Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz - 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 Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz write by Laleen Jayamanne. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. =1. Develops a theory of poetic cinema through detailed analysis of silent and sound films and establishes link between poetic images and poetic (oblique) modes of acting. 2. Introduces non-Western theoretical ideas outside the purview of Euro-American film theory, such as Henry Corbin's Sufi ideas of the 'Iimaginal World' and 'Cognitive Imagination' to analyse Parjanov's Ashik Kerib, on a Sufi poet. 3. Marcel Mauss' concept of the gift derived from his anthropological study of Maori culture is used to formulate a reciprocal relationship between film and the viewer as a scholar of cinema.
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani - 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 Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani write by Laleen Jayamanne. This book was released on 2014-10-22. The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laleen Jayamanne examines the major works of leading Indian film director, Kumar Shahani, and explores the reaches of modernist film aesthetics in its international form. More than an auteur study, Jayamanne approaches Shahani's films conceptually, as those that reveal cinema's synaesthetic capabilities, or "cinaesthesia." As the author shows, Shahani's cinematic project entails a modern reformulation of the ancient oral tradition of epic narration and performance in order to address the contemporary world, establishing a new cinematic expression, "an epic idiom." As evidenced by his films, constructing cinematic history becomes more than an archival project of retrieval, and is instead a living history of the present which can intervene in the current moment through sensory experiences, propelling thought.
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism - 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 Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism write by Samuel Hodgkin. This book was released on 2023-12-21. Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they affirmed their friendship and solidarity with lyric ghazals and ruba'iyat. Persianate poetry became the cultural commons for a distinctively Eastern internationalism, shaping national literatures in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and South Asia. By the early Cold War, the literary entanglement between Persianate culture and communism had established models for cultural decolonization that would ultimately outlast the Soviet imperial project. In the archive of literature produced under communism in Persian, Tajik, Dari, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian, this book finds a vital alternative to Western globalized world literature.
Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory
Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory - 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 Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory write by David Melbye. This book was released on 2024-08-19. Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension – or, in other words, configuring a ‘landscape’ to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop – and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse. Contributors argue that while audiovisual allegory can be understood as inherently avant-garde, certain kinds of stories – and the ways in which they are presented – can be categorized as a ‘landscape allegory.’ Focusing on the idea of a ‘landscape’ in the most concrete and literal form, contributions drawing from a global spectrum of cultural contexts work toward establishing a fuller and more culturally diverse understanding of landscape allegory in cinema.
A City of Sadness
A City of Sadness - 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 A City of Sadness write by Berenice Reynaud. This book was released on 2019-07-25. A City of Sadness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1989, A City of Sadness introduced Western audiences to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. Its director, Hou Hsiao-hsien is now recognised as one of the most profoundly original auteurs in contemporary cinema. A City of Sadness revisits a painful episode in recent Taiwanese history, creating an elliptical and impressionistic picture of Chiang Kai-shek's takeover of the island after the defeat of his Kuomintang army by Mao Zedong. Taiwan's politics and the suffering of her inhabitants are invoked by Hou in the story of an extended family of four brothers. The first Taiwanese film shot in direct sound, A City of Sadness echoes the forgotten voices of ordinary people facing political repression. Berenice Reynaud deciphers the complex social and historical threads that combine in the film while analysing its aesthetics in the context of Hou's entire career. His journey from being a commercial director to becoming the famed master of long takes and painterly compositions is referred to the history of Taiwanese cinema and the philosophy of forms in Chinese art.
