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Confessional Cinema

Author : Jorge Perez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781487512453

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In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, "nun films," which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Pérez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975.

The Art of Confession

Author : Christopher Grobe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479882083

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"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --

How to Film Truth

Author : Justin Wells
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781532640353

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How to Film Truth by Justin Wells Pdf

How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of discovery for subjects and audiences. This process, the act of documenting, exploring, and reflecting on our reality in all its created beauty, wonder, and mystery can itself be a devotional practice. The history can be seen as moving from actuality to ecstasy, from propaganda to empathy, and finally to confessional, emotional, personal, and communal healing.

Cinema in Democratizing Germany

Author : Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861370

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Cinema in Democratizing Germany by Heide Fehrenbach Pdf

Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during a period of abrupt transition to democracy. According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.

Canadian National Cinema

Author : Christopher E. Gittings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415142822

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Canadian National Cinema by Christopher E. Gittings Pdf

This books traces the inscription of nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement to contemporary Canada's diverse multicultural output.

Screening Torture

Author : Michael Flynn,Fabiola F. Salek
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780231153584

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Screening Torture by Michael Flynn,Fabiola F. Salek Pdf

Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films appear for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.

Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea

Author : David Brancaleone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501317002

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Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea by David Brancaleone Pdf

How many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote Sciuscià, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D. was also a pioneering magazine publisher in 1930s Milan, a public intellectual, a theorist, a tireless campaigner for change within the film industry, a man of letters, a painter and a poet. This intellectual biography is built on the premise that in order to understand Zavattini's idea of cinema and his legacy of ethical and political cinema (including guerrilla cinema), we must also tease out the multi-faceted strands of his interventions and their interplay over time. The book is for general readers, students and film historians, and anyone with an interest in cinema and its fate.

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures

Author : Scott MacKenzie
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520377479

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Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.

Fashioning Spanish Cinema

Author : Jorge Pérez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781487509118

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Fashioning Spanish Cinema by Jorge Pérez Pdf

Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.

Moralizing Cinema

Author : Daniel Biltereyst,Daniela Treveri Gennari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134668311

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Moralizing Cinema by Daniel Biltereyst,Daniela Treveri Gennari Pdf

This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema will not focus upon films (cf. the representation of biblical figures, religious themes in films, the fidelity question in movies), but rather look beyond the film text, content or aesthetics, by concentrating on the cinema-related actions, strategies and policies developed by the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations in order to influence cinema. Whereas the key role of Catholics in cinema has been well studied in the USA (cf. literature on the Legion of Decency and on the Catholic influenced Production Code Administration), the issue remains unexplored for other parts of the world. The book includes case studies on Argentina, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and the USA.

Confessional Cinema

Author : Jorge Pérez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501082

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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Film, Religion, and the Desarrollismo Period -- 1 Lighting Sainthood in the Time of Technocracy -- 2 Praying for Development in Post-Vatican II Comedies -- 3 Gender and Modernization in Nun Films -- 4 Narratives of Suspicion: Religion in the Nuevo Cine Español -- Conclusion: Spanish Cinema at the Intersection of Religion and Politics -- Notes -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index

French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

Author : Colin Crisp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253017024

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French Cinema—A Critical Filmography by Colin Crisp Pdf

This invaluable resource by one of the world’s leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All entries contain a list of cast members and characters, production details, an overview of the film's cultural and historical significance, and a critical summary of the film's plot and narrative structure. Each volume includes an appendix listing rewards earned and an extensive reference list for further reading and research. A third volume, covering the period 1958–1974, is forthcoming.

Canadian National Cinema

Author : Chris Gittings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134764853

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Canadian National Cinema by Chris Gittings Pdf

Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like Nô, LE Confessional Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, Kanehsatake, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings

Author : David Brancaleone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501319921

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Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings by David Brancaleone Pdf

Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings offers, for the first time in English, a substantive selection of the Italian screenwriter's writings across two volumes. Through translation and detailed cultural and contextual commentary, translator and editor David Brancaleone traces not only Zavattini's theory of the screen, but also his experimentation in new film practices, including the flash-film (film lampo), the inquiry film (film inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema d'incontro), the diary film (film diario), the confessional film (film-confessione), and the grass-roots community film (cinema insieme or cinema di tanti per tanti).

Television, Tabloids, and Tears

Author : Jane Shattuc
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816624553

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Television, Tabloids, and Tears by Jane Shattuc Pdf

I am Biberkopf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared, aligning himself with the protagonist of his widely seen television adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The statement provoked an unprecedented national debate about what constituted an acceptable German artist and who has the power to determine art. More than any recent German director, Fassbinder embodied this debate, and Jane Shattuc shows us how much this can tell us, not just about the man and his work, but also about the state of "culture" in Germany. It is fascinating in itself that Fassbinder, a highly controversial public f.