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Steampunk Film

Robbie McAllister
Steampunk Film Book PDF

Author : Robbie McAllister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501331237

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Steampunk Film by Robbie McAllister Pdf

Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction is a concise and accessible overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridize and coalesce into new forms. Since the beginning of the 21st century, a series of high-profile and big-budget films have adopted steampunk identities to re-imagine periods of industrial development into fantastical histories where future meets past. By calling this growing mass-cultural fetishism for anachronistic machines into question, this book examines how a retro-futuristic romanticism for technology powered by cogs, pistons and steam-engines has taken center stage in blockbuster cinema. As the first monograph to consider cinema's unique relationship with steampunk, it places this burgeoning genre in the context of ongoing debates within film theory: each of which reflecting the movement's remarkable interest in reengineering historical technologies. Rather than acting as a niche subculture, Robbie McAllister argues that steampunk's proliferation in mainstream filmmaking reflects a desire to reassess contemporary relationships with technology and navigate the intense changes that the medium itself is experiencing in the 21st century.

Steampunk Film

Robbie McAllister
Steampunk Film Book PDF

Author : Robbie McAllister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501331220

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Steampunk Film by Robbie McAllister Pdf

Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction is a concise and accessible overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridize and coalesce into new forms. Since the beginning of the 21st century, a series of high-profile and big-budget films have adopted steampunk identities to re-imagine periods of industrial development into fantastical histories where future meets past. By calling this growing mass-cultural fetishism for anachronistic machines into question, this book examines how a retro-futuristic romanticism for technology powered by cogs, pistons and steam-engines has taken center stage in blockbuster cinema. As the first monograph to consider cinema's unique relationship with steampunk, it places this burgeoning genre in the context of ongoing debates within film theory: each of which reflecting the movement's remarkable interest in reengineering historical technologies. Rather than acting as a niche subculture, Robbie McAllister argues that steampunk's proliferation in mainstream filmmaking reflects a desire to reassess contemporary relationships with technology and navigate the intense changes that the medium itself is experiencing in the 21st century.

Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism

Anonim
Neo Victorianism and Medievalism Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004688353

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Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism by Anonim Pdf

Bringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For example, aesthetic movements such as Arts and Crafts, which looked for inspiration in the medieval era, are echoed by steampunk in its return to Victorian dress and technology. Issues of gender identity, sexuality, imperialism and nostalgia arise in both neo-Victorianism and medievalism, and analysis of such texts is enriched and expanded by the interconnections between the two fields represented in this groundbreaking collection.

Deleuze and Film

David Martin-Jones
Deleuze and Film Book PDF

Author : David Martin-Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748647460

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Deleuze and Film by David Martin-Jones Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about topics like history, national identity, geopolitics, ethics, gender, genre, affect, religion, surveillance culture, digital aesthetics and the body. Mapping the global diversity of this cinematic thinking, this book greatly expands upon the range of films discussed in Deleuze's Cinema books.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas

J. P. Telotte,Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies J P Telotte
The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas Book PDF

Author : J. P. Telotte,Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies J P Telotte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Science fiction films
ISBN : 9780197557723

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The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas by J. P. Telotte,Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies J P Telotte Pdf

"For the contemporary film audience, science fiction has become a key locus for displaying-and imaginatively addressing-its most pressing concerns. Those concerns increasingly surface not just as displaced subjects, injected into conventional sf narratives, but as inflections in the very nature of the genre. We might describe these issues that bulk so large in our everyday world as angling into the world of science and technology, becoming a kind of slant presence in the genre, and in the process altering the thrust of our sf films and other screen media, resulting in what seems like a proliferation of sub-genre labels that mark off a substantially "new" group of sf cinemas. These cinemas challenge us to view or "read" them differently, from perspectives that are just coming into focus. Through an introductory overview and series of articles on various of these contemporary "slants" and the theories that drive them, this volume offers a guide to both what the new sf cinemas are about and how we have come to think about or "read" them differently. In the process, it also links these fragments of the constantly growing sf supertext to our changing sense of how genres function as a process, marked by consistent growth and evolution, and discussed in ways that reflect contemporary culture's own constant changes"--

Steampunk

Henry Winchester
Steampunk Book PDF

Author : Henry Winchester
Publisher : Gothic Dreams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Art and design
ISBN : 1783611227

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Steampunk by Henry Winchester Pdf

Imagine a world where steam is the main source of power, but the attitudes are distinctly futuristic - the romance of the past meets the technology of the future. Steampunk is a subculture on the rise, an exciting mix of adventure and sci fi in a world full of cogs and rivets, goggles and corsets. Influenced by the worlds created by H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, Steampunk has grown into a movement encompassing fashion, art, movies, literature and even music. Films such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen catapulted steampunk to the big screen, whilst events have sprung up all over the world in which fans create magnificent costumes and put steampunk twists on modern devices. As you read this exciting new book, enjoy a stunning selection of artworks portraying the ecstatic fantasy of steam-powered worlds.

The Steampunk Handbook

Phoebe Darqueling
The Steampunk Handbook Book PDF

Author : Phoebe Darqueling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734729805

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The Steampunk Handbook by Phoebe Darqueling Pdf

Author and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Find out more about the history of the genre, the cultural underpinnings that inspire it, and recommendations for books, television, and movies.

100 Animated Feature Films

Andrew Osmond
100 Animated Feature Films Book PDF

Author : Andrew Osmond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839024443

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100 Animated Feature Films by Andrew Osmond Pdf

20 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today, though, they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville Rendez-Vous; the eye-popping violence of Japan's Akira; and the stop-motion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features, with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day. Blending in-depth history and criticism, 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. This revised and updated new edition addresses films that have been released since publication of the first edition, such as the mainstream hits Frozen, The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse, as well as updated entries on franchises such as the Toy Story movies. It also covers bittersweet indy visions such as Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day, Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, Isao Takahata's Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the family saga The Wolf Children and the popular blockbuster Your Name. Osmond's wide-ranging selection also takes in the Irish fantasy Song of the Sea, France's I Lost My Body and Spain's Chico & Rita. Osmond's authoritative and entertaining entries combine with a contextualising introduction and key filmographic information to provide an essential guide to animated film.

Jules Verne Lives!

Gary Westfahl
Jules Verne Lives Book PDF

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476648682

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Jules Verne Lives! by Gary Westfahl Pdf

This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne's work, assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk, the Verne-inspired science fiction subgenre that has influenced writers like Philip Jose Farmer, Caleb Carr and Adam Roberts.

Steampunk

Brian J. Robb
Steampunk Book PDF

Author : Brian J. Robb
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076034891X

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Steampunk by Brian J. Robb Pdf

A gorgeously illustrated history of the literary, film, and arts counterculture--now in paperback! Simultaneously a literary movement, ultra-hip subculture, and burgeoning cottage industry, steampunk is the most influential new genre to emerge from the late twentieth century. Spinning tales populated with clockwork leviathans, cannon shots to the moon, and coal-fired robots, it charts alternative histories in which the British Empire never fell and the atom remained unsplit. Spectacularly illustrated and international in scope, this comprehensive history explores steampunk's many intricate expressions in fiction, cinema, television, comics, and video games, and traces its evolution into a truly global aesthetic that has made its mark on art, architecture, fashion, and music. From the classic science-fiction of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Mary Shelley, through the dystopian futurescapes of Cyberpunk, to the otherworldly imaginings of Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore, and China Miéville, author Brian J. Robb sets the key works of steampunk squarely under the lens of his brass monocle and ventures into a world where airships still rule the skies.

Anime

Rayna Denison
Anime Book PDF

Author : Rayna Denison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472576767

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Anime by Rayna Denison Pdf

Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's dominant genre-brand of plucky shojo (young girl) characters, this book charts the rise of anime as a globally significant category of animation. It further thinks through the differences between anime's local and global genres: from the less-considered niches like nichijo-kei (everyday style anime) through to the global popularity of science fiction anime, this book tackles the tensions between the markets and audiences for anime texts. Anime is consequently understood in this book as a complex cultural phenomenon: not simply a “genre,” but as an always shifting and changing set of texts. Its inherent changeability makes anime an ideal contender for global dissemination, as it can be easily re-edited, translated and then newly understood as it moves through the world's animation markets. As such, Anime: A Critical Introduction explores anime through a range of debates that have emerged around its key film texts, through discussions of animation and violence, through debates about the cyborg and through the differences between local and global understandings of anime products. Anime: A Critical Introduction uses these debates to frame a different kind of understanding of anime, one rooted in contexts, rather than just texts. In this way, Anime: A Critical Introduction works to create a space in which we can rethink the meanings of anime as it travels around the world.

Action Horror Movies

Laura Cremonini
Action Horror Movies Book PDF

Author : Laura Cremonini
Publisher : Self-Publish
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Action Horror Movies by Laura Cremonini Pdf

Action horror is subgenre combining the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage of horror movies with the weapon fights and frenetic chases of the action genre. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical action-horror films include gore, demons, aliens, vicious animals, vampires, and, most commonly, zombies. This category also fuses the fantasy genre. Examples include: Aliens, Predator, Dog Soldiers, Blade, From Dusk till Dawn, I Saw the Devil, Resident Evil, Feast, Train to Busan, The Purge series, and Upgrade. This book is the assembly of various texts that are freely available on the web, especially from Wikipedia. The next obvious question is: why buy this book? The answer: because it means you avoid having to carry out long and tedious internet searches. The topics are all linked to each other organically, and as a function of the subject and, in most cases, contain additional unpublished topics, not found on the web. Moreover, the inclusion of images completes the work so as to make it unique and unrepeatable. Contents of the book: Aliens, Arachnicide, Blade, Blood: The Last Vampire, The Cat, Day Watch, The Era of Vampires, Faust: Love of the Damned, Frankenstein's Army, From Dusk till Dawn, The Host, House on Willow Street, Intensive Care, I Saw the Devil, Land of the Dead, Revenge, Santo contra el cerebro diabolico, Satan Returns, Snake Island, Train to Busan, Vampire Controller, Violent Shit III, WolfCop, Action horror films by country: American action horror films, Australian action horror films, British action horror films, German action horror films, Indian action horror films, Japanese action horror films, Philippine action horror films.

Vintage Tomorrows

James H. Carrott,Brian David Johnson
Vintage Tomorrows Book PDF

Author : James H. Carrott,Brian David Johnson
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781449337957

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Vintage Tomorrows by James H. Carrott,Brian David Johnson Pdf

What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that’s captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world. Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk’s vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology. Steampunk is everywhere—as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.

Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man

Mark J. Boone,Kevin C. Neece
Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man Book PDF

Author : Mark J. Boone,Kevin C. Neece
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498232357

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Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man by Mark J. Boone,Kevin C. Neece Pdf

The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis's masterpiece in ethics and the philosophy of science, warns of the danger of combining modern moral skepticism with the technological pursuit of human desires. The end result is the final destruction of human nature. From Brave New World to Star Trek, from steampunk to starships, science fiction film has considered from nearly every conceivable angle the same nexus of morality, technology, and humanity of which C. S. Lewis wrote. As a result, science fiction film has unintentionally given us stunning depictions of Lewis's terrifying vision of the future. In Science Fiction Film and the Abolition of Man, scholars of religion, philosophy, literature, and film explore the connections between sci-fi film and the three parts of Lewis's book: how sci-fi portrays "Men without Chests" incapable of responding properly to moral good, how it teaches the Tao or "The Way," and how it portrays "The Abolition of Man."

The British Horror Film

Ian Fryer
The British Horror Film Book PDF

Author : Ian Fryer
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The British Horror Film by Ian Fryer Pdf

2017 is the 60th anniversary of the release of Hammer’s first Gothic horror film and the birth of the British horror genre: The Curse of FrankensteinA complete guide to a perennially and hugely popular British movie genreAn ideal read for anyone from the interested newcomer to the experienced film buffFeatures popular British stars such as Boris Karloff, Sir Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Simon Pegg When Hammer broke box office records in 1957 with The Curse of Frankenstein, the company not only resurrected the Gothic horror film, but created a particularly British-flavoured form of horror that swept the world. The British Horror Film from the Silent to the Multiplex is your guide to the films, actors and filmmakers who have thrilled and terrified generations of movie fans. In one book, you will find the literary and cinematic roots of the genre to the British films made by film legends such as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff to Hammer’s triumphs starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and the post-Hammer horrors such as Peter Walker’s Frightmare and huge British-made successes, including Alien and the zombie craze of the 21st century. The history, films, stars, directors and studios, all in one fascinating, fun and fact-filled volume. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned gorehound, you will find everything you ever wanted to know about the British horror movie, but were too bone-chillingly afraid to ask.