The Promise 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 The Promise of Cinema write by Anton Kaes. This book was released on 2016-03-01. The Promise of Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of “theory” not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernity’s most powerful new medium. We encounter lesser-known essays by Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin, and Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology. The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive collection of German writings on film published to date, The Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture and history.
Visions of Japanese Modernity
Visions of Japanese 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 Visions of Japanese Modernity write by Aaron Andrew Gerow. This book was released on 2010. Visions of Japanese Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this study, Aaron Gerow focuses on the early period in which the institutional and narrational structure of Japanese cinema was in flux, arguing that the transnational intertext is less important than the power-laden operations by which the meaning of cinema itself was discursively defined. Both progressive critics of the 'pure film' movement and the more conservative Japanese cultural bureaucrats demanded a unitary text that suppressed the hybrid and unpredictable meanings attendant on early Japanese cinema's informal exhibition contexts. Gerow points out the irony that the progressive and individualist pure film movement critics worked in concert with the Japanese state to undo the 'theft' of Japanese cinema, proposing to replace representations of Japan in Western films by exporting a Japanese cinema 'reformed' to emulate the international norm.
Anti-Heimat Cinema
Anti-Heimat 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 Anti-Heimat Cinema write by Ofer Ashkenazi. This book was released on 2020-09-08. Anti-Heimat Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers’ contemplations of “Heimat”—a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity—it analyzes their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968. In its emphasis on rootedness and homogeneity Heimat seemed to challenge the validity and significance of Jewish emancipation. Several acculturation-seeking Jewish artists and intellectuals, however, endeavored to conceive a notion of Heimat that would rather substantiate their belonging. This book considers Jewish filmmakers’ contribution to this endeavor. It shows how they devised the landscapes of the German “Homeland” as Jews, namely, as acculturated “outsiders within.” Through appropriation of generic Heimat imagery, the films discussed in the book integrate criticism of national chauvinism into German mainstream culture from World War I to the Cold War. Consequently, these Jewish filmmakers anticipated the anti-Heimat film of the ensuing decades, and functioned as an uncredited inspiration for the critical New German Cinema.
Childhood and Cinema
Childhood 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 Childhood and Cinema write by Vicky Lebeau. This book was released on 2008-05-15. Childhood and Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.
Weimar Cinema
Weimar 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 Weimar Cinema write by Noah William Isenberg. This book was released on 2009. Weimar Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.
