This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagem…
Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century is an exploration of the general concept of ""Spanishness"" as all things related to Spain, specifically as the multiple meanings of ""Spanishness"" and the different ways of being Spanish a
This book presents a radical reappraisal of one of the most persistent and misunderstood aspects of British cinema: social realism. Through means of close textual analysis, David Forrest advances the case that social realism has provided British national culture with a consisten…
"New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the 'illusion of motion' as part of the ideological swindl…
"A collection of essays that explores the various roles ghosts have played in motion pictures, spanning a range of time periods, genres and nations"--
"Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema is a frank, comprehensive and insightful analysis of the cinema's long love affair with the erotic - and how society is reflected through the many and bitter censorship battles that accompanied all attempts by filmm…
Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines…
Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines…
"Soul of the Documentary' offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from 'The…
As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multicu…
'Cinema From Scotland' has attained an unprecedented international profile in the decade or so since 'Shallow Grave' (1995) and 'Trainspotting' (1996) impinged on the consciousness of audiences and critics around the world.
"This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki-to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessar…
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a to…
This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimen…
Audiovisual translation has attracted the attention of many researchers in the years since it became recognised as an academic discipline with an established theory of translation. For its part, cinema is one of today's most powerful and influential media, and the vast number of…
Ever since the centenary of cinema there have been intense discussions in the fields of film studies about the imminent demise of the cinematic medium, endless articles championing the spirit of genuine cinephilia have proclaimed the death of classical cinema and mourned the end…
Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been hailed by some critics as Pedro Almodóvar's masterpiece. Yet like most of Almodóvar'…
What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody "realism" or "truth," but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our notion of reality or truth to be understood? For film and media students and mak…
Though Ingmar Bergman became famous as a filmmaker, his roots-and, to some extent, his heart-were in the theater. He directed more than one hundred plays in his career, and The Serious Game takes a close look at fourteen productions he staged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sto…
Though Ingmar Bergman became famous as a filmmaker, his roots--and, to some extent, his heart--was in the theater. He directed more than one hundred plays in his career, and The Serious Game takes a close look at fourteen productions he staged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in St…
