Forms Of The Cinematic

Author : Mark Breeze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501361432

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This interdisciplinary collection explores how cinema calls into question its own frame of reference and, at the same time, how its form becomes the matter of its thought. Building on the axiom (cherished by philosophers of cinema from Epstein to Deleuze) that cinema is a medium that thinks in conjunction with its spectators, this book examines how various forms of the cinematic rethink and redraw the terrain of traditional disciplines, thereby enabling different modes of thought and practice. Areas under consideration by a range of leading academics and practitioners include architecture, science, writing in a visual field, event-theory and historiography.

Author : Mark Breeze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501361449

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Forms of the Cinematic by Mark Breeze Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection explores how cinema calls into question its own frame of reference and, at the same time, how its form becomes the matter of its thought. Building on the axiom (cherished by philosophers of cinema from Epstein to Deleuze) that cinema is a medium that thinks in conjunction with its spectators, this book examines how various forms of the cinematic rethink and redraw the terrain of traditional disciplines, thereby enabling different modes of thought and practice. Areas under consideration by a range of leading academics and practitioners include architecture, science, writing in a visual field, event-theory and historiography.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780198701774

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The History of Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith defines the field of cinema, and explores its fascinating history within the cultural and aesthetic sphere. Considering the influences of the other art forms from which it arose, he looks at how technological advances have opened up new horizons for the cinema industry.

Author : Leo Bersani,Ulysse Dutoit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715854

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Forms of Being by Leo Bersani,Ulysse Dutoit Pdf

In each of the films discussed in this study - 'Le Mepris', 'All About My Mother', 'The Thin Red Line' - something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and more powerful means than narrative or argument.

Author : Marika Kuzmicz,Lukasz Ronduda
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783956793110

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Workshop of the Film Form by Marika Kuzmicz,Lukasz Ronduda Pdf

Workshop of the Film Form provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the school, now known as the National Film School, and included: Wojciech Bruszewski, Paweł Kwiek, Andrzej Różycki, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Janusz Połom, and Ryszard Waśko. As pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, the artists refused classical narrative and traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary art. This publication examines all aspects of WFF's activity, from their films, photographic experiments, video art, and performative actions to their teaching work, which includes previously unexplored pedagogical contributions to the National Film School. Drawing on the private archives and oral testimonies of the WWF, Workshop of the Film Form attempts to provide a full account of the group's history as well as a comprehensive survey of each member's practice. The writers who were invited to respond to the WWF for this book provide insightful new readings of the group's output and activities, contextualizing their work in the history of the prewar Polish avant-garde and the politics of experimental filmmaking in Poland under the rule of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). Copublished with Fundacja Arton

Author : Pepita Hesselberth,Maria Poulaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150132229X

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Compact Cinematics by Pepita Hesselberth,Maria Poulaki Pdf

Author : George Wead,George Lellis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCSC:32106007218180

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Film, Form and Function by George Wead,George Lellis Pdf

Author : Milja Radovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135013202

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Transnational Cinema and Ideology by Milja Radovic Pdf

Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship between transnational cinema and ideology. The book focuses in particular on the complex ways in which religion, identity and cultural myths interact in specific cinematic representations of ideology. Author Milja Radovic approaches the selected films as national, regional products, and then moves on to comparative analysis and discussion of their transnational aspects. This book also addresses the question of whether transnationalism reinforces the nation or not; one of the possible answers to this question may be given through the exploration of the cinema of national states and its transnational aspects. Radovic illustrates the ways in which these issues, represented and framed by films, are transmitted beyond their nation-state borders and local ideologies in which they originated – and questions whether therefore one can have an understanding of transnational cinema as a platform for political dialogue.

Author : Scott MacKenzie,Janine Marchessault
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773558106

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Process Cinema by Scott MacKenzie,Janine Marchessault Pdf

Handmade films stretch back to cinema's beginnings, yet until now their rich history has been neglected. Process Cinema is the first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a global perspective. Mapping the genealogy of handmade film, and uncovering confluences, influences, and interstices between various international movements, sites, and practices, Process Cinema positions the resurgence of handmade and process cinema as a counter-practice to the rise of digital filmmaking. This volume brings together a range of renowned academics and artists to examine contemporary artisanal films, DIY labs, and filmmakers typically left out of the avant-garde canon, addressing the convergence between the analog and the digital in contemporary process cinema. Contributors investigate the history of process cinema – unscripted, improvisatory manipulation of the physicality of film – with chapters on pioneering filmmakers such as Len Lye and Marie Menken, while others discuss an international array of collectives devoted to processing films in artist-run labs from South Korea to Finland, Australia to Austria, and Greenland to Morocco, along with historical and contemporary practices in Canada and the United States. Addressing the turn to a new, sustainable creative ecology that is central to handmade films in the twenty-first century, and that defines today's reinvigorated film cultures, Process Cinema features some of the most beautiful handcrafted films and the most forward-thinking filmmakers within a global context.

Author : Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253033666

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Corporeality in Early Cinema by Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert Pdf

Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781846318122

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Cinematic Fictions by David Seed Pdf

The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the new medium of film, did American novelists attempt to apply cinematic methods in their own writings? From its very beginnings the cinema has played a special role in defining American culture. Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, Cinematic Fictions offers new insights into classics like The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath discussing major writers' critical writings on film and active participation in film-making. Cinematic Fictions is also careful not to portray 'cinema' as a single or stable entity. Some novelists drew on silent film; others looked to the Russian theorists for inspiration; and yet others turned to continental film-makers rather than to Hollywood. Film itself was constantly evolving during the first decades of the twentieth century and the writers discussed here engaged in a kind of dialogue with the new medium, selectively pursuing strategies of montage, limited point of view and scenic composition towards their different ends. Contrasting a diverse range of cinematic and literary movements, this will be compulsory reading for scholars of American literature and film.

Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226672007

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Filmed Thought by Robert B. Pippin Pdf

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, goodness and naïveté in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski’s Chinatown and Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human.

Author : Scott Curtis,Philippe Gauthier,Tom Gunning,Joshua Yumibe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253034427

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The Image in Early Cinema by Scott Curtis,Philippe Gauthier,Tom Gunning,Joshua Yumibe Pdf

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from and challenged practices and conventions in other mediums. This rich visual culture produced a complicated, overlapping network of image-making traditions, innovations, and borrowing among painting, tableaux vivants, photography, and other pictorial and projection practices. Using a variety of concepts and theories, the contributors explore these crisscrossing traditions and work against an essentialist notion of media to conceptualize the dynamic interrelationship between images and their context.

Author : Yannis Tzioumakis,Claire Molloy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317392460

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics by Yannis Tzioumakis,Claire Molloy Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary - this collection covers a broad range of topics, including: third cinema, cinema after 9/11, eco-activism, human rights, independent Chinese documentary, film festivals, manifestoes, film policies, film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis, Soviet propaganda, the impact of neoliberalism on cinema, and many others. It foregrounds the key debates, concepts, approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema, discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment, examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.

Author : Linda Badley,R. Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813538742

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Traditions in World Cinema by Linda Badley,R. Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider Pdf

The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi.