Purity and Provocation
Author: Mette Hjort
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 264
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Purity and Provocation: Dogma '95
Author: Mette Hjort
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 2003-08-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780851709529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together leading scholars from a number of disciplines - film studies, literature, philosophy - in order to focus on some of the key historical and conceptual issues associated with Dogme 95's original formulation.
Traditions in World Cinema
Author: Linda Badley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748626263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinema.Features*Includes a preface by Toby Miller.*Each chapter covers a key world cinema tradition and is written by an expert in the field: Roy Armes, Nitzan Ben-Shaul, Peter Bondanella, Corey Creekmur, Adrian Danks, Peter Hames, Randal Johnson, Robert Kolker, Myrto Konstantarakos, Jay McRoy, Negar Mottahedeh, Richard Neupert, Christina Stojanova, J.P. Telotte, Stephen Teo.*Traditions are examined from a wide range of views and include historical, social, cultural and industrial perspectives.
Cinematic Appeals
Author: Ariel Rogers
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0231159161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen films drew the spectator into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. The technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with manipulating the viewer’s physical response and more with generating information flow, awe, disorientation, and the disintegration of spatial boundaries. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time. Films discussed include Elia Kazan’s East of Eden (1955), Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999), The Matrix (1999), and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme film The Celebration (1998).
Lars von Trier
Author: Linda Badley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-02-24
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0252095421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies they narrowly miss becoming. Challenging conventional limitations and imposing his own rules, he restlessly reinvents the film language. The Danish director has therefore cultivated an insistently transnational cinema, taking inspiration from sources that range from the European avant-garde to American genre films. This volume provides a stimulating overview of Trier's career while focusing on the more recent work, including his controversial Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark), the as-yet unfinished USA Trilogy (Dogville and Manderlay), and individual projects such as the comedy The Boss of It All and the incendiary horror psychodrama Antichrist. Closely analyzing the films and their contexts, Linda Badley draws on a range of cultural references and critical approaches, including genre, gender, and cultural studies, performance theory, and trauma culture. Two revealing interviews that Trier granted during crucial stages of Antichrist's development are also included.
Abyss of Reason
Author: Daniel Cottom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0195068572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study from the American perspective of modern spiritualism, which flourished in the mid-19th century, and of surrealism, a movement that produced a major following between the two World Wars.
The Material Imagination
Author: Dr Matthew Mindrup
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1472424581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' As an alternative to a formal approach in architectural design, this book challenges readers to rethink the reverie of materials in architecture through an examination of historical precedent, architectural practice, literary sources, philosophical analyses and everyday experience. Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates how material imagination defines the conceptual premises for making architecture.
Transnational Cinema in a Global North
Author: Andrew K. Nestingen
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780814332436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume of essays examining the transition from national Nordic cinemas to transnational and global Nordic cinema.
Screening the Unwatchable
Author: A. Grønstad
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-11-20
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0230355854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
Cinephilia
Author: Marijke de Valck
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9053567682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey obsess over the nuances of a Douglas Sirk or Ingmar Bergman film; they revel in books such as François Truffaut's Hitchcock; they happily subscribe to the Sundance Channel—they are the rare breed known as cinephiles. Though much has been made of the classic era of cinephilia from the 1950s to the 1970s, Cinephilia documents the latest generation of cinephiles and their use of new technologies. With the advent of home theaters, digital recording devices, online film communities, cinephiles today pursue their dedication to film outside of institutional settings. A radical new history of film culture, Cinephilia breaks new ground for students and scholars alike.
