The British Art Cinema 1938 2008

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 3832537597

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The British Art Cinema, 1938-2008 by Bert Cardullo Pdf

This is a collection of essays and interviews on the British art cinema as it emerged particularly in the post-World War II period and prospered until the turn of the twenty-first century--when Internet piracy began to put more and more pressure on producers and directors to make strictly commercial, international, blockbuster-style films that could turn a huge profit within the first few weeks of their release. The British Art Cinema, 1938-2008 includes eighteen review/essays and six interviews, an extensive bibliography, film credits as well as directors' filmographies, and numerous illustrative film stills. Directors treated in this book include John Schlesinger, Jack Clayton, Derek Jarman, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, David Hare, Peter Greenaway, Terence Davies, Kenneth Branagh, and Danny Boyle. Among the films discussed are Room at the Top, Pygmalion, How I Won the War, Secrets and Lies, The Remains of the Day, Henry V, Trainspotting, The Comfort of Strangers, Sid and Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

Author : Ian MacKillop,Neil Sinyard
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0719064899

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British Cinema in the 1950's by Ian MacKillop,Neil Sinyard Pdf

Covering a variety of genres, such as war films and women's pictures, as well as social issues which affect film-making, this is a re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film industry.

Author : David Andrews
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292747760

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Theorizing Art Cinemas by David Andrews Pdf

The term “art cinema” has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d’art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what “art cinema” is. Turning the traditional, highbrow notion of art cinema on its head, Theorizing Art Cinemas takes a flexible, inclusive approach that views art cinema as a predictable way of valuing movies as “art” movies—an activity that has occurred across film history and across film subcultures—rather than as a traditional genre in the sense of a distinct set of forms or a closed historical period or movement. David Andrews opens with a history of the art cinema “super-genre” from the early days of silent movies to the postwar European invasion that brought Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and the New German Cinema to the forefront and led to the development of auteur theory. He then discusses the mechanics of art cinema, from art houses, film festivals, and the academic discipline of film studies, to the audiences and distribution systems for art cinema as a whole. This wide-ranging approach allows Andrews to develop a theory that encompasses both the high and low ends of art cinema in all of its different aspects, including world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema. All of these art cinemas, according to Andrews, share an emphasis on quality, authorship, and anticommercialism, whether the film in question is film festival favorite or a midnight movie.

Author : Edward Carrick
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCAL:B4379916

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Art and Design in the British Film by Edward Carrick Pdf

Author : J. Tompkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137362124

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Theatre's Heterotopias by J. Tompkins Pdf

Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.

Author : Robert Knopf
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300210545

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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 by Robert Knopf Pdf

An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which elaborates on the play’s dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book foregrounds the avant-garde’s enduring influence on the development of modern theater.

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007067

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Histories of Dirt by Stephanie Newell Pdf

In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites’ own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.

Author : Michael L. Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786437719

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Art Directors in Cinema by Michael L. Stephens Pdf

Often forgotten among the actors, directors, producers and others associated with filmmaking, art directors are responsible for making movies visually appealing to audiences. As such they sometimes make the difference between a hit and a bomb. This biographical dictionary includes not only the world's great and almost-great artists, but the unjustly neglected film designers of the past and present. Among the more than 300 art directors and designers are pioneers from silent films, designers from Hollywood and Europe's Golden Ages, Asian figures, post-Golden Age personalities, leaders of the European and American New Waves, and many contemporary designers. Each entry consists of biographical information, an analysis of the director's career and important films, and an extensive filmography including mentions of Academy Award nominations and winners.

Author : Chris Pallant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628923506

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Animated Landscapes by Chris Pallant Pdf

Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of Animation Studying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris. But the focus on live-action cinema leaves a significant gap in studying animated films. With the almost total pervasiveness of animation today, this collection provides the reader with a greater sense of how the animated landscapes of the present relate to those of the past. Including essays from international perspectives, Animated Landscapes introduces an idea that has seemed, literally, to be in the background of animation studies. The collection provides a timely counterpoint to the dominance of character (be that either animated characters such as Mickey Mouse or real world personalities such as Walt Disney) that exists within animation scholarship (and film studies more generally). Chapters address a wide range of topics including history, case studies in national contexts (including Australia, Japan, China and Latvia), the traversal of animated landscape, the animation of fantastical landscapes, and the animation of interactive landscapes. Animated Landscapes promises to be an invaluable addition to the existing literature, for the most overlooked aspect of animation.

Author : Vincent Campbell,Paul Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315396767

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The British Media Industries by Vincent Campbell,Paul Smith Pdf

The British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent political, economic, and technological developments have had on the nature of media industries today. Split into two parts, this book starts by exploring approaches to understanding contemporary media industries through political, economic, and technological terms. The second part delves further into issues and practices relating to individual media industries including newspapers, magazines, film, television, music, video games, and social media. The book adopts a political economy approach and is designed to engage students in an accessible way with key issues around the ownership and control of different sectors of the British media; UK and EU government regulation of the media, including content regulation and market/economic regulation; and the corporate strategies employed by leading media players, such as the BBC, Netflix, Google, and Apple. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students approaching British media industries for the first time and will also be relevant to students undertaking introductory courses in Media Management and Media Economics.

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015054449163

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The British Cinema Book by Robert Murphy Pdf

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Author : Sarah Street
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715144

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Colour Films in Britain by Sarah Street Pdf

How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an exciting development – with scope for developing a uniquely British aesthetic – others were deeply concerned. How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films – which were commonly regarded as being superior to their garish colour counterparts – react? Yet despite this initial trepidation, colour captivated many British inventors and film-makers. Using different colour processes, these innovators produced films that demonstrated remarkable experimentation and quality. Sarah Street's illuminating study is the first to trace the history of colour in British cinema, and analyses the use of colour in a range of films, both fiction and non-fiction, including The Open Road, The Glorious Adventure, This is Colour, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Moulin Rouge. Beautifully illustrated with full colour film stills, this important study provides fascinating insights into the complex process whereby the challenges and opportunities of new technologies are negotiated within creative practice. The book also includes a Technical Appendix by Simon Brown (Kingston University, UK), which provides further details of the range of colour processes used by British film-makers.

Author : C. Warden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137020697

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British Avant-Garde Theatre by C. Warden Pdf

This book explores an under-researched body of work from the early decades of the twentieth century, connecting plays, performances and practitioners together in dynamic dialogues. Moving across national, generational and social borders, the book reads experiments in Britain during this period alongside theatrical innovations overseas.

Author : Doris Milberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455744

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World War II on the Big Screen by Doris Milberg Pdf

World War II has been an endlessly fertile film subject since the late 1930s-even before the United States entered combat. This sweeping study of Hollywood's depictions of the war, and of the motion picture industry during wartime, describes more than 450 films in roughly chronological order, while providing a historical perspective on the times and the events depicted. Included are such pictures as Casablanca, The Battle of Midway, Der Fuhrer's Face and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Author : Lisa Funnell,Man-Fung Yip
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317910251

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American and Chinese-Language Cinemas by Lisa Funnell,Man-Fung Yip Pdf

Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence of Chinese filmmakers, film stars, and aesthetics in Hollywood. The aim of this collection is to (re)consider the complex dynamics of transnational cultural flows between American and Chinese-language film industries. The goal is to bring a more historical perspective to the subject, focusing as much on the Hollywood influence on early Shanghai or postwar Hong Kong films as on the intensifying flows between American and Chinese-language cinemas in recent decades. Contributors emphasize the processes of appropriation and reception involved in transnational cultural practices, examining film production, distribution, and reception.