Signs And Meaning In The Cinema

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
ISBN : 183871040X

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"First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of film as an art form and as a sign system. The book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, which contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition and defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, invoking cinema as an exemplary test-case for comparative aesthetics and general theories of signification. Wollen's Conclusion argues for an avant-garde cinema, bringing post-structuralist ideas into his discussion of Godard and other contemporaries. Published as part of the BFI Silver series, this fifth edition features a new foreword by film theorist David Rodowick and brings together material from the four previous editions, inviting the reader to trace the development of Wollen's thinking, and the unfolding of the discourse of cinema"--Bloomsbury Screen Studies.

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253181410

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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen Pdf

"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." --Cinema "... a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry--from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists--in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." --Times Literary Supplement

Author : Peter Wollen,British Film Institute
Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg; British Film Institute
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012150962

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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen,British Film Institute Pdf

"Without doubt, it is the best study of cinema published in English for years." -- Cinema ..". a major achievement... drawing on the results of aesthetic inquiry -- from Shaftesbury and Lessing to Jakobson and the formalists -- in order to relate the cinema to wider areas of linguistic theory and theory of art." -- Times Literary Supplement

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:461884085

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Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen Pdf

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718695

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The Cinema Book by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies. Sections address Hollywood and other World cinema histories, key genres in both fiction and non-fiction film, issues such as stars, technology and authorship, and major theoretical approaches to understanding film.

Author : Henry K. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718817

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The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Henry K. Miller Pdf

Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA. At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image-text combos', durgnat's writings touch on crucial questions in film criticism that resonate more than ever today. Bringing together durgnat's essential writing for the very first time, this career-spanning collection includes previously unpublished and untranslated work and is thoroughly introduced and annotated by Henry K. Miller.

Author : Philip Simpson,Andrew Utterson,Karen J. Shepherdson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 041525972X

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Film Theory by Philip Simpson,Andrew Utterson,Karen J. Shepherdson Pdf

Author : Sue Clayton,Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786732040

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Other Cinemas by Sue Clayton,Laura Mulvey Pdf

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cine-philes, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences. Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.

Author : Philip Cowan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781793638960

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Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland by Philip Cowan Pdf

In this three-part book-length study of the work of Gregg Toland, Philip Cowan explores approaches to co-authorship in collaborative filmmaking to propose new ways of identifying, attributing, and evaluating the creative work of cinematographers. In the first part of the study, Cowan challenges the dominant, director-centered auteur approach to film studies, critiquing the historical development of authorship theory and providing a contemporary analysis of the cinematographer’s authorial role in creating images that communicate meaning through content and construction. By synthesizing and updating the work of previous film theorists to define the complexities of composition, movement, and lighting in the second part of the study, Cowan develops a new, comprehensive taxonomy of functional and aesthetic elements of the moving image. Finally, by using the co-author approach and the analytical tools developed in part two of the book, Cowan provides an in-depth re-examination of Toland’s work, highlighting the historical neglect of the cinematographer’s artistic contribution to filmmaking and developing a fresh approach to the analysis of contemporary cinematography in film.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110128640

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Speaking and Semiology by Anonim Pdf

Author : José Manuel Martins,Christine Reeh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443879583

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Thinking Reality and Time through Film by José Manuel Martins,Christine Reeh Pdf

Over the last few decades, film has increasingly become an issue of philosophical reflection from an ontological and epistemological perspective, and the claim “doing philosophy through film” has raised extensive discussion about its meaning. The mechanical reproduction of reality is one of the most prominent philosophical questions raised by the emergence of film at the end of the nineteenth century, inquiring into the ontological nature of both reality and film. Yet the nature of this audio-photographic and moving reproduction of reality constitutes an ontological puzzle, which has widely been disregarded as a main line of enquiry with direct consequences for philosophy. Regarding this background, this volume brings together the best papers from the Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking Reality and Time through Film, held in 2014. What they all have in common is the discussion of new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. Whether by philosophizing through concrete examples of films or whether looking at film’s ontological reliance on time and image, or its intra-active entanglement with reality or truth, this book explores grasp film’s nature philosophically, and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker, as well as for the freshman fascinated by film for philosophical reasons.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838716967

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Luchino Visconti by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the stifling culture of Fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front. Back in his native country in the 40s he was one of the founders of the neo-realist movement. In 1954, with Senso, he turned his hand to a historical spectacular. The result was both glorious to look at and a profound reinterpretation of history. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960) he returned to his neo-realist roots and in The Leopard (1963), with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon, he made the first truly international film. He scored a further success with Death in Venice (1971), a sensitive adaptation of Thomas Mann's story about a writer (in the film, a musician) whose world is devastated when he falls in love with a young boy. A similar homo-erotic theme haunts Ludwig (1973), a bio-pic about the King of Bavaria who prefers art to politics and the company of stableboys to the princess he is supposed to marry. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's classic study of the director was first published in 1967 and revised in 1973. It is now updated to include the last three films that Visconti made before his death, together with some reflections on the 'auteur' theory of which the original edition was a key example.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405153348

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Auteurs and Authorship by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces Includes numerous student features, such as a general editor’s introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed features Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi

Author : Edward Branigan,Warren Buckland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136472633

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory by Edward Branigan,Warren Buckland Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first. When first encountering film theory, students are often confronted with a dense, interlocking set of texts full of arcane terminology, inexact formulations, sliding definitions, and abstract generalities. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory challenges these first impressions by aiming to make film theory accessible and open to new readers. Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland have commissioned over 50 scholars from around the globe to address the difficult formulations and propositions in each theory by reducing these difficult formulations to straightforward propositions. The result is a highly accessible volume that clearly defines, and analyzes step by step, many of the fundamental concepts in film theory, ranging from familiar concepts such as ‘Apparatus’, ‘Gaze’, ‘Genre’, and ‘Identification’, to less well-known and understood, but equally important concepts, such as Alain Badiou’s ‘Inaesthetics’, Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Time-Image’, and Jean-Luc Nancy’s ‘Evidence’. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an ideal reference book for undergraduates of film studies, as well as graduate students new to the discipline.

Author : Niels Niessen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438477336

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Miraculous Realism by Niels Niessen Pdf

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century. At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L’humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this “miracle” of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessenidentifies a transregional film movement in the French-Belgian border region—the Cinéma du Nord or “cinema of the North.” He examines this movement within the contexts of French and Belgian national cinemas from the silent era to the digital age, as well as that of the new realist tendency in world cinema of the last three decades. In addition, he traces, from a northern perspective, a secular-religious tradition in Francophone-European film and philosophy from Bresson and Pialat, via Bazin, Deleuze, and Godard, to the Dardennes and Dumont, while critiquing this tradition for its frequent use of a humanist vocabulary of grace for a secular world. Once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the Franco-Belgian Nord faced economic crisis for most of the twentieth century. Miraculous Realism demonstrates that the Cinéma du Nord’s rise to prominence resulted from the region’s endeavor to reinvent itself economically and culturally at the crossroads of Europe after decades of recession. “This book not only makes a major contribution to the field but also creates a new area in this field: the opening up of discussion of the Cinéma du Nord in geopolitical, historical, and theoretical terms, through a blend of fine close reading and broader commentary.” — Sarah Cooper, author of The Soul of Film Theory