Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video

Author: Kristin Lené Hole

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-24

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 104009239X

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Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics, post-nationalism and gender, non-Western ecologies, trauma and memory, diasporic experiences of space, biopolitics, feminist historiography and decolonial temporalities. Positing that these filmmaker-artists radically counter dominant media images of Palestinians, deessentializing Palestinian identity while opening up history and the present to new potentialities and ways of imagining Palestinian futures, Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video argues that Palestinian experience is urgently relevant to all of us. As the works address issues of food availability and land use, environmental collapse and forced displacement, Hole explores how such films generate hope, imagine impossible possibilities and offer inspiration and wisdom when it comes to losing and rebuilding. Addressing a fundamentally transnational and understudied area, this book will resonate with readers working in the areas of film and media studies, Palestinian cultural studies, historiography, Middle East studies and experimental film.

Cinema and Surveillance
Cinema and Surveillance

Author: Martin Blumenthal-Barby

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1040111599

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Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message. Assembling readings of films by Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, and Fritz Lang, the book considers surveillance in such different domains as urban life, religious doctrine, and law enforcement. With surveillance present in the modern world as both a technological phenomenon and a social practice, the author shows how cinema, as a visual medium, presents highly sophisticated analyses of surveillance. He suggests that “surveillance” is less an issue to be tackled from a secure spectatorial position than an experience to be rendered, an event to be dealt with. Far from offering a general model of spectatorship, the book explores how narrative moments of surveillance are complicated by specific spectatorial responses. In its intersection of well-known figures and a highly topical issue, this book will have broad appeal, especially, but not exclusively, among students and scholars in film studies, media studies, German studies, European studies, art history, and political theory.

After the Avant-garde
After the Avant-garde

Author: Randall Halle

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781571133656

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Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Introducing the work of filmmakers, this volume offers an assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describes overall trends.

Cinema, Memory, Modernity
Cinema, Memory, Modernity

Author: Russell J.A. Kilbourn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134550154

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Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: the required codes and conventions for understanding and implementing this crucial prosthetic technology — an art of memory for the twentieth-century and beyond.

Psychoanalysis and Cinema
Psychoanalysis and Cinema

Author: E. Ann Kaplan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 113521316X

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These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of Eve, Tender is the Night, Pandora's Box, Secrets of the Soul, and the works of Jacques Tourneur (director of The Cat People and other features).

Understanding Reddit
Understanding Reddit

Author: Elliot T. Panek

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-24

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1000545237

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This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century. The book inspires new ways of thinking about Reddit, considering it from multiple perspectives: through a historical lens, as a site where identity is forged, as a democracy, as a community, and as a news aggregator and distributor. By bringing theories from computer-mediated communication, communication studies, and sociology to bear on original, large-scale observational analyses of Reddit’s communities, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the platform’s first 15 years. Understanding Reddit will help us make sense of how rapidly growing communities function in an era of mass online anonymity. Serving both as a primer on how social behavior on Reddit plays out, and as a way of locating it within multiple theoretical traditions, the book will offer important insights to scholars and students in the disciplines of communication, media studies, information science, internet and emerging media studies, and sociology.

Philosophy and Film
Philosophy and Film

Author: Cynthia A. Freeland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-08

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1134714149

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Philosophy and Film moves from broad theoretical reflections on film as a medium to concrete examinations of individual films.

Aesthetics and Film
Aesthetics and Film

Author: Katherine Thomson-Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1441171533

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Aesthetics and Film is a philosophical study of the art of film. Its motivation is the recent surge of interest among analytic philosophers in the philosophical implications of central issues in film theory and the application of general issues in aesthetics to the specific case of film. Of particular interest are questions concerning the distinctive representational capacities of film art, particularly in relation to realism and narration, the influence of the literary paradigm in understanding film authorship and interpretation, and our imaginative and affective engagement with film. For all of these questions, Katherine Thomson-Jones critically compares the most compelling answers, driving home key points with a wide range of film examples including Wiene's The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Eisenstein's October, Hitchcock's Rear Window, Kubrick's The Shining and Sluizer's The Vanishing. Students and scholars of aesthetics and cinema will find this an illuminating, accessible and highly enjoyable investigation into the nature and power of a technologically evolving art form.