The relationship between cinema and technology is a complex and fascinating one. Andrew Utterson brings together key theoretical texts spanning more than a century of writing. He begins by investigating cinema as technology or as an interconnected series of technologies, then goes on to examine the technological history of cinema within a much broader context: as one element in a sustained period of technological expansion, cinematic or otherwise, and its impact on the wider world. Rather than seeing technologies in traditional mechanical terms, this reader explores by way of the moving image...
The relationship between cinema and technology is a complex and fascinating one. Andrew Utterson brings together key theoretical texts spanning more t...
Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts.
Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss:
Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema
Forms - exploring how...
Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and i...
Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts.
Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss:
Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema
Forms - exploring how...
Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and i...
The first anthology devoted to the subject of color in film. Thematic sections will address the development of color technology and how visual style was affected by the shift from black and white to color; look at color in film theory, including writings from auteurs such as Bresson, Eisenstein and Oshima on the subject; and finally, there will be a number of case studies of color in films by Godard, Hitchcock, Almodovar and others.
The first anthology devoted to the subject of color in film. Thematic sections will address the development of color technology and how visual style w...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films.
Topics covered include:
the early formation of war cinema
the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film
the ascendancy of ambivalence
Hollywood and the war since Vietnam
war as a way of seeing.
For any student of film studies or American cultural studies, this...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse ...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films.
Topics covered include:
the early formation of war cinema
the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film
the ascendancy of ambivalence
Hollywood and the war since Vietnam
war as a way of seeing.
For any student of film...
Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as mor...
Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader provides an overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational cinema.
Bringing together seminal essays from a wide range of sources, this volume engages with films that fashion their narrative and aesthetic dynamics in relation to more than one national or cultural community. The reader is divided into four sections:
From National to Transnational Cinema
Global Cinema in the Digital Age
Motion Pictures: Film, Migration and Diaspora
Tourists and...
Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader provides an overview of the key concepts and debates within the developing field of transnational ci...
