Directory of World Cinema: American Independent
ISBN: 9781841503684 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films have been at the forefront in recent years like never before. But the roots of such critical and commercial successes as "The Hurt Locker" and "Precious "can be traced to the first boom of independent cinema in the 1960s, when a raft of talented filmmakers emerged""to capture the attention of a rapidly growing audience of young viewers. A thorough overview of a thrivingarea of cultural life, "Directory of World Cinema: American Independent"... With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films h... |
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A Divided World : Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
ISBN: 9781841504025 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Deal introduced sweeping social, political, and cultural change across the United States, which Hollywood embraced enthusiastically. Then, when the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia of the postwar years, Hollywood became an easy target for the anticommunists. "A Divided World "examines some of the important programs of the New Deal and the subsequent response of the film community especially in relation to social welfare, women s rights, and international affairs. The book also provides an analysis of the major works of three European directors Billy Wilder,... The New Deal introduced sweeping social, political, and cultural change across the United States, which Hollywood embraced enthusiastically. Then, ... |
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The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki: Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities
ISBN: 9781841504094 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki s films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentary. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks, including transnationalism, eco-philosophy, architectural theory, and cartography, this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismaki s body of work. The notion of transvergence thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms emerges as an analytical method for exploring the power of these films. Through this method, the book encourages a rethinking of transnational cinema... Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki s films challenge the boundaries of nations, genre formations, art and popular culture, and fiction and documentar... |
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Tech-Noir Film: A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres
ISBN: 9781841504247 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the postapocalyptic world of "Blade Runner" to the""James Cameron mega-hit "Terminator, " tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works including "The Matrix, RoboCop, " and Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein" are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, "Tech-Noir Film "will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more... From the postapocalyptic world of "Blade Runner" to the""James Cameron mega-hit "Terminator, " tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with root... |
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371,65 zł |
New Zealand Cinema : Interpreting the Past
ISBN: 9781841504254 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Zealand has produced one of the world s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like "The Te Kooti Trail" to recent films such as "River Queen," this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors, including Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, and Vincent Ward, are here introduced in a new light, and select films are given in-depth coverage. Among the most informative accounts of New Zealand s... New Zealand has produced one of the world s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country s evolving history and the energy and resourcef... |
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127,25 zł |
Urban Cinematics : Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image
ISBN: 9781841504285 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Urban Cinematics" surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces, and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning with film studies, this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume.
"Urban Cinematics" surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers m... |
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127,25 zł |
Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road
ISBN: 9781611480047 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road, by Jorge Perez, offers the first comprehensive inquiry about the road genre in Spain. Road narratives have recently received some scholarly attention within the field of Peninsular Studies through a few articles and book chapters, but no book-length study has been published so far. This book investigates how Spanish authors such as Ignacio Martinez de Pison, Ray Loriga, Eugenio Fuentes, and Eugenia Rico, and filmmakers such as Juan Antonio Bardem, Cecilia Bartolome, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, and Mariano Barroso employ the road genre to...
Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road, by Jorge Perez, offers the first comprehensive inquiry about the road genre in Spain. Road n...
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467,54 zł |
The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film
ISBN: 9780816645879 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "committed" documentary from the 19 0s, reflects the book's theme of the political potential of documentary for representing the democratic performance of citizens and artists.
Waugh analyzes an eclectic international selection of films and issues from the 1920s to the present day. The essays provide a transcultural focus, moving from... The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, writt...
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121,09 zł |
The Right to Play Oneself : Looking Back on Documentary Film
ISBN: 9780816645862 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's and Joris Ivens's manifestos of "committed" documentary from the 19 0s, reflects the book's theme of the political potential of documentary for representing the democratic performance of citizens and artists.
Waugh analyzes an eclectic international selection of films and issues from the 1920s to the present day. The essays provide a transcultural focus, moving from... The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, writt...
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373,51 zł |
Recording Reality, Desiring the Real
ISBN: 9780816645497 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and its contemporary forms, showing how it has been simultaneously understood as factual, as story, as art, and as political, addressing the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in the documentary and its project of informing and educating.
Cowie claims that, as a radical film form, documentary has been a way for filmmakers to... Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In...
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Recording Reality, Desiring the Real
ISBN: 9780816645480 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and its contemporary forms, showing how it has been simultaneously understood as factual, as story, as art, and as political, addressing the seeming paradox between the pleasures of spectacle in the documentary and its project of informing and educating.
Cowie claims that, as a radical film form, documentary has been a way for filmmakers to... Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In...
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338,17 zł |
M + M: 7 Days
ISBN: 9783775740548 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. M+M--Marc Weis (born 1965) and Martin De Mattia (born 1963)--are known for their two-channel film installations named after the days of the week. Each day borrows from a key scene from cinematic history (for example The Shining or Saturday Night Fever) as it follows the volatile psyche of the main character, played by Austrian actor Christoph Luser.
M+M--Marc Weis (born 1965) and Martin De Mattia (born 1963)--are known for their two-channel film installations named after the days of the week. Each...
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173,57 zł |
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film
ISBN: 9789089649430 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dutch cinema is typically treated only in terms of prewar films or documentaries, leaving postwar fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a Hollandse School, first named in the 1980s, has developed through deadpan, ironic films like those of director and actor Alex van Warmerdam. Using seminal theories on humor and comedy, this book explores a number of Dutch films using the notion of categories, such as low-class comedies, neurotic romances, deliberate camp, and grotesque satire. With its original approach, this study makes surprising connections between Dutch films from...
Dutch cinema is typically treated only in terms of prewar films or documentaries, leaving postwar fictional film largely understudied. At the same tim...
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The Conscience of Cinema: The Works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989
ISBN: 9789089647535 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. Ivens worked in almost every genre, including the essay, compilation, hybrid dramatization, socialist realism, and more. Whether in his native Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United States, Vietnam,...
This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of s...
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After the Break: Television Theory Today
ISBN: 9789089645227 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is evolving rapidly. How, then, might we respond to television today in light of its past? And do the old theoretical concepts still apply, or must we invent a new framework for this mutable medium? To answer these fundamental questions, the contributors to this provocative collection examine diverse case studies, including up-to-date scholarship on the current television zeitgeist, nostalgic programming on broadcast television, YouTube, and public television art programming of the 1980s. As a whole, these essays challenge the supposed crisis in television in the light of its...
Television is evolving rapidly. How, then, might we respond to television today in light of its past? And do the old theoretical concepts still apply,...
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186,50 zł |
Teen Film: A Critical Introduction
ISBN: 9781847886873 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant? Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing American teenager, highlighting the institutions of high school and the nuclear family and experiments in sexual development and identity formation. But not every film featuring these components is a teen film, and not every teen film is American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a citizen and a subject, Teen Film... What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewe... |
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555,21 zł |
Shot in Oklahoma: A Century of Sooner State Cinemavolume 7
ISBN: 9780806141749 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie "The Outsiders," he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton's acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. "Shot in Oklahoma" explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of movie-making in the Sooner State over more than a century.
When Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Fran...
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93,81 zł |
The Multisensory Film Experience
ISBN: 9781783206285 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the lights dim in a movie theater and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a multisensory experience. Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing, The Multisensory Film Experience analyzes temperature, pain, and balance in order to argue that it is the experience of film that's inherently multisensory, not the medium. Luis Rocha Antunes here explores the work of well-loved filmmakers Erik Jensen, Gus Van Sant, and Ki-Duk Kim to offer new insights into how viewers experience...
When the lights dim in a movie theater and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a ...
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175,07 zł |
Fan Phenomena: Mermaids
ISBN: 9781783205912 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be "where the people are," but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like the Little Mermaid and Pirates of the Caribbean have sparked the interest of newer generations of mermaid fans, but our enchantment with these mythical creatures of the sea goes back for centuries. Fan Phenomena: Mermaids takes a deep dive into these fascinations and the cultural creations that mermaids inspire among fans of all ages.
Mermaids, and merfolk more generally,... Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be "where the people are," but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to...
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127,25 zł |
Kurt Kren: Structural Films
ISBN: 9781783205516 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films--often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams--have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kren, edited by Nicky Hamlyn, Simon Payne, and A. L. Rees, brings together interviews with Kren, film scores, and classic, out-of-print essays, alongside the reflections of contemporary academics and filmmakers, to add much-needed critical discussion of Kren's legacy. Taken together, the...
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films--often shot frame-by-frame following elaborate...
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291,95 zł |