Of kisses and ellipses : the long adolescence of American movies (1896/1963) -- Going all the way : carnal knowledge on American screens (1961/1971) -- Going further : Last tango in Paris, Deep throat, and Boys in the sand (1971/1972) -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes hom…
"For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In …
This title brings Deleuze's writings on cinema into contact with world cinema, drawing on examples ranging from Georges Méliès to Michael Mann.
Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was celebrated for his 1960s black and white trilogy--L'avventura, La Notte, L'eclisse. But this book demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, his greatest works. The author discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up…
What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge
"What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain idea of cinema. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema's distinct valu…
What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge
What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge
What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain idea of cinema. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema's distinct value…
Tapping a rich vein of phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to film, this book explores how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'. Jenny Chamarette brings theorizations of phenomenology from philosophy, psychology and a…