Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema. Cinema is conceived as a post-Romantic form for which religion and spirituality can be unified only problematically. While inspecting many of the well-established themes and topoi of writing on religion and film (such as films about priests and 'Christ-figures') it also seeks to problematize them, focusing primarily upon the issues of religious representation foregrounded by such European directors as Kieslowski and Godard. Coates draws on theories of...
Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema. Cinema is conce...
Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture.
Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking through projects and student work collated through his years of teaching students of computing and design. The book takes a detailed and practical look at what the techniques and philosophy of coding entail, and gives the reader many "glimpses under the hood" in the form of code...
Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics ...
A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of filmssuch asAll that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more."
A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema.Paul Coa...
Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, Paul Coates, Pansy Duncan, Naoki Yamamoto, Keith B. Wagner, Michael Cramer, Dudley Andrew, J
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and...
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contributi...
