Art in Cinema
Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781592134274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.
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The Cinematic Society
Author: Norman K Denzin
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1995-06-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780803986572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanging 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
The Cinematic Mode of Production
Author: Jonathan Beller
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1611683823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.
Images of Postmodern Society
Author: Norman K Denzin
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1991-09-26
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780803985162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Reading Race
Author: Norman K Denzin
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2002-03-29
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780803975453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.
Cinema and Society
Author: Ali Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199402229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Cinema and the Great War
Author: Andrew Kelly
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0415052033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinema 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.
Cinema and the City
Author: Mark Shiel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 144439973X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
Author: Jean Mitry
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780253213778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMitry 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.
