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A Companion to Jean Renoir “An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau. The essays offer exciting, original work from younger scholars as well as long-established authorities, all of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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It’s the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street, Britain’s equivalent of...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-04-11
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With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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America Through the Lens
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Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only African-American filmmaker ever to establish a world-class career, Lee has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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America Through the Lens
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From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-28
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Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-26
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Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-emergence of the real as a prime concern in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian film, and as a main reason for the acclaim...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-13
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What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art?What would that mean - can it still matter? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into film studies to repair the schism that characterizes the field, as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-12
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Observing filmic product translation from multiple perspectives is the challenging subject of this volume, which opens up new ways of reading and sustaining dialogue on both theoretical and didactic levels. Its central focus is an observation of European and Oriental...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-02-25
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A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar “Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon give us the ideal companion to Pedro Almodóvar’s films. Established and emerging writers offer a rainbow of insights for fans as well as academics.”Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Film Studies, The City...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-19
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s life, works, and cinematic themes. A collection of critical readings that...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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A Companion to François Truffaut “An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found.”Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique “This exciting collection...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-11
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-05
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Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-01
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Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror?There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder. This third edition of the bestselling Movie Mistakes brings you over a...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-01-31
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A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminates Scorsese's authorship, but also reflects back upon a range of informing contexts.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-30
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This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and communicated...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-28
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The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being 'on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-27
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Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the cultural landscape of this much maligned decade to uncover hidden gems and to explode many of the well-established myths...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-22
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