The Emergence Of Cinematic Time

Author : Mary Ann Doane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674007291
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Cinematic Time written by Mary Ann Doane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.

Author : D. N. RODOWICK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042832
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Life of Film written by D. N. RODOWICK and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As almost every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema--and to cinema studies? In the first of two books exploring this question, Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of the twenty-first century.

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435827
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination written by Matthew Solomon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author : Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292776241
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sculpting in Time written by Andrey Tarkovsky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Author : Alanna Thain
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953511
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in Suspense written by Alanna Thain and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the “time machine” of suspense, film form, gender, genre, and spectatorship are revealed in innovative and different ways. These films not only engage us directly in ethical concerns, but also provide a key for understanding corporeal power in the digital era. Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic suspense, Bodies in Suspense argues that the “body in time” enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly. This is the first book to link two contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic temporality and contemporary affect theory. Thain conducts close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Rian Johnson, and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of cinema, reading for the productivity of the “crime of time” that stages the duplicity of cinematic bodies. Through these films that foreground doubled characters and looping, Thain explores Gilles Deleuze’s claim that “the direct time-image is the phantom which has always haunted cinema.” A vital new addition to film theory, corporeality and affect theory, feminist theory, and the philosophy of time—and one of the first books to explore David Lynch’s Hollywood trilogy—Bodies in Suspense asks us to pay attention, above all, to the ways in which the condition of spectatorship creates a doubling sensation with important philosophical repercussions.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191034657
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Film Studies written by Annette Kuhn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts in the field, this dictionary covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations and practices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries. Most entries also feature recommendations for further reading and a large number also have web links. The web links are listed and regularly updated on a companion website that complements the printed book. The dictionary is international in its approach, covering national cinemas, genres, and film movements from around the world such as the Nouvelle Vague, Latin American cinema, the Latsploitation film, Bollywood, Yiddish cinema, the spaghetti western, and World cinema. The most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available, this is a must-have for all students of film studies and ancillary subjects, as well as an informative read for cinephiles and for anyone with an interest in films and film criticism.

Author : Eric Rentschler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576407
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ministry of Illusion written by Eric Rentschler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of Nazi cinema

Author : Donald Crafton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520221284
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Talkies written by Donald Crafton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. The author presents a view of the talkies' reception, amongst other issues.

Author : Jacques Ranciere
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736605
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intervals of Cinema written by Jacques Ranciere and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book, acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière looks at cinematic art in comparison to its corollary forms in literature and theatre. From literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing literature’s images and philosophy; and film rejects theatre, while also fulfilling theatre’s dream. Built on these contradictions, the cinema is the real, material space in which one is moved by the spectacle of shadows. Thus, for Rancière, film is the perpetually disappointed dream of a language of images.

Author : Antonio Somaini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788857243290
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Machine written by Antonio Somaini and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How cinema and video have transformed our perception of time The year 1895 saw two events, from which Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalitiestakes its bearings: the publication of H.G. Wells' "scientific romance" The Time Machine: An Invention, the first literary work in which movement through time is made possible by technology; and the first public presentation, on the evening of December 28, 1895, of the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe. Based on these two moments, Time Machineshows how cinema, video and video installations have transformed our perception of time through techniques of slow motion and acceleration, loops and reversals, time-lapse and freeze-frame, multiple exposure and stop-motion animation, as well as through montage: that crucial act of separating and joining images and sounds which has often been considered as one of cinema's defining traits. The 11 texts in this volume shed new light on the aesthetic, epistemological, political and media-theoretical implications of cinematic time manipulation.