Chromatic Cinema

Author : Richard Misek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444320084

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Chromatic Cinema by Richard Misek Pdf

Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historicaloverview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meaningsof color in moving images, from hand painting in early skirt dancefilms to current trends in digital color manipulation. Offers both a history and a theory of screen color in the firstfull-length study ever published Provides an in-depth yet accessible account of color's spreadthrough and ultimate effacement of black-and-white cinema,exploring the technological, cultural, economic, and artisticfactors that have defined this evolving symbiosis Engages with film studies, art history, visual culture andtechnology studies in a truly interdisciplinary manner Includes 65 full-color illustrations of films ranging fromExpressionist animation to Hollywood and Bollywood musicals, fromthe US ’indie' boom to1980s neo-noir, Hong Kong cinema, andrecent comic-book films

Author : Sarah Street,Joshua Yumibe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231542289

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Chromatic Modernity by Sarah Street,Joshua Yumibe Pdf

The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and the rise of Technicolor—despite the fact that new color technologies used in film, advertising, fashion, and industry reshaped cinema and consumer culture. In Chromatic Modernity, Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film during the 1920s played a key role in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Street and Yumibe portray the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation in and around cinema. Chromatic Modernity explores contemporary debates over color’s artistic, scientific, philosophical, and educational significance. It examines a wide range of European and American films, including Opus 1 (1921), L’Inhumaine (1923), Die Nibelungen (1924), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Lodger (1927), Napoléon (1927), and Dracula (1932). A comprehensive, comparative study that situates film among developments in art, color science, and industry, Chromatic Modernity reveals the role of color cinema in forging new ways of looking at and experiencing the modern world.

Author : Timon Beyes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503638624

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Organizing Color by Timon Beyes Pdf

We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's Adorno's Grey. Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"—that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.

Author : William Carroll
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231555500

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Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema by William Carroll Pdf

In 1968, Suzuki Seijun—a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast—was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the “Suzuki Seijun Incident,” his dismissal became a cause for leftist student protestors and a burgeoning group of cinephiles to rally around. His films rapidly emerged as central to debates over politics and aesthetics in Japanese cinema. William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki’s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. Carroll places Suzuki’s work between two factions that claimed him as one of their own after 1968: the New Left and its politicized theoretical practice on one hand, and the apparently apolitical cinephiles and their formalist criticism on the other. He considers how both of these strands of film theory shed light on the distinctive qualities of Suzuki’s films, and he explores how both Suzuki’s works and unheralded Japanese film theorists offer new ways of understanding world cinema. This book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki’s work—which influenced directors such as John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino—and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and industry. Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema also includes a complete production history of Suzuki’s filmography along with never-before-discussed information about his unfinished film projects.

Author : Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780192568045

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A Dictionary of Film Studies by Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell Pdf

A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. The dictionary also has 13 feature articles on popular topics and terms, revised and informative bibliographies for most entries, and more than 100 web links to supplement the text.

Author : Anand Pandian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375166

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Reel World by Anand Pandian Pdf

Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of "Kollywood," Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements of a cinematic world. With inventive, experimental, and sometimes comical zeal, Pandian pursues the sensory richness of cinematic experience and the adventure of a writing true to these sensations. Thinking with the visceral power of sound and image, his stories also broach deeply philosophical themes such as desire, time, wonder, and imagination. In a spirit devoted to the turbulence and uncertainty of genesis, Reel World brings into focus an ecology of creative process: the many forces, feelings, beings, and things that infuse human endeavors with transformative potential.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415538138

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Cinema Studies by Susan Hayward Pdf

Film studies is a course that is often articulated in highly technical or complex critical vocabulary. This is an A-Z of the key critical terms, designed to make film texts and analysis more accessible to the student.

Author : Edward Branigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315317489

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Tracking Color in Cinema and Art by Edward Branigan Pdf

Color is one of cinema’s most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings. But what if color is not—or not only—a formal system, but instead a linguistic effect, emerging from the slipstream of our talk and embodiment in a world? This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative. Edward Branigan draws on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other philosophers who struggle valiantly with problems of color aesthetics, contemporary theories of film and narrative, and art-historical models of analysis. Examples of a variety of media, from American pop art to contemporary European cinema, illustrate a theory based on a spectator’s present-time tracking of temporal patterns that are firmly entwined with language use and social intelligence.

Author : Jennifer Kirby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000689365

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Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema by Jennifer Kirby Pdf

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e. "composite spaces") in the context of the growing ubiquitousness of digital media and culture. Bringing together a range of key cinematic texts, the book examines how these films represent "composite space" by depicting—often subtly and without explicit reference to technology—what it feels like to live in a world of ubiquitous digital media. The book explores composite spaces through the striking use of elements like colour, symbolic graphics, and music and covers topics like: music as mediator between levels of experience/perception in visionary films such as Sucker Punch (2011) and Spring Breakers (2012); digital colour as an interface in films including Under the Skin (2013); the integration of digital graphical elements drawn from game spaces into material spaces in films such as Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) and Nerve (2016); and films that take place on a computer screen including 2020’s widely discussed, Zoom-produced pandemic horror film Host. Through the close analysis of these films, the book offers fresh perspectives on conceptual issues of embodiment, digital agency, and subjectivity. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of film studies, digital aesthetics and film theory, digital culture, and digital media.

Author : Pisters Patricia Pisters
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474466981

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New Blood in Contemporary Cinema by Pisters Patricia Pisters Pdf

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

Author : Jessica Niebel
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1636811302

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Color in Motion: Experimental Technologies and Cinema by Jessica Niebel Pdf

Author : Loïc Bourdeau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474479943

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ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon by Loïc Bourdeau Pdf

Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.

Author : Jonathan Stubbs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472520012

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Historical Film by Jonathan Stubbs Pdf

Although precise definitions have not been agreed on, historical cinema tends to cut across existing genre categories and establishes an intimidatingly large group of films. In recent years, a lively body of work has developed around historical cinema, much of it proposing valuable new ways to consider the relationship between cinematic and historical representation. However, only a small proportion of this writing has paid attention to the issue of genre. In order to counter this omission, this book combines a critical analysis of the Hollywood historical film with an examination of its generic dimensions and a history of its development since the silent period. Historical Film: A Critical Introduction is concerned not simply with the formal properties of the films at hand, but also the ways in which they have been promoted, interpreted and discussed in relation to their engagement with the past.

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136256288

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Hollywood Puzzle Films by Warren Buckland Pdf

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.

Author : Michael Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838717902

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Sabu by Michael Lawrence Pdf

The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in orientalist extravaganzas and jungle thrillers, he was associated with the 'exotic' and the 'primitive' in ways that reflected contemporary attitudes towards India and 'the East' more generally. In this captivating study, Michael Lawrence explores the historical, political, cultural contexts of Sabu's popularity as a star, and considers the technological and industrial shifts that shaped his career – from the emergence of Technicolor in the late 1930s to the breakdown of the studio system in the 1950s. Attending to the detail of Sabu's distinctively physical performances, Lawrence shows how his agency as an actor enabled him to endure, exceed and exploit his unique star image.