Cinema And The Invention Of Modern Life

Author : Leo Charney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520201125
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life written by Leo Charney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is one of the finest, freshest, and most suggestive anthologies I've come across in recent years."—Stuart Liebman, City University of New York Graduate Center

Author : Leo Charney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520916425
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life written by Leo Charney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.

Author : Leo Charney
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320906
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Moments written by Leo Charney and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative reconceptualization of the defining quality of modernity and how it relates to cinema and literary theory.

Author : Ivone Margulies
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330660
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rites of Realism written by Ivone Margulies and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays rethinking and reviving realism as a focus for film theory, particularly emphasizing the relation of the genre to issues of the body./div

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221680
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Realities written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting, innovative, and significant work. The author points to how the crowd experience transcended class and gender divisions and was transformed from acts of collective violence into acts of collective consumption."—Michael B. Miller, author of Shanghai on the Métro

Author : Haidee Wasson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520241312
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Movies written by Haidee Wasson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, the foundation of the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York marked the transformation of the film medium from a passing amusement to an enduring art form. Haidee Wasson maps the work of the MoMA film library as it pioneered the preservation of film & promoted the concept of art cinema.

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813595169
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Film, Third Edition written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226982386
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Amorous History of the Silver Screen written by Zhang Zhen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in 1937, all of this came to a screeching halt. Until recently, the political establishment has discouraged comprehensive studies of the cultural phenomenon of early Chinese film, and this momentous chapter in China's history has remained largely unexamined. The first sustained historical study of the emergence of cinema in China, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen is a fascinating narrative that illustrates the immense cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. Named after a major feature film on the making of Chinese cinema, only part of which survives, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen reveals the intricacies of this cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, architecture, drama, and literature. In light of original archival research, Zhang Zhen examines previously unstudied films and expands the important discussion of how they modeled modern social structures and gender roles in early twentieth-century China. The first volume in the new and groundbreaking series Cinema and Modernity, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen is an innovative—and well illustrated—look at the cultural history of Chinese modernity through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.

Author : Jacqueline Reich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017483
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema written by Jacqueline Reich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film, to bourgeois gentleman, to Alpine soldier of the Great War, to colonial officer in Italy's African adventures. Reich reveals Maciste as a figure who both reflected classical ideals of masculine beauty and virility (later taken up by Mussolini and used for political purposes) and embodied the model Italian citizen. The 12 films at the center of the book, recently restored and newly accessible to a wider public, together with relevant extra-cinematic materials, provide a rich resource for understanding the spread of discourses on masculinity, and national and racial identities during a turbulent period in Italian history. The volume includes an illustrated appendix documenting the restoration and preservation of these cinematic treasures.

Author : Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520249739
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood in the Neighborhood written by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood in the Neighborhood presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland—the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the growing national mass media, their essays chart how motion pictures so quickly and successfully moved into old opera houses and glittering new picture palaces on Main Streets across America.