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Sensuous Cinema

Kaya Davies Hayon
Sensuous Cinema Book PDF

Author : Kaya Davies Hayon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336003

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Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. This new addition to the Thinking Cinema series interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Maghreb and the Middle East to examine how Maghrebi(-French) people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in contemporary Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via detailed textual and phenomenological analyses of films such as Red Satin (Amari 2002), Exiles (Gatlif 2004), Couscous (Kechiche 2007) and Salvation Army (Taïa 2014), Kaya Hayon Davies conveys the pivotal role that corporeality plays in articulating identity and the emotions in these films.

The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai

Gary Bettinson
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Author : Gary Bettinson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789888139293

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The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai by Gary Bettinson Pdf

The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong’s filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, music, narration, characterization, genre, and other artistic elements work together to produce certain effects on audiences. Bettinson argues that Wong’s films are permeated by an aesthetic of sensuousness and “disturbance” achieved through techniques such as narrative interruptions, facial masking, opaque cuts, and other complex strategies. The effect is to jolt the viewer out of complete aesthetic absorption. Each of the chapters focuses on a single aspect of Wong’s filmmaking. The book also discusses Wong’s influence on other filmmakers in Hong Kong and around the world. The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai will appeal to all who are interested in authorship and aesthetics in film studies, to scholars in Asian studies, media and cultural studies, and to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong cinema in general, and Wong’s films in particular. “In this carefully written study, Gary Bettinson offers a critical assessment not only of the stylistic features of Wong Kar-wai’s films but also of the scholarship that has developed around them. Arguing against the facile culturalism that tends to dominate such scholarship, this book does full justice to Wong’s cinematic methods in a series of impressively well-informed and informative readings.” —Rey Chow, Duke University

Sensuous Cinema

Kaya Davies Hayon
Sensuous Cinema Book PDF

Author : Kaya Davies Hayon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501335990

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Sensuous Cinema by Kaya Davies Hayon Pdf

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. This new addition to the Thinking Cinema series interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Maghreb and the Middle East to examine how Maghrebi(-French) people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in contemporary Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via detailed textual and phenomenological analyses of films such as Red Satin (Amari 2002), Exiles (Gatlif 2004), Couscous (Kechiche 2007) and Salvation Army (Taïa 2014), Kaya Hayon Davies conveys the pivotal role that corporeality plays in articulating identity and the emotions in these films.

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire

S. Ryle
Shakespeare Cinema and Desire Book PDF

Author : S. Ryle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332066

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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire by S. Ryle Pdf

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.

Sense of Film Narration

Ian Garwood
Sense of Film Narration Book PDF

Author : Ian Garwood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748678419

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Sense of Film Narration by Ian Garwood Pdf

This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film.

Touch

Laura U. Marks
Touch Book PDF

Author : Laura U. Marks
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816638888

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In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself. These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years -- sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists. From this emerges a materialist theory -- an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks's approach leads to an appreciation of the works' mortal bodies: film's volatile emulsion, video's fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.

The Cinema of Sensations

Ágnes Pethő
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Author : Ágnes Pethő
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443873956

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The Cinema of Sensations by Ágnes Pethő Pdf

Following a previous international conference at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and the subsequent publication of a volume of studies with the title Film in the Post-Media Age (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), which insisted, citing the words of Jacques Rancière, that the ecosystem of contemporary moving images should be understood not as a unified digital environment, but as a highly diversified, “multisensory milieu,” another conference was organised, focusing this time directly on the “multisensory” nature of moving images. Pairing the keywords “cinema” and “sensation”, an invitation was extended for presentations offering a closer examination of the sensual aspects of moving images in order to identify and map out at least some of the possible new directions perceived as taking shape as “sensuous” film studies. The questions contributors addressed included: What kind of paradigms, authors, and styles can be identified in the practice of a cinema exploring the palpable presence of bodies in film history? How can sensory, audiovisual perception and cognitive knowledge be connected when watching moving images? What does the experience of so-called haptic images entail in film and video art? How does an emphasis on sensations and the body relate to representations of social issues and cultural difference? How are representations of other arts in films, or the filmic image appearing as a painterly tableau perceived? How can new images incorporate a sensation of “old” images? What is the difference between haptic images and “hyper” cinema in the form of 3D movies? How can the new naturalistic trends in contemporary cinema be interpreted? What kind of sensual forms are devised for what is unrepresentable or impalpable? The conference took place between the 25th and 27th of May 2012, with the title The Cinema of Sensations, and attracted researchers from all over the world for what turned out to be three days of presentations on extremely varied subjects and lively discussions conducted in a memorably cheerful atmosphere. The present volume is the palpable outcome of these debates, and publishes a selection of articles that have been written for, or after, this conference.

Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Rachel Randall
Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema Book PDF

Author : Rachel Randall
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498555142

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Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Rachel Randall Pdf

This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between “nature” and “culture,” which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower.

Surveillance in Asian Cinema

Karen Fang
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Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317298809

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Surveillance in Asian Cinema by Karen Fang Pdf

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.

Filmosophy

Daniel Frampton
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Author : Daniel Frampton
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764843

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Filmosophy by Daniel Frampton Pdf

'Filmosophy' is a manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. The book coalesces 20th century ideas of film as thought into a practical theory of 'film-thinking', arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic 'intent' about the characters, spaces, and events of film.

Chinese Martial Arts Cinema

Stephen Teo
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Book PDF

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403887

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Chinese Martial Arts Cinema by Stephen Teo Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal 'crossover' hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries. Key attractions of the book are analyses of:*The history of the tradition as it began in the Shanghai cinema, its rise and popularity as a serialized form in the silent cinema of the late 1920s, and its eventual prohibition by the government in 1931.*The fantastic characteristics of the genre, their relationship with folklore, myth and religion, and their similarities and differences with the kung fu sub-genre of martial arts cinema.*The protagonists and heroes of the genre, in particular the figure of the female knight-errant.*The chief personalities and masterpieces of the genre - directors such as King Hu, Chu Yuan, Zhang Che, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and films such as Come Drink With Me (1966), The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), A Touch of Zen (1970-71), Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006).

Process Cinema

Scott MacKenzie,Janine Marchessault
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Author : Scott MacKenzie,Janine Marchessault
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 45,9 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.

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

Michael Gott
ReFocus The Films of Rachid Bouchareb Book PDF

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474466530

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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb by Michael Gott Pdf

Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.

Place of Breath in Cinema

Davina Quinlivan
Place of Breath in Cinema Book PDF

Author : Davina Quinlivan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748664740

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Place of Breath in Cinema by Davina Quinlivan Pdf

This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship.

Zainichi Cinema

Oliver Dew
Zainichi Cinema Book PDF

Author : Oliver Dew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319408774

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Zainichi Cinema by Oliver Dew Pdf

This book examines how filmmakers, curators, and critics created a category of transnational, Korean-in-Japan (Zainichi) Cinema, focussing on the period from the 1960s onwards. An enormously diverse swathe of films have been claimed for this cinema of the Korean diaspora, ranging across major studio yakuza films and melodramas, news reels created by ethnic associations, first-person video essays, and unlikely hits that crossed over from the indie distribution circuit to have a wide impact across the media landscape. Today, Zainichi-themed works have never had a higher profile, with new works by Matsue Tetsuaki, Sai Yoichi, and Yang Yonghi frequently shown at international festivals. Zainichi Cinema argues that central to this transnational cinema is the tension between films with an authorized claim to “represent”, and ambiguous and borderline works that require an active spectator to claim them as images of the Korean diaspora.