Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Author: Charles O’Brien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-01-18
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780253217202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
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French National Cinema
Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0415307821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Kierkegaard’s Mirrors
Author: P. Stokes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-11-18
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0230251269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations as making personal moral demands of us? What is it to experience stories as speaking to us personally and directly? Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's answers to these questions, with a new phenomenological interpretation of Kierkegaardian 'interest'.
The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Author: C. G. Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780253315502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Author: Dina Sherzer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780292777033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation’s past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic contemporary France, and cinematic discourses which have been and are being produced about France’s colonial past, these authors explore how the images relay underlying assumptions and their relation to historical and political facts. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform these studies, which cover the entire range of films on that topic. The authors expound upon the role French and Francophone films are currently playing in reconstructing and imagining France’s colonial past. Not only do the essays examine how French cinema has represented the encounter of French citizens with individuals from former colonies during the colonial era; they examine how French cinema has portrayed and has come to terms with the cohabitation of former colonial subjects with the French in France. In addition, the book features another postcolonial facet by analyzing films of directors from the former colonies who give their own representation of colonialism and presentation of their culture. This study is a major contribution to postcolonial research. Race, gender, and geography are central themes throughout this book that presents innovative material that contributes to the history of French cinema and emphasizes how cinema participates in and is a part of national culture.
About the Contemplative Life
Author: Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher:
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology
Author: Victor Biceaga
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-06-16
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9048139155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.
The Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226034379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Grand Design
Author: Tino Balio
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780520203341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.
Cracking Gilles Deleuze's Crystal
Author: Barry Nevin
Publisher:
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474426329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
