"Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It examines the sociocultural contexts intrinsic to cinema from milieus like the USSR/Russia, China, Japan, France, the US, …
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The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos
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"Yorgos Lanthimos is among the most critically understudied figures of 21st century cinema. With directorial credits ranging from the romantic comedy My Best Friend, to festival hits The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, to Academy Award-winning epics like The Favourite,…
"The first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the vast global workforce, suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives"--
"Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining Blanchot's sugg…
"Myths such as Narcissus' reflection, Pandora's box, and Plato's cave have been used to frame modern technological dangers; often to describe people absorbed in their own digital reflections. Such speculation either purports that technology has a magical power or else that techn…
"If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American…
"If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American…
"Explores the relationship between film and the concept of Romanticism, analyzing the cultural image of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), including the ways that he and his music has been represented in films"--
"Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: 'the mode of production,' 'ideology,' and 'mediation.' In explaining how these concepts operate …
"Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: 'the mode of production, ' 'ideology, ' and 'mediation.' In explaining how these concepts operat…
After Kubrick: a filmmaker's legacy
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Type: Book
"Assesses the influence and legacy of Stanley Kubrick's films and thought in 21st century cinema and culture"--
"Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruc…
"This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body of writing from the silent era to the present"--
"Making Media Theory is an investigation and demonstration of hands-on approaches to the study and practice of Media Theory"--
