Film 1900

Author : Annemone Ligensa,Klaus Kreimeier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780861969166

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Film 1900 by Annemone Ligensa,Klaus Kreimeier Pdf

Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century. The current digital revolution has sparked a renewed interest in the origins and trajectory of modern media, particularly in the years around 1900 when the technology was rapidly developing. This collection aims to broaden our understanding of early cinema as a significant innovation in media history. Joining traditional scholarship with fresh insights from a variety of disciplines, this book explains the aesthetic and institutional characteristics in early cinema within the context of the contemporary media landscape. It also addresses transcultural developments such as scientific revolutions, industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, as well as differing attitudes toward modernization. Film 1900 is an important reassessment of early cinema’s position in cultural history. “The capable Ligensa and Kreimeier invited a coterie of renowned Continental scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues of modernity and cinema by harking back to the fin de siècle. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” —T. Lindval, Choice

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666913972

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The Othering of Women in Silent Film by Barbara Tepa Lupack Pdf

In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupackexplores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping depicted in early cinema, demonstrating how those stereotypes helped shape American attitudes and practices. Using social, cultural, literary, and cinema history as a focus, this book offers insights into issues of Othering, including discrimination, exclusion, and sexism, that are as timely today as they were a century ago. Lupack not only examines the ways that dominant cinema of the era imprinted indelible and pejorative images of women—including African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and New Women/Suffragists—but also reveals the ways in which a number of pioneering early filmmakers and performers attempted to counter those depictions by challenging the imagery, interrogating the stereotypes, and re-politicizing the familiar narratives. Scholars of film, gender, history, and race studies will find this book of particular interest.

Author : Tim Blevins,Dennis Daily,Sydne Dean,Chris Nicholl,Michael L. Olsen,Katie Rudolph
Publisher : Pikes Peak Library District
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567352979

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Film & Photography on the Front Range by Tim Blevins,Dennis Daily,Sydne Dean,Chris Nicholl,Michael L. Olsen,Katie Rudolph Pdf

Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053728

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Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh Pdf

A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema

Author : Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231540339

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An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi Pdf

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwanese film scholars from the 1950s to 2013. Paired with An Annotated Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies (2004), which accounts for texts dating back to the 1920s, this series brings together like no other reference the disparate voices of Chinese film scholarship, charting its unique intellectual arc. Organized intuitively, the volume begins with reference materials (bibliographies, cinematographies, directories, indexes, dictionaries, and handbooks) and then moves through film history (the colonial period, Taiwan dialect film, new Taiwan cinema, the 2/28 incident); film genres (animated, anticommunist, documentary, ethnographic, martial arts, teen); film reviews; film theory and technique; interdisciplinary studies (Taiwan and mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, film and aboriginal peoples, film and literature, film and nationality); biographical materials; film stories, screenplays, and scripts; film technology; and miscellaneous aspects of Taiwanese film scholarship (artifacts, acts of censorship, copyright law, distribution channels, film festivals, and industry practice). Works written in multiple languages include transliteration/romanized and original script entries, which follow universal AACR-2 and American cataloguing standards, and professional notations by the editors to aid in the use of sources.

Author : Robert Burgoyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015019419533

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Bertolucci's 1900 by Robert Burgoyne Pdf

Robert Burgoyne uses historical analysis to elucidate a range of historical arguments and interprestations in Bertolucci's 1900. His central proposition that the narrative patterning in all historical films vests them with the power of historical explanation provides a basis for understanding the genre of historical film.

Author : Lee Grieveson,Haidee Wasson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822388678

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Inventing Film Studies by Lee Grieveson,Haidee Wasson Pdf

Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. Inventing Film Studies shows how the study of cinema has developed in relation to a constellation of institutions, technologies, practices, individuals, films, books, government agencies, pedagogies, and theories. Contributors illuminate the connections between early cinema and the social sciences, between film programs and nation-building efforts, and between universities and U.S. avant-garde filmmakers. They analyze the evolution of film studies in relation to the Museum of Modern Art, the American Film Council movement of the 1940s and 1950s, the British Film Institute, influential journals, cinephilia, and technological innovations past and present. Taken together, the essays in this collection reveal the rich history and contemporary vitality of film studies. Contributors: Charles R. Acland, Mark Lynn Anderson, Mark Betz, Zoë Druick, Lee Grieveson, Stephen Groening, Haden Guest, Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Laura Mulvey, Dana Polan, D. N. Rodowick, Philip Rosen, Alison Trope, Haidee Wasson, Patricia White, Sharon Willis, Peter Wollen, Michael Zryd

Author : Rachael Low
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003801511

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The History of British Film (Volume 6) by Rachael Low Pdf

This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to 1939. Rachael Low pioneered the interpretation of films in their context, arguing that to understand films it was necessary to establish their context. Her seven volumes are an object lesson in meticulous research, lucid analysis and accessible style, and have become the benchmark in film history.

Author : Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0806315768

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Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas by Christina K. Schaefer Pdf

Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Author : Monica White Ndounou
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813562575

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Shaping the Future of African American Film by Monica White Ndounou Pdf

In Hollywood, we hear, it’s all about the money. It’s a ready explanation for why so few black films get made—no crossover appeal, no promise of a big payoff. But what if the money itself is color-coded? What if the economics that governs film production is so skewed that no film by, about, or for people of color will ever look like a worthy investment unless it follows specific racial or gender patterns? This, Monica Ndounou shows us, is precisely the case. In a work as revealing about the culture of filmmaking as it is about the distorted economics of African American film, Ndounou clearly traces the insidious connections between history, content, and cash in black films. How does history come into it? Hollywood’s reliance on past performance as a measure of potential success virtually guarantees that historically underrepresented, underfunded, and undersold African American films devalue the future prospects of black films. So the cycle continues as it has for nearly a century. Behind the scenes, the numbers are far from neutral. Analyzing the onscreen narratives and off-screen circumstances behind nearly two thousand films featuring African Americans in leading and supporting roles, including such recent productions as Bamboozled, Beloved, and Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Ndounou exposes the cultural and racial constraints that limit not just the production but also the expression and creative freedom of black films. Her wide-ranging analysis reaches into questions of literature, language, speech and dialect, film images and narrative, acting, theater and film business practices, production history and financing, and organizational history. By uncovering the ideology behind profit-driven industry practices that reshape narratives by, about, and for people of color, this provocative work brings to light existing limitations—and possibilities for reworking stories and business practices in theater, literature, and film.

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813595160

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A Short History of Film, Third Edition by Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

Author : Roberta Pearson,Philip Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134716975

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Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory by Roberta Pearson,Philip Simpson Pdf

The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory clearly and accessibly explains the major theoretical approaches now deployed in the study of the moving image, as well as defining key theoretical terms. This dictionary provides readers with the conceptual apparatus to understand the often daunting language and terminology of screen studies. Entries include: *audience * Homi K. Bhabha * black cinema * the body * children and media * commodification * cop shows * deep focus * Umberto Eco * the gaze * Donna Haraway * bell hooks * infotainment * master narrative * medical dramas * morpheme * myth * panopticon * pastiche * pleasure * real time * social realism * sponsorship * sport on television * subliminal * third cinema * virtual reality Consultant Editors: David Black, USA, William Urricchio, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, Gill Branston, Cardiff University, UK ,Elayne Rapping, USA

Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336878

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Reclaiming the Archive by Vicki Callahan Pdf

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis—by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.

Author : Frank Manchel
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780978771300

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Every Step a Struggle by Frank Manchel Pdf

This book pays tribute to the sacrifices and achievements of seven individuals who made difficult and controversial choices to insure that black Americans shared in the evolution of the nation's cultural heritage. Transcriptions and analyses of never-before published uncensored conversations with Lorenzo Tucker, Lillian Gish, King Vidor, Clarence Muse, Woody Strode, Charles Gordone, and Frederick Douglass O'Neal reveal many of the reasons and rationalizations behind a racist screen imagery in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. This primary source, replete with pictures, documentation, and extensive annotations, recounts through the words of important participants what happened to many film pioneers when a new generation of African-Americans rebelled against the nation's stereotyped film imagery. "A unique historical resource, this book is a fitting tribute to these artists, reminding us of their courage, integrity, and perseverance to succeed against great odds. The thorough, meticulous annotations make it an indispensable addition to collections in film studies and African American studies." -Denise Youngblood, Professor of History, University of Vermont. "The author has taken a unique approach and may have even created a new genre of writing: the interview embellished with scholarly commentary. It is a fascinating experiment. . . This book belongs in every research library and in all public libraries from mid-size to large cities. It fills in lacunae between existing studies." -Peter C. Rollins, Editor-in-Chief of Film & History.

Author : Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 087972479X

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Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film by Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller Pdf

Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.