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The Cinema of Discomfort

Geoff King
The Cinema of Discomfort Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501359286

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How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences – or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome – The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional responses we are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes controversial, characters or events. The Cinema of Discomfort examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film.

Cinema, Pain and Pleasure

Steven Allen
Cinema Pain and Pleasure Book PDF

Author : Steven Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137306692

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From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change.

Positioning Art Cinema

Geoff King
Positioning Art Cinema Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786725561

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Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what kinds of cultural value are attributed to films of this type and how can this be explained? This book offers a unique analysis of how such processes work, including the broader cultural basis of the appeal of art cinema to particular audiences. Geoff King argues that there is no single definition of art cinema, but a number of distinct and recurrent tendencies are identified. At one end of the spectrum are films accorded the most 'heavyweight' status, offering the greatest challenges to viewers. Others mix aspects of art cinema with more accessible dimensions such as uses of popular genre frameworks and 'exploitation' elements involving explicit sex and violence. Including case studies of key figures such as Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, this is a crucial contribution to understanding both art cinema itself and the discourses through which its value is established.

Cinema Off Screen

Chenshu Zhou
Cinema Off Screen Book PDF

Author : Chenshu Zhou
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520343382

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At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown. Cinema Off Screen advances the idea that cinema takes place off screen as much as on screen by exploring film exhibition in China from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Drawing on original archival research, interviews, and audience recollections, Cinema Off Screen decenters the filmic text and offers a study of institutional operations and lived experiences. Chenshu Zhou details how the screening space, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema in ways that have not been fully recognized, opening new conceptual avenues for rethinking the ever-changing institution of cinema.

Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema

Anna Morcom
Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema Book PDF

Author : Anna Morcom
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754651983

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Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by Anna Morcom Pdf

Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated popular culture in South Asia and the diaspora and more recently gained popularity in Russia, the Middle East, parts of Africa, Britain and the US. Anna Morcom examines Hindi f

American Independent Cinema

Geoff King
American Independent Cinema Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857737335

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American Independent Cinema by Geoff King Pdf

The independent sector has produced many of the most distinctive films to have appeared in the US in recent decades. From 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' in the 1980s to 'The Blair Witch Project' and New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and the ultra-low budget digital video features of the 2000s, indie films have thrived, creating a body of work that stands out from the dominant Hollywood mainstream. But what exactly is 'independent' cinema? This, the first book to examine the question in detail, argues that independence can be defined partly in industry terms but also according to formal and aesthetic strategies and by distinctive attitudes towards social and political issues, suggesting that independence is a dynamic rather than a fixed quality. Chapters focus on distribution and relationships with Hollywood studios; narrative ('Clerks' and 'Slacker' to 'Pulp Fiction', 'Magnolia' and 'Memento') and other formal dimensions (from 'Blair Witch's' 'authenticity' to expressive and stylized camerawork and editing in work from Harmony Korine to the Coen brothers); approaches to genre and alternative socio-political visions.

New Hollywood Cinema

Geoff King
New Hollywood Cinema Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857731050

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New Hollywood Cinema by Geoff King Pdf

New Hollywood extends from the radical gestures of the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster. Geoff King covers new Hollywood dynamically and accessibly in this thoroughly modern introductory text. He discusses diverse films as well as the film-makers and film companies, focusing on the interactions between the film texts, their social contexts and the industry producing them. Using examples across Hollywood and its genres, King reveals how the positions of studios within media conglomerates, together with the impact of television, advertising and franchising on the New Hollywood, shape the form and content of the films.

Staging Discomfort

Bretton White
Staging Discomfort Book PDF

Author : Bretton White
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401810

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This visionary volume examines how queer bodies are theatrically represented on the Cuban stage in ways that challenge one of the state’s primary revolutionary tools, the categorization and homogenization of individuals. Bretton White critically analyzes contemporary performances that upset traditional understandings of performer and spectator, as well as what constitutes the ideal Cuban citizenry. Following the 1959 revolution, nonconformists were monitored and reported by local committees and punished or reformed by the government. Censorship was rampant, and Cuban art suffered as the state tried to control the national message. Through the lens of queer theory, White explores how the body has been central to the state’s fear-based marginalization of gay life and looks at the ways these theatrical performances defuse that fear. She highlights the revolutionary model of masculinity and the role it plays in excluding people based upon visible queer difference. White finds that, through experimental performances of sexuality, actors create connections with audiences to evoke shared feelings of discomfort, intimacy, shame, longing, frustration, and failure, which echo the prevalence of these feelings in other Cuban spaces. By performing queerness, these plays question the state’s narrative of heteronormativity and empower citizens to negotiate alternative understandings of Cuban identity.

Quality Hollywood

Geoff King
Quality Hollywood Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857728852

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Quality Hollywood by Geoff King Pdf

What defines 'quality' in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Mystic River are marked as distinctive from the mainstream norm. But how exactly, and how are such qualities mixed with more familiar Hollywood ingredients, as found in larger doses in other examples such as Blood Diamond and the blockbuster-scale Inception? Quality Hollywood is the first book to address these issues, featuring close analysis of case study films, critical responses and the wider notions of cultural value on which these draw. Geoff King argues that such films retain a presence as a minority strand of studio output. The reasons for this combine factors relating to economics, the power of certain filmmakers and Hollywood's investment in its own prestige.

Indie 2.0

Geoff King
Indie 2 0 Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Independent filmmakers
ISBN : 1848853173

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Indie 2.0 by Geoff King Pdf

What is the state of American indie cinema in the second decade of the 21st century? Using the term 'indie 2.0' to denote the particular form of independent feature production that achieved cultural prominence in this contemporary period, this book demonstrates many of the distinctive indie productions which have achieved success, in even the face of difficult economic circumstances.

Feel-Bad Film

Nikolaj Luebecker
Feel Bad Film Book PDF

Author : Nikolaj Luebecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748698004

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Feel-Bad Film by Nikolaj Luebecker Pdf

An analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort

Discomfort and Joy

Jonathan Murray
Discomfort and Joy Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Murray
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039113917

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Filmmaker Bill Forsyth is one of the most important and fondly regarded of all living Scottish artists. His filmmaking career, beginning with That Sinking Feeling (1979), paved the way for the emergence of an indigenous Scottish cinema. It also established Forsyth as one of the most distinctive and original voices in late twentieth-century European film. This book offers the first integrated and comprehensive study of the director's complete oeuvre. Through extended textual analysis and contextual discussion of each of Forsyth's eight features, it traces the key formal and thematic characteristics of a remarkable career, one which encompasses both three-figure production budgets in Glasgow and multi-million-dollar adventures in the heart of Hollywood. The book also uses Forsyth's films to explore the diverse range of film industrial contexts the director has worked within. Most importantly, it sheds light upon the hitherto under-documented zero-budget travails of 1970s Scotland and inflated expectations of early-1980s British film.

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Frederick Luis Aldama,Herbert S. Lindenberger
Aesthetics of Discomfort Book PDF

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama,Herbert S. Lindenberger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053001

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Aesthetics of Discomfort by Frederick Luis Aldama,Herbert S. Lindenberger Pdf

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900—the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya’s so-called “black” paintings, in Wagner’s Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othello. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on—especially in aesthetically challenging works—between creator, artifact, and consumer.

Spectacular Narratives

Geoff King
Spectacular Narratives Book PDF

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857716972

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What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Titanic or Mission Impossible. But they also offer other appeals, including the dynamics of narrative. Spectacular Narratives is the first serious book-length treatment of the contemporary blockbuster, including the digital-effects-based spectacle, space fictions, the action film, war spectaculars, the recent wave of disaster movies and films evoking new technologies such as virtual reality. Consideration is also given to the impact of profitable spin-offs such as film-related theme park rides and computer games. Geoff King argues against the view that an emphasis on the spectacular has led to an erosion of the importance of narrative in Hollywood. Instead, he suggests, even the most spectacular and effects-led contemporary blockbuster offers a blend of appeals, mixing elements of spectacle and narrative. Narrative is explored at the levels of both linear story-telling and underlying thematic patterns, a particular emphasis being placed on the persistence of elements of the myth/ideology of the American frontier. Close textual analysis is combined with consideration of the industrial and social contexts of contemporary Hollywood in a readable, original and rewarding book on the cinema that dominates markets across the globe.

Eventown

Corey Ann Haydu
Eventown Book PDF

Author : Corey Ann Haydu
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062689849

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Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu Pdf

Kirkus Best Books of 2019 * Kids’ Indie Next Pick List * Bookpage Best Books of 2019: Middle Grade “Beautiful, mysterious and deeply satisfying.” —Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me and Goodbye Stranger The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it’s impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee’s mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to try. Everyone takes the scenic way to school or work—past rows of rosebushes and unexpected waterfalls. On blueberry-picking field trips, every berry is perfectly ripe. Sure, there are a few odd rules, and the houses all look exactly alike, but it’s easy enough to explain—until Elodee realizes that there are only three ice cream flavors in Eventown. Ever. And they play only one song in music class. Everything may be “even” in Eventown, but is there a price to pay for perfection—and pretending? “Engrossing.” —New York Times Book Review “Enchanting, heart-rending, and bittersweet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An emotionally complex and wonderfully told story.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Thought-provoking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)