The Cinematic Society
The Cinematic Society

Author: Norman K Denzin

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1995-06-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780803986572

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Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts, this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society. The cinema not only turns its audience into voyeurs, eagerly following the lives of its screen characters, but casts its key players as onlookers, spying on other's lives. The nature of the cinematic voyeur is examined in depth, as are its implications for contemporary society. Norman K Denzin analyzes Hollywood's manipulations of gender, race and class, and, drawing on the work of Foucault, argues that the cinematic gaze must be understood as pa

Art in Cinema
Art in Cinema

Author: Scott MacDonald

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781592134274

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Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.

The Cinematic Mode of Production
The Cinematic Mode of Production

Author: Jonathan Beller

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1611683823

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A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.

Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940
Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940

Author: James Burns

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9781349455782

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By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.

Images of Postmodern Society
Images of Postmodern Society

Author: Norman K Denzin

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1991-09-26

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780803985162

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By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as e

Mexican Cinema
Mexican Cinema

Author: Carl J. Mora

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0786491876

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Mexican filmmaking is traced from its early beginnings in 1896 to the present in this book. Of particular interest are the great changes from 1990 to 2004: the confluence of talented and dedicated filmmakers, important changes in Mexican cinematic infrastructure and significant social and cultural transformations. From Nicolas Echevarria's Cabeza de Vaca (1991), to the 1992 releases of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro's Cronos and Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate, to Alfonso Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien (2001), this work provides a close look at Mexican films that received international commercial success and critical acclaim and put Mexico on the cinematic world map. Arranged chronologically, this edition (originally published in 2005) covers the entire scope of Mexican cinema. The main films and their directors are discussed, together with the political, social and economic contexts of the times.

Cinema and Society
Cinema and Society

Author: Ali Khan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199402229

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The book presents a rich collection of critical essays, ethnographic writings, memoirs, and reflections, portraying a well-rounded picture of cinema culture and historical change in Pakistan. The multiplicity of voices and approaches enhances the appeal of this collection, which is the first ever to delineate the diversity in the cinematic and extra-cinematic traditions of Pakistan, as well as in the histories of production, exhibition, and reception. The work also highlights aesthetic and affective politics in relation to nationalism; Islamization in policy and practice; the biopolitics of morality, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; and the phenomenology of film exhibition and urban formation. The book incorporates rarely seen nostalgia items, such as pictures of studio shootings, as well as of film actors, film scenes, posters, and lobby cards.

Reading Race
Reading Race

Author: Norman K Denzin

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-12-14

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1847876323

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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism. He goes on to argue that the cinema needs to honour racial and ethnic differences, in defining race in terms of both an opposition to, and acceptance of, the media's interpretations and representations of the American racial order. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.

The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema

Author: Jean Mitry

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780253213778

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Mitry was driven to explain the "why," "what if," and "how come" experiences that resulted after the "wow" experience in cinema. His theory uses psychology and phenomenology to understand how cinema can elevate the viewer from the everyday world.

Cinema and the Great War
Cinema and the Great War

Author: Andrew Kelly

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0415052033

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Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down your Arms, made by Bertha Von Suttner in 1914 and Lewis Milestone's bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick's magnificent Paths of Glory.