Cinemagritte
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0814346383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the fascinating ties between Surrealist artist René Magritte and the cinema.
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2019-11-25
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0814346383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the fascinating ties between Surrealist artist René Magritte and the cinema.
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-01-11
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0197624189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life. These include discussions of the Aristotelian and classical models of a "good life" that inform animated fairy tales today, 1930s French and Hollywood films which respond to the dire need for productive human relationships in a turbulent decade, the polemical positions of black film criticism through the lens of James Baldwin's work, a discussion of contemporary filmic quests for happiness, the challenges for women filmmakers today in mapping the values of their own world, landscapes of austerity and poverty in the cinematic homelands today, the scientific, psychological, and philosophical base for human value, and the shifting media frames of modern society and selves"--
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2023-04-04
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0814348572
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The impact of unique material collections that have helped shaped research, practice, and education in film and media studies.
Author: Thomas M. Puhr
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2022-10-18
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 023155527X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The course of events is predetermined and cannot be changed. Forces beyond our control—or even our comprehension—shape our fates. Such is the deterministic worldview embedded in a wide swath of contemporary cinema, from arthouse experiments to popular genre films, through both thematic concerns and narrative structures. These films, especially the recent spate of “elevated” science fiction and horror, tap into this deep-seated anxiety by focusing on characters who ultimately fail to transcend the patterns and structures that define them. Thomas M. Puhr identifies and analyzes the ways that cinema has dealt with the tension between fate and free will, from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. He examines films that express deterministic ideas, including circular narratives of stasis or confinement and fatalistic portraits of external forces dictating characters’ lives. Puhr considers determinism at the levels of the individual, the family, and society, reading films in which characters are trapped by past or alternate selves, the burdens of family histories, or oppressive social structures. He explores how films such as Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Jordan Peele’s Us, and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama confront the limits of human agency. Puhr relates deterministic themes to the nature of moviegoing: In denying characters any ability to choose alternative paths, these films mirror how viewers themselves can only sit and watch. Recasting the works of some of today’s most compelling directors, Fate in Film is an innovative critical account of an unrecognized yet crucial aspect of contemporary cinema.
Author: Maynard Solomon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780814316214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marxism and Art is a collection of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics.
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1839021993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film of the celebrated German director F.W. Murnau, Sunrise tells the story of a love triangle between characters named only as The Man, The Wife, and The Woman from the City. Lucy Fischer's compelling study of the film shows how it mediates between German expressionism and American melodrama, the avantgarde and popular film, silent cinema and 'talkies'. A lavish and sumptuous production famous for its vast, specially-constructed sets, and one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack, Sunrise was one of early Hollywood's most ambitious undertakings. In her foreword to this new edition, Lucy Fischer considers the film as an abiding classic of world cinema.
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813516684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Corrigan argues that in the past 25 years the increased conglomerization of film production/distribution companies and the rise of VCR, satellite, and cable television technologies have altered the way films are made and how we view them. The result is a growing internationalization of national cinema cultures and an increasing fragmentation of the audience. Video has reduced the movie to private and domestic performance. At the same time, audiences are bombarded with a surfeit of images that leaves them with a battered sense of their place in history and culture. Corrigan notes that, combined with what many critics have recognized as the growing incoherence in film texts, these facts make it more meaningful to discuss films not as texts but as multiple cultural and commercial processes constructed by increasingly specialized audiences. ISBN 0-8135-1667-6: $36.00.
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0199910561
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agn?s Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to categorize them. Sometimes described as personal documentaries or diary films, these eclectic works are, rather, best understood as cinematic variations on the essay. So argues Tim Corrigan in this stimulating and necessary new book. Since Michel de Montaigne, essays have been seen as a lively literary category, and yet--despite the work of pioneers like Chris Marker--seldom discussed as a cinematic tradition. The Essay Film, offering a thoughtful account of the long rapport between literature and film as well as novel interpretations and theoretical models, provides the ideas that will change this.
Author: Christopher Neilan
Publisher: Punked Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1908375027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Douglas Morrey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1501311913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study of the impact and influence of the New Wave in French cinema, Douglas Morrey looks at both the subsequent careers of New Wave filmmakers and the work of later film directors and film movements in France. This book is organized around a series of key moments from the past 50 years of French cinema in order to show how the meaning and legacy of the New Wave have shifted over time and how the priorities, approaches and discourses of filmmakers and film critics have changed over the years. Morrey tackles key concepts such as the auteur, the relationship of form and content, gender and sexuality, intertextuality and rhythm. Filmmakers discussed include Godard, Truffaut, Varda, Chabrol and Rohmer plus Philippe Garrel, Luc Besson, Leos Carax, Bruno Dumont, the Dardenne brothers, Christophe Honoré, François Ozon and Jacques Audiard.