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The Political Gesture In Pedro Costas Films

by Patricia Sequeira Bras

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 This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costas formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costas films suggest a critical thinking posited through the materiality of the cinematic medium that is capable of exposing the limits of filmic representation itself. In addition, the author argues that Costas political gesture derives from the articulation of the intrinsic elements of the filmic medium rather than the depiction of a social reality.
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Pictures Of The Mind - Surrealist Photography And Film

by Ramona Fotiade

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 This book is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discourse on post-war trends in art house cinema. Drawing on the work of Barthes, Derrida and Deleuze, the author sheds light on Surrealist concepts and traces their influence on post-war filmmakers.
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Performing The Modern German - Performance And Identity In Contemporary German Cinema

by Matthias Uecker

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 What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? This book analyses the performances of gender, ethnicity and nationality in a wide range of films, revealing how modern German identity is produced in response to the restructuring of German society post-unification.
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Time And Space In Contemporary Greek-Cypriot Cinema

by Lisa Socrates

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 Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by analysing a range of Greek-Cypriot films that have hitherto received little or no critical discussion. The book adopts a predominantly conceptual approach, situating contemporary Greek-Cypriot cinema within a specific cultural and national context. Drawing on the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and particularly his theories of time and space, the author explores ways in which Greek-Cypriot directors invent new forms of imagery as a way of dealing with the crisis of history, the burden of memory and the dislocation of the islands abandoned spaces.
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Crossing The Wall - The Western Feature Film Import In East Germany

by Rosemary Stott

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 More than twenty years after its collapse in 1989, the Berlin Wall remains a symbol of the vigour with which communist East Germany kept out the corrupting influences of neighbouring West Germany. However, despite the restrictions, a surprising number of artistic works, including international films, did cross the Wall and reach audiences in the wide network of cinemas in East Germany. This book takes a fresh look at cinema as a social and cultural phenomenon in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and analyses the transnational film relations between East Germany and the rest of the world. Drawing on a range of new archival material, the author explores which films were imported from the West, what criteria were applied in their selection, how they were received by the national press and film audiences, and how these imports related to DEFA (East German) cinema. The author places DEFA films alongside the international films exhibited in the GDR and argues that film in East Germany was actually more transnational in character than previously thought.
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Reframing The European Other - Identity And Belonging In Contemporary French And German Cinema

by Kamil Zapasnik

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 In the wake of rising xenophobic violence, nationalism and right-wing fundamentalism in Europe, this book evaluates the portrayal of the migrant Other in selected examples of contemporary French and German cinema from the period 1989â€"2020 in the context of the ongoing debate about European identity and its socio-political significance.
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Reframing The European Other - Identity And Belonging In Contemporary French And German Cinema

by Kamil Zapanik

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 In the wake of rising xenophobic violence, nationalism and right-wing fundamentalism in Europe, this book evaluates the portrayal of the migrant Other in selected examples of contemporary French and German cinema from the period 1989â€"2020 in the context of the ongoing debate about European identity and its socio-political significance.
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Haunting The Left Bank - Mortality And Intersubjectivity In Varda, Resnais And Marker

by Kierran Horner

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 Haunting the Left Bank identifies and explores the presence of mortality in the cinema images of filmmakers AgnÃ¨s Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais. The book uses a film-philosophical approach that engages with the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Haunting The Left Bank - Mortality And Intersubjectivity In Varda, Resnais And Marker

by Kierran Horner

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 Haunting the Left Bank identifies and explores the presence of mortality in the cinema images of filmmakers AgnÃ¨s Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais. The book uses a film-philosophical approach that engages with the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Toddlers Coloring Book - Toddlers Coloring Book For Ages 1-4

by Wigger Janggikor Wigger

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Pictures Of The Mind - Surrealist Photography And Film

by Ramona Fotiade

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 This book is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theoretical discourse on post-war trends in art house cinema. Drawing on the work of Barthes, Derrida and Deleuze, the author sheds light on Surrealist concepts and traces their influence on post-war filmmakers.
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Ripping Open The Set - French Film Design, 19301939

by Ben Mccann

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 French film design throughout the 1930s was a period of â€˜ripping openâ€™ film sets to make them not just descriptive, but also expressive. This book details the elaborate paraphrasing tendencies of French film design in the period, exploring the crucial role of the set designer in the filmâ€™s evolutionary process.
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Cinema At The Shore - The Beach In French Film

by Fiona Handyside

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 From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozons intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant definition of space in French cinema and instead explores the industrial, aesthetic and thematic relations of French cinema to the beach. Examining a range of films from the 1950s to the present day including popular comedies by Jacques Tati and Patrice Leconte, the lively and ruminative documentaries of Agnès Varda, the classicism of Eric Rohmer, and the provocations of Catherine Breillat this book showcases the dynamism and importance of the beach as a site for the reconfiguration of French cinematic identity itself. The beach offers a unique crystallization of our attitudes towards nature, culture, the body, space and time. In its constant mobility, its close, yet distinctive, relationship with nature, and its paradoxical centrality in the French cultural imaginary as a site of relaxation and holidays, the beachscape, re-framed and re-imaged by the camera, offers new ways of conceiving of the spatial politics of French cinema.
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Of Empire And The City - Remapping Early British Cinema

by Maurizio Cinquegrani

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 This book explores the cinematic representation of the city in British film from 1895 to 1914, featuring depictions of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Delhi and other British colonial cities. The author argues that the films are not only an invaluable record of the economic, social and cultural life of these cities but also that the spatial organization of these urban areas, and the cinematic representations of them, were shaped by the ideology and activity of imperialism. The pioneer camera operators who made these early films often put forward an imperialist ideology by paying particular attention to the cinematic representation of monumental and ceremonial spaces, modern communication and transport within the city and between the city and the empire. Of Empire and the City establishes connections between these cities and their cinematic representation by means of continuous motifs and themes, including modernity, Orientalism, spectatorship and the imperial subject. The book makes a unique contribution to studies of early film, British urban history and the history of the British Empire. «This is a highly original and genuinely groundbreaking piece of scholarship on early British cinema. Very little work on this subject to date has sought to contextualise films of the 1890s and 1900s within the broader field of the history of imperialism. Cinquegrani's book systematically corrects this blind spot, and in its use of a wide range of ideas and methodologies [] it offers a compelling new model for future scholarship on British cinema of the silent era.» (Dr Jon Burrows, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick)
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Listening To The French New Wave - The Film Music And Composers Of Postwar French Art Cinema

by Orlene Denice Mcmahon

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 This book offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, offering a new look at this popular film movement. The author challenges the view that these films were revolutionary because of their reliance on traditional approaches to music yet highlights New Wave directors who adopted contemporary music practices.
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The Cinema Of The Swimming Pool

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 Why has the swimming pool fascinated filmmakers? This collection investigates the appearance of the swimming pool in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. Studied films include classics such as The Philadelphia Story (1940) and recent films like Water Lilies (2007).
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Visual Anthropology In Sardinia

by Silvio Carta

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 This book explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, offering a survey of the unique filmic ethnographic discourse established in relation to the island and reflecting on the ethics and practice of ethnographic cinematography.
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Revisiting Space - Space And Place In European Cinema

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The National And Beyond - The Globalisation Of Finnish Cinema In The Films Of Aki And Mika Kaurismaeki

by Pietari Kääpä

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 Examines the films that the Kaurismaekis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 - films which mobilise various methods to reflect, criticise, counteract and contribute to the globalisation of Finnish society in the era of late capitalist development. This title provides an analysis of these films.
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From Environmentalism To Transenvironmentalism - The Ethnography Of An Urban Protest In Modern Istanbul

by Aimilia Voulvouli

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Horace In Dialogue - Bakhtinian Readings In The "Satires"

by Suzanne Sharland

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 What is Horace's real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire? Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled? What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3? This title deals with these questions.
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Crossing The Wall - The Western Feature Film Import In East Germany

by Rosemary Stott

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Italy On Screen - National Identity And Italian Imaginary

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 Suitable for scholars and devotees of Italian cinema to share their original and non-standard work, incorporating some classic texts and filmmakers, this title contains articles that arises out of the international conference 'Italy on Screen', held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, in February 2007.
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Cross-Channel Perspectives - The French Reception Of British Cinema

by Leila Wimmer

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