Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.

Author: Ali Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199402229
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The book presents a rich collection of critical essays, ethnographic writings, memoirs, and reflections, portraying a well-rounded picture of cinema culture and historical change in Pakistan. The multiplicity of voices and approaches enhances the appeal of this collection, which is the first ever to delineate the diversity in the cinematic and extra-cinematic traditions of Pakistan, as well as in the histories of production, exhibition, and reception. The work also highlights aesthetic and affective politics in relation to nationalism; Islamization in policy and practice; the biopolitics of morality, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; and the phenomenology of film exhibition and urban formation. The book incorporates rarely seen nostalgia items, such as pictures of studio shootings, as well as of film actors, film scenes, posters, and lobby cards.

Author: Vikas Shah
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789292670
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Including conversations with world leaders, Nobel prizewinners, business leaders, artists and Olympians, Vikas Shah quizzes the minds that matter on the big questions that concern us all.

Author: Jonathan Beller
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683823
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.

Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Peter Miles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317917480
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American vales as well. On the one hand, films like Sing As We Go, Proud Valley, and The Stars Look Down consolidated the assumptions about the existence of a national rather than separate class identities. On the other hand, working-class literature such as Love on the Dole articulated working-class experience in a manner intended to bridge the gap between the ‘Two Englands’. This book, originally published in 1987, examines how two of the most significant cultural forms in Britain contributed indirectly to the stability of Britain in the interwar crisis, helping to construct a new class alliance. A major element in the investigation is an analysis of the mechanics of the development of a national cultural identity, alongside separate working-class culture, the development of the lower-middle class and the implications of the intrusion of Hollywood culture. The treatment throughout is thematic rather than text-oriented – works of Graham Greene, George Orwell, Bert Coombes, Evelyn Waugh, the British Documentary Film Movement and Michael Balcon are included in the wide range of material covered.

Author: Jean Mitry
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213778
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Mitry was driven to explain the "why," "what if," and "how come" experiences that resulted after the "wow" experience in cinema. His theory uses psychology and phenomenology to understand how cinema can elevate the viewer from the everyday world.

Author: Andrew Kelly
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415052033
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down your Arms, made by Bertha Von Suttner in 1914 and Lewis Milestone's bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick's magnificent Paths of Glory.

Author: Zhen Zhang
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div

Author: D. McKiernan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023058280X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship with the idea and practice of community in the context of rapidly changing social conditions. Films examined include Ae Fond Kiss, The Idiots and Monsoon Wedding.