The Death Of Cinema

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718725

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The Death of Cinema by Paolo Cherchi Usai Pdf

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718732

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The Death of Cinema by Paolo Cherchi Usai Pdf

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

Author : B. Hagin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230275072

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Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema by B. Hagin Pdf

Boaz Hagin carries out a philosophical examination of the issue of death as it is represented and problematized in Hollywood cinema of the classical era (1920s-1950s) and in later mainstream films, looking at four major genres: the Western, the gangster film, melodrama and the war film.

Author : Asbjørn Grønstad
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789089640109

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Transfigurations by Asbjørn Grønstad Pdf

In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.

Author : Richard Armstrong
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786493142

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Mourning Films by Richard Armstrong Pdf

The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.

Author : Joe McElhaney
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791481110

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The Death of Classical Cinema by Joe McElhaney Pdf

A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.

Author : David Kerekes,David Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015062576833

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Killing for Culture by David Kerekes,David Slater Pdf

Author : André Gaudreault,Philippe Marion
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231539388

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The End of Cinema? by André Gaudreault,Philippe Marion Pdf

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. The authors begin with an overview of the extreme positions held by opposing camps in the debate over cinema: the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphiles" who celebrate its new, vital incarnation. Throughout, they remind readers that cinema has never been a static medium but a series of processes and transformations powering a dynamic art. From their perspective, the digital revolution is the eighth major crisis in the history of motion pictures, with more disruptions to come. Brokering a peace among all sides, Gaudreault and Marion emphasize the cultural practice of cinema over rigid claims on its identity, moving toward a common conception of cinema to better understand where it is headed next.

Author : D. Sullivan,J. Greenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137276896

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Death in Classic and Contemporary Film by D. Sullivan,J. Greenberg Pdf

Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781781681435

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Film After Film by J. Hoberman Pdf

One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Zia Jiangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception.

Author : Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel,Juliane House
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631814372

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Death in Children's Literature and Cinema, and Its Translation by Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel,Juliane House Pdf

This volume comprises studies on death in Spanish, British/American and German children's literature cinema and audiovisual fiction; several translations from English and German into the languages of Spain are analysed. Contributions show the historical development of this topic, and how it has enabled young readers to face death maturely.

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231165358

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The Cinema of Terry Gilliam by Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell Pdf

Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyses a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). This collection argues that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood caution and convention.

Author : Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813537986

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Visions of Paradise by Wheeler W. Dixon Pdf

Illustrated throughout with rare stills, and organized so as to provide historical context, this book surveys an array of films that have offered us glimpses of a life that is meaningful, free from strife, devoid of pain and privation, and full of harmony in every sense.

Author : Dominique Nasta
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231536691

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Contemporary Romanian Cinema by Dominique Nasta Pdf

Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006). However, the hundred or so years of Romanian cinema leading to these accomplishments have been largely overlooked. This book is the first to provide in-depth analyses of essential works ranging from the silent period to contemporary productions. In addition to relevant information on historical and cultural factors influencing contemporary Romanian cinema, this volume covers the careers of daring filmmakers who approached various genres despite fifty years of Communist censorship. An important chapter is dedicated to Lucian Pintilie, whose seminal work, Reconstruction (1969), strongly inspired Romania's 21st-century innovative output. The book's second half closely examines both the 'minimalist' trend (Cristian Mungiu, Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Radu Muntean) and the younger, but no less inspired, directors who have chosen to go beyond the 1989 revolution paradigm by dealing with the complexities of contemporary Romania.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745318797

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The End of Cinema as We Know it by Jon Lewis Pdf

In The End of Cinema As We Know It, contributors well known in the 'movie' field talk about the movie industry and look at the variety of new ways we are viewing films. They query whether or not we are getting different, better movies?