Film history, theory or criticism

Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema - yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.

Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema - yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.

Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present.

'A smart and rich compendium of what is going on within and without our bodies today .

If movies and popular culture shape us from an early age, how do we separate the real from the imaginary?

A bold experiment in film theory for the digital era.

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common.

In the years since World War II, Poland has developed one of Europe's most distinguished film cultures.

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe.

As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence.

It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation s sense of identity and self-confidence.

The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan Jose Bigas Luna, and Jose Luis Guerin are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities.

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics.

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers; and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot.

Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male.

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997.

There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and escape artist if there ever was one.

The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill.

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator s lived body.

West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "e;New German Cinema.

Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ subjective realist narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference.

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large.

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe.

Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting.

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society.

Women in Irish Film: Stories and storytellers is an interdisciplinary collection that critically explores the contribution of women to the Irish film industry as creators of culture - screenwriters, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, animators, film festival programmers and educators.

A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "e;mountain of the mind.

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.

An unprecedented close textual analysis of numerous films within their contemporary cultural context.

A compelling account of the role of Fado and the fadista in Portuguese film and the wider culture.

New edition, with facing English translation, of one of the most important Arthurian works from the middle ages.

Rocco focuses on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's relations with the world of cinema and gives us the first detailed study of the author's wide-ranging filmography.

Cahiers du Cin,ma was the single most influential project in the history of film.

One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age.

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences.

In the last decade, Spanish film auteur Pedro Almod,var has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success.

From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere.

Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, Francois Truffaut, and James Ivory?

Through in-depth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archivere-examines the brothers most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present.

This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.

This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese.

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