From Intimate Pleasures to Spectacular Vistas - 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 From Intimate Pleasures to Spectacular Vistas write by Tom Brown. This book was released on 2007. From Intimate Pleasures to Spectacular Vistas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture
The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture - 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 Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture write by Tom Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture. From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and "real lives." Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre.
Fluid New York
Fluid New York - 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 Fluid New York write by May Joseph. This book was released on 2013-07-02. Fluid New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands. Yet the storm also revealed the resilience of a metropolis that has started during the past decade to reckon with its aqueous topography. In Fluid New York, May Joseph describes the many ways that New York, and New Yorkers, have begun to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future. For instance, by cleaning its tidal marshes, the municipality has turned a previously dilapidated waterfront into a space for public leisure and rejuvenation. Joseph considers New York's relation to the water that surrounds and defines it. Her reflections reach back to the city's heyday as a world-class port—a past embodied in a Dutch East India Company cannon recently unearthed from the rubble at the World Trade Center site—and they encompass the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They suggest that New York's future lies in the reclamation of its great water resources—for artistic creativity, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability.
Spectacular Sins
Spectacular Sins - 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 Spectacular Sins write by John Piper. This book was released on 2008. Spectacular Sins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Piper poignantly shares what God wants us to know about his sovereignty and Christ's supremacy when we encounter sin or tragedy.
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas - 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 Spectacle in Classical Cinemas write by Tom Brown. This book was released on 2015-08-11. Spectacle in Classical Cinemas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s brings a fresh perspective on the role of the spectacular in classical sound cinema by focusing on one decade of cinema (the 1930s), in two ‘modes’ of filmmaking (musical and historical films), and in two national cinemas (the US and France). This not only brings to light the special rhetorical and affective possibilities offered by spectacular images but refines our understanding of what ‘classical’ cinema is and was.
