Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--p…
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Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--p…
Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--p…
A number of writers have attempted to capture Robert Bresson's style as well as his substance with such terms as ""minimalist,"" ""austere,"" ""ascetic,"" ""elliptical,"" ""autonomous,"" ""pure,"" even ""gentle."" Most famously, Paul Schrader once called Bresson's fil.
A number of writers have attempted to capture Robert Bresson's style as well as his substance with such terms as ""minimalist, "" ""austere, "" ""ascetic, "" ""elliptical, "" ""autonomous, "" ""pure, "" even ""gentle."" Most famously, Paul Schrader once called Bresson's fil.
"Most books about American film in the 1970s tell stories about iconoclastic auteurs working in the shadow of the Vietnam War. Stepping away from this tradition, Todd Berliner gives us a bold and compelling study of the strange, paradoxical narrative style of seventies films, wh…
Looking at iconic films including 'The Godfather', 'The French Connection', 'The Exorcist' 'Taxi Driver' and 'A Woman Under the Influence', this book argues that the narrative and stylistic innovations of the 1970s opened a new era in American cinema.
Prologue: overlooked noir -- City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir -- Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films -- Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir -- Joh…
"In Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir, Gene Phillips provides an in-depth examination of several key noir films, including acknowledged masterpieces like Laura, The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, as well as films not often associa…
The philosophy of David Lynch
by Biderman, Shai, Devlin, William J.
fromPhilosophy of popular culture
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We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and exp…