Film studies

The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema

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This text provides a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema. It addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is, at the so-called period of crisis of national boundary under…

Handbook of film studies

by Renov, Michael, Donald, James

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This text examines the conversations between film studies and its contributory disciplines that not only defined a new field of discourse, but also modified existing scholarly traditions. The book also reflects on the field's dominant paradigms and debates, and evaluates their c…

Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film

by Khitrova, Daria, Tynianov, Yuri

fromCultural syllabus

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Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson. Tynianov developed a groundbreaking conceptualization of literature as a system within--and in constant interaction …

The Breakfast Club: Youth Identity and Generational Conflict in the G…

by Nelson, Elissa

fromCinema and youth cultures

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"The Breakfast Club is often classified as a quintessential teen film. The film spoke to the generation coming of age at during the 1980s with a story that got to the heart of the conflict between adults and young adults, that understood both the camaraderie and the pressures of…

Alice in Wonderland in film and popular culture

by Sanna, Antonio

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This book examines the many reincarnations of Carrolls texts, illuminating how the meaning of the original books has been re-negotiated through adaptations, appropriations, and transmediality. The volume is an edited collection of eighteen essays and is divided into three sectio…

What is Japanese cinema?: a history

by Yomota, Inohiko

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"What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In this book, Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan's modern a…

Transnational cinema: the film reader

by Ezra, Elizabeth, Rowden, Terry

fromIn Focus--Routledge Film Readers

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Topics include: from national to transnational cinema; global cinema in the digital age; motion pictures: film, migration and diaspora; tourists and terrorists.

Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

by Balsom, Erika

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Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging stu…

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy

by Mayer, Vicki

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected milli…

Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology

by Trifonova, Temenuga

fromFilm culture in transition

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Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a …