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.
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.
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.
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.
Visions of the East
Author: Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780813522951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on orientalism in American and European cinema
Looking for the Other
Author: E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1135208751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at, and looking relations with, peoples different from oneself. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat, and Warrior Marks. Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.
To Desire Differently
Author: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780231104975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores impact of 3 women filmmakers on French films
Irving Thalberg
Author: Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 0520945115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's "Boy Wonder," Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not reissued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. In this definitive biography, illustrated with rare photographs, Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight, using unpublished production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods. In addition, this is the first Thalberg biography to utilize both his recorded conversations and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Norma Shearer. Irving Thalberg is a compelling narrative of power and idealism, revealing for the first time the human being behind the legend.
Sound Technology and the American Cinema
Author: James Lastra
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000-07-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0231505469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
