Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This book addresses questions, such as: What kind of landscape is cinematic landscape? How is cinematic landscape different from landscape painting?
Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This book addresses questions, such as: What kind of land...
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's...
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the er...
Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity - in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range from the auteur theory and Casablanca to Oscar Micheaux, from the American avant-garde to community video, all illuminating how authorship is a complex idea with far-reaching implications. This ambitious and wide-ranging book should be of interest to anyone concerned with film studies and the concept of the author.
Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to ...
The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.
SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"
The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question ...
Reviewing current thinking on one of the dominant areas of film studies research since the 1990s - contemporary Hollywood movies, this work begins with an industrial-economic analysis then discusses 'New Practices, New Aesthetics', 'Feminism, Philosophy and Queer Theory' and 'Rethinking Affects, Narration, Fantasy and Realism'.
Reviewing current thinking on one of the dominant areas of film studies research since the 1990s - contemporary Hollywood movies, this work begins wit...
Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.
Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of...
Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to ...
The EcoCinema Reader is the first collection of its kind--an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema 's intersections with environmental understandings. It references seminal readings through cutting edge research and is designed as an introduction to the field as well as a source book. It defines ecocinema studies, sketches its development over the past twenty years, provides theoretical frameworks for moving forward, and presents eloquent examples of the practice of...
The EcoCinema Reader is the first collection of its kind--an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco...
The biographical film or "biopic" is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. "The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture" fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded...
The biographical film or "biopic" is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic,...
Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture industry of new media. Defining media broadly, across a range of creative artifacts and production cultures-from visual arts to videogames, from textiles to television-contributors consider authoring practices of artists, designers, do-it-yourselfers, media professionals, scholars, and others....
Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media ...
Here, contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of colour throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of colour on the screen, but also the ways in which developments in cinematographic technologies transformed the aesthetics of colour.
Here, contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of colour throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only th...
