Toward a Semiotic Theory of Visual Communication in the Cinema
Author: Gorham Anders Kindem
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 306
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Bibliography of Semiotics, 19751985
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 950
ISBN-13: 9027279381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.
Alfred Hitchcock
Author: Jane Sloan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-03-08
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780520089044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A concise and intelligent synthesis of what we know and think about Hitchcock and a road map to future work on the subject. . . . There is no complete index to Hitchcock's career like this one and critics and historians will mine Sloan's work with enormous profit. . . . The 'Critical Survey' section constitutes an invaluable contribution to the project of metacriticism."—Matthew Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0292721579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general reader as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman, Lalita Pandit Hogan, Klarina Priborkin, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ellen Spolsky, and Richard Walsh. Among the works analyzed are plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected. Finally, while each of the essays is unique in style and methodological approach, together they show the way toward a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.
Tracking Color in Cinema and Art
Author: Edward Branigan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1315317486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColor is one of cinema’s most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings. But what if color is not—or not only—a formal system, but instead a linguistic effect, emerging from the slipstream of our talk and embodiment in a world? This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative. Edward Branigan draws on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other philosophers who struggle valiantly with problems of color aesthetics, contemporary theories of film and narrative, and art-historical models of analysis. Examples of a variety of media, from American pop art to contemporary European cinema, illustrate a theory based on a spectator’s present-time tracking of temporal patterns that are firmly entwined with language use and social intelligence.
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0231135742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.
Film – An International Bibliography
Author: Malte Hagener
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-16
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 3476036863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.
The Hitchcock Romance
Author: Lesley Brill
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0691218137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock's self-assessment unquestioned, but this book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Lesley Brill discusses Hitchcock's work as a whole and examines in detail twenty-two films, from perennial favorites like North by Northwest to neglected masterpieces like Rich and Strange.
Hidden Origins
Author: Scholastica Media Group
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-05-07
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1365096351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the disciplines of semiotics, critical theory, and the psychology of perception, the essayists of Hidden Origins significantly contribute to the field of media criticism with this ardent herald. The Scholastica Media Group continues to release insightful theory and sharp critique within the erupting new generation of mass media. General Editor: Rob Larson Released May, 2016
Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema
Author: Gene D. Phillips
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780934223591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoreover, Phillips seeks to represent the various trends in filmmaking that have evolved over the years, such as American film noir, which is included in the discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's films, and British social realism, which is included in the discussion of Bryan Forbes's films."--BOOK JACKET.
