Cinema Of Shadows

Author : Michael West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983740209
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema of Shadows written by Michael West and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of parapsychologists investigate an abandoned movie theater in a small Indiana town where one of the area's most gruesome murders took place.

Author : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364192
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema written by Vicky Lebeau and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lebeau examines the long and uneven history of developments in modern art, science, and technology that brought pychoanalysis and the cinema together towards the end of the nineteenth century. She explores the subsequent encounters between the two: the seductions of psychoanalysis and cinema as converging, though distinct, ways of talking about dream and desire, image and illusion, shock, and sexuality. Beginning with Freud's encounter with the spectacle of hysteria on display in fin-de-siecle Paris, this study offers a detailed reading of the texts and concepts which generated the field of psychoanalytic film theory.

Author : Andrew Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317992903
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Asian Cinema written by Andrew Grossman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore queer themes in films from Hong Kong gangster flicks to Bollywood melodramas! Although Asian films have reached a new height in popularity worldwide, Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade is the first full-length book in English solely devoted to examining the aesthetics and politics of homosexuality in Asian films. This unique book presents multiple points of view on the portrayal of gay, lesbian, and transgendered people in film throughout Asia. From the subversive sadomasochism of Japan's ”pink films” to the hard-boiled world of Hong Kong's gangster movies, Queer Asian Cinema analyzes and discusses attitudes toward homosexuality in the full spectrum of Asian film. In addition to studies of the representation of identified gay men, lesbians, and transgendered individuals, it reveals the hidden homoerotic subtext of otherwise conventional films. Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade examines diverse aspects of Asian films, including: the political and psychological links between feudal and sadomasochist hierarchies the inevitable punishment of homoerotic bonds in gangster films the integration of the homosexual couple into the Confucian family structure in Korean films the complexities of cross-gender casting the differences between transvestism and cross-dressing the definition of male genitalia as obscene Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade brings together experts in both film-making and movie criticism, providing a balanced viewpoint to unite the worlds of academic and popular perceptions on this subject. It opens an exciting discussion of this important and largely neglected area of cinematic discourse.

Author : James Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844578498
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Shadows written by James Bell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317805895
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema written by Nathan Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of experience and meaning, the character of justice, the contrast between appearance and reality, the importance of art, and the impact of images. At the heart of the book is a novel account of the analogy between Plato’s allegory of the cave and cinema, developed in conjunction with a provocative interpretation of the most powerful image from A Clockwork Orange, in which the lead character is strapped to a chair and forced to watch violent films. Key features of the book include: a comprehensive bibliography of suggested readings on Plato, on film, on philosophy, and on the philosophy of film a list of suggested films that can be explored following the approach in this book, including brief descriptions of each film, and suggestions regarding its philosophical implications a summary of Plato’s Republic, book by book, highlighting both dramatic context and subject matter. Offering a close reading of the controversial classic film A Clockwork Orange, and an introductory account of the central themes of the philosophical classic The Republic, this book will be of interest to both scholars and students of philosophy and film, as well as to readers of Plato and fans of Stanley Kubrick.

Author : Jeffrey Skoller
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816642311
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows, Specters, Shards written by Jeffrey Skoller and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how avant-garde films better reflect the complexity of history than conventional film.

Author : Daisuke Miyao
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822354225
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Shadow written by Daisuke Miyao and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion became naturalized as the representation of beauty in Japanese films, situating Japanese cinema within transnational film history. He examines the significant roles lighting played in distinguishing the styles of Japanese film from American and European film and the ways that lighting facilitated the formulation of a coherent new Japanese cultural tradition. Miyao discusses the influences of Hollywood and German cinema alongside Japanese Kabuki theater lighting traditions and the emergence of neon commercial lighting during this period. He argues that lighting technology in cinema had been structured by the conflicts of modernity in Japan, including capitalist transitions in the film industry, the articulation of Japanese cultural and national identity, and increased subjectivity for individuals. By focusing on the understudied element of film lighting and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Miyao offers a rereading of Japanese film history.

Author : Thomas LaMarre
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Screen written by Thomas LaMarre and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluates representations of race, sex, nation, and modernity in the work of a celebrated early 20th-century Japanese filmmaker and critic

Author : Geoffrey Hill
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illuminating Shadows written by Geoffrey Hill and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noël Burch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520071445
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life to Those Shadows written by Noël Burch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being; and the assumption that this language was a universal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or historical meaning in itself." "His major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed -- in the capitalist and imperialist west between 1892 and 1929." "The book examines the chronology of the emergence of what it defines as cinema's Institutional Mode of Representation and the socio-historical circumstances in which this took place. It examines the principles of visualisation -- camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene -- that film-makers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special emphasis is laid on the allimportant change that occurred in the imaginary placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image, implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909), to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject, completed only with the generalisation of lip-synch sound after 1929. It is the contention of this book that this imaginary centering of a sensorily isolated spectator is the keystone of the cinematic illusion of reality, still achieved today by the same means as it was sixty years ago.