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Framed Time - Toward A Postfilmic Cinema

by Garrett Stewart

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 Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as Garrett Stewart argues here, this transatlantic division has persisted since cinema's 1995 centenary, made more complex by the digital technology that has detached movies from their dependence on the sequential frames of the celluloid strip. Brilliantly interpreting dozens of recent films-from Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, and The Sixth Sense to La mala educacion and Cache -Stewart investigates how their treatments of time reflect the change in media from film's original rolling reel to today's digital pixel. He goes on to show-with 140 stills-how American and European narratives confront this shift differently: while Hollywood movies tend to revolve around ghostly afterlives, psychotic doubles, or violent time travel, their European counterparts more often feature second sight, erotic telepathy, or spectral memory. Stewart questions why these recent plots, in exploring temporality, gravitate toward either supernatural or uncanny apparitions rather than themes of digital simulation. In doing so, he provocatively continues the project he began with Between Film and Screen, breaking new ground in visual studies, cinema history, and media theory.
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In Excess - Sergei Eisenstein''S Mexico

by Masha Salazkina

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 During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals-including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky-who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film !Que Viva Mexico! Illuminating the inextricability of Eisenstein's oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film, Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina explains how Eisenstein's engagement with Mexican mythology, politics, and art deeply influenced his ideas, particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisenstein's bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, In Excess provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern master's theories and aesthetics.
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Screening Modernism - European Art Cinema, 1950-1980

by Andras Balint Kovacs

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 A study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. This book presents an argument that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement. It traces the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. It explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation.
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Possessed - Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, And The Invention Of Cinema

by Stefan Andriopoulos

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 Focuses on the terrifying notion of murder committed against one's will in silent cinema and contemporaneous literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book helps readers understand anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities.
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In Excess - Sergei Eisenstein'S Mexico

by Masha Salazkina

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 During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals - including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky. This book covers the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film "Que Viva Mexico!"
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Screening Modernism - European Art Cinema, 1950-1980

by Andras Balint Kovacs

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 A study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. This book presents an argument that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement. It traces the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. It explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation.
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Shoot! - The Notebooks Of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator

by Luigi Pirandello

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 Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.
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The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

by Alexander Medvedkin

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An Amorous History Of The Silver Screen - Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

by Zhang Zhen

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 Illustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.
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Film, Music, Memory

by Berthold Hoeckner

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Film, Music, Memory

by Berthold Hoeckner

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 "This book explores music soundtracks for films and demonstrates that film has helped shape modern culture by changing the culture of memory. It shows that this change rests in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music"--
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Robert Paul And The Origins Of British Cinema

by Ian Christie

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The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

by Alexander Medvedkin

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Screening Modernism - European Art Cinema, 1950-1980

by Andras Balint Kovacs

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 A study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. This book presents an argument that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement. It traces the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. It explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation.
ENGLISH

An Amorous History Of The Silver Screen - Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

by Zhang Zhen

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 Illustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.
ENGLISH

Possessed - Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, And The Invention Of Cinema

by Stefan Andriopoulos

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 Focuses on the terrifying notion of murder committed against one's will in silent cinema and contemporaneous literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book helps readers understand anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities.
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Shoot! - The Notebooks Of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator

by Luigi Pirandello

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 Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.

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