Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them.
This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci.
This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip.
Este libro traza las continuidades y discontinuidades filmicas subterraneas del legado del surrealismo y del compromiso politico dentro del estado espanol desde los anos treinta hasta la actualidad, desde la obra pionera de Carlos Velo, Jose Val del Omar, Luis Bunuel y Salvador Dali, hasta el cine militante actual forjado en la estela del 15-M.
Este libro ofrece un recorrido por la filmografia de Nolan hasta sus ultimas superproducciones en Hollywood ("e;Interstellar"e;, "e;Tenet"e;, "e;Oppenheimer"e;), sin olvidar hitos fundamentales como la "e;Trilogia del Caballero Oscuro"e;, que renovo desde sus cimientos el genero de superheroes.
Paolo Sorrentino (1970) es autor de una de las obras mas interesantes del panorama cinematografico contemporaneo, repleta de imagenes y secuencias de extraordinaria potencia estetica que no se quedan en la mera belleza, sino que dialogan con otras manifestaciones artisticas y campos del saber, estableciendo, al mismo tiempo, una continua reflexion sobre los temas de actualidad, sin dejar de repensar el pasado y como este afecta al devenir de sus personajes.
Basilio Martin Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, 29 de octubre de 1930-Madrid, 13 de agosto de 2017) estudio Filosofia y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde fundo el Cine Club Universitario.
"e;Script Analysis"e; explores the core components of cinematic storytelling, offering readers a framework to dissect and appreciate the underlying structure of films and television.
Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel.
Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres.
Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time.
Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film.
The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "e;quality"e; films that promulgated "e;respectable"e; culture.
Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia Landy shows that cultural life under fascism was not monopolized by official propaganda.
This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou.
As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "e;divine decadence"e;--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "e;shocking"e; British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin.
In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.
The hilarious debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.
Packed with exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs, this official illustrated guide tells the detailed story of the making of the second film in the award-winning Hobbit trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.
Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public.
Drawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibals journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly adored antihero.
Covering over 50 video games issued between 1982 and 2023, THE DIGITAL 007 provides an unprecedented overview of Bond in gaming, with behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and gamer reviews.
Case Study from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Bremen (Faculty 10 - Languages and Literary Studies), course: Analyzing Hollywood Cinema, language: English, abstract: The question this paper will try to answer is whether more recent Bond films such as Casino Royale still contain masculinities which define themselves through sexist or violent attitudes towards women and if those masculinities can be classified as hegemonic ones.
La "e;Historia mundial de la comunicacion"e; descubre como las sociedades se han construido y desarrollado gracias a la cooperacion, el intercambio y el prestamo cultural.
Von der Leinwand in die HerzenSie war mehr als nur eine Stilikone: Audrey Hepburn beruhrte Millionen mit ihrer einzigartigen Mischung aus Anmut und unerschutterlicher Herzlichkeit.
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 15, Leuven Catholic University, language: English, abstract: This paper examines Paul Czinner's "e;Fraulein Else"e; from 1929, both as an adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's novella of the same name and as an individual project.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Hochschule Fresenius; Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Analyse zeitgenossischer Formate des Genres Reality TV auf dem deutschen Fernsehmarkt auf die Reprasentation des Rollenbildes der Frau sowie eventueller geschlechterbezogener Stereotypisierungen.
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' TelegraphThe first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star.
Los textos reunidos en este volumen presentan una manera de "e;pensar el cine"e; en plena efervescencia de la reflexion sobre el poder de la imagen cinematografica (1970-1985).
En Infancia y cine en la larga Transicion espanola, Sarah Thomas analiza al nino cinematografico en esta compleja coyuntura historica de un pais que tiene a su espalda decadas de gobierno autoritario y ante si un futuro incierto, examinando peliculas de distintos generos y de cuatro directores clave de la Transicion: Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Victor Erice y Jaime de Arminan
