The End Of Cinema

Author : André Gaudreault,Philippe Marion
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 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?

Author : Chris Gehman,Steve Reinke
Publisher : YYZ Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0920397328

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The Sharpest Point by Chris Gehman,Steve Reinke Pdf

Editors Chris Gehman and Steve Reinke bring together a collection of critical essays and artists' projects that is indispensable to anyone who, in this new digital era, has begun to question the modern cinematic experience.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780198701774

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The History of Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Pdf

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith defines the field of cinema, and explores its fascinating history within the cultural and aesthetic sphere. Considering the influences of the other art forms from which it arose, he looks at how technological advances have opened up new horizons for the cinema industry.

Author : Richard John Neupert
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325254

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The End by Richard John Neupert Pdf

Given the importance that spectators grant to the final moments of a motion picture, it is surprising to find so little written on how films end and how audiences interpret those closing moments. This study investigates endings in film and the lively role they play in how and why viewers make sense of movies. Relying upon contemporary literary criticism and film theory, the author analyses narrative strategies in films ranging from the classical Hollywood motion picture to the more modern European art cinema. To assist readers in understanding the various functions of endings, the films are divided into four critical categories: the "Closed Text" film, typical of classical works; the "Open Story" films; the "Open Discourse" film; and the "Open Text" film which struggles to defy story resolution. Detailed textual analysis of sample films reveal how all of the devices of filmic narration - from "mise-en-scene" to soundtracks - direct a viewer's perception, comprehension and interpretation of closure in films. Among the sample films that are featured as test cases for studying endings are "The Quiet Man" (Ford, 1950), "The 400 Blows" (Truffaut, 1959), "Weekend" (Godard, 1967), "Tout va bien" (Godard, 1972), and "Earth" (Dovzhenko, 1930). To round out his informative study of endings in films, Neupert also examines a host of diverse titles, including "Do the Right Thing" (Lee, 1989), "Open City" (Rossellini, 1945) and "The Graduate" (Nichols, 1967).

Author : Gene Youngblood
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823287437

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Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood Pdf

Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long considered the bible for media artists, Youngblood’s insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today’s hypermediated digital world. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author that offers conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world. A unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s, this far- ranging study traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. Vast in scope, its prescient formulations include “the paleocybernetic age,” “intermedia,” the “artist as design scientist,” the “artist as ecologist,” “synaesthetics and kinesthetics,” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis.” Outstanding works are analyzed in detail. Methods of production are meticulously described, including interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette. An inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R. Buckminster Fuller—a perfectly cut gem of countercultural thinking in itself—places Youngblood’s radical observations in comprehensive perspective. Providing an unparalleled historical documentation, Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later. The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication.

Author : Priya Jaikumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822337932

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Cinema at the End of Empire by Priya Jaikumar Pdf

DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s./div

Author : Alexander Zahlten
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372462

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The End of Japanese Cinema by Alexander Zahlten Pdf

In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Author : David Annan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Disaster films
ISBN : 0856471011

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Catastrophe by David Annan Pdf

Author : John Reich
Publisher : Open SUNY Textbooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942341474

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Exploring Movie Construction and Production by John Reich Pdf

Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students¿ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814751602

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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.

Author : André Gaudreault
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252078057

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Film and Attraction by André Gaudreault Pdf

An important reexamination of early film history, translated from the French for the first time.

Author : Dominique Chateau,Jos Moure
Publisher : Key Debates - Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 946372723X

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Post-Cinema by Dominique Chateau,Jos Moure Pdf

Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent this novation represents a unitary current or multiple ways. The book proposes to integrate the post-cinema question within the post-art question in order to study the new way of making filmic images in new conditions more or less remote from the dispositif of the theater and in closer relationship with contemporary art. The issue will be considered at three levels: the impression of post-art on "regular" films; the "relocation" (Cassetti) of the same films that can be seen using devices of all kinds, in conditions more or less remote from the dispositif of the theater; parallel to the integration of contemporary art in "regular" cinema, the integration of cinema into contemporary art in all kinds of forms of creation and exhibition.

Author : Bill Nichols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780393934915

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Engaging Cinema by Bill Nichols Pdf

In what ways do films influence and interact with society? What social forces determine the kinds of movies that get made? How do movies reinforce—and sometimes overturn—social norms? As societies evolve, do the films that were once considered ‘great’ slip into obscurity? Which ones? Why? These questions, and many others like them, represent the mainstream of scholarly film studies today. In Engaging Cinema, Bill Nichols offers the first book for introductory film students that tackles these topics head-on. Published in a handy 'trade paperback' format, Engaging Cinema is inexpensive and utterly unique in the field—a perfect complement to or replacement for standard film texts.

Author : André Gaudreault,Nicolas Dulac,Santiago Hidalgo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781444332315

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A Companion to Early Cinema by André Gaudreault,Nicolas Dulac,Santiago Hidalgo Pdf

An authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault Caters to renewed interest in film studies’ historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context