ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio
ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio

Author: Bacon Henry Bacon

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 147444217X

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Teuvo Tulio (1912-2000) was one of the most original directors in Finnish film history. Growing up in the newly independent Finland, he lived most of his life in the Finnish cultural and social context, yet he always remained something of an outsider and ended up as a total recluse.This is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent, and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work. A range of international scholars analyse how Tulio created his own brand of excessive melodrama, and follow the strange trajectory of his career from within the studio system to the outsider status of an independent producer-director.

ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio
ReFocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio

Author: Henry Bacon

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1474442161

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This is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

Author: Michael Gott

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474466532

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Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.

Beyond Realism
Beyond Realism

Author: Robert Singer

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1474426352

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Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for realist film, international naturalist cinema has a unique cultural and critical history. From its earliest representation in silent films such as Walsh's Regeneration (1915), and Eisenstein's Stachka/Strike (1925), to recent productions such as Chukwu's Clemency (2019), and Aronofsky's The Whale (2022), the naturalist film narrative encompasses the whole of film history, traversing language, movement, and genre. The naturalist film is predicated on two foundational, intersecting paradigms that configure as one ideological system in an overarching scientific and social experimental narrative. Either the scientific or social paradigm may be dominant in the film narrative or they may simply co-exist, but a naturalist film reveals both templates and, most significantly, suggests an implicit cinematic anthropology that renders the body as an observed spectacle.

The Films of Teuvo Tulio
The Films of Teuvo Tulio

Author: Henry Bacon

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781474490719

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Teuvo Tulio (1912-2000) was one of the most original directors in Finnish film history. Growing up in the newly independent Finland, he lived most of his life in the Finnish cultural and social context, yet he always remained something of an outsider and ended up as a total recluse. This collection explores Tulio's unique style and the extent, and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.

ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan
ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan

Author: Lafontaine Andree Lafontaine

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-07-29

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1474444601

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Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated significant critical interest. A recipient of numerous awards, Dolan has recently taken his career to an international level with The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. As the first book-length study about Dolan, with case studies of key films like Mommy (2014), Tom at the Farm (2013) and It's Only the End of the World (2016), this volume explores the global reach of small national and subnational cinemas. In particular, it uses Dolan's cinema as a departure point to reconsider the position of Qubec film and cultural imaginary within a global cinematic culture, as well as the intersections between national, millennial and queer filmmaking.

Finnish Cinema
Finnish Cinema

Author: Henry Bacon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1137576510

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This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic, always been attached to developments in other film producing nations in terms of production and distribution as well as genres and aesthetics. Recent developments in film theory offer exciting new approaches and methodologies for the study of transnational phenomena in the field of film culture, both past and present. The authors employ a wide range of cutting edge methodologies in order to address the major issues involved in transnational approaches to film culture. Until recently, much of this research has focused on globalization and questions related to diasporic cinema, while transnational issues related to small nation film cultures have been marginalized. This study focuses on how small nation cinemas have faced the dilemma of contributing to the construction and maintenance of national culture and identity, while responding to audience tastes largely shaped by foreign cinemas. With Finland’s intriguing political placement between East and West, along with the high portion of film history preserved in Finnish archives, this thoroughly contextualized multidisciplinary analysis of Finnish film history serves as an illuminating case study of the transnational aspects of small nation cinemas.

Cinéma-Monde
Cinéma-Monde

Author: Michael Gott

Publisher: EUP

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781474431842

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The first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, Cinâema-monde picks up on the lively scholarly debates generated by the related topic of littâerature-monde. Extending the scope of this debate to cover the thriving and diverse area of international French-language cinema, this innovative book also considers cinema from France within the context of global production. With contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinâema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema.--

Herbal Handbook
Herbal Handbook

Author: The New York Botanical Garden

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1524759139

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Herbal Handbook is a charming, information-packed guide to 51 herbs and their uses illustrated with rare botanical art from the renowned archives of The New York Botanical Garden. Did you know that woodruff was used as a room freshener in the Middle Ages; that crushed bergamot leaves can soothe bee stings; and that dried fenugreek seeds were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen? Herbs are magical, and their uses myriad. Inside Herbal Handbook are fifty-one herbs portrayed in words and rare botanical art curated by experts at The New York Botanical Garden. Some, like saffron, are treasured and rare; others, like purslane, grow by the roadside. They all have a place—in the garden, in the kitchen, in the bed or the bath. Use Herbal Handbook to explore their history, how to grow them, and how they were used in the past and present. Then bring them into your daily life; each herb’s profile offers a recipe or project that highlights its unique properties. So cleanse your face with calendula when you wake up, sip a bergamot tea at breakfast, have a lovage tuna sandwich for lunch, and mix a caraway cocktail at the end of the day. Let Herbal Handbook delight your senses as they have done to others for thousands of years.

Finnish Film Studios
Finnish Film Studios

Author: Kimmo Laine

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474446815

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Global Film Studios is a series of books devoted to examining international film studios and their global influence. Each volume will address several studios representing an era (New Hollywood Studios), a regional intersection of production (Nordic Film Studios), a nation cinema (French Film Studios), a genre (Hong Kong Action Film Studios) or a style (Bollywood Studios). The series offers interdisciplinary interpretations of international film studios. Particular attention will emphasize the signature features of these studios, such as their distinctive style, look, design, and genres, as well as principal figures who created and sustained those definable studio elements. Technological advancements and innovations associated with or promoted by studios will also be examined. Additionally, these volumes will address studios' market strategies, their core competencies and core rigidities, and their reliance upon and shifts from film cycles in terms of re-evaluating box office and audience appeal. Detailed analysis of specific film productions that transformed studios will conclude each volume. Because of its multifaceted analysis and international scope, this series intends to open up the field of global studiography.