Supercinema

Author : William Brown
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459503
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supercinema written by William Brown and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind the persona of Clark Kent. Locating itself on the cusp of film theory, film-philosophy and cognitive approaches to cinema, Supercinema also looks at the relationship between the spectator and film that utilizes digital technology to maximum, 'supercinematic' effect.

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Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Film Renter and Moving Picture News written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981582
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Colonialism written by R. Ben-Ghiat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comprehensive view of the field.

Author : Victoria Belco
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093140
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 written by Victoria Belco and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War wreaked unprecedented devastation throughout Europe, necessitating monumental reconstruction efforts that burdened not only governments, but the lives of ordinary citizens. War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 examines this transitional period in the province of Arezzo by detailing the daily experiences of civilians through the traumas of war and the difficulties of recovery. Studying the aftermath of war in a new and insightful way, Victoria C. Belco shifts the perspective from the national to the local level. With this localized focus, she provides valuable insight into the ways in which civilians coped with an overwhelming range of problems - from adjusting to Allied occupation and widespread displacement to rampant unemployment and the restructuring of local administrations and institutions after fascism. Recreating the post-war atmosphere of disorder, need, and political upheaval, Belco shows how the competing community interests caused social fragmentations that impeded change, while the unity of a shared past prevented civil war.

Author : Alfio Giovannini
Publisher : Alfio Giovannini
ISBN 13 : 1604411295
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Des Moines written by Alfio Giovannini and published by Alfio Giovannini. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1986, Julian and Virginia Watson, a retired couple, live on the top floor of the Excelsior, an old apartment building on the edge of downtown Des Moines. Mrs. Watson suffers from agoraphobia and has not ventured outside the Excelsior in several years. Her devoted husband and Ms. Duncan, the building's janitor, are her only contacts with the outside world. Because of Virginia's fragile mental status, Julian only absents himself to run some errands or to take a daily walk to a nearby park. However, Julian's monotonous routine is suddenly altered by his chance encounter with an autograph-seeking lady who mistakes him for Clyde Ballantine, a reclusive Des Moines-born actor he has never heard about. In the following days, Julian's life is marred by a series of odd and frightening events that only an old article in The Des Moines Register could help explain. Or maybe notA[a¬A]

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Total Pages : 1266 pages
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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kartik Nair
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392272
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Things written by Kartik Nair and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--

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Total Pages : 988 pages
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Download or read book Trade Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814747728
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming of Fred and Ginger written by Annette Kuhn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading voices in cultural studies today examines the habits of British cinema audiences in the 1930s to reveal the role that cinema played in shaping their lives.

Author : William Brown
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782795189
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene written by William Brown and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton's iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory. This book deconstructs the film's underlying anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity while exposing the unthinking whiteness of theorists and philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze, who have given Keaton's work pride of place in the history of cinema. Through its daring and provocative analysis of Keaton's classic, Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene invites us to consider cinema itself, at least in its classical narrative form, as a tool for constructing and maintaining white supremacy while building the conceptual tools for a world beyond whiteness.