Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video

Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video PDF Author: Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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What is the relationship between the road movie, American experimental filmmaking and the body?

Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video

Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video PDF Author: Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004537988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
What is the relationship between the road movie, American experimental filmmaking and the body?

Audio-vision

Audio-vision PDF Author: Michel Chion
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231078993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Deals with issue of sound in audio-visual images

Cinema of Confinement

Cinema of Confinement PDF Author: Thomas J. Connelly
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810139235
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.

Harmonies and Discords

Harmonies and Discords PDF Author: George Hamilton Hammon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India PDF Author: Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030540960
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan assembles films from Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Trivandrum, in addition to independent productions in Bombay cinema, as a way of privileging understudied works that deserve critical attention. The book uses close readings of films and a deep investigation of film style to draw attention to the advent of digital technologies while remaining fully cognizant of ‘the digital’ as a cryptic formulation for considering the sea change in the global circulation of film and finance. This dual focus on both the techno-material conditions of Indian cinema and the film narrative offers a fulsome picture of changing narratives and shifting genres and styles.

Documentary in the Digital Age

Documentary in the Digital Age PDF Author: Maxine Baker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0240516885
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Solaris Effect

The Solaris Effect PDF Author: Steven Dillon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292782273
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's π represent the apparent oppositions between nature and culture, wild and tame? Steven Dillon's intriguing new volume surveys American cinema from 1990 to 2002 with substantial descriptions of sixty films, emphasizing small-budget independent American film. Directors studied include Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Haynes, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant, as well as more canonical figures like Martin Scorcese, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg. The book takes its title and inspiration from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, a science fiction ghost story that relentlessly explores the relationship between the powers of nature and art. The author argues that American film has the best chance of aesthetic success when it acknowledges that a film is actually a film. The best American movies tell an endless ghost story, as they perform the agonizing nearness and distance of the cinematic image. This groundbreaking commentary examines the rarely seen bridge between select American film directors and their typically more adventurous European counterparts. Filmmakers such as Lynch and Soderbergh are cross-cut together with Tarkovsky and the great French director, Jean-Luc Godard, in order to test the limits and possibilities of American film. Both enthusiastically cinephilic and fiercely critical, this book puts a decade of U.S. film in its global place, as part of an ongoing conversation on nature and art.

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004468382
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.

Virtual Voyages

Virtual Voyages PDF Author: Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822337133
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div

Speaking about Godard

Speaking about Godard PDF Author: Kaja Silverman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814739709
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With Speaking about Godard, leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and filmmaker Harun Farocki have made one of the most significant contributions to film studies in recent memory: a lively set of conversations about Godard and his major films, from Contempt to Passion. Combining the insights of a feminist film theorist with those of an avant-garde filmmaker, these eight dialogues–each representing a different period of Godard's film production, and together spanning his entire career–get at the very heart of his formal and theoretical innovations, teasing out, with probity and grace, the ways in which image and text inform one another throughout Godard's oeuvre. Indeed, the dialogic format here serves as the perfect means of capturing the rhythm of Godard's ongoing conversation with his own medium, in addition to shedding light on how a critic and a director of films respectively interpret his work. As it takes us through Godard's films in real time, Speaking about Godard conveys the sense that we are at the movies with Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries of the performance of this critique. Accessible, informative, witty, and, most of all, entertaining, the conversations assembled here form a testament to the continuing power of Godard's work to spark intense debate, and reinvigorate the study of one of the great artists of our time.