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Daniel Calparsoro

by Davies, Ann, Manchester University Press

fromSpanish and Latin American filmmakers

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Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as a purveyor of crude violence by those critics lamenting a 'lost golden age' of S…

Reframing difference: beur and banlieue filmmaking in France

by Tarr, Carrie, Manchester University Press

fromManchester Film Studies

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'Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema, cinema beur (films by young directors of Maghrebi immigrant origin) and cinema de banlieue (films set in France's disadvantaged outer-city estates). Carrie Tarr's insightful …

Five directors: auteurism from Assayas to Ozon

by Manchester University Press

fromFrench film directors

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Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the…

Contemporary Korean cinema: culture, identity and politics

by Lee, Hyangjin, Manchester University Press

fromManchester Film Studies

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'The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people i…

Adapting philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and The Matrix trilogy

by Constable, Catherine, Manchester University Press

fromManchester Film Studies

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Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as a simple 'beginner's guide' to …

Jacques Rivette

by Morrey, Douglas, Smith, Alison, Manchester University Press

fromFrench film directors

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'Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. A founding figure in the New Wave, and at the centre of the Cahiers du cinéma team, he developed into one of the most unusual and adventurous French directors of the last sixty years, yet his work remains little-…