Cinema and Its Representations - 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 Cinema and Its Representations write by Hossein Keramatfar. This book was released on 2019-12-11. Cinema and Its Representations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is a timely and necessary intervention as it provides a rich, multifaceted approach to the study of cinema and visual representation. It presents a lucid and intelligent account of twentieth century film criticism essential for students in the fields of media studies and cultural studies. It leads the reader through the major contemporary philosophical and sociocultural theories of appreciating cinematic signs and themes. The book also gathers together informed discussions about the nature and principles of literary adaptation that will greatly benefit anyone interested in this field of study.
Cultures of Representation
Cultures of Representation - 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 Cultures of Representation write by Benjamin Fraser. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Cultures of Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
Cinema, Memory, Modernity
Cinema, Memory, Modernity - 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 Cinema, Memory, Modernity write by Russell J.A. Kilbourn. This book was released on 2013-10-18. Cinema, Memory, Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: the required codes and conventions for understanding and implementing this crucial prosthetic technology — an art of memory for the twentieth-century and beyond.
Performing Difference
Performing Difference - 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 Performing Difference write by Jonathan C. Friedman. This book was released on 2008-12-24. Performing Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing Difference is a compilation of seventeen essays from some of the leading scholars in history, criticism, film, and theater studies. Each author examines the portrayal of groups and individuals that have been traditionally marginalized or excluded from dominant historical narratives. As a meeting point of several fields of study, this book is organized around three meta-themes: race, gender, and genocide. Included are analyses of films and theatrical productions from the United States, as well as essays on cinema from Southern and Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. Topically, the contributing authors write about the depiction of race, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientation, and genocides. This volume assesses how the performing arts have aided in the social construction of the 'other' in differing contexts. Its fundamental premise is that performance is powerful, and its unifying thesis is that the arts remain a major forum for advancing a more nuanced and humane vision of social outcasts, not only in the realm of national imaginations, but in social relations as well.
Questions of Cinema
Questions of 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 Questions of Cinema write by Stephen Heath. This book was released on 1981. Questions of Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -- Semiotica ..". Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -- Voice Literary Supplement Heath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
