Refocus The Films Of Sohrab Shahid Saless

Author : Fatehrad Azadeh Fatehrad
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474456413
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Sohrab Shahid-Saless written by Fatehrad Azadeh Fatehrad and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this - the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement - a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods. Outlining his affinity with celebrated directors like Chantal Akerman and Abbas Kiarostami, as well as visual artists like Romuald Karmakar, the contributors firmly position Shahid Saless as a filmmaker who speaks forcefully to the traumas of displacement and migration.

Author : Fatehrad Azadeh Fatehrad
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474456421
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Sohrab Shahid-Saless written by Fatehrad Azadeh Fatehrad and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this - the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement - a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods. Outlining his affinity with celebrated directors like Chantal Akerman and Abbas Kiarostami, as well as visual artists like Romuald Karmakar, the contributors firmly position Shahid Saless as a filmmaker who speaks forcefully to the traumas of displacement and migration.

Author : Matthias Wittmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399509114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counter-memories in Iranian Cinema written by Matthias Wittmann and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter-Memories are memories that are barred from hegemonic history, but are, nevertheless present in cinematic forms. They have the potential to destabilise official narratives and normative orders of remembering. Due to the strategic and artistic interventions of a range of Iranian filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Shahram Mokri, Ali Hatami and Tahmineh Milani, Kianoush Ayari and Rakshan Banietemad, the history of post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema is also structured by counter-memories, with the potential to destabilise officially fabricated success stories of revolution, war and sacred defence. 'Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema' establishes a new framework for understanding the tensions between censorship and resistance, helping to carve out resistant points of remembering both within and outside state-controlled cinema.

Author : Lafontaine Andree Lafontaine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474444601
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan written by Lafontaine Andree Lafontaine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated significant critical interest. A recipient of numerous awards, Dolan has recently taken his career to an international level with The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. As the first book-length study about Dolan, with case studies of key films like Mommy (2014), Tom at the Farm (2013) and It's Only the End of the World (2016), this volume explores the global reach of small national and subnational cinemas. In particular, it uses Dolan's cinema as a departure point to reconsider the position of Qubec film and cultural imaginary within a global cinematic culture, as well as the intersections between national, millennial and queer filmmaking.

Author : Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474477628
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad written by Maryam Ghorbankarimi and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view.

Author : Therese Grisham
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813574935
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ida Lupino, Director written by Therese Grisham and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American society, on topics such as rape, polio, unwed motherhood, bigamy, exploitative sports, and serial murder. The first in-depth study devoted to Lupino’s directorial work, this book makes a strong case for her as a trailblazing feminist auteur, a filmmaker with a clear signature style and an abiding interest in depicting the plights of postwar American women. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers.

Author : Vida T. Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208873
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky written by Vida T. Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films—a very difficult task in any case—must read it." —The Russian Review "This book is a model of contextual and textual analysis. . . . the Tarkovsky myth is stripped of many of its shibboleths and the thematic structure and coherence of his work is revealed in a fresh and stimulating manner." —Europe-Asia Studies "[This book,] with its wealth of new research and critical insight, has set the standard and should certainly inspire other writers to keep on trying to collectively explore the possible meanings of Tarkovsky's film world." —Canadian Journal of Film Studies "For Tarkovsky lovers as well as haters, this is an essential book. It might make even the haters reconsider." —Cineaste This definitive study, set in the context of Russian cultural history, throws new light on one of the greatest—and most misunderstood—filmmakers of the past three decades. The text is enhanced by more than 60 frame enlargements from the films.

Author : Erika Balsom
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543123
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Uniqueness written by Erika Balsom and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this contemporary vantage point, After Uniqueness traces the ambivalence of reproducibility through the intersecting histories of experimental cinema and the moving image in art, examining how artists, filmmakers, and theorists have found in the copy a utopian promise or a dangerous inauthenticity—or both at once. From the sale of film in limited editions on the art market to the downloading of bootlegs, from the singularity of live cinema to video art broadcast on television, Erika Balsom investigates how the reproducibility of the moving image has been embraced, rejected, and negotiated by major figures including Stan Brakhage, Leo Castelli, and Gregory Markopoulos. Through a comparative analysis of selected distribution models and key case studies, she demonstrates how the question of image circulation is central to the history of film and video art. After Uniqueness shows that distribution channels are more than neutral pathways; they determine how we encounter, interpret, and write the history of the moving image as an art form.

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859846261
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close Up written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbas Kiarostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film A Taste of Cherry in 1997. In this book Hamid Dabashi examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema from its origins in the films of Kimiyai and Mehrjui, through the work of established directors such as Kiarostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young filmmakers like Samira Makhmalbaf and Bahman Qobadi, who triumphed at the Cannes 2000 festival. Dabashi combines exclusive interviews with directors, detailed and insightful commentary, critical cultural context, an extensive filmography, and generous illustration to provide an indispensable guide to a globally celebrated but little-studied cinematic genre. Book jacket.

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474456030
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry written by Marcelline Block and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.