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Author | : Thomas J. Connelly |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2019-02-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0810139235 |
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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.
Author | : Michael Gott |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1474466532 |
Download ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
Author | : Sangeeta Datta |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317356098 |
Download Rituparno Ghosh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into radical queer politics. This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics. In this first scholarly study undertaken on Rituparno Ghosh, the essays discuss the cultural import of his work within the dynamics of a rapidly evolving film industry in Bengal and more largely the cinematic landscape of India. The anthology also contains a conversation section (interviews with the filmmaker and with industry cast and crew) drawing a critical and personal portrait of this remarkable filmmaker.
Author | : Jim Leach |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810817142 |
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Examines the work of Alain Tanner, the most important filmmaker to emerge from the new Swiss cinema in the late 1960s.
Author | : Samirah Alkassim |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3319768131 |
Download The Cinema of Muhammad Malas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an in-depth and intimate study of the cinema of Muhammad Malas. One of the well-known auteurs of Arab and Syrian cinema, Malas’s distinctive cinematic project has always confronted the social and political issues of his time. From feature films Dreams of the City, The Night, Bab al Maqam (Passion), and Ladder to Damascus to documentaries such as The Dream and Aleppo: Maqamat of Pleasure, Malas’s films challenge and explore Arab culture and history. Archival images run through the chapters of this book which combines insightful interviews with excerpts from Malas’s literary works and critical explorations of his cinematic style and thematic concerns. The book concludes with Malas’s own words, sharing the treatment of his film project Cinema al-Dunya.
Author | : Frances Pheasant-Kelly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857733672 |
Download Abject Spaces in American Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American cinema abounds with films set in prisons, asylums, hospitals and other institutions. Rather than orderly places of recovery and rehabilitation, these institutional settings emerge as abject spaces of control and repression in which adult identity is threatened as a narrative impetus. Exploring the abject through issues as diverse as racism, mental illness or the preservation of bodies for organ donation, thi book analyses a range of films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Girl, Interrupted (1999) through to cult films such as Carrie (1976) and Bubba Ho-tep (2002). In these films, locations of coherence and order become places where the internal and repressed aspects of the body, individual and social, threaten to overwhelm the individual. Identity is compromised through harsh conditions, extreme discipline, the exertion of absolute control, and above all the restriction of personal space. Symbolically infantilised, forced to reassess aspects of the adult, the only escape is through violence; the eponymous Carrie escapes from her cupboard for a massacre, the women of Girl, Interrupted mutilate and annihilate themselves and Kubrick's Gomer Pyle shoots sadistic patriarch Sergeant Hartman in the 'head'. By analysing scenes of horror and disgust within the context of abject space, Frances Pheasant-Kelly reveals how threats to identity manifest in scenes of torture, horror and psychosexual repression and are resolved either through death or through traumatic re-entry into the outside world. Bringing together contemporary theoretical debates and critical disciplines, Abject Spaces in American Cinema offers a coherent and meaningful analysis of institutonal films and shows that the chaos of the abject space cannot be resolved- only escaped. This readable and engging tour of the abject in the institution of film will be immensely valuable to students of Film Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.
Author | : Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780691043913 |
Download An Accented Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of the text. The text presents comprehensive and global coverage of this genre.
Author | : Alain Badiou |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745670024 |
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For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspect of the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as its difficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizing its times, the other arts, and people – a major art precisely because it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art par excellence, the best indicator of our civilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-age novel and the operetta were in their respective eras.
Author | : Ewa Mazierska |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-03-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 178238720X |
Download Women in Polish Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the "Polish Mother," female characters in socialist realistic cinema, women depicted in the films of the Polish School, Solidarity heroines, and women in the films from the postcommunist period. Not less important for the success of Polish cinema are Polish women filmmakers, four of whom are presented in this volume: Wanda Jakubowska, Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass and Dorota Kędzierzawska, whose work is examined.
Author | : Christine Geraghty |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780415171588 |
Download British Cinema in the Fifties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text explores some of the key debates about British cinema and film theory, and examines the curious mix of rebellion and conformity which marked British cinema in the post-war era.