Traditions In World Cinema

Author : Linda Badley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813538747
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditions in World Cinema written by Linda Badley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi.

Author : Claire Perkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654259
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Smart Cinema written by Claire Perkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.

Author : Peter Hames
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748686835
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Czech and Slovak Cinema written by Peter Hames and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period.

Author : Alex Marlow-Mann
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748687653
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Neapolitan Cinema written by Alex Marlow-Mann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Neapolitan Cinema provides close analysis of the whole of this movement, which stands as one of the most vital and stimulating currents in contemporary European Cinema.

Author : Rombes Nicholas Rombes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472168
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Punk Cinema written by Rombes Nicholas Rombes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, from its roots in neorealism and the French New Wave, to its flowering in the work of Lars von Trier and the Dogma 95 movement. Subsequent chapters explore the potentially democratic and even anarchic forces of digital filmmaking, the influences of hypertext and other new media, the increased role of the viewer in arranging and manipulating the chronology of a film, and the role of new punk cinema in plotting a course beyond the postmodern. The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream.New Punk Cinema is ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for film scholars interested in fresh approaches to the emergence of this vital new turn in cinema.Features* Offers a comprehensive examination of the term 'new punk' cinema.* Provides several new approaches for the study of digital cinema.* Includes close analysis of several key new punk films and directors.

Author : Corey K Creekmur
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654305
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Film Musical written by Corey K Creekmur and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.

Author : S. Plate
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137100346
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Religion in World Cinema written by S. Plate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious practices and has altered existing ones, from the cult following of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the 2001 Australian census in which 70,000 people indicated their religion to be 'Jedi Knight'. Representing Religion in World Cinema begins with these mutual transformations as the contributors query the two-way interrelations between film and religion across cinemas of the world. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary by nature, this collection by an international group of scholars draws on work from religious studies, film studies, and anthropology, as well as theoretical impulses in performance, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, and postcolonialism.

Author : Shekhar Deshpande
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136473181
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Cinema written by Shekhar Deshpande and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased globalization have radically altered the landscape in which films are distributed and exhibited. Films are made from the large-scale industries of India, Hollywood, and Asia, to the small productions in Bhutan and Morocco. They are seen in multiplexes, palatial art cinemas in Cannes, traveling theatres in rural India, and on millions of hand-held mobile screens. Authors Deshpande and Mazaj have developed a method of charting this new world cinema that makes room for divergent perspectives, traditions, and positions, while also revealing their interconnectedness and relationships of meaning. In doing so, they bring together a broad range of issues and examples—theoretical concepts, viewing and production practices, film festivals, large industries such as Nollywood and Bollywood, and smaller and emerging film cultures—into a systemic yet flexible map of world cinema. The multi-layered approach of this book aims to do justice to the depth, dynamism, and complexity of the phenomenon of world cinema. For students looking to films outside of their immediate context, this book offers a blueprint that will enable them to transform a casual encounter with a film into a systematic inquiry into world cinema.

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474403883
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Martial Arts Cinema written by Stephen Teo and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal 'crossover' hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). The book unveils rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema in the late 1920s, and from the 1950s onwards, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries. Key attractions of the book are analyses of:*The history of the tradition as it began in the Shanghai cinema, its rise and popularity as a serialized form in the silent cinema of the late 1920s, and its eventual prohibition by the government in 1931.*The fantastic characteristics of the genre, their relationship with folklore, myth and religion, and their similarities and differences with the kung fu sub-genre of martial arts cinema.*The protagonists and heroes of the genre, in particular the figure of the female knight-errant.*The chief personalities and masterpieces of the genre - directors such as King Hu, Chu Yuan, Zhang Che, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and films such as Come Drink With Me (1966), The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), A Touch of Zen (1970-71), Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006).

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198742428
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of World Cinema written by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world