Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees - 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 Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees write by Christian Keathley. This book was released on 2005-11-24. Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees is in part a history of cinephilia, in part an attempt to recapture the spirit of cinephilia for the discipline of film studies, and in part an experiment in cinephilic writing. Cinephiles have regularly fetishized contingent, marginal details in the motion picture image: the gesture of a hand, the wind in the trees. Christian Keathley demonstrates that the spectatorial tendency that produces such cinematic encounters -- a viewing practice marked by a drift in visual attention away from the primary visual elements on display -- in fact has clear links to the origins of film as defined by André Bazin, Roland Barthes, and others. Keathley explores the implications of this ontology and proposes the "cinephiliac anecdote" as a new type of criticism, a method of historical writing that both imitates and extends the experience of these fugitive moments.
The Wind in the Trees
The Wind in the Trees - 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 The Wind in the Trees write by Christian Michael Keathley. This book was released on 2000. The Wind in the Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness
Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness - 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 Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness write by Song Hwee Lim. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture. Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. Through detailed analysis of aspects of stillness and silence in cinema, Lim delineates the strategies by which slowness in film can be constructed. By drawing on writings on cinephilia and the films of directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, he makes a passionate case for a slow cinema that calls for renewed attention to the image and to the experience of time in film. Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness will speak to readers with an interest in art cinema, queer studies, East Asian culture, and the question of time. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film and in life, this book invites us to pause and listen, to linger and look, and, above all, to take things slowly.
Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity
Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity - 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 Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity write by Mason Kamana Allred. This book was released on 2017-01-20. Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass media—especially film and television—shaped the content of memories and histories, but they have also shaped their very form. Combining historicization with close readings of German director Ernst Lubitsch's historical films, this book focuses on an early turning point in this development, exploring how the medium of film shaped modern historical experience and understanding—how it moved embodied audiences through moving images.
Audiences
Audiences - 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 Audiences write by Ian Christie. This book was released on 2012. Audiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.
