Cycling and 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 Cycling and Cinema write by Bruce Bennett. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Cycling and Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world. In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child's toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.
Culture on Two Wheels
Culture on Two Wheels - 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 Culture on Two Wheels write by Jeremy Withers. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Culture on Two Wheels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"--
Hollywood Rides a Bike
Hollywood Rides a Bike - 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 Hollywood Rides a Bike write by Steven Rea. This book was released on 2012. Hollywood Rides a Bike available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long before cycling was uber-trendy, the hottest film stars were pedalling their way to glory on the big screen. Renowned film critic Steven Rea presents a stunning homage to the humble bicycle by showing Hollywood's biggest stars on two (and sometimes three) wheels. This beautiful collection of over 125 rare vintage photographs showcases classic stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart... on wheels! Hollywood Rides a Bike includes a special index about bikes especially for cycling aficionados, as well as an index devoted to a 'Who's Who' of Hollywood.
The Yellow Jersey
The Yellow Jersey - 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 Yellow Jersey write by Ralph Hurne. This book was released on 2016-04-24. The Yellow Jersey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This is sports fiction at its very best. Mr. Hurne has a cool, downbeat style descended from Lardner and Hemingway, and a fine hand with the hairpin turns of suspense.” —The New York Times Book Review “The greatest cycling novel ever written. . . . An underground classic. . . . A cycling book that follows a different course—one with drama and characters you can relate to, whose actions raise questions about life on and off the bicycle. . . . The heart of The Yellow Jersey is the Tour de France itself, which Hurne views as a metaphor for life. . . . Thoroughly entertaining.” —Bicycling “Full of wit, charm, excitement, and intelligence.” —Publishers Weekly Terry Davenport is nearly washed up. After a career of good but never great bicycle racing in Europe, he is past his prime, and given lately to chasing women rather than leading the pack through the Alps. He contemplates how he might find a comfortable retirement, and is wallowing in an existential crisis. But his final Tour de France—which he rides only as a favor to his young protegé, to pace him through the early stages—develops by a series of accidents into the chance of a lifetime. And though Davenport is old, he is wily and tough and fearless. His arduous, painful, heroic performance in the face of impossible odds is unforgettable. A sports thriller—with stunning descriptions of competitive cycling—and a keen meditation on mortality, The Yellow Jersey is an extraordinary novel.
Widescreen Cinema
Widescreen 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 Widescreen Cinema write by John Belton. This book was released on 1992. Widescreen Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Ladies and gentlemen: THIS IS CINERAMA." With these words, on September 30, 1952, the heavy red curtains in New York's Broadway Theatre opened on a panoramic Technicolor image of the Rockaways Playland Atom-Smasher Roller Coaster--and moviegoers were abruptly plunged into a new and revolutionary experience. The cinematic transformation heralded by this giddy ride was, however, neither as sudden nor as straightforward as it seemed. Widescreen Cinema leads us through the twists and turns and decades it took for film to change its shape and, along the way, shows how this fitful process reflects the vagaries of cultural history. Widescreen and wide-film processes had existed since the 1890s. Why, then, John Belton asks, did 35mm film become a standard? Why did a widescreen revolution fail in the 1920s but succeed in the 1950s? And why did movies shrink again in the 1960s, leaving us with the small screen multiplexes and mall cinemas that we know today? The answers, he discovers, have as much to do with popular notions of leisure time and entertainment as with technology. Beginning with film's progress from peepshow to projection in 1896 and focusing on crucial stages in film history, such as the advent of sound, Belton puts widescreen cinema into its proper cultural context. He shows how Cinerama, CinemaScope, Vista Vision, Todd-AO, and other widescreen processes marked significant changes in the conditions of spectatorship after World War 11 -and how the film industry itself sought to redefine those conditions. The technical, the economic, the social, the aesthetic -every aspect of the changes shaping and reshaping film comes under Belton's scrutiny as he reconstructs the complex history of widescreen cinema and relates this history to developments in mass-produced leisure-time entertainment in the twentieth century. Highly readable even at its most technical, this book illuminates a central episode in the evolution of cinema and, in doing so, reveals a great deal about the shifting fit between film and society.
