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  1. The British Monarchy On Screen
    Author: Merck, Mandy
    Published: 20160201
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. British monarchs even appeared in the new ‘animated photography’... more

     

    Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. British monarchs even appeared in the new ‘animated photography’ from 1896, led by Queen Victoria. Half a century later, the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II was a milestone in the adoption of television, watched by 20 million Britons and 100 million North Americans. At the century’s end, Princess Diana’s funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion worldwide. In the first book-length examination of film and television representations of this enduring institution, distinguished scholars of media and political history analyse the screen representations of royalty from Henry VIII to ‘William and Kate’.

     
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    ISBN: 9781526113047
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media & Communications; Elizabeth I of England; Victoria (Australia)
  2. Border Crossing : Russian Literature into Film
    Contributor: Burry, Alexander (Publisher); White, Frederick (Publisher)
    Published: 20160331
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press

    Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing’ from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way classic Russian texts have... more

     

    Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing’ from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments.

     

    In these essays, international scholars examine how political and economic circumstances – from a shifting Soviet political landscape to the perceived demands of American and European markets – have played a crucial role in dictating how filmmakers transpose their cinematic hypertext into a new environment. Rather than focus on the degree of accuracy or fidelity with which these films address their originating texts, this innovative collection explores the role of ideological, political and other cultural pressures that can affect the transformation of literary narratives into cinematic offerings.

     
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    Contributor: Burry, Alexander (Publisher); White, Frederick (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781474411431
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media & Communications; Anton Chekhov; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Robert Bresson; Russia; Soviet Union
  3. Inventing Cinema : Machines, Gestures and Media History
    Author: Turquety, Benoît
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ‘stable’ moment in media history?... more

     

    With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a ‘stable’ moment in media history? *Inventing Cinema* proposes to approach this question through an archaeology and epistemology of media machines. The archaeology analyses them as archives of users’ gestures, as well as of modes of perception. The epistemology reconstructs the problems that the machines’ designers and users have strived to solve, and the network of concepts they have elaborated to understand these problems. Drawing on the philosophy of technology and anthropology, *Inventing Cinema* argues that networks of gestures, problems, perception and concepts are inscribed in vision machines, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope, the Cinématographe, and digital cinema. The invention of cinema is ultimately seen as an ongoing process irreducible to a single moment in history.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789463724623; 9789048550463
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Film production: technical & background skills; Industrial archaeology
    Other subjects: Film technology, media history, digital cinema, early cinema, media archaeology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (279 p.)
  4. Kritik, Aktivismus und Prospektivität. : Politische Strategien im postjugoslawischen Dokumentarfilm
    Author: Reiter, Andrea
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Schüren Verlag

    Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses Filmkorpus untersucht die... more

     

    Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses Filmkorpus untersucht die Studie die Bedingungen der Filmproduktion und -rezeption vor dem Hintergrund der komplexen politischen Zusammenhänge und fragt nach den Möglichkeiten der gesellschaftlichen Aktivierung. Die Autorin zeigt, wie die Filme mittels innovativer formalästhetischer Strategien die Widersprüche der existierenden Verhältnisse in ihrer unüberschaubaren Vielschichtigkeit aufdeckten und so die Reflexion der Zuschauer*innen anzuregen versuchten. Ihre präzisen Analysen führen sie zu Erkenntnissen darüber, wie politisch-aktivierende Dokumentarfilme eine zukünftige Realität evozieren, die als eine ‚sich formende‘ gedacht werden muss. Zudem rückt die Studie ein Filmschaffen in den Blick, das bislang kaum die ihm gebührende Aufmerksamkeit erhalten hat.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783741003417; 9783741003424
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Nonbooks, PBS / Medien, Kommunikation/Medienwissenschaft; Filmgenres; Nationalismus; Realismus; Propaganda; Kosovo; Bosnien und Herzegowina; Serbien; Kroatien; Republik Mazedonien
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (352 p.)
  5. Der tänzerische Film : Frühe Filmkultur und moderner Tanz.
    Author: Köhler, Kristina
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Schüren Verlag

    Schon um 1900 beschrieben Besucher früher Filmvorführungen das Flackern auf der Leinwand als "Tanz der Bilder". Die Idee, dass Filme Tanz nicht nur aufzeichnen, sondern selber – über die Projektion, Kamerabewegungen oder Montage – tänzerische... more

     

    Schon um 1900 beschrieben Besucher früher Filmvorführungen das Flackern auf der Leinwand als "Tanz der Bilder". Die Idee, dass Filme Tanz nicht nur aufzeichnen, sondern selber – über die Projektion, Kamerabewegungen oder Montage – tänzerische Bewegungseffekte freisetzen, zirkuliert seither durch Filmkritik und -theorie. Der Band untersucht die Denkfigur vom tänzerischen Film und zeichnet ihr Entstehen im Kontext der intermedialen Geschichte von früher Filmkultur und modernem Tanz zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nach. Gezeigt wird, wie das Kino im Kontext von Tanz, Körperkultur und Gymnastik als "Bewegungskunst" modelliert wird und wie es sich – parallel zu und in Wechselwirkung mit dem modernen Tanz – als Praxis und Erfahrungsraum etabliert, an dem neue Formen der Bewegung und Wahrnehmung erprobt werden. Erarbeitet wird ein innovatives Theorie- und Analysemodell, das medienarchäologische Ansätze mit Theorien der Wahrnehmung, Bewegung und Körperlichkeit verknüpft. Dieser Zugriff erlaubt, die Geschichte des tänzerischen Films über ein breites Spektrum an Beispielen in den Blick zu nehmen: an den Tanz- und Trickszenen des frühen Kinos, wissenschaftlichen Bewegungsstudien und Zeitlupen-Aufnahmen, Tanz- und Kulturfilmen, Tanzlehrfilmen, Filmkomödien und Melodramen der 1910er Jahre bis hin zu den ‹absoluten› Experimentalfilmen der frühen 1920er Jahre. Die Zusammenschau verbindet die Analyse der Filme mit den Filmtheorien und Aufführungspraktiken der damaligen Zeit und beleuchtet zentrale Beispiele über eine Fülle bislang unbekannter Archivmaterialien. So entfaltet sich ein faszinierendes Panorama der frühen Filmkultur, das zeigt, wie eng diese im Austausch stand mit Ideen des Tänzerischen der Körper- und Tanzkultur, bildenden Kunst, Philosophie, Physiologie, Bewegungswissenschaft, Lebensreform und populären Unterhaltungskultur. Erstmals in den Blick genommen werden auch die Reaktionen moderner Tänzerinnen und Choreographen wie Isadora Duncan und Loïe Fuller, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman und Gret Palucca auf den Film. Ihre Kommentare, mal polemisch gegen das Kino gewandt, mal euphorische Entwürfe einer intermedialen Bewegungskunst, eröffnen einen ganz eigenen Reflexionsraum auf das damals neue Medium. Im Zentrum ihrer Überlegungen steht die (auch tanztheoretisch relevante) Frage: Wie lässt sich Tanz verstehen, wenn er nicht mehr an den menschlichen Körper gebunden ist? Die entwickelte Theorie vom tänzerischen Film ermöglicht, diese Frage auch für aktuelle Filme – von der ‹Berliner Schule› bis hin zu Spielformen des Screen- und Videodance – zu reflektieren und zu klären, was es heißt, einen Film oder ein Video ‹tänzerisch› zu ‹erfahren›.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783741000508; 9783741000669; 9783894728403
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Nonbooks, PBS / Kunst/Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Tanz; Stummfilm; Experimentalfilm; Trickfilm
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (416 p.)
  6. Film Farbe Fläche. : Ästhetik des kolorierten Bildes im Kino 1895-1930
    Author: Rakin, Jelena
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Schüren Verlag

    Die nachträgliche Kolorierung des schwarzweißen Materials war in der Stummfilmepoche eine verbreitete Praxis. Die Filme wurden hand- oder schablonenkoloriert, viragiert und getont. Die häufig ostentativ ausgestellte Materialität der aufgetragenen... more

     

    Die nachträgliche Kolorierung des schwarzweißen Materials war in der Stummfilmepoche eine verbreitete Praxis. Die Filme wurden hand- oder schablonenkoloriert, viragiert und getont. Die häufig ostentativ ausgestellte Materialität der aufgetragenen Farbe stand in einem Spannungsverhältnis zum fotografischen Bild und bewirkte eine spezifische Dynamik zwischen dem Eindruck von Flächigkeit und Plastizität. Kolorierungen kamen in Serpentinentanzfilmen, den ornamentalen Motiven der Féerien, in Trickfilmen oder Moderevuen besonders zur Geltung. In dieser Hinsicht weisen die applikativen Farbtechniken des Films viele Parallelen zu anderen farbigen Bildmedien der Epoche auf (wie Gebrauchsgrafik oder Modeillustration). Zudem zeigt der kolorierte Film seine Nähe zur industrialisierten Ästhetik, vornehmlich zur visuellen Form kommerzieller Farbpaletten. In dieser Studie wird die farbige Fläche des kolorierten Films im Kontext einer intermedialen Geschichte des Ästhetischen untersucht. Farbe als Attraktion, ostentative Materialität und Element medialer Selbstreflexion der Kunst tritt aus dieser Perspektive als eine Sinnfigur der chromatischen Moderne und der populären visuellen Kultur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts hervor.

     
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  7. Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film
    Author: Mladenova, Radmila
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    Antiziganism is a common phenomenon on the big screen. To examine this issue from various perspectives, acclaimed scholars and junior researchers, filmmakers and human rights activists, both Roma and non-Roma, gathered in Berlin in 2018 and presented... more

     

    Antiziganism is a common phenomenon on the big screen. To examine this issue from various perspectives, acclaimed scholars and junior researchers, filmmakers and human rights activists, both Roma and non-Roma, gathered in Berlin in 2018 and presented their research output, shared personal testimonies and discussed films at the international conference “Antigypsyism and Film“. The present bilingual volume is a documentation of the conference proceedings. It contains academic articles and essays as well as interviews with filmmakers grouped in four thematic sections: antigypsyism in film, the question of ethics, strategies of subversion and antigypsyism in comparison to other forms of racism.; Antiziganismus ist Normalität auf der großen Leinwand. Um dieses Problem aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu untersuchen, versammelten sich Wissenschaftler und Nachwuchsforscher, Filmemacher und Menschenrechtsaktivisten – Roma wie Nicht-Roma – 2018 in Berlin zu einer internationalen Tagung: “Antiziganismus und Film“. Sie präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse, teilten persönliche Zeugnisse und diskutierten Filme. Der vorliegende zweisprachige Band dokumentiert diese in ihrer Form bisher einzigartige Tagung. Der Tagungsband umfasst wissenschaftliche Artikel und Essays sowie Interviews mit Filmemachern, unterteilt in vier thematische Abschnitte: Antiziganismus im Film, Fragen der Ethik, Strategien der Subversion und Antiziganismus im Verhältnis zu anderen Ressentiments.

     
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Antigypsyism; Racism; Film; Sinti; Roma; Antiziganismus; Rassismus
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  8. Soul of the Documentary. Framing, Expression, Ethics
    Author: Hongisto, Ilona
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    ‘Soul of the Documentary’ offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a... more

     

    ‘Soul of the Documentary’ offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from ‘The Last Bolshevik’ to ‘Grey Gardens’ - Hongisto shows how documentary cinema intervenes in the real by framing it and creatively contributes to its perpetual unfolding. The emphasis on framing brings new urgency to the documentary tradition and its objectives, and provokes significant novel possibilities for thinking about the documentary's ethical and political potentials in the contemporary world.

     
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    ISBN: 9789089647559
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: ethics; experimentation; immanence; documentary; aesthetics
  9. Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema : Film Semiology and Beyond
    Contributor: Tröhler, Margrit (Publisher); Kirsten, Guido (Publisher); Zutavern, Julia (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major... more

     

    A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionalisation in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close analysis of Metz's writings, their theoretical and epistemological positions, and their ongoing influence today.

     
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    Contributor: Tröhler, Margrit (Publisher); Kirsten, Guido (Publisher); Zutavern, Julia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048527564; 9789089648921
    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Film Semiology, Filmology, History of Film Theory, Phenomenology, Narratology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (351 p.)
  10. The Cultural Life of James Bond : Specters of 007
    Contributor: Verheul, Jaap (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian Fleming's literary creation... more

     

    The release of No Time To Die in 2020 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian Fleming's literary creation into an icon of western popular culture that has captivated audiences across the globe by transcending barriers of ideology, nation, empire, gender, race, ethnicity, and generation. The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007 untangles the seemingly perpetual allure of the Bond phenomenon by looking at the non-canonical texts and contexts that encompass the cultural life of James Bond. Chronicling the evolution of the British secret agent over half a century of political, social, and cultural permutations, the fifteen chapters examine the Bond-brand beyond the film series and across media platforms while understanding these ancillary texts and contexts as sites of negotiation with the Eon franchise.

     
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    Contributor: Verheul, Jaap (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789462982185
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Film theory & criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
    Other subjects: James Bond, cultural politics, globalization, popular culture, multimediality
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (337 p.)
  11. Siting Futurity : The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
    Author: Ingram, Susan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get... more

     

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get audiences to inform themselves about useful aspects of history, to get them to engage their presents, and to help make possible more socially equitable futures. Analyses of politically engaged works of contemporary theatre, film, and photography set in and around Vienna help to identify a historically oriented mechanism that enables artists to tap into Vienna’s extraordinary, and extraordinarily under-appreciated, tradition of protest culture that dates back to the action that brought about the Wiener Neustadt “Blood Court” in the 16th century, but really came into its own with the city’s most influential occupation of an abandoned slaughterhouse for 100 days in the late summer of 1976. It also shows how work with a connection to Vienna by international stars like David Bowie, Wes Anderson, and Christoph Schlingensief has absorbed the same principles.

     

    While the overwhelming scale of technological development and the ensuing problems and crises may not have been deliberately designed to induce resignation, passivity, and despair, those who benefit from the related hyperobjects of financialization and climate change must find it convenient that they do, as demoralization reduces resistance to their profit-making machinations. It is in this context that Red Vienna’s proud tradition of social engagement and long tradition of resistance and radicality deserves to be better known.

     
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    ISBN: 9781953035479
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    Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Austria; Theatre studies; Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  12. Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez
    Author: Martin, Adrian
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Where is film analysis at today? What is cinema theory up to, behind our backs? The field, as professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is presently divided between contextual historians who turn to broad formations of... more

     

    Where is film analysis at today? What is cinema theory up to, behind our backs? The field, as professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is presently divided between contextual historians who turn to broad formations of modernity, and stylistic connoisseurs who call for a return to old-fashioned things like authorial vision, tone, and mise en scène. But there are other, vital, inventive currents happening — in criticism, on the Internet, in small magazines, and renegade conferences everywhere — which we are not hearing much about in any official way. Last Day Every Day shines a light on one of these exciting new avenues. Is there a way to bring together, in a refreshed manner, textual logic, hermeneutic interpretation, theoretical speculation, and socio-political history? A way to break the deadlock between classical approaches that sought organic coherence in film works, and poststructuralist approaches that exposed the heterogeneity of all texts and scattered the pieces to the four winds? A way to attend to the minute materiality of cinema, while grasping and contesting the histories imbricated in every image and sound?

     
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: film studies; Eric Auerbach; Siegfried Kracauer; Nicole Brenez; Douglas Sirk
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (54 p.)
  13. Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art
    Author: Manchevski, Milcho
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own way, about the often tenuous lines between truth and fiction, and one of which actually morphs into a... more

     

    Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own way, about the often tenuous lines between truth and fiction, and one of which actually morphs into a documentary about the aftermath in a small Macedonian town where three retired cleaning women were found raped and killed in 2008 and the murderer turned out to be the journalist covering the story for a major Macedonian newspaper, the Oscar-nominated Macedonian-born and New York-based writer-director Milcho Manchevski writes that, “Most of us look at films differently or accept stories in a different way if we believe that they are true. We watch a documentary film in a different way from the way we watch a drama. We read a magazine article in a different way from the way in which we read a short story. Sometimes, we even treat a film that employs actors differently than a regular drama because we were told that it is based on something that really happened. We treat these works based on truth or reporting on the truth in different ways. “Why? “What is it in our relation to reality or in our relation to what we perceive to be reality that makes us value a work of artifice (an art piece) differently depending on our knowledge or conviction of whether that work of artifice is based on events that really took place?”

     
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    Contributor: Martin, Adrian (Publisher)
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: aesthetics; Macedonia; film studies; cinema vérité
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (40 p.)
  14. Ostrannenie. On "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept
    Contributor: van den Oever, Annie (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the ‘Russian... more

     

    Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the ‘Russian Formalist’ Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie has come to resonate deeply in Film Studies, where it entered into dialogue with the Brechtian concept of Verfremdung, the Freudian concept of the uncanny and Derrida's concept of différance. Striking, provocative and incisive, the essays of the distinguished film scholars in this volume recall the range and depth of a concept that since 1917 changed the trajectory of theoretical inquiry.

     

    European Film Studies ­ ‘The Key Debates is a new film series from Amsterdam University Press edited by Annie van den Oever (the founding editor), Ian Christie and Dominique Chateau. The editors’ ambition is to uncover and track the process of appropriation of critical terms in film theory in order to give the European film heritage the attention it deserves.

     

    With contributions from Ian Christie, Yuri Tsivian, Dominique Chateau, Frank Kessler, Laurent Jullier, Miklós Kiss, Annie van den Oever, Emile Poppe, László Tarnay, Barend van Heusden, András Bálint Kovács, and Laura Mulvey, this important study is a wonderful piece of imaginative yet rigorous scholarship.

     
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    Contributor: van den Oever, Annie (Publisher)
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: ostrannenie; defamiliarisation; Avant-garde; Bertolt Brecht; Distancing effect; Futurism; History of film; Russian formalism; Viktor Shklovsky
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
  15. Feminsms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures
    Contributor: Mulvey, Laura (Publisher); Backman Rogers, Anna (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering... more

     

    This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.

     
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    Contributor: Mulvey, Laura (Publisher); Backman Rogers, Anna (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789089646767
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: the digital image; experimental film; culture; consumerism; activism; history of feminist film theory; film; feminism; pornography; Feminism
  16. Medium, Messenger, Transmission : An Approach to Media Philosophy
    Author: Krämer, Sybille
    Published: 20150320
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor,... more

     

    This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis.

     

    "'An interesting read, with an incorporated overview of media theory." - Ana Peraica, Leonardo Reviews

     
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    ISBN: 9789089647412; 9789048524990
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Epistemology; God; Infection; Mediation; Psychoanalysis; Transference
  17. The Permanent Crisis of Film Criticism. The Anxiety of Authority
    Author: Frey, Mattias
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth of the profession in the age... more

     

    Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth of the profession in the age of WordPress blogospheres and proclaimed the 'death of the critic'. Bemoaning the current anarchy of internet amateurs and the lack of authoritative critics, many journalists and academics claim that in the digital age, cultural commentary has become dumbed down and fragmented into niche markets. Mattias Freu, arguing against these claims, examines the history of film critical discourse in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States . He demonstrates that since its origins, film criticism has always found itself in crisis: the need to show critical authority and the anxieties over challenges to that authority have been longstanding concerns.

     
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    Other subjects: journalism; historical analysis; digital; film criticism; new media; critical authority; Houston; Rotten Tomatoes; Sight & Sound
  18. Facing Forward. Art and Theory from a Future Perspective
    Contributor: Schavemaker, Margriet (Publisher); Folkerts, Hendrik (Publisher); Lindner, Cristoph (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on speculative predictions and... more

     

    This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments. Focusing on seven themes - Future Tech, Future Image, Future Museum, Future City, Future Freedom, Future History, and Future Future - the book shows how our sense of the future is shaped by a visual rhetoric of acceleration, progression, excess and destruction. The essays reflect collaborative work between the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, De Appel Arts Centre, W139–Space for Contemporary Art, and the art magazine Metropolis M. Discussing provocative themes like future history and future freedom, ‘Facing Forward’ is an energetic look at how our visions of the future affect how we depict the world around us.

     
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    Other subjects: art theory; futures; art
  19. Cinema, democracy and perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue
    Author: Foa Dienstag, Joshua
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press

    In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing sceptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic... more

     

    In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing sceptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, after Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. The argument is developed further by essays from Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dunn, to which Dienstag responds in the concluding chapter, 'A reply to my critics'.

     
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    Other subjects: cinema; stanley cavell; ethics; democracy; political theory
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  20. Cinema against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology Revisited
    Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Jean-Louis Comolli’s six-part essay Technique and Ideology had a revolutionary effect on film theory and history when it first appeared in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1971. In 2009, Comolli revisited his earlier text, arguing that the present age, marked by... more

     

    Jean-Louis Comolli’s six-part essay Technique and Ideology had a revolutionary effect on film theory and history when it first appeared in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1971. In 2009, Comolli revisited his earlier text, arguing that the present age, marked by the total dominance of media-filtered spectacle over image production, makes the need for an 'emancipated, critical spectator' more pressing than ever. In this volume, Daniel Fairfax presents annotated translations of these two texts to provide an overview of Comolli’s activity as both a theorist and a filmmaker.

     
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    Other subjects: cahiers du cinéma; ideology cinema and politics; film theory; film history; André Bazin; Depth of field; Paris
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (348 p.)
  21. Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922
    Author: Casetti, Francesco
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers,... more

     

    This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers, members of parliament, and more, the pieces collected here from that period show how Italians developed a common language to describe and discuss this invention that quickly exceeded all expectations and transcended existing categories of thought and artistic forms. The result is a close-up picture of a culture in transition, dealing with a 'scandalous' new technology that appeared poised to thoroughly change everyday life.

     
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    ISBN: 9789089648556; 9789048527106
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    Other subjects: cinema and war; early film theories; cinema and psychology; cinema and philosophy; social impact of cinema
  22. Screens : From Materiality to Spectatorship – A Historical and Theoretical Reassessment
    Contributor: Chateau, Dominique (Publisher); Moure, José (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with... more

     

    We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with colleagues, friends, and family. This transformation has happened almost without us realizing it-and certainly without the full theoretical and intellectual analysis it deserves. Screens brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to analyse the growing presence and place of screens in our lives today. They tackle such topics as the archaeology of screens, film and media theories about our interactions with them, their use in contemporary art, and the new avenues they open up for showing films and other media in non-traditional venues.

     
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    ISBN: 9789462981904; 9789048531691
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    Other subjects: media; screens; materiality; film theory; archaeology of screens; film; media theory; contemporary art; spectatorship; Cinerama; John Dos Passos
  23. Subjectivity. Filmic Representation and the Spectator's Experience
    Contributor: Chateau, Dominique (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which... more

     

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.

     
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    Other subjects: subjectivity; nouvelle vague; Consciousness; Duchy of Münsterberg; Point-of-view shot; Robert Bresson
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)
  24. Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory
    Author: Pantenburg, Volker
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of... more

     

    There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking. This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."

     
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    Other subjects: essay film; harun farocki; film theory; jean-luc godard; Photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (292 p.)
  25. Lessons in Perception : The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
    Author: Taberham, Paul
    Published: 20180601
    Publisher:  Berghahn Books

    Lessons in Perception seeks to clarify notoriously elusive themes of the avant-garde with the use of existing research from the field of psychology. There is a long-standing history of reference to psychological concepts in relation to avant-garde... more

     

    Lessons in Perception seeks to clarify notoriously elusive themes of the avant-garde with the use of existing research from the field of psychology. There is a long-standing history of reference to psychological concepts in relation to avant-garde film, such as its unique relationship to memory, visual perception, narrative comprehension, and synesthesia. Yet direct analysis of these topics in light of existing psychological research remains largely unexplored until now. More broadly, the aim of the book is to frame avant-garde filmmaking practice as a form of "practical psychology." In doing so, two principal arguments are proposed: first, that many avant-garde filmmakers draw creative inspiration from their own cognitive and perceptual capacities, and touch on topics explored by actual psychologists; secondly, that as practical psychologists, avant-garde filmmakers provide “lessons in perception” that offer psychological experiences that are largely unrehearsed in commercial cinema.

     
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    Other subjects: Arts; cognitive humanities; avant-garde cinema; psychology; Limousin dialect; Stan Brakhage; Synesthesia