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Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz.
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1976-04-15
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A behind-the-scenes account of a cultural institution that made a distinctive mark on Canadian film
Establishing Shots captures a diverse group of filmmakers in an immersive oral history of one of the most important and notorious artist-run centres in Canada: the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-03-10
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The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2022-04-27
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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy,Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over...
Editeur :
ClassicBooks by KTHTK
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy,Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over...
Editeur :
Pandora's Box Classics
Parution :
2017-11-15
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The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-02-27
Collection :
Cultural Studies
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From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-01-09
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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The Act of Killing is a documentary film on the Indonesian genocide that took place between October 1965 and March 1966, during which time an estimated 500,000 to 2.5 million accused communists, including landless farmers, unionized workers, labour organizers,...
Editeur :
Laurier Digital
Parution :
2014-10-01
Collection :
CMTS Dialogues
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The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka....
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-03-25
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-10-15
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-10-07
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Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-08-14
Collection :
Environmental Humanities
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This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-08-06
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-08-01
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The “cinema of consensus,” a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-08-30
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-08
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The Young, the Restless, and the Dead captures the spirit of Canadian filmmakers through interviews with the most accomplished and dynamic of yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s film greats. Funny, provocative, and enlightening, the filmmakers reflect on their careers...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-22
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Playing with Memories is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. It offers extensive perspectives on his career to date, from the early experimentation of The Dead Father (1986) to the intensely...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2009-09-15
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Graham McInnes was one of many talented young people recruited by the charismatic John Grierson to build the National Film Board of Canada during the heady days of WWII. McInnes’s memoir of these “days of high excitement” is an insider’s look at the NFB from 1939 to...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2004-11-18
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