanities; cognitive capitalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (270 p.)
  13. Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas
    Contributor: Falkowska, Janina (Publisher); Loska, Krzysztof (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new... more

     

    This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. They present essays on, among others, Basque cinema; gendered controversies in post-communist small cinemas in Slovakia and Czech Republic; ethnic stereotypes in the works of Polish filmmakers; stereotypical representation of women in Japanese avant-garde; post-communist political myths in Hungary; the separatist movements of Catalonia; people in diasporas and during migrations. In view of these timely topics, the book touches on the most serious social and political problems. The films discussed provide an excellent platform for enhancing debates on politics, gender, migration and new aesthetics in cinema at departments of history, sociology, literature and film.

     
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    Contributor: Falkowska, Janina (Publisher); Loska, Krzysztof (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Media studies; Theatre studies; Film theory & criticism; Film guides & reviews; Gender studies: women
    Other subjects: Creative writing and creative writing guides; Plays, playscripts; Films, cinema; Gender studies: women and girls
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  14. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
    Contributor: Gordon, Marsha (Publisher); Field, Allyson Nadia (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by... more

     

    Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the way filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films, as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking.

     
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    Contributor: Gordon, Marsha (Publisher); Field, Allyson Nadia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781478005605
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Performing Arts; Film; History & Criticism
  15. Manhua Modernity : Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn
    Author: Crespi, John A.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic... more

     

    From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of these illustrations across the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of political and cultural transformation. In this compelling media history, John Crespi argues that manhua must be understood in the context of the pictorial magazines that hosted them, and in turn these magazines must be seen as important mediators of the modern urban experience. Even as times changed—from interwar-era consumerism to war-time mobilization to Mao-style propaganda—the art form adapted to stay on the cutting edge of both politics and style.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780520973862
    Subjects: Media studies; History of art / art & design styles; Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Social Science; Media Studies; Art; Asian; Chinese; Performing Arts; Film; History & Criticism
  16. Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls : Expressivität, heitere Affekte und die Screwball Comedy
    Author: Greifenstein, Sarah
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    Wie ist die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden? Am Gegenstand der Screwball Comedy wird diese Frage erörtert: Die Filme des klassischen Hollywood-Genres der 1930er und 1940er... more

     

    Wie ist die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden? Am Gegenstand der Screwball Comedy wird diese Frage erörtert: Die Filme des klassischen Hollywood-Genres der 1930er und 1940er präsentieren rasante Gespräche, Schlagabtausch, Wortwitz und Sprachakrobatik einer Paarinteraktion. Komik und Heiterkeit werden in erster Linie dadurch gestaltet, wie Gesten, Mimiken, Stimmen und Redeäußerungen zeitlich in das filmische Bild eingebettet sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird erörtert, welcher grundsätzliche Zusammenhang zwischen Bewegungsqualitäten und Affektivität besteht bzw. wie die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden ist. In den Screwball Comedies ist das Empfinden oftmals kontrastiv-komisch gestaltet: Interaktionen von Streit und Wut werden als eleganter Tanz einer Paarbewegung wahrnehmbar. Durch diese Perspektive wird das Verhältnis von Sprachäußerung, Schauspiel und Filmbild sehr grundsätzlich befragt. Das heitere Zuschauergenießen ist weniger an narrative Handlungen gebunden als an ästhetisch-expressive Orchestrierungen, Taktungen und verkörperte Bedeutungen.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110696677
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; Film theory & criticism; Media studies
    Other subjects: Affectivity; comedy; temporality
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (345 p.)
  17. Crash : Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis
    Author: Beckman, Karen
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen... more

     

    Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash parallel the encounter of film with other media, and that these collisions between media offer useful ways to think about alterity, politics, and desire. Examining the significance of automobile collisions in film genres including the “cinema of attractions,” slapstick comedies, and industrial-safety movies, Beckman reveals how the car crash gives visual form to fantasies and anxieties regarding speed and stasis, risk and safety, immunity and contamination, and impermeability and penetration.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822392767
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Performing Arts; Film; History & Criticism
  18. Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls
    Author: Greifenstein, Sarah
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and... more

     

    What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110519846
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; Film theory & criticism; Media studies
    Other subjects: Affectivity; comedy; temporality
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (333 p.)
  19. Spanish Spaces : Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture
    Author: Davies, Ann
    Published: 20120413
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish... more

     

    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Drawing on case studies from contemporary Spanish film and literature, Davies explores the themes of memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration, investigating what it means to think of space and places in specifically Spanish terms.

     
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Languages; Barcelona; Basque Country (autonomous community); ETA (separatist group); Spain
  20. Of Elephants and Toothaches
    Author: Badowska, Eva; Parmeggiani, Francesca
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, NY

    This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle’s deft handling of moral... more

     

    This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle’s deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kie?lowski as a major international director. Kie?lowski once said, “Both the deep believer and the habitual skeptic experience toothaches in exactly the same way.” Of Elephants and Toothaches takes seriously the range of thought, from theological to skeptical, condensed in the cycle’s quite human tales. Bringing together scholars of film, philosophy, literature, and several religions, the volume ranges from individual responsibility, to religion in modernity, to familial bonds, to human desire and material greed. It explores Kie?lowski’s cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: politics; media and communications; moral and ethical aspects; religion on television; God; Limousin dialect; Ten Commandments
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (253 p.)
  21. Proust Cinématographe : Wie Raoul Ruiz Proust las
    Author: Jaritz, Joanna
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    "Proust Cinematographe – Ruiz reading In Search of Lost Time" takes a new look at the metapoetic program of Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps perdu. Selected text passages and film excerpts are analyzed, focusing on the fundamental questions of the... more

     

    "Proust Cinematographe – Ruiz reading In Search of Lost Time" takes a new look at the metapoetic program of Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps perdu. Selected text passages and film excerpts are analyzed, focusing on the fundamental questions of the novel about the perception and description of time, subject, and identity. It turns out that the novel of the nineteenth century anticipated the concepts of modern cinema on a surprisingly broad scale.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783946054474; 9783946054467
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Other subjects: literary film adaptation; intermediality; Ruiz; Proust; visuality; Erzähler; Erzählung; Gilles Deleuze; Le Temps (Frankreich); Mais; Marcel Proust; Recherche; Wahrnehmung
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (330 p.)
  22. Chaste Cinematics
    Author: Vitanza, Victor J.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Victor J. Vitanza (author of Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing) continues to rethink the problem of sexual violence in cinema and how rape is often represented in “chaste” ways, in the form of a Chaste Cinematics. Vitanza continues to... more

     

    Victor J. Vitanza (author of Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing) continues to rethink the problem of sexual violence in cinema and how rape is often represented in “chaste” ways, in the form of a Chaste Cinematics. Vitanza continues to discuss Chaste Cinematics as participating in transdisciplinary-rhetorical traditions that establish the very foundations (groundings, points of stasis) for nation states and cultures. In this offering, however, the initial grounding for the discussions is “base materialism” (George Bataille): divine filth, the sacred and profane. It is this post-philosophical base materialism that destabilizes binaries, fixedness, and brings forth excluded thirds. Vitanza asks: why is it that a repressed third, or a third figure, returns, most strangely as a “product” of rape and torture? He works with Jean-Paul Sartre and Page duBois’s suggestion that the “product” is a new “species.” Always attempting unorthodox ways of approaching social problems, Vitanza organizes his table of contents as a DVD menu of “Extras” (supplements). This menu includes Alternate Endings and Easter Eggs as well as an Excursus, which invokes readers to take up the political exigency of the DVD-Book. Vitanza’s first “Extra” studies a trio of films that need to be reconsidered, given what they offer as insights into Chaste Cinematics: Amadeus (a mad god), Henry Fool (a foolish god), and Multiple Maniacs (a divine god who is raped and eats excrement). The second examines Helke Sander’s documentary Liberators Take Liberties, which re-thinks the rapes of German women by the Russians and Allies during the Battle of Berlin. The third rethinks Margie Strosser’s video-film Rape Stories that calls for revenge. In the Alternate Endings, Vitanza rethinks the problem of reversibility in G. Noé’s Irréversible. In the Easter Eggs, he considers Dominique Laporte’s “the Irreparable,” as the object of loss and Giorgio Agamben’s “the Irreparable,” as hope in what is without remedy. The result is not another film-studies book, but a new genre, a new set of rhetorics, for new ways of thinking about cinematics, perhaps postcinematics.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: rape; film theory; sexual violence; rhetoric
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (278 p.)
  23. Everyday Cinema: The Films of Marc Lafia
    Author: Lafia, Marc
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Everyday Cinema presents the films (eight features and numerous shorts, computational, and installation films) of Marc Lafia. In his many films (including Exploding Oedipus; Love and Art; Confessions of an Image; Revolution of Everyday Life;... more

     

    Everyday Cinema presents the films (eight features and numerous shorts, computational, and installation films) of Marc Lafia. In his many films (including Exploding Oedipus; Love and Art; Confessions of an Image; Revolution of Everyday Life; Paradise; Hi, How Are You Guest 10497; and 27) Lafia probes what it is to construct an image, to forge systems of representation, to see and represent ourselves. His work has been defined as a cinema of emergence, a cinema of the event, in which the very act of ubiquitous recording creates something new. Everyday Cinema is comprised of two parts, the first an in-depth look at his films and installations, project by project, providing background on how they came about, Lafia’s process and ideas. The second part features selected interviews and over two hundred film stills wherein Lafia puts forward a new sense of the possibility of the cinema. As we all relentlessly record ourselves and are recorded, we become part of the cinematic fabric of life, part of a spectacle of which we are both constituent and constitutive. This is what Lafia sets out to capture and examine.

     
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    Contributor: Coffeen, Daniel (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; new media; video; representation; Marc Lafia
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (238 p.)
  24. Último Dia Todos os Dias: E Outros Escritos sobre Cinema e Filosofia
    Author: Martin, Adrian
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Onde se encontra a análise fílmica hoje? O que é que a teoria de cinema anda a desenvolver na obscuridade? Este campo, tal como foi definido profissionalmente (pelo menos no mundo académico anglo-saxónico), encontra-se actualmente dividido entre... more

     

    Onde se encontra a análise fílmica hoje? O que é que a teoria de cinema anda a desenvolver na obscuridade? Este campo, tal como foi definido profissionalmente (pelo menos no mundo académico anglo-saxónico), encontra-se actualmente dividido entre historiadores interessados no contexto das grandes formações da modernidade e connoisseurs que reclamam o regresso estilístico de coisas antiquadas como a visão autoral, o tom ou a mise-en-scène. Mas há também outras correntes, vitais e inventivas – na crítica, na internet, em pequenas revistas, em conferências renegadas um pouco por todo o lado –, que não estamos a conseguir escutar em nenhum dos canais oficiais. Último Dia Todos os Dias, de Adrian Martin – nesta edição acompanhado do ensaio “Avatares do Encontro” –, lança uma luz sobre estas novas e excitantes avenidas. Publicado originalmente como Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez, em 2012, por Dead Letter Office, uma série da editora punctum books. Esta edição foi produzida conjuntamente por Centro de Estudos Comparatistas | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa e punctum books, 2015.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Benis, Rita (Publisher)
    Language: Portuguese
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; Eric Auerbach; Siegfried Kracauer; Nicole Brenez; Douglas Sirk
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (78 p.)
  25. Chapter 7 'Our People’ : Telemovies, bangsa and nationalism 3.0 in Sabah, Malaysia: Hiroyuki Yamamoto
    Author: Yamamoto, Hiroyuki
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film... more

     

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital.

     
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