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Broken screen : 26 conversations with Doug Aitken - expanding the image breaking the narrative / Doug Aitken; edited by Noel Daniel New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006.
Call No: 802 AITAuthor: Aitken, Doug Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Distributed Art PublishersPubDate: 2006PhysDes: 302 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmSubject: AITKEN, DOUG ; AHTILA, EIJA-LIISA ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; ANGER, KENNETH ; BALDESSARI, JOHN ; BARNEY, MATHEW ; BURDEN, CHRIS ; CONNER, BRUCE ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; DOUGLAS, STAN ; ELIASSON, OLAFUR ; FERRO, PABLO ; FIGGIS, MIKE ; HERZOG, WERNER ; HILL, GARY ; HOLLER, CARSTEN ; HUYGHE, PIERRE ; JODOROWSKY, ALEXANDRO ; KOOLHAAS, REM ; LYNN, GREG ; NICOLAI, CARSTEN ; PRINCE, RICHARD ; RIST, PIPILOTTI ; RONDINONE, UGO ; RUSCHA, ED ; VOGEL, AMOS ; WILSON, ROBERT ; OBRIST, HANS ULRICH Summary: Broken Screen is comprised of informal conversations between artist Doug Aitken and a roster of 25 carefully chosen artists, filmmakers, designers, and architects. Part guidebook and part manifesto, the book takes a fresh look at what it's like to create work in a world that has become increasingly fragmentary. Through casual and direct discussions Broken Screen offers a detailed navigation through the ideas behind the important yet under-documented visual language of nonlinear narratives, split screens, and fragmentary visual planes that define the most progressive moving images today.ISBN: 1933045264
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Claire Denis / Judith Mayne Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Call No: 81DEN MAYAuthor: Mayne, Judith Source: USPlace: UrbanaPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: xiv, 167 p. : ill., ports ; 21 cmSeries: Contemporary film directorsSubject: DENIS, CLAIRE ; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; S'EN FOUT LA MORT (FR/GW, Claire Denis, 1990) ; U.S. GO HOME (US, Claire Denis, 1994) ; NENETTE ET BONI (FR, Claire Denis, 1996) ; J'AI PAS SOMMEIL (FR/SZ, Claire Denis, 1994) ; BEAU TRAVAIL [TROUBLE EVERY DAY] (FR/GG/JA, Claire Denis, 1999) ; VENDREDI SOIR (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) Summary: Denis has proven herself to be a key figure in the development of contemporary French cinema beyond its New Wave background and into new directions that explore race, sexuality, desire, postcoloniality, urban life, and everyday culture. [taken from back cover]Notes: Filmography: p147-153.
Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0252072383
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The essay film : dialogue; politics; utopia / edited by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades New York; Chichester, UK: Wallflower Press, 2016.
Call No: 632.22 ESSAuthor: Papazian, Elizabeth A ; Eades, Caroline Edition: 2016Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Wallflower PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xi,315 p. : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; TREE OF LIFE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 2011) ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; MARKER, CHRIS ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; MORETTI, NANNI ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; MALICK, TERRENCE Summary: With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay.
A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Coffea Arábiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film—as process, as experience, as experiment—opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231176958Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades -- Part I: The Essay Film as Dialogue -- 1. Essayism and Contemporary Film Narrative, by Timothy Corrigan -- 2. Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki and the Principle of Shot/Countershot, by Rick Warner -- 3. The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus, from Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) to Claire Denis (2004), by Martine Beugnet -- 4. Cinéma-vérité and Kino-pravda: Rouch, Vertov, and the Essay Form, by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth A. Papazian -- Part II: The Essay Film as Politics -- 5. Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini's Postcolonial Essay Films, by Luca Caminati -- 6. Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle and the Limits of the Essay Film, by Eric Zakim -- 7. A Woman with a Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman's Essay Films, by Anne Eakin Moss -- 8. 'What Does It Mean Today to Be a Communist?': Nanni Moretti's Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films, by Mauro Resmini -- Part III: The Essay Film as Utopia -- 9. Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence, by Laura U. Marks -- 10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián's Subversive Strategy in Coffea Arábiga, by Ernesto Livon-Grosman -- 11. American Essays in How to Build a Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke, by Oliver Gaycken -- 12. 'to speak, to hold, to live by the image': Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency, by Luka Arsenjuk -- Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film, by Laura Rascaroli -- Index
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European cinema and continental philosophy : film as thought experiment / Thomas Elsaesser New York : London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Call No: 630(4) ELSAuthor: Elsaesser, Thomas Edition: 2019Place: New York : LondonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2019PhysDes: x, 342 pages : 24 cmSeries: Thinking cinema; 8Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; AKIN, FATIH ; TRIER, LARS VON ; PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN Summary: This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy.
By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years to come. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781441182210Contents: Chapter 1: European Cinema into the 21st Century: Enlarging the Context? -- Chapter 2: Film as Thought: The 'Film and Philosophy' Debate -- Chapter 3: Film as Thought Experiment -- Chapter 4: “Europe” – A Thought Experiment -- Chapter 5: A Cinema of Abjection? -- Chapter 6: Post-heroic Narratives and the Community-to-Come -- Chapter 7: Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau Travail -- Chapter 8: Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismäki and the Abject Subject: The Man Without A Past -- Chapter 9: “Experimenting with Death in Life” Fatih Akin and the Ethical Turn -- Chapter 10: Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Trier's Melancholia as Thought Experiment -- Chapter 11: Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzold's Barbara -- Chapter 12: Control, Creative Constraints and Self Contradiction: The Global Auteur -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
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Feminist auteurs : reading women's films / Geetha Ramanathan London: Wallflower Press,
Call No: 626:396 RAMAuthor: Ramanathan, Geetha Edition: 2006Place: LondonPublisher: Wallflower PressPhysDes: viii,240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; BORDEN, LIZZIE ; KAPLAN, NELLY ; CHADHA, GURINDER ; DURAS, MARGUERITE ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; VARDA, AGNES ; SANS TOIT NI LOI (FR, Agnes Varda, 1985) ; INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975) ; BHAJI ON THE BEACH (UK, Gurinder Chadha, 1993) ; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (US, Julie Dash, 1991) ; DANZON (MX, Maria Novaro, 1991) ; MALOU (GW, Jeanine Meerapfel, 1981) ; ANTONIA (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995) ; HORA DA ESTRELA, A (BL, Suzana Amaral, 1985) Summary: Feminist Auteurs examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context of feminist film as a genre, Ramanathan examines film from diverse cultural traditions, while paying close attention to what might be regarded as feminist in different cultural contexts. The films chosen expand our ideas of feminism covering as they do film from Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the US. Full-length interpretations of twenty-four films, both older and contemporary, including Vagabond, India Song, Bhaji on the Beach, Chocolat, and Daughters of the Dust lay out a complete and powerful framework for reading women's film. - publisher's web siteISBN: 9781904764694
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The films of Claire Denis : intimacy on the border / edited by Marjorie Vecchio ; with a foreword by Wim Wenders New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Call No: 81DEN FILAuthor: Vecchio, Marjorie ; Wenders, Wim Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: I.B. TaurisPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; CANNIBALISM IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; DIRECTORS. FRANCE ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; TIME IN FILMS ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; CHOCOLATE [CHOCOLAT] (FR, Claire Denis, 1988) ; INTRUDER, THE (FR, Claire Denis, 2004)
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INTRUS, L' ; INTRUS, L' (FR, Claire Denis, 2004) ; J'AI PAS SOMMEIL (FR/SZ, Claire Denis, 1994) ; I CAN'T SLEEP (FR/SZ, Claire Denis, 1994) ; NENETTE AND BONI (FR, Claire Denis, 1996)
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VENDREDI SOIR ; VENDREDI SOIR (FR, Claire Denis, 2002) ; WHITE MATERIAL (FR/CM, Claire Denis, 2009) Summary: "The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including 'Chocolat', 'Beau travail' and 'White Material' explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualising the complications of such dualities. Following a foreword by Wim Wenders, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, neo-colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers familiar with Denis's working style and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes list of illustrations, bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9781848859548Contents: --List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Foreword: 'Klarchen'
--Part I Interviews -- 'To let the image sing': Conversations with Dickon Hinchliffe and Stuart Staples: Martine Beugnet -- Interview with Nelly Quettier: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Alex Descas: Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
-- Part II Relations -- La famille Denis: Catherine Wheatley -- Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's 'I Can't Sleep': Sam Ishii-Gonzales -- Beyond the other: grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis: James S. Williams --
-- Part III Global citizenship -- Beyond postcolonialism? From 'Chocolat' to 'White Material': Cornelia Ruhe -- 'Trouble Every Day: the neo-colonialists bite back: Florence Martin -- Forgiveness and employment: a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis: Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos -- 'The Intruder' according to Claire Denis: Jean-Luc Nancy --
--Part IV Within film -- Delivering: Claire Denis's opening sequences: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Rhythms of nationality: Denis and dance: Laura McMahon -- That interrupting feeling: interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's 'L'Intrus': Firoza Elavia -- Points of flight, lines of fracture: Claire Denis's uncanny landscape: Henrik Gustafsson -- Arthouse/grindhouse: Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity': Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy
--Bibliography -- Index
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International Film Guide 2010 : the definitive annual review of world cinema / edited by Ian Haydn Smith London: Wallflower, c2010.
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The real gaze : film theory after Lacan / Todd McGowan Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c2007.
Call No: 626[159.964.2] MCGAuthor: McGowan, Todd Place: Albany, NYPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: c2007PhysDes: xii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.Subject: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; LACAN, JACQUES ; SPECTATORSHIP ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; LEE, SPIKE ; MANN, MICHAEL ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; WELLES, ORSON ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; NEOREALISM ; HOWARD, RON ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; TARKOVSKY, ANDREI ; Wenders, Wim ; LYNCH, DAVID Summary: "Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenege the foundations of ideology." -- from the back cover. McGowan makes the argument for his theory with reference to the works of several directors and film movements.Notes: Includes index.ISBN: 9780791470398
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Subtitles : On the foreignness of film / Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour (eds) Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology, 2004.
Call No: 224.6 SUBAuthor: Egoyan, Atom (ed) ; Balfour, Ian (ed) CorpAuthor: Alphabet City Media, Inc.Source: CanadaPublisher: Massachusetts Institute of TecnologyPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 542 p ; 22 cm x 14 cmSeries: Alphabet CitySubject: TITLING ; SUBTITLES ; IMPORT OF FILMS ; AESTHETICS ; SWEET HEREAFTER, THE (CN, Atom Egoyan, 1997) ; EGOYAN, ATOM ; ROZEMA, PATRICIA ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; RICH, B. RUBY ; TRINH, T. MINH-HA ; JAMESON, FREDRIC ; DOANE, MARY ANN ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; GLOBALISATION ; AWARDS. ACADEMY ; OTTINGER, ULRIKE ; BLUE (UK, Derek Jarman, 1993) ; MEPRIS, LE (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godrad, 1963) Summary: "Every film is a foreign film," Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour tell us in their introduction to Subtitles. How, then, to translate the experience of film - which, as Egoyan says, makes us "feel outside and inside at the same time"? Taking subtitles as their point of departure, the thirty-six contributors to this unique collection consider translation, foreigness and otherness in film culture. Their discussions range from the mechanics and aesthetics of subtitles to the xenophobic reaction to translation, to subtitles as a metaphor for the distance and intimacy of film. [Taken from inside cover].Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
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