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Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0813537983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated throughout with rare stills, and organized so as to provide historical context, this book surveys an array of films that have offered us glimpses of a life that is meaningful, free from strife, devoid of pain and privation, and full of harmony in every sense.
Author: Jonathan L. Owen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0857451278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of the Czech New Wave. This movement saw filmmakers use their new freedom to engage with traditions of the avant-garde, especially Surrealism. This book explores the avant-garde's influence over the New Wave and considers the political implications of that influence. The close analysis of selected films, ranging from the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains to the aesthetically challenging Daisies, is contextualized by an account of the Czech avant-garde and a discussion of the films' immediate cultural and political background.
Author: Elodie A. Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1317098749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedia, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels, including Sarah Records, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. Moving from Edison’s phonograph to digital music files, from record collections to online archives, Roy argues that materiality plays a crucial role in constructing and understanding the territory of recorded sound. How do musical objects ‘write’ cultural narratives? How can we unearth and reactivate past histories by looking at yesterday’s media formats? What is the nature, and fate, of the physical archive in an increasingly dematerialized world? In what ways do physical and digital musical objects coexist and intersect? With its innovative theoretical approach, the book explores the implications of materialization in the fashioning of a musical world and its cultural transmission. A substantial contribution to the field of music and material culture studies, Media, Materiality and Memory also provides a nuanced and timely reflection on nostalgia and forgetting in the digital age.
Author: Michael Richardson
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1845202260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the work of Luis Buänuel, Jacques Prâevert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan Svankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this work charts the history of surrealist film-making in both Europe and Hollywood from the 1920s to 2005.
Author: Antonín J. Liehm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-06
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1317218507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1974, this book collects interviews with leading Czechslovak filmmakers conducted mostly between 1967 and 1969. This was a period of immense upheaval beginning with the attack of the Czechoslovak establishment on the Union of Writers in 1967, continuing through the liberalisation of the Prague Spring in January 1968 and ended with the Soviet invasion in August and subsequent ‘Normalization’ process in April 1969. It records the testimony of several generations of filmmakers and their attempts to answer the questions about the purpose and meaning of film before and during this period. This book will be of interest to students of film and cultural history.
Author: Ullrich Kockel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 144436216X
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Author: Anna Artwińska
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-03
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1000095142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism, anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The second part features studies which depict the possibility of generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of literature and how it can be narrated.
Author: Doug Moench
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Published: 2019-04-10
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1302510584
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Author: Simon Bacon
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 1746
ISBN-13: 3031362535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1848361254
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