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From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
Univ. Toronto Press | 2008 | ISBN 0802098851 | 224 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumière challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text.
Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumière brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumière includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.
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The Sweet Hereafter
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Director:Atom Egoyan
Writers:Atom Egoyan
Country: Canada
Year: 1997
Runtime: 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Earl Pastko, Tom McCamus, Caerthan Banks, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Maury Chaykin, Stephanie Morgenstern
The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks. The Sweet Hereafter won three awards at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival: the FIPRESCI Prize, the Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It won Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (Holm), and three other prizes at the Genie Awards for Canadian Films. It was also nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 70th Academy Awards.
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A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way to the sweet hereafter.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 20 nominations
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Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television
Oxford University Press | 400 Pages | 1991-02-28 | ISBN-10: 0195067800 | PDF | 20 Mb
This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. Image makers--photographers and filmmakers--are coming under increasing criticism for presenting images of people that are considered intrusive and embarrassing to the subject. Portraying subjects in a "false light," appropriating their images, and failing to secure "informed consent" are all practices that intensify the debate between advocates of the right to privacy and the public's right to know. Discussing these questions from a variety of perspectives, the authors here explore such issues as informed consent, the "right" of individuals and minority groups to be represented fairly and accurately, the right of individuals to profit from their own image, and the peculiar moral obligations of minorities who image themselves and the producers of autobiographical documentaries.
The book includes a series of provocative case studies on: the documentaries of Frederick Wiseman, particularly Titicut Follies; British documentaries of the 1930s; the libel suit of General Westmoreland against CBS News; the film Witness and its portrayal of the Amish; the film The Gods Must be Crazy and its portrayal of the San people of southern Africa; and the treatment of Arabs and gays on television. The first book to explore the moral issues peculiar to the production of visual images, Image Ethics will interest a wide range of general readers and students and specialists in film and television production, photography, communications, media, and the social sciences.
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Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations
McFarland & Company | 2002 | ISBN: 0786413492 | 229 pages | siPDF | 6.5 MB
Jane Austen’s career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared, first Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma.
This book traces the history of film and television adaptations (nearly 30 to date) of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art. The first of seven chapters explains why the novels of Jane Austen have become a popular source of film and television adaptations.
The following six chapters each cover one of Austen’s novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main events of the novel. Then a history of the adaptations is presented followed by an analysis of the unique qualities of each adaptation, a comparison of these adaptations to each other and to the novels on which they are based, and a reflection of relevant film and literary criticism as it applies to the adaptations.
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Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
JHU Press | 2008 | ISBN 0801888026 | 152 Pages | PDF OCR | 2.8 MB
In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy?
Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema
Pluto Press | 2001 | ISBN 0745316697 | PDF | 170 pages | 10.4 MB
Third cinema--cinema committed to social and cultural emancipation--is absolutely central to key debates concerning contemporary film practices and cultures. In this volume, Mike Wayne develops Third Cinema theory by exploring its dialectical relations with First Cinema (dominant, commercial) and Second Cinema (arthouse, auteur). Discussing an eclectic range of films, from Evita to Dollar Mambo, The Big Lebowski to The Journey, Amistad to camp de Thiaroye, Wayne explores the affinities and crucial difference between First and Third Cinema. Third Cinema's relationship to Second Cinema is explored via the cinematic figure of the Bandot. The continuities and differences with European precursors such as Einstein, Vertov, Lukacs, Brecht, and Walter Benjamin are also assessed. The book is a polemical call for a film criticism that is politically engaged with the life of the masses.
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Film Music (Pocket Essential series)
Pocket Essentials | 2001 | ISBN: 1903047633 | Pages: 93 | PDF | 1.03 MB
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Classical purists say it isn't "real" music, yet it regularly tops charts and plays to sell-out concert hall audiences. This book looks at such topics as who have been the most influential composers, which scores have best served a film and why, and what have been the historical, social, and technological changes that have affected the industry. From Ben Hur to Star Wars and Psycho to Scream, film music has played an essential role in such genre-defining classics.
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Pocket Essentials | 2005-09-01 | ISBN 1904048498 | PDF | 160 pages | 1.0 MB
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book looks at the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, director of the legendary Solaris—the "Soviet 2001"—and Andrei Rublev, widely regarded as being one of the greatest films of all time. Sean Martin considers the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, starting with the classic student film The Steamroller and The Violin and working across his full-length films to later stage works and writings, paintings, and photographs.
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Kristeva in Focus: From Theory to Film Analysis
Berghan | 2010 | ISBN 1845456122 | 238 Pages | PDF OCR | 12 MB
Kristeva in Focus: From Theory to Film Analysis draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva to shed light on some of the major themes in film narratives. The author looks at how new narratives emerge, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love. Kristeva in Focus offers a thorough introduction to Julia Kristeva's work. While it clearly demonstrates how these may be applied to film analysis, it is also an excellent general introduction to Kristeva's main concepts. The major films for analysis are a set that attracted the label New Wave New Zealand films": Alison Maclean's Kitchen Sink and Crush; Vincent Ward's Vigil; Jane Campion's Sweetie, An Angel At My Table, and The Piano.
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The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies
University of California Press | 2006 | ISBN 0520232275 | 309 Pages | PDF | 2.55 MB
"David Bordwell is our best writer on the cinema. He is deeply informed about films, he loves them, and he writes about them with a clarity and perception that makes the prose itself a joy to read. Because he sees movies so freshly and deeply he isn't deceived by the usual categories and finds excellence and experiment in unexpected places." - Roger Ebert "There is no shortage of scholarly literature on contemporary Hollywood, but none of it lives up to the standards set by Bordwell here.
The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick
Facts on File | 422 Pages | 2002 | ISBN 0816043884 | 6,3 MB | PDF
From anti-war dramas such as "Paths of Glory" to the complexity of his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut", controversial film director Stanley Kubrick always commanded his audience's attention. This encyclopaedia offers complete coverage of his life and the 13 feature films he directed, including "2001, A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange",and "The Shining". In-depth entries survey: the actors who performed in his films, the writers with whom he collaborated, key members of his crew, inspiration for his movies; music and composers for his films, and recurring themes and genres.
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Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir
Pennsylvania State Univ Press | 348 Pages | 2008 | ISBN 0271033444 | 4,2 MB | PDF
In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir to black American cinema. This book is the first to examine these artistic innovations in detail from a philosophical perspective informed by both cognitive film theory and critical race theory.
A Companion to Luis Buñuel
Tamesis Books | 186 Pages | 2005 | ISBN 185566108X | 2 MB | PDF
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century, his films invariably included in the critics' lists of the top 100. Born in the Spanish village of Calanda and shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group.
The Companion to Literature on Screen
Cambridge University Press | 288 Pages | 2007 | ISBN 0521614864 | 1,4 MB | PDF
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole pres an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
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An Eye For Hitchcock
Rutgers University Press | 320 Pages | 2004 | ISBN 0813533945 | 1,6 MB | PDF
Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films are extraordinarily famous and have been seen - and misunderstood - countless times: "North by Northwest" and "Vertigo".
Ethnographic Film
University of Texas Press | ISBN: 0292714580 | PDF | 181 pages | 2006 | 1 MB
Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists." Choice "This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read it. In this new edition, Karl G. Heider thoroughly updates Ethnographic Film to reflect developments in the field over the three decades since its publication, focusing on the work of four seminal filmmakers—Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch.
Theorizing the Moving Image
Cambridge UP | 1996 | ISBN 0521460492 | 440 Pages | PDF | 6.5 MB
Theorizing the Moving Image brings together a selection of essays written by one of the leading critics of film over the past two decades. In this volume, Noël Carroll examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary, and comedy, and such topics as sight gags, film metaphor, point-of-view editing, and movie music.
Engaging the Moving Image
Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300091958 | 2003 | PDF | 448 pages | 14,5 Mb
Noel Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television-what Carroll calls "moving images." The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism.
Film's Musical Moments
Edinburgh University Press | ISBN 0748623442 | July 2007 | PDF | 226 Pages | 0.7MB
This book is about musical performance on film, about the use of music within film and it is about film musicals: a triple focus that articulates the complex relationship that exists between music and the cinematic text. The different ways in which musical performance and the diegetic or non-diegetic use of music overlap, intersect or operate in distinction, has been the focus for a range of academic debates and discussions since the mid 1990s. It was with these considerations in mind that we developed this collection of essays.
Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film
704 pages | Publisher: Routledge | 2009 | ISBN: 0415771668
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The "Companion" features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: issues and concepts; authors and trends; genres; and, film as philosophy.
