Borderland Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borderland Films write by Dominique Brégent-Heald. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Borderland Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An examination of the intersection of North American borderlands and culture, as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema"--
Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez
Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez write by Frederick Luis Aldama. This book was released on 2015-03-15. Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frederick Aldama's The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez's feature films, from his first break-out success El Mariachi in 1992 to Machete in 2010. The essays explore the formal and thematic features present in his films from the perspectives of industry (context, convention, and distribution), the film blueprint (auditory and visual ingredients), and consumption (ideal and real audiences). The authors illuminate the manifold ways in which Rodriguez's films operate internally (plot, character, and event) and externally (audience perception, thought, and feeling). The volume is divided into three parts: "Matters of Mind and Media" includes essays that use psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology to shed light on how Rodriguez's films complicate Latino identity, as well as how they succeed in remaking audiences' preconceptions of the world. "Narrative Theory, Cognitive Science, and Sin City: A Case Study" offers tools and models of analysis for the study of Rodriguez's film re-creation of a comic book (on which Frank Miller was credited as codirector). "Aesthetic and Ontological Border Crossings and Borderlands" considers how Rodriguez's films innovatively critique fixed notions of Latino identity and experience, as well as open eyes to racial injustices. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how Rodriguez's career offers critical insights into the filmmaking industry, the creative process, and the consuming and reception of contemporary film.
Transnational Representations of the U.S. Borderlands. Outlaw Women in Contemporary "Border Cinema"
Transnational Representations of the U.S. Borderlands. Outlaw Women in Contemporary "Border Cinema" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Representations of the U.S. Borderlands. Outlaw Women in Contemporary "Border Cinema" write by Jeanette Gonsior. This book was released on 2019-10-14. Transnational Representations of the U.S. Borderlands. Outlaw Women in Contemporary "Border Cinema" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of English and American Studies), language: English, abstract: The Mexican Revolution of the 1910s alone is considered to have inspired some hundreds of border films, mostly documentaries and docudramas. The Mexican film industry has a nearly equally long history of representing the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. According to Norma Iglesias-Prieto, one of the leading scholars in the field of Mexican border cinema, more than 300 border films were produced in Mexico between 1936 and 1996. “By the 1930s, Mexican producers were beginning to view the border as a profitable theme for Mexico’s national film industry” (Iglesias-Prieto 1998). Referring to Iglesias-Prieto’s classic book-length study "Entre yerba, polvo y plomo: Lo fronterizo visto por el cine mexicano" (1991), Fregoso argues that Mexico produced 147 border films in the decade between 1979 and 1989 alone (cp. 2003). Charles Ramírez Berg also points to a boom in 'cine fronterizo' in the 1980s: "Border films have flourished on the lowest end of the economic and aesthetic Mexican moviemaking scale for decades. The 'narcotraficante' film, a Mexican police genre, is the most popular (...)
Toward a New Art of Border Crossing
Toward a New Art of Border Crossing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a New Art of Border Crossing write by Ananta Kumar Giri. This book was released on 2024-11-05. Toward a New Art of Border Crossing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways—with degrees of closure or openness. The logics of stasis and closure, as well as cults of exclusivist and exclusionary sovereignty, are reflected and embodied in the closed xenophobic conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders and margins. But, an open conceptualization of the borderlands, where mixing and hybridity take place at a rapid, even dizzying, pace, gives rise to Creolization—at the threshold of sovereignties, which can also be imagined. At present, our border zones are spaces of anxiety-ridden security arrangements, violence and death. The existing politics of boundary maintenance is wedded to a cult of sovereignty at various levels, which produces bare lives, bodies and lands. We need the new art of border-crossing to be defined by the notion of camaraderie and shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. Border zones can also be zones of meetings, communication, transcendence and festive celebration of the limits of our identities. Thus, we need a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, transformation and transcendence, in the broadest possible sense, that entails the production of spatial, scalar, somatic, cognitive, affective and spiritual transitions.
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 write by John T. Soister. This book was released on 2014-01-10. American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.
