Film and the Imagined Image
Film and the Imagined Image

Author: Sarah Cooper

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-07-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1474452809

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From documentary to art-house cinema - and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence - films that experiment variously with narration, voice-over and soundscapes do not only engage viewers' thoughts and senses. They also make an appeal to visualise more than is perceptible on screen. This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination. Bringing together an international range of films with debates in philosophy, film theory, literary scholarship and cognitive psychology, author Sarah Cooper charts the key processes that serve the imagining of images in the light of the mind. Through its navigation of a labile and vivid mental terrain, this innovative work makes a profound contribution to the study of spectatorship.

Film: A Very Short Introduction
Film: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Michael Wood

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0192803530

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Film is considered to be the dominant art form of the twentieth century. It can be considered many other things; a record of events, a modern mythology, a career, an industry, an art, a hobby, and much else. Michael Wood explores the history of film, its venture into the digital age, and its role and impact on modern society.

Seeing Fictions in Film
Seeing Fictions in Film

Author: George M. Wilson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0199594899

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What happens when we view a movie? Do we actually see the fiction, and if so how? Literary fiction is recounted by a voice of some sort--the narrator. George M. Wilson explores the strategies of cinematic narration, and argues that this prompts viewers to imagine seeing and hearing events in the fictional world.

Crying at the Movies
Crying at the Movies

Author: Madelon Sprengnether

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 155597029X

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"For years, I cried, not over my own losses, but at the movies. When bad things happened to me in real life, I didn't react. I seemed cool or indifferent. Yet in the dark and relative safety of the movie theater, I would weep over fictional tragedies, over someone else's tragedy." At age nine, Madelon Sprengnether watched her father drown in the Mississippi River. Her mother swallowed the family's grief whole and no one spoke of the tragedy thereafter. Only years later did Sprengnether react, and in a most unlikely place: in the theater watching the film Pather Panchali, by Satyajit Ray. In the fascinating memoir Crying at the Movies, Sprengnether looks at the sublime connections between happenings in the present, troubling events from the past, and the imagined world of movies. By examining the films she had intense emotional reactions to throughout her adult life--House of Cards, Solaris, Fearless, The Cement Garden, Shadowlands, and Blue--Sprengnether finds a way to work through her own losses, mistakes, and pain.

Before They Are Hanged
Before They Are Hanged

Author: Joe Abercrombie

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0316387347

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The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run -- if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem -- he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world. And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters -- if they didn't hate each other quite so much. Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven -- but not before they are hanged. First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself Before They Are Hanged Last Argument of Kings For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out: Novels in the First Law world Best Served Cold The Heroes Red Country

Cinema 1
Cinema 1

Author: Gilles Deleuze

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780826459411

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Cinema II
Cinema II

Author: Gilles Deleuze

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 147251260X

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"The second volume of Gilles Deleuze's landmark reassessment of the art of film, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series"--

Sculpting in Time
Sculpting in Time

Author: Andrey Tarkovsky

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1989-04

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780292776241

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A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Utopia and Reality
Utopia and Reality

Author: Simon Spiegel

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1786835266

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Scholarship on utopias in film has so far focused exclusively on dystopias – but utopias are about criticizing the present rather than telling a gripping story Utopia and Reality looks into propaganda and documentary films for depictions of better worlds. This volume brings together researchers from two fields that have so far seen little exchange – documentary studies and utopian scholarship Covers a wide range of films from Soviet avant-garde to propaganda videos for the terror organisation ISIS, and from political-activist to ecofeminist and interactive documentaries.

Imagined China
Imagined China

Author: Wang Haizhou

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-23

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1000576000

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This book explores how Chinese films constructed an image of China in the 1980s through analyzing the characters, composition of space, and conflict patterns of the films. It also examines the relationship between the representations in Chinese cinema and the realities of Chinese society. The study analyzes the imagery, metaphors, and cultural values of Chinese films in the 1980s to discover the common creative focus of Chinese film directors at the time. It also examines the specific creative elements and cultural significance of Chinese cinema in the 1980s. This book is neither a “period history” of Chinese cinema in the 80s, nor a thematic study of the “fifth generation”. Rather, it is an analysis of films as narrative texts that reflected on history. It uses the perspectives revealed by characters, narrative patterns, and conflicts in films of the 1980s to examine how the era was perceived at that time as well as how China’s national future and individuals’ personal futures were being conceptualized. This title will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of Chinese Studies, Contemporary China Studies, Film Studies, and those who are interested in Chinese culture and society in general.