Viewing And Interpreting Films Otherwise

Author : Ahmadou Siendou Konaté
Publisher : Boucliers Publications
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782491557454

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Viewing and Interpreting Films Otherwise by Ahmadou Siendou Konaté Pdf

This book presents things to the reader in ways that are untraditional and different. Look is taken at the political import of the filmic productions at hand. Guiding questions will be, but are not limited to the following: why was such a film produced by a person like the producer? Does the film attain the political goal the politicalized viewer sees in it? These are the questions the author seeks to answer in the book.

Author : Alexis Gibbs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030336325

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Seeing Education on Film by Alexis Gibbs Pdf

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship. Drawing on the work of the later Wittgenstein, it suggests that a shift in our philosophical focus from knowing to seeing can allow for ordinary educational phenomena (teachers, schools, children) to be appreciated anew. The book argues that cinema is the medium best placed to draw attention to this revaluation of the everyday, and particular films are presented as offering unique insights into the aesthetic nature of education as a concept. The book will be of primary interest to educators and educationalists alike, but its interdisciplinary nature should also appeal to those in the fields of film study, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Author : Phillip Novak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030447397

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Interpretation and Film Studies by Phillip Novak Pdf

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies—that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this case by surveying what has been written about four historically important and well-known movies (D. W. Griffith’s Way Down East, Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows, Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert), none of which has been the focus of sustained critical attention, and by exhaustively examining the kinds of work published in four influential film journals (Cinema Journal, Screen, Wide Angle, and Movie). The book goes on to argue for the value of the work of interpretation, illustrating this value through extended analyses of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and Christopher Nolan’s Memento, both of which thematize interpretation. Novak demonstrates the causes and consequences of reading poorly and the importance of reading well.

Author : J. Dudley Andrew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190281267

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Concepts in Film Theory by J. Dudley Andrew Pdf

Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, Andrew goes on to build an overall view of film, presenting his own ideas on each concept, and giving a sense of the interdependence of these concepts. Andrew provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psychology and structuralism; semiotics and psychoanalysis; hermeneutics and genre study. His clear approach to these often obscure theories enables students to acquire the background they need to enrich their understanding of film -- and of art.

Author : Noël Carroll,Jinhee Choi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405152013

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Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures by Noël Carroll,Jinhee Choi Pdf

Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presentskey selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy offilm. The featured essays have been specially chosen for theirclarity, philosophical depth, and consonance with the current movetowards cognitive film theory Eight sections with introductions cover topics such as thenature of film, film as art, documentary cinema, narration andemotion in film, film criticism, and film's relation to knowledgeand morality Issues addressed include the objectivity of documentary films,fear of movie monsters, and moral questions surrounding the viewingof pornography Replete with examples and discussion of moving picturesthroughout

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521589703

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Interpreting the Moving Image by Noel Carroll Pdf

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Author : Janet Staiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691216065

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Interpreting Films by Janet Staiger Pdf

Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spectators.

Author : Adel Gad,Marco Rosselli Del Turco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642781544

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Breast Cancer Screening in Europe by Adel Gad,Marco Rosselli Del Turco Pdf

As controlled trials have demonstrated that in many European countries breast cancer mortality may be reduced by population-based mammographic screening of women over the age of 50, there is mounting pressure to introduce new service screening programmes. How should these programmes be planned and monitored ? Is it cost-effective ? We invited experts whowork with the principal screening programmes in Europe to answer these questions and to describe their experiences. Particualr attention has been given to planning, organisation and monitoring new screening programmes in order to achieve optimal results.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004311749

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Contested Interpretations of the Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film by Anonim Pdf

This book analyses the construction of collective identity and nationhood through the representation of a contested past in postsocialist Russian, Polish and Ukrainian films and media.

Author : Andreas Hamburger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040021057

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Film Psychoanalysis by Andreas Hamburger Pdf

Through the development of psychoanalytically informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal lives. Building upon a relational understanding of psychoanalysis, this volume develops a methodical procedure for psychoanalytical film interpretation, discusses individual aspects of the medium – such as editing, spatial and temporal design – and puts approaches to film psychoanalysis and cinema theory into a systematic perspective. Hamburger exemplifies his arguments in a detailed analysis of numerous film examples and demonstrates how an in-depth encounter with the medium can provoke new and surprising understandings. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective that crosses the study of popular culture with psychoanalytic theory, this book will be required reading not only for students and scholars of film, but also for psychoanalysts in practice and training.

Author : Richard T. McClelland,Brian B. Clayton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780813142647

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The Philosophy of Clint Eastwood by Richard T. McClelland,Brian B. Clayton Pdf

The Old Fashioned explores the history of the “original cocktail” through its ingredients and accessories—a rocks glass, rye whiskey or bourbon, sugar, bitters, and orange zest to garnish—and the many people and places that have contributed to the drink's legend. Featuring a handpicked selection of recipes along with delicious details about the particularities that arose with each new variation, this spirited guide is an entertaining read.

Author : John Gibbs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231503112

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Mise-en-scène by John Gibbs Pdf

Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as Imitation of Life and Lone Star, John Gibbs makes the case for the importance of a sensitive understanding of film style, and provides an introduction to the skills of close reading. This book thus celebrates film-making as well as film criticism that is alive to the creative possibilities of visual style.

Author : American Society of Photogrammetry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Aerial photogrammetry
ISBN : UOM:39015038862655

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Manual of Remote Sensing: Interpretation and applications by American Society of Photogrammetry Pdf

Author : David P. Neumeyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253016515

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Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema by David P. Neumeyer Pdf

By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track. In a medium in which the image has traditionally trumped sound, Neumeyer turns our attention to the voice as the mechanism through which narrative (dialog, speech) and sound (sound effects, music) come together. Complemented by music examples, illustrations, and contributions by James Buhler, Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema is the capstone of Neumeyer’s 25-year project in the analysis and interpretation of music in film.

Author : R. Halmshaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0412627809

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Industrial Radiology by R. Halmshaw Pdf

Industrial radiography is a well-established non-destructive testing (NDT) method in which the basic principles were established many years ago. However, during 1993-95 the European Standards Organisa tion (CEN) commenced drafting many new standards on NDT including radiographic methods, and when completed these will replace national standards in all the EC member countries. In some cases these standards vary significantly from those in use in the UK at present. These CEN standards are accepted by majority, not unanimous voting, so they will become mandatory even in countries which vote against them. As most are likely to be legal by the time this second edition is published, they are described in the appropriate places in the text. The most important new technical development is the greater use of computers in radiology. In the first edition, computerized tomography was only briefly mentioned at the end of Chapter 11, as it was then largely a medical method with only a few equipments having found a place in industrial use. The method depends on a complex computer program and a large data store. Industrial equipments are now being built, although their spread into industry has been slow. Computer data storage is also being used for radiographic data. Small computers can now store all the data produced by scanning a radiographic film with a small light-spot, and various programs can be applied to these data.