The Cinema Of The Low Countries

Author : Ernest Mathijs
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764002

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Films from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have long been regarded as isolated texts. The Cinema of the Low Countries points to the interconnectedness between these national cinemas from the point of view of genre, language and format, and their local and international importance by explicitly focusing on 24 key feature films and documentaries from the region. Building on each film's relationship with its particular cultural context, this volume presents twenty-four specially commissioned essays that explore the particular significance and influence of a wide range of exemplary films. Covering the work of internationally acclaimed directors such as Joris Ivens, Henri Stock, Paul Verhoeven and the Dardenne Brothers and featuring the films Turkish Delight, The Vanishing, Daughters of Darkness, Rosetta, Soldiers of Orange and Man Bites Dog, this collection offers an original approach to the appreciation of a diverse and increasingly important regional cinema.

Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Gerdi Quist,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634301

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Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000 by Jane Fenoulhet,Gerdi Quist,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

All countries, regions and institutions are ultimately built on a degree of consensus, on a collective commitment to a concept, belief or value system. This consensus is continuously rephrased and reinvented through a narrative of cohesion and challenged by expressions of discontent and discord. The history of the Low Countries is characterised by both a striving for consensus and eruptions of discord, both internally and from external challenges. This interdisciplinary volume explores consensus and discord in a Low Countries context along broad cultural, linguistic and historical lines. Disciplines represented include early-modern and contemporary history; art history; film; literature; and translation scholars from both the Low Countries and beyond.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Sarah de Mul
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739164280

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The Postcolonial Low Countries by Elleke Boehmer,Sarah de Mul Pdf

The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain. In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial 'readymades' as hybridity, accommodation and creolization. Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arts
ISBN : PSU:000030597150

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Author : Stichting Ons Erfdeel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 07795815

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Author : Michael Baumgartner,Ewelina Boczkowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315298436

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Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War by Michael Baumgartner,Ewelina Boczkowska Pdf

In the wake of World War II, the arts and culture of Europe became a site where the devastating events of the 20th century were remembered and understood. Exploring one of the most integral elements of the cinematic experience—music—the essays in this volume consider the numerous ways in which post-war European cinema dealt with memory, trauma and nostalgia, showing how the music of these films shaped the representation of the past. The contributors consider films from the United Kingdom, Poland, the Soviet Union, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands, providing a diverse and well-rounded understanding of film music in the context of historical memory. Memory is often underrepresented within scholarly musical studies, with most of these applications found in the disciplines of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music cognition, and psychology and music therapy. Likewise, trauma has mainly been studied in relation to music in only a few historical contexts, while nostalgia has attracted even less academic attention. In three parts, this volume addresses each area of study as it relates to the music of European cinema from 1945 to 1989, applying an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how films use music to negotiate the precarious relationships we maintain with the past. Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War offers compelling arguments as to what makes music such a powerful medium for memory, trauma and nostalgia.

Author : Jamie Steele
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9781474420778

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Francophone Belgian Cinema by Jamie Steele Pdf

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms. Alongside the Dardenne brothers, this book considers four promising Francophone Belgian filmmakers who have received limited critical attention in academic publications on contemporary European cinema: Joachim Lafosse, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Lucas Belvaux and Bouli Lanners. Exploring these filmmakers' themes of post-industrialism, paternalism, the fractured nuclear family and spatial dynamics, as well as their work in the more commercial road movie and polar genres, Jamie Steele analyses their stylistic continuities and filiation. This is complemented by an analysis of how the industrial aspects of film production, distribution and exhibition contribute to the creation of both a regional and transnational cinema.

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764460

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The Cinema of France by Phil Powrie Pdf

An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).

Author : Peter Hames
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764207

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The Cinema of Central Europe by Peter Hames Pdf

Analysis of 24 films including: People of the mountains, Ashes and diamonds, Knife in the water, A shop on the high street, Closely observed trains, Daisies, Man of marble, Colonel Redl, The decalogue (Dekalog), Satantango, The garden, Alice (directed by Jan Svankmajer).

Author : Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438430157

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Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations by Hans Krabbendam,Cornelis A. van Minnen,Giles Scott-Smith Pdf

Since Henry Hudson landed on Manhattan in 1609, the peoples of the Netherlands and North America have been inextricably linked. Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, written by a team of nearly one hundred Dutch and American scholars, is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of this bilateral relationship. This volume covers the main paths of contacts, conflicts, and common plans, from the first exploratory contacts in the early seventeenth century to the intense and multifaceted exchanges in the early twenty-first. Based on the most up-to-date research, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations will be for years to come a valuable and much-used reference work for anyone interested in the history and culture of the United States and the Netherlands and the larger transatlantic interdependent framework in which they are embedded.

Author : Tytti Soila
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764223

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The Cinema of Scandinavia by Tytti Soila Pdf

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as "modern."

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764606

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The Cinema of Canada by Jerry White Pdf

Containing 24 essays, each on a different film, this work provides a fascinating historical account of the development of film and documentary traditions across the diverse national and regional communities in Canada.

Author : Alberto Elena,Marina Díaz López
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231501941

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The Cinema of Latin America by Alberto Elena,Marina Díaz López Pdf

The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin American cinema, a historically important regional cinema and one that is increasingly returning to popular and academic appreciation. Through 24 individual concise and insightful essays that each consider one significant film or documentary, the editors of this volume have compiled a unique introduction to the cinematic output of countries as diverse as Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile and Venezuala. The work of directors such as Luis Buñuel, Thomas Guiterrez Alea, Walter Salles, and Alfonso Arau is discussed and the collection includes in-depth studies of seminal works as such Los Olvidados, The Hour of the Furnaces, Like Water For Chocolate, Foreign Land, and Amoros Perros.

Author : Geoff Mayer,Keith Beattie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764967

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The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand by Geoff Mayer,Keith Beattie Pdf

From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book celebrates the commercially successful narrative feature films produced by these cultures as well as key documentaries, shorts, and independent films. It also invokes issues involving national identity, race, history, and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat of Hollywood. Chapters on well known films and directors, such as The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001), and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002), are included with less popular but equally important films and filmmakers, such as Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955), They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell, 1966), Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984), and The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law, 2000).

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 190476438X

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The Cinema of Britain and Ireland by Brian McFarlane Pdf

A fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films under discussion include 'Pink String and Sealing Wax', 'Room at the Top', 'The Italian Job', 'Orlando', and 'Sweet Sixteen'.