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Us Sports Film: A Genre Of American Dream Time

by Danny Gronmaier

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 Sports and film are media that create time. They are temporal not only in the sense that they are defined and regulated by certain temporalities as a result of processes of social negotiation, but also in the sense of modulating and intervening in these processes in the first place. They are determined by multiple temporalities referring to and aligning along perceptual corporeality; but at the same time, they also produce time through and along temporalities of bodily expression and perception. Thus, as much as we perceive and understand sports and film by means of our culturally coded conceptions of time, this comprehension is itself already the product of these media’s fabrication and modulation of certain audiovisual imaginations of time. This book examines these imaginations with regard to US team sports feature films, understanding the former as the latter’s constitutive conflict which makes these films graspable as a genre in the first place. By addressing temporality as an ever-new crystallization of a heroic past and an unattainable future in a saturated yet volatile present, this conflict connects substantially to the American Dream as an idea of community-building historicity. Departing from a non-taxonomic approach in genre theory and such philosophical recognition of the American Dream as less an ideological narrative but more a social and socially effective imaginary embedded in an audiovisual discourse of time, this book demonstrates the interrelation of sports, cinema and "American" subjectivization along close readings of the poetics of affect of five exemplary sports films (FIELD OF DREAMS, WE ARE MARSHALL, KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN, JIM THORPE - ALL-AMERICAN, MIRACLE).
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Thinking Revolution Through Film - On Audiovisual Stagings Of Political Change

by Hanno Berger

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 This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.
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Framing The Sex Scene: A New Take On Israeli Film History

by Naomi Rolef

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 This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly.
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Meaning-Making And Political Campaign Advertising - A Cognitive-Linguistic And Film-Analytical Perspective On Audiovisual Figurativity

by Dorothea Horst

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 Although recent linguistic and media-studies'' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological problem: How can processes of figurative meaning making in audiovisual media be adequately conceptualized and described? The book intends to bridge this research gap with an analysis of campaign commercials, a hitherto largely underexplored object of study in metaphor and metonymy research. To achieve this goal, a transdisciplinary film-analytical and cognitive-linguistic account of audiovisual figurativity is developed and examined through a comparative analysis of figurative meaning-making processes in German and Polish campaign commercials from 2009 and 2011. By setting the inseparable intertwining of language and cinematic staging, sensing and understanding center stage, the book provides insight into the dynamic nature and embodied affective grounds of audiovisual figurativity, and challenges the long-known dichotomies of rational discourse and affective manipulation, political message and media effect.
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Cinematic Metaphor In Perspective - Reflections On A Transdisciplinary Framework

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 Over centuries, scholars have explored how metaphor contributes to thought, language, culture. This collection of essays reflects on Müller, Kappelhoff, and colleagues’ transdisciplinary (film studies and linguistics) approach formulated in "Cinematic Metaphor: Experience - Affectivity - Temporality". The key concept of cinematic metaphor opens up reflections on metaphor as a form of embodied meaning-making in human life across disciplines. The book documents collaborative work, reflecting intense, sometimes controversial, discussions across disciplinary boundaries. In this edited volume, renowned authors explore how exposure to the framework of Cinematic Metaphor inspires their views of metaphor in film and of metaphor theory and analysis more generally. Contributions include explorations from the point of view of applied linguistics (Lynne Cameron), cognitive linguistics (Alan Cienki), media studies (Kathrin Fahlenbrach), media history (Michael Wedel), philosophy (Anne Eusterschulte), and psychology (Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.).
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Cinematic Corpographies - Re-Mapping The War Film Through The Body

by Eileen Rositzka

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 Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully evoked in this genre. Contouring war cinema as representing a somatic experience of space, the study applies a term recently developed by Derek Gregory within the theoretical framework of Critical Geography. What he calls "corpography" implies a constant re-mapping of landscape through the soldier’s body. These assumptions can be used as a connection between already established theories of cartographic film narration and ideas of (neo)phenomenological film experience, as they also entail the involvement of the spectator’s body in sensuously grasping what is staged as a mediated experience of war. While cinematic codes of war have long been oriented almost exclusively to the visual, the notion of corpography can help to reframe the concept of film genre in terms of expressive movement patterns and genre memory, avoiding reverting to the usual taxonomies of generic texts.
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Front Lines Of Community - Hollywood Between War And Democracy

by Hermann Kappelhoff

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 Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the warfilm. Developing an affective theory of genre cinema, the study’s focus on the sense of commonality offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics. It shows how the diverse ramifications of genre poetics can be explored as a network of experiental modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community.
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Philosophie I Maximen 0 / Philosophy I Maxims 0

by Godel Kurt Godel

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 The philosophical remarks of Kurt Godel have been handed down in the form of 15 notebooks. Godel's overall philosophical project encompasses both his individual ethics and a philosophy of science within the context of a metaphysics. The present vo
Angewandte Zeitreihenanalyse Mit R

by Rainer Schlittgen

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Le Suffixe --'Ur-A-

by Bianca Mertens

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 Looking at the Protoromance suffix */-'ur-a/, this study offers new insights into Protoromance derivational morphology. After reconstructing and analyzing some 45 Protoromance etyma containing the suffix */-'ur-a/, it details the phonological, morph
Reflektierte Algorithmische Textanalyse

by Nils Reiter

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Thermal Control Thin Films - Spacecraft Technology

by Chun-Hua Wu, Jia-Wen Qiu e Yu-Dong Feng

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Cinematic Metaphor In Perspective - Reflections On A Transdisciplinary Framework

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Die Akademische Achse Berlin-Rom

by Andrea Albrecht

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Kindheit Und Emotion

by Claudia Jarzebowski

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Wilhelm Von Humboldts Rechtsphilosophie

by Jens Petersen

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M Rz 1744 - September 1745

by Gottsched D Ring

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Mittelalterliches Nordisches Recht

by Dieter Strauch

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Grundthemen Der Literaturwissenschaft: F

by Lut Missinne

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Der Literarische Kampf Um Den Arbeiter

by Michaela Menger

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Maschinendynamik

by Marcus Schulz

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Der Innerstaatliche Und Grenz Berschreit

by Keve Kov Cs

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2016

by Alexander Honold

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