Alsaesser Thomas. European Cinema

Publisher: Berg, New York, 2011. 192 pages. Language: English. Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on film: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze's revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze's method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russ...

Publisher: Routledge, London & New York, 2006. 208 pages. Language: English. Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India’s other cinemas. The book explores Indian cinema from early film-make...

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 1996. 352 pages. Language: English. German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. German Cinema performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely overlooked: the first two decades of German cinema. This collection of essays by established authors...

Книга Rosalind Galt о новом европейском кино Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2006 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Galt, Rosalind. The new European cinema : redrawing the map / Rosalind Galt. p. cm.—(?lm and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-231-13716-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-231-13717-6 (...

Publisher: Routledge, New York & London, 2003. 256 pages. Language: English. This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted f...

Publisher: I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2003. 320 pages. Language: English. L?cia Nagib here presents the first comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid-1990s, which has become known as the "Renaissance of Brazilian cinema". Besides reflecting on the conditions that made possible this recent boom, this book elaborates on the new aesthetic tendencies of recent productions, as well as their relationships to...

Publisher: I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2007. 200 pages. Language: English. What connects films of a particular nation, in a particular time? What makes them especially interesting and revealing? This book offers an original answer to these central questions for world cinema, focusing on the case of Brazil and the return of the utopian gesture into its cinema. In this extensively illustrated book, L?cia Nagib argues that the foundationa...

855 pp. Silent Cinema (1895-1930): The Early Years; The Rise of Hollywood; The Silent Film; National Cinemas; The Silent Cinema Experience Sound Cinema (1930-1960): Sound; The Studio Years; Genre Cinema; Engaging withe Reality; National Cinemas; The Post-War World The Modern Cinema (1960-1995): Cinema in the Age of Television; American Movies; Extending the Boundaries; Cinemas of the World; Conclusion

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2005. 216 pages. Language: English. The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film...

Publisher: University of California Press, 1999. 582 Pages. Language: English. Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system — including the shift to independent production — and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.