Cinematic Fictions

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318122
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Fictions written by David Seed and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the new medium of film, did American novelists attempt to apply cinematic methods in their own writings? From its very beginnings the cinema has played a special role in defining American culture. Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, Cinematic Fictions offers new insights into classics like The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath discussing major writers' critical writings on film and active participation in film-making. Cinematic Fictions is also careful not to portray 'cinema' as a single or stable entity. Some novelists drew on silent film; others looked to the Russian theorists for inspiration; and yet others turned to continental film-makers rather than to Hollywood. Film itself was constantly evolving during the first decades of the twentieth century and the writers discussed here engaged in a kind of dialogue with the new medium, selectively pursuing strategies of montage, limited point of view and scenic composition towards their different ends. Contrasting a diverse range of cinematic and literary movements, this will be compulsory reading for scholars of American literature and film.

Author : Décio Torres Cruz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261814
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Novel and Postmodern Pop Fiction written by Décio Torres Cruz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Décio Torres Cruz approaches connections between literature and cinema partly through issues of gender and identity, and partly through issues of reality and representation. In doing so, he looks at the various ways in which people have thought of the so-called cinematic novel, tracing the development of that genre concept not only in the French ciné-roman and film scenarios but also in novels from the United States, England, France, and Latin America. The main tendency he identifies is the blending of the cinematic novel with pop literature, through allusions to Pop Art and other postmodern cultural trends. His prime exhibits are a number of novels by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth; Heartbreak Tango; The Buenos Aires Affair; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Pubis angelical. Bringing in suggestive sociocultural and psychoanalytical considerations, Cruz shows how, in Puig’s hands, the cinematic novel resulted in a pop collage of different texts, films, discourses, and narrative devices which fused reality and imagination into dream and desire.

Author : Adrienne L. McLean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813563565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Canines written by Adrienne L. McLean and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of "man's best friends" (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen cannot be separated from their increasing presence in our lives over the past century. The representation and visualization of dogs in cinema, as of other animals, has influenced our understanding of what dogs "should" do and be, for us and with us. Adrienne L. McLean expertly shepherds these original essays into a coherent look at "real" dogs in live-action narrative films, from the stars and featured players to the character and supporting actors to those pooches that assumed bit parts or performed as extras. Who were those dogs, how were they trained, what were they made to do, how did they participate as characters in a fictional universe? These are a just a few of the many questions that she and the outstanding group of scholars in this book have addressed. Often dogs are anthropomorphized in movies in ways that enable them to reason, sympathize, understand and even talk; and our shaping of dogs into furry humans has had profound effects on the lives of dogs off the screen. Certain breeds of dog have risen in popularity following their appearance in commercial film, often to the detriment of the dogs themselves, who rarely correspond to their idealized screen versions. In essence, the contributors in Cinematic Canines help us think about and understand the meanings of the many canines that appear in the movies and, in turn, we want to know more about those dogs due in no small part to the power of the movies themselves.

Author : George M. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199594899
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Fictions in Film written by George M. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we view a movie? Do we actually see the fiction, and if so how? Literary fiction is recounted by a voice of some sort--the narrator. George M. Wilson explores the strategies of cinematic narration, and argues that this prompts viewers to imagine seeing and hearing events in the fictional world.

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833732
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adapted for the Screen written by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134904649
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visible Fictions written by John Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a standard textbook combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis draws on his experience as an independent television producer to provide a comprehensive and challenging overview of the place of film, television and video in our daily lives and their future prospects in a changing media landscape.

Author : Thomas W. Benson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809324385
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Fictions written by Thomas W. Benson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than write briefly about each of the many documentary films Wiseman has made over the past 20 years, Benson (rhetoric and communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State U.) and Anderson (communication, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) choose a few representative examples. They interpret the films, look at the rhetorical structures, and explore the people and processes. The first edition was published in 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Rafe McGregor
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529208068
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction written by Rafe McGregor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on complex narratives across film, TV, novels and graphic novels, this authoritative critical analysis demonstrates the value of fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm. McGregor establishes an original theory of the criminological value of fiction.

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136099166
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narration in the Fiction Film written by David Bordwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, David Bordwell offers a comprehensive account of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation, unique features of the film medium, and diverse story-telling patterns to construct their fictional narratives.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classics in Film and Fiction written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the term 'classic', discussing a wide range of films and texts including Jane Eyre, The Tempest and Alice in Wonderland.