To Free The Cinema

Author : David E. James
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691219554

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To Free the Cinema by David E. James Pdf

Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into Mekas's career as a writer, filmdistributor, and film-maker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op (the major distribution center for independent film), his interaction with other artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. The contributors to this volume are Paul Arthur, Vyt Bakaitis, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, David Curtis, Richard Foreman, Tom Gunning, Bob Harris, J. Hoberman, David E. James, Marjorie Keller, Peter Kubelka, George Kuchar, Richard Leacock, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Scott Nygren, John Pruitt, Lauren Rabinovitz, Michael Renov, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, and Maureen Turim.

Author : Stephen Dwoskin
Publisher : Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015000367055

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Film is ... by Stephen Dwoskin Pdf

Author : Raymond Haberski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813172156

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Freedom to Offend by Raymond Haberski Pdf

In the postwar era, the lure of controversy sold movie tickets as much as the promise of entertainment did. In Freedom to Offend, Raymond J. Haberski Jr. investigates the movie culture that emerged as official censorship declined and details how the struggle to free the screen has influenced our contemporary understanding of art and taste. These conflicts over film content were fought largely in the theaters and courts of New York City in the decades following World War II. Many of the regulators and religious leaders who sought to ensure that no questionable content invaded the public consciousness were headquartered in New York, as were the critics, exhibitors, and activists who sought to expand the options available to moviegoers. Despite Hollywood’s dominance of film production, New York proved to be not only the arena for struggles over film content but also the market where the financial fates of movies were sealed. Advocates for a wider range of cinematic expression eventually prevailed against the forces of censorship, but Freedom to Offend is no simple homily on the triumph of freedom from repression. In his analysis of controversies surrounding films from The Bicycle Thief to Deep Throat, Haberski offers a cautionary tale about the responsible use of the twin privileges of free choice and free expression. In the libertine 1970s, arguments in favor of the public’s right to see challenging and artistic films were twisted to provide intellectual cover for movies created solely to lure viewers with outrageous or titillating material. Social critics who stood against this emerging trend were lumped in with the earlier crusaders for censorship, though their criticism was usually rational rather than moralistic in nature. Freedom to Offend calls attention to what was lost as well as what was gained when movie culture freed itself from the restrictions of the early postwar years. Haberski exposes the unquestioning defense of the doctrine of free expression as a form of absolutism that mirrors the censorial impulse found among the postwar era’s restrictive moral guardians. Beginning in New York and spreading across America throughout the twentieth century, the battles between these opposing worldviews set the stage for debates on the social effects of the work of artists and filmmakers.

Author : Haidee Wasson,Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520965263

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Cinema's Military Industrial Complex by Haidee Wasson,Lee Grieveson Pdf

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The army, navy, and air force put films to work in myriad ways, enlisting them to entertain, train, and heal soldiers as well as to propagandize, strategize, spy, map, and develop weapons, from rifles to atomic bombs. Presenting new essays based on archival research, Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex addresses the relationship of military cinema to Hollywood, technological innovation, new modes of filmmaking, unique film styles and genres, and the rise of American soft power across the long twentieth century. This rich and timely volume is essential for scholars interested in the military’s use of media and the exercise of influence within and beyond American borders.

Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810817144

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A Possible Cinema by Jim Leach Pdf

Examines the work of Alain Tanner, the most important filmmaker to emerge from the new Swiss cinema in the late 1960s.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415227399

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Cinema Studies by Susan Hayward Pdf

In this second edition essential guide some 150 key genres, movements, theories and production terms are explained and analysed with depth and clarity.

Author : Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474416856

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American Independent Cinema by Yannis Tzioumakis Pdf

A comparative analysis of key Islamic ity platforms and their debates

Author : Jean Mitry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253213770

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The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry Pdf

Mitry was driven to explain the "why," "what if," and "how come" experiences that resulted after the "wow" experience in cinema. His theory uses psychology and phenomenology to understand how cinema can elevate the viewer from the everyday world.

Author : W. John Hill,Pamela Church Gibson,Richard Dyer,E. Ann Kaplan,Paul Willemen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 9780198742821

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World Cinema by W. John Hill,Pamela Church Gibson,Richard Dyer,E. Ann Kaplan,Paul Willemen Pdf

Ranging from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary "Bollywood" musicals, this extensive guide to international film covers areas as diverse as New German, Australian, Indian, and South American cinema. A team of international contributors explains the key arguments and debates involved in the study of world cinema and also provides an overview of the avant-garde, the documentary, and recent technological developments. Featuring illustrations throughout, further reading recommendations, and chapter summaries, World Cinema: Critical Approaches serves as an exceptional text for courses in film and media studies.

Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317298809

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Surveillance in Asian Cinema by Karen Fang Pdf

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.

Author : Constantine Verevis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231851305

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Flaming Creatures by Constantine Verevis Pdf

Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smith’s incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. Championed and defended by Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag, among others, the film wildly and gleefully transgresses nearly every norm of Hollywood morality and aesthetics. In a surreal and visually dense series of episodes, the titular “creatures” reenact scenes drawn from the collective cinematic unconscious, playing on mainstream film culture’s moral code in a way that is at once a love letter to classical Hollywood and a searing send-up of its absurdities. Tracing the film’s production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smith’s multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past. This study of Smith’s magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and overt fabrication of old Hollywood exoticism.

Author : Ann Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004523968

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Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism by Ann Vogel Pdf

Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers as a cheap means to illuminate the creative city and draw attention to film art. Ann Vogel’s unprecedented systematic sociological analysis thus provides firm evidence for the ‘festival effect’, which situates the festival as a key intermediary in cinema value chains, yet also demonstrates the impact of such event culture on cultural workers’ lives. By probing the various resources and institutional pillars ensuring that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay, Vogel urges us to think critically about publicly displayed benevolence in the context of cinema—and beyond.

Author : Duncan Reekie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ISBN : UOM:39015073862800

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Subversion by Duncan Reekie Pdf

Presents a history of underground cinema, discovering the cultural roots found in nineteenth-century Paris and medieval London, but situates it as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.

Author : P. Adams Sitney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Experimental films
ISBN : 9780815411017

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Film Culture Reader by P. Adams Sitney Pdf

This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.

Author : Aristides Gazetas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786439072

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An Introduction to World Cinema, 2d ed. by Aristides Gazetas Pdf

Motion pictures are more than just entertainment. In film studies courses in colleges and universities worldwide, students and professors explore the social, political, technological and historical implications of cinema. This textbook provides two things: the history of film as an art form and an analysis of its impact on society and politics. Chapters are arranged chronologically, covering the major developments in film, like the advent of talkies or the French New Wave. Each era is examined in the context of several exemplary films commonly viewed in film studies courses. Thus students can watch Birth of a Nation and Intolerance while studying the innovations made by D.W. Griffith from 1910 to 1919. The scope is global, embracing the cinematic traditions of Asia, Latin America and Africa, as well as the ever important American and European output. Thoughtful articles from film scholars are included. The flexible structure of the text allows a variety of options for classroom use or personal study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.