Locating World Cinema

Author : M K Raghavendra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789389812428

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Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It examines the sociocultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, Iran and India. The book analyses the works of some of the more celebrated but, at times, less than fully understood auteurs, such as Kenji Mizoguchi from Japan; Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette and Éric Rohmer from France; Abbas Kiarostami from Iran; Martin Scorsese from the US; Zhang Yimou from China and Aleksei German from Russia. Further, it examines how the conditions of exhibition for art house cinema has transformed into the 'global art film' that attempts to bypass the local by addressing international audiences. The book deals with complex ideas but is lucidly written, making it accessible to film students and lay persons alike.

Author : M K Raghavendra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789389812435

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Locating World Cinema by M K Raghavendra Pdf

Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It examines the sociocultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, Iran and India. The book analyses the works of some of the more celebrated but, at times, less than fully understood auteurs, such as Kenji Mizoguchi from Japan; Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette and Éric Rohmer from France; Abbas Kiarostami from Iran; Martin Scorsese from the US; Zhang Yimou from China and Aleksei German from Russia. Further, it examines how the conditions of exhibition for art house cinema has transformed into the 'global art film' that attempts to bypass the local by addressing international audiences. The book deals with complex ideas but is lucidly written, making it accessible to film students and lay persons alike.

Author : PAUL G. PICKWICZ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621965457

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Locating Taiwan Cineman in the Twenty-first Century by PAUL G. PICKWICZ Pdf

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786725561

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Positioning Art Cinema by Geoff King Pdf

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what kinds of cultural value are attributed to films of this type and how can this be explained? This book offers a unique analysis of how such processes work, including the broader cultural basis of the appeal of art cinema to particular audiences. Geoff King argues that there is no single definition of art cinema, but a number of distinct and recurrent tendencies are identified. At one end of the spectrum are films accorded the most 'heavyweight' status, offering the greatest challenges to viewers. Others mix aspects of art cinema with more accessible dimensions such as uses of popular genre frameworks and 'exploitation' elements involving explicit sex and violence. Including case studies of key figures such as Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, this is a crucial contribution to understanding both art cinema itself and the discourses through which its value is established.

Author : MK Raghavendra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000296341

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Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema by MK Raghavendra Pdf

This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions from which it derives its influences. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualizes them within the aesthetics, poetics and politics of Indian cinema. The book looks at terms and concepts borrowed from the scholarship on American and world cinema and explores their use and relevance in describing the characteristics and evolution of cinema in India. It highlights how realism, romance and melodrama in the context of India appear in a culturally singular way and how the aggregation of constituent elements – like songs, action, comedy – in Indian film can be traced to classical theatre and other diverse religious and philosophical influences. These influences have characterized popular film and drama in India which present all aspects of life for a diverse nation. The author explores concepts like ‘fantasy’, ‘family’ and ‘patriotism’ by using various examples from films in India and outside, as well as practices in the other arts. He identifies the fundamental logic behind the choices made by film-makers in India and discusses concepts which allow for a fresh theorizing on Indian cinema’s characteristics. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, literature, cultural history and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for general readers who are interested in learning more about Indian cinema, its forms, origins and influences.

Author : Tom Whittaker,Sarah Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190261139

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Locating the Voice in Film by Tom Whittaker,Sarah Wright Pdf

This book locates the voice in cinema in different national and transnational contexts, to explore how the critical approaches to the voice as well as the practices of sound design, technologies and even reception are often grounded in cultural specificity, to present readings which challenge traditional theories of the voice in film.

Author : Joshua Gleich,Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813586274

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Hollywood on Location by Joshua Gleich,Lawrence Webb Pdf

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the margins of larger American film histories. Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how location filmmaking supplemented and later, supplanted production on the studio lots. Drawing on archival research and in-depth case studies, the seven contributors show how location shooting expanded the geography of American film production, from city streets and rural landscapes to far-flung territories overseas, invoking a new set of creative, financial, technical, and logistical challenges. Whereas studio filmmaking sought to recreate nature, location shooting sought to master it, finding new production values and production economies that reshaped Hollywood’s modus operandi.

Author : Stefan Roesch
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845411206

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The Experiences of Film Location Tourists by Stefan Roesch Pdf

This book examines the on-site experiences of film-induced tourists at various film locations, including locations from The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and The Sound of Music. The study attempts to understand the needs and wants of film location tourists and also examines how to use films for destination marketing.

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350260061

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Positioning Art Cinema by Geoff King Pdf

From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what kinds of cultural value are attributed to films of this type and how can this be explained? This book offers a unique analysis of how such processes work, including the broader cultural basis of the appeal of art cinema to particular audiences. Geoff King argues that there is no single definition of art cinema, but a number of distinct and recurrent tendencies are identified. At one end of the spectrum are films accorded the most 'heavyweight' status, offering the greatest challenges to viewers. Others mix aspects of art cinema with more accessible dimensions such as uses of popular genre frameworks and 'exploitation' elements involving explicit sex and violence. Including case studies of key figures such as Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, this is a crucial contribution to understanding both art cinema itself and the discourses through which its value is established.

Author : Shekhar Deshpande,Meta Mazaj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136473180

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World Cinema by Shekhar Deshpande,Meta Mazaj Pdf

World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films are made from the large-scale industries of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They are seen in multiplexes, palatial art cinemas in Cannes, traveling theatres in rural India, and on millions of hand-held mobile screens. Authors Deshpande and Mazaj have developed a method of charting this new world cinema that makes room for divergent perspectives, traditions, and positions, while also revealing their interconnectedness and relationships of meaning. In doing so, they bring together a broad range of issues and examples—theoretical concepts, viewing and production practices, film festivals, large industries such as Nollywood and Bollywood, and smaller and emerging film cultures—into a systemic yet flexible map of world cinema. The multi-layered approach of this book aims to do justice to the depth, dynamism, and complexity of the phenomenon of world cinema. For students looking to films outside of their immediate context, this book offers a blueprint that will enable them to transform a casual encounter with a film into a systematic inquiry into world cinema.

Author : Linda Badley,R. Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.

Author : Igor Krstic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474406888

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Slums on Screen by Igor Krstic Pdf

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813575490

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Shot on Location by R. Barton Palmer Pdf

In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and documentary footage in their narrative features. Why did this happen? What caused this sudden change? Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer answers this question in Shot on Location by exploring the historical, ideological, economic, and technological developments that led Hollywood to head back outside in order to capture footage of real places. His groundbreaking research reveals that wartime newsreels had a massive influence on postwar Hollywood film, although there are key distinctions to be made between these movies and their closest contemporaries, Italian neorealist films. Considering how these practices were used in everything from war movies like Twelve O’Clock High to westerns like The Searchers, Palmer explores how the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a “reality effect” to otherwise implausible stories. Shot on Location describes how the period’s greatest directors, from Alfred Hitchcock to Billy Wilder, increasingly moved beyond the confines of the studio. At the same time, the book acknowledges the collaborative nature of moviemaking, identifying key roles that screenwriters, art designers, location scouts, and editors played in incorporating actual geographical locales and social milieus within a fictional framework. Palmer thus offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Hollywood transformed the way we view real spaces.

Author : M. K. Raghavendra
Publisher : Routledge India
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429344414

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Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema by M. K. Raghavendra Pdf

"This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions which it derives its influences from. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualises them within the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of Indian cinema. The book looks at terms and concepts borrowed from the scholarship on American and world cinema and explores their use and relevance in describing the characteristics and evolution of cinema in India. It highlights how realism, romance, and melodrama in the context of India has been used in a culturally singular way and how the aggregation of generic elements - songs, action, comedy and the likes - in Indian film can be traced to classical theatre and other diverse religious and philosophical influences. These influences have characterised popular film and drama in India which presents all aspects of life for a diverse nation. The author explores concepts like 'fantasy', 'family' and 'patriotic films' by using various examples from films in India and outside as well as practices in the other arts. He identifies the fundamental logic behind the choices made by filmmakers in India and discusses concepts which allow for a fresh theorizing on Indian cinema's characteristics. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, literature, cultural history, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for general readers who are interested in learning more about Indian cinema, its forms, origins, and influences"--

Author : Blandine Stefanson,Sheila Petty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 1783203919

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Directory of World Cinema by Blandine Stefanson,Sheila Petty Pdf