Screening Modernism

Screening Modernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Screening Modernism book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Screening Modernism

András Bálint Kovács
Screening Modernism Book PDF

Author : András Bálint Kovács
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226451664

Get Book

Screening Modernism by András Bálint Kovács Pdf

Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, András Bálint Kovács’s encyclopedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kovács begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way, he provides an innovative history of the evolution of modern European art cinema. Exploring not only modernism’s origins but also its stylistic, thematic, and cultural avatars, Screening Modernism ultimately lays out creative new ways to think about the historical periods that comprise this golden age of film.

Screening Modernism

András Bálint Kovács
Screening Modernism Book PDF

Author : András Bálint Kovács
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226451633

Get Book

Screening Modernism by András Bálint Kovács Pdf

Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, András Bálint Kovács’s encyclopedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kovács begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way, he provides an innovative history of the evolution of modern European art cinema. Exploring not only modernism’s origins but also its stylistic, thematic, and cultural avatars, Screening Modernism ultimately lays out creative new ways to think about the historical periods that comprise this golden age of film.

Film and Literary Modernism

Robert P. McParland
Film and Literary Modernism Book PDF

Author : Robert P. McParland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443866446

Get Book

Film and Literary Modernism by Robert P. McParland Pdf

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Henri Bergson, the racial undercurrents in the film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, and examine the film writing of William Faulkner, James Agee, and Graham Greene. Robert McParland assembles an international group of researchers including independent film makers, critics and professors of film, creative writers, teachers of architecture and design, and young doctoral scholars, who offer a multi-faceted look at modernism and the art of the film.

Modernism Today

Sjef Houppermans,Pete Liebregts,Jan Baetens,Otto Boele
Modernism Today Book PDF

Author : Sjef Houppermans,Pete Liebregts,Jan Baetens,Otto Boele
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209953

Get Book

Modernism Today by Sjef Houppermans,Pete Liebregts,Jan Baetens,Otto Boele Pdf

This book manifests at least four recent shifts and tendencies within Modernist studies in general that point at the expansion of this increasingly interdisciplinary field. First, Modernist studies has seen a temporal expansion, to the extent that scholars in the field have come to turn to both the pre- and posterior history of Modernism. Second, the field has witnessed a spatial expansion, in that increasingly so researchers have also come to scrutinize the Modernisms of regions at the fringes of Europe, and beyond. Thirdly, a vertical expansion too has marked Modernist studies in recent decades, not only by further expanding the canon of women writers and exploring the continuum between high- and lowbrow, but also by looking at the artistic and mediatized hierarchies and cross-fertilizations operative in the period. A fourth conceptual expansion of the field shows that whereas concepts such as “middlebrow”, “arrière-garde”, and to some extent even “avant-garde”, were once exotic notions of at best marginal importance in European Modernist studies, they now form part and parcel of the field, complicating and expanding it conceptually.

Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film

Howard Finn
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film Book PDF

Author : Howard Finn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350242586

Get Book

Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film by Howard Finn Pdf

Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly is the relationship between cinema and modernism? Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film explores how in the early twentieth century cinema came to be seen as one of the new technologies which epitomised modernity and how cinema itself reflected ideas, hopes and fears concerning modern life. Howard Finn examines the emergence of a new 'international style' of cinema, combining a poetic aesthetic of the image with genre-based fictional narrative and documentary realism. He provides concise accounts of how theorists such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière have discussed this cinematic aesthetic, clarifying debates over terms such as 'realism', 'classical' and 'avant-garde' as well as recent controversies over terms such as 'slow cinema' and 'vernacular modernism'. He further argues the influence of modernism through close readings of many contemporary films, including films by Abbas Kiarostami, Béla Tarr, Jia Zhangke, and Angela Schanelec. Drawing on a broad range of examples, including Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, postwar new waves and the 'new cinema' of Taiwan and Iran, this book explores the cultural significance of modernism and its lasting influence over cinema.

The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino

Russell Kilbourn
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino Book PDF

Author : Russell Kilbourn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231548625

Get Book

The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino by Russell Kilbourn Pdf

Paolo Sorrentino, director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2016), has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. From his earliest productions to his more recent transnational works, Sorrentino has paid homage to Italy’s cinematic past while telling stories of masculine characters whose sense of self seems to be on the brink of dissolution. Together with his usual collaborators (including cinematographer Luca Bigazzi and editor Cristiano Travagliolo) and actors (chief among them Toni Servillo), Sorrentino has produced an incisive depiction of the contemporary European condition by means of an often spectacular postclassical style that nevertheless continues postwar Italian film’s tradition of political commitment. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur. Russell J. A. Kilbourn offers close readings of Sorrentino’s feature films and television output from One Man Up (2001) to The Young Pope (2016) and Loro (2018), featuring in-depth analyses of the director’s exuberant and intensified film style. Addressing the crucial themes of Sorrentino’s output—including a masculine subject defined by a melancholic awareness of its own imminent demise, and a critique of the conventional cinematic representation of women—Kilbourn illuminates Sorrentino’s ability to suffuse postmodern elegies for the humanist worldview with a sense of social awareness and responsibility. Kilbourn also foregrounds Sorrentino’s contributions to the ongoing transformations of cinematic realism and the Italian and European art cinema traditions more broadly. The first English-language study of the acclaimed director’s oeuvre, The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino demonstrates why he is considered one of the most dynamic figures making films today.

Screening Statues

Steven Jacobs
Screening Statues Book PDF

Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474410908

Get Book

Screening Statues by Steven Jacobs Pdf

This book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.

Samuel Beckett and Cinema

Anthony Paraskeva
Samuel Beckett and Cinema Book PDF

Author : Anthony Paraskeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472527370

Get Book

Samuel Beckett and Cinema by Anthony Paraskeva Pdf

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent film in the period of cinema's modernist second wave. Drawing on recently published letters, archival material and production notebooks, Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock. By examining the parallels between Beckett's methods, as a writer-director, and particular techniques, such as the embodied presence of the camera, the use of asynchronous sound, and the cross-pollination of theatricality and cinema, as well as the connections between his collaborators and the nouvelle vague, the book reveals how Beckett's aesthetic is fundamentally altered by his work for the screen, and his formative encounters with modernist film culture.

The Differentiation of Modernism

Larson Powell
The Differentiation of Modernism Book PDF

Author : Larson Powell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135728

Get Book

The Differentiation of Modernism by Larson Powell Pdf

The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980). After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of boundaries," between the arts. TheDifferentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-80): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapter on Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Hörspiel or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler's Composing for the Film sets the parameters for chapters on the film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book's central notion of the "differentiation of culture" suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted the contingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it. Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature (Camden House, 2008).

Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism

Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism Book PDF

Author : Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780748637041

Get Book

Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism by Vassiliki Kolocotroni Pdf

This book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind.

The Modernist World

Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross
The Modernist World Book PDF

Author : Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696162

Get Book

The Modernist World by Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross Pdf

The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume. The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema

Li Yang
The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema Book PDF

Author : Li Yang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319972114

Get Book

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema by Li Yang Pdf

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990–2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People’s Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers. Through an exploration of the production and consecration mechanisms of the new art wave and its representative styles, this book argues that the art wave of the 1990s fundamentally defined Chinese art cinema. In particular, this vital art wave was not enabled by democratic liberalism, but by the specific industrial development, in which the film system transitioned from Socialist propaganda into a commercialized entity. Allowing Chinese art film to grow but at the same time denying its legitimacy, this paradoxical transition process shaped Chinese art film’s institutional and aesthetical alternative positioning, which eventually helped consolidate the art wave into art cinema. Ultimately, this book is a history of the Chinese portion of global art cinema, which also reveals the complex Chinese cultural experiences during the Reform Era.

Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen

László Strausz
Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen Book PDF

Author : László Strausz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319552729

Get Book

Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen by László Strausz Pdf

This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema demonstrates a refusal to accept limiting, binary discourses rooted in Cold War narratives. Strausz argues that hesitation becomes an attempt to overcome restrictive populist narratives of the past and present day. By employing a performative and mobile position, audiences are encouraged to consider conflicting approaches to history and social transformation.

A Modernist Cinema

Scott W. Klein,Michael Valdez Moses
A Modernist Cinema Book PDF

Author : Scott W. Klein,Michael Valdez Moses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199379453

Get Book

A Modernist Cinema by Scott W. Klein,Michael Valdez Moses Pdf

"In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors-Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buänuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles-these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography. Contributors: Richard Begam, Maurizia Bascagli, Enda Duffy, Laura Frost, Andrzej Gasiorek, Scott W. Klein, Douglas Mao, Laura Marcus, Jesse Matz, Tyrus Miller, Michael Valdez Moses, Michael North, Elizabeth Otto, Carrie J. Preston, Lisa Siraganian, Michael Wood"--

Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy

H. Ford
Post War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy Book PDF

Author : H. Ford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137283528

Get Book

Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy by H. Ford Pdf

A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.