Cinema Memories

Author : Catherine Portuges
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207821
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Memories written by Catherine Portuges and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... excellent... " --Slavic Review "... displays a depth of scholarship and breadth of research which in the main is distilled into a fascinating read. At last Mészáros is getting the attention she deserves." --Sight and Sound "Drawing on personal reminiscences, interviews with Meszaros, and critiques of individual films, Portuges delineates in detailed and convincing fashion the cultural contradictions surrounding Meszaros and her art." --Signs "This book provides engaging insight to works by one of Hungary's best contemporary filmmakers, Márta Mészáros." --Canadian Slavonic Papers A fascinating exploration of the culture of post-Stalinist Eastern Europe through a detailed study of the achievements of its foremost woman director--and revealing interviews with the filmmaker and her collaborators. Márta Mészáros's visual representations of youth, sexual difference, and class conflict challenged official socialist versions of gender, family relations, and workers' lives. Her films include documentaries and features and the recently completed Diary of My Father and Mother.

Author : Matthias Wittmann
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474479769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema written by Matthias Wittmann and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.

Author : Amresh Sinha
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023116193X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennial Cinema written by Amresh Sinha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : John Seamon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029715
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Movies written by John Seamon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about memory? In this book, John Seamon shows how examining the treatment of memory in popular movies can shed new light on how human memory works. After explaining that memory is actually a diverse collection of independent systems, Seamon uses examples from movies to offer an accessible, nontechnical description of what science knows about memory function and dysfunction. In a series of lively encounters with numerous popular films, he draws on Life of Pi and Avatar, for example, to explain working memory, used for short-term retention. He describes the process of long-term memory with examples from such films as Cast Away and Groundhog Day; The Return of Martin Guerre, among other movies, informs his account of how we recognize people; the effect of emotion on autobiographical memory is illustrated by The Kite Runner, Titanic, and other films; movies including Born on the Fourth of July and Rachel Getting Married illustrate the complex pain of traumatic memories. Seamon shows us that movies rarely get amnesia right, often using strategically timed blows to the protagonist's head as a way to turn memory off and then on again (as in Desperately Seeking Susan). Finally, he uses movies including On Golden Pond and Amour to describe the memory loss that often accompanies aging, while highlighting effective ways to maintain memory function.

Author : Makoto Shinkai
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1975315685
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Words written by Makoto Shinkai and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On rainy mornings, Takao can never bring him-self to go to school-instead, he spends that time at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and finds a brief reprieve from everything else in his life among the trees and flowers. And on one of those mornings, he discovers a mysterious woman named Yukino in his haven, skipping work, and an unlikely friendship blooms between them. But though these two are the center of this story, they are far from the only ones trying to find their way in life. From director Makoto Shinkai comes a deeper look at his award-winning 2013 film, The Garden of Words, full of additional scenes and perspectives to show a whole new side of the many characters who brought the film to life.

Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239880
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema Memories written by Melvyn Stokes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste of Honey, The Sound of Music, Darling, Blow-Up, Alfie, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde. Drawing on first-hand accounts, authors Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones and Emma Pett explore how cinema-goers constructed meanings from the films they watched - through a complex process of negotiation between the films concerned, their own social and cultural identities, and their awareness of changes in British society. Their analysis helps the reader see what light the cultural memory of 1960s cinema-going sheds on how the Sixties in Britain is remembered and interpreted. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to their audiences.

Author : Deborah Allison
Publisher : Pilea Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phoenix Picturehouse: 100 Years of Oxford Cinema Memories written by Deborah Allison and published by Pilea Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phoenix is one of only a handful of British cinemas to have remained active for the past 100 years. This is the story of Oxford’s oldest continuously operating cinema, as told by its staff and customers. Featuring first-hand reminiscences dating back to the days of silent movies, and illustrated with a fabulous collection of over 100 images, many of which have never appeared in print until now, 'The Phoenix Picturehouse' presents a wide-ranging account of a popular local institution whose changing fortunes exemplify a century of British cinema and cinemagoing history.

Author : Karen L. Ishizuka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230873
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mining the Home Movie written by Karen L. Ishizuka and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the home movie as a tool for extracting historical and social insights.

Author : Ivy I-chu Chang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811335672
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity written by Ivy I-chu Chang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the aesthetics and politics of Post/Taiwan-New-Cinema by examining fifteen movies by six directors and frequent award winners in international film festivals. The book considers the works of such prominent directors as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang and Chang Tsuo-chi and their influence on Asian films, as well as emergent phenomenal directors such as Wei Te-sheng, Zero Chou, and Chung Mong-hong. It also explores the possibility of transnational and trans-local social sphere in the interstices of layered colonial legacies, nation-state domination, and global capitalism. Considering Taiwan cinema in the wake of globalization, it analyses how these films represent the socio-political transition among multiple colonial legacies, global capitalism, and the changing cross-strait relation between Taiwan and the Mainland China. The book discusses how these films represent nomadic urban middle class, displaced transnational migrant workers, roaming children and young gangsters, and explores how the continuity/disjuncture of globalization has not only carved into historical and personal memories and individual bodies, but also influenced the transnational production modes and marketing strategies of cinema.

Author : Paul Grainge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137534
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and popular film written by Paul Grainge and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist approaches to memory, explores questions of culture, power and identity. Contributes to the growing debate about the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse, discussing issues of memory in film, and of film as memory. Considers such well known films as Forrest Gump, Pleasantville, and Jackie Brown.