Mystifying Movies
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780231059558
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Film
Author: Nitzan Ben-Shaul
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1847883702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilm: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further reading are also provided.
The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
Author: Warren Buckland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-29
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1139429957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of cognitive science with those of linguistics and semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz's theories of film enunciation; Roger Odin's cognitive-pragmatic film theory; and Michel Colin and Dominique Chateau's cognitive studies of film syntax, which are viewed within the framework of Noam Chomsky's transformational generative grammar. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this study also re-evaluates the film semiotics of the 1960s, highlights the weaknesses of American cognitive film theory, and challenges the move toward 'post-theory' in film studies.
Projecting Illusion
Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521587150
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The Film That Changed My Life
Author: Robert K. Elder
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1569768285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors' love of a film they saw at a particularly formative moment, how it influenced their own works, and how it made them think differently. Rebel Without a Cause inspired John Woo to comb his hair and talk like James Dean. For Richard Linklater, “something was simmering in me, but Raging Bull brought it to a boil.” Apocalypse Now inspired Danny Boyle to make larger-than-life films. A single line from The Wizard of Oz--“Who could ever have thought a good little girl like you could destroy all my beautiful wickedness?”--had a direct impact on John Waters. “That line inspired my life,” Waters says. “I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.” In this volume, directors as diverse as John Woo, Peter Bogdanovich, Michel Gondry, and Kevin Smith examine classic movies that inspired them to tell stories. Here are 30 inspired and inspiring discussions of classic films that shaped the careers of today's directors and, in turn, cinema history.
New Philosophies of Film
Author: Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1350181951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film answers these questions by offering a lucid introduction to the exciting developments and contentious debates within the philosophy of film. Mapping out the conceptual terrain, it examines both analytic and continental approaches to cinema and puts forward a pluralist film philosophy, grounded in practical examples from film, documentaries and television series. Now thoroughly updated to showcase the most recent developments in the field, this 2nd edition features: · New chapters on phenomenology, cinematic ethics, philosophical documentary film and television as philosophy, incorporating feminist, socio-political, ethical and ecological approaches to cinema · Contemporary case studies including Carol, Roma, Melancholia, two Derrida documentaries, and the Netflix series Black Mirror · Expanded coverage of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell, two of the most influential philosophers of film · An updated bibliography, filmography and reading lists, with links to online resources to support further study Demonstrating how the film-philosophy encounter can open up new paths for thinking, New Philosophies of Film is an essential resource for putting interdisciplinary inquiry into practice.
Where Film Meets Philosophy
Author: Hunter Vaughan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0231161328
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The Visual Turn
Author: Angela Dalle Vacche
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780813531731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays demonstrates the usefulness of looking at cinema with the analytical methods provided by art theory. "The Visual Turn" is a dialogue between art historians and film theorists from the silent period to the aftermath of World War II.
Flashbacks in Film
Author: Adriana Gordejuela
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-26
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1000379418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them. Combining a cognitive film theory approach with the theoretical framework proposed by blending theory, which claims that human beings’ general ability for conceptual integration underlies most of our daily activities, this book argues that flashbacks make sense to the viewer, as they are specifically designed for the viewer’s cognitive understanding. Through a mixture of analysis and dozens of case studies, this book demonstrates that successful film flashbacks appeal to the spectator’s natural perceptual and cognitive abilities, which spectators exercise daily. This book will serve as a valuable resource for scholars interested in film studies, media studies, and cognitive linguistics.
The Film Cultures Reader
Author: Graeme Turner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 0415252814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion reader to Film as Social Practice brings together key writings on contemporary cinema, exploring film as a social and cultural phenomenon.
