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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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The Italian cinema book / edited by Peter Bondanella London: British Film Institute ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 71(45) ITAAuthor: Bondanella, Peter Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute ; Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ITALY ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCRIPTWRITING ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ITALY ; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO ; CAMERINI, MARIO ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LOLLOGRIGIDA, GINA ; MONICELLI, MARIO ; MORETTI, NANNI Summary: "The Italian Cinema Book is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections [...] Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index -- "A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan." - title page.ISBN: 9781844574049Contents: Introduction / Peter Bondanella; PART ONE THE SILENT ERA -- Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story / Giorgio Bertellini -- The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo / John P. Welle -- The Diva Film: Context, Actresses, Issues / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics and Strongmen / Jacqueline Reich; PART TWO THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA -- Fascism and Italian Cinema / David Forgacs -- Italian Matinee Idols in the Era of the Talkies / Marcia Landy -- The First Comedy, Italian Style: Blasetti, Camerini and De Sica / Vito Zagarrio -- Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present / Guido Bonsaver; PART THREE POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE – REALISM AND BEYOND -- Neorealism and Left-wing Culture / Stephen Gundle -- Cityscapes and Cinematic Space / Mark Shiel -- Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature / Torunn Haaland -- Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present / Giovanna De Luca -- Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship / Danielle Hipkins --The Maggiorata or Sweater Girl of the 1950s: Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren / Pauline Small -- Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies / Robert S. C. Gordon; PART FOUR THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA -- Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style: From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen / Reka Buckley --Italian Film Music / M. Thomas Van Order -- Production around 1960 / Christopher Wagstaff -- The Muscleman Peplum: From Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965) / Jon Solomon -- Mondo Cane and the Invention of the Shockumentary / Gino Moliterno -- Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience / Flavia Brizio-Skov -- Chronicles of a Hastened Modernisation: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all'italiana / Remi Fournier Lanzoni -- The Political Film / Gaetana Marrone -- The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film / Mikel J. Koven -- European Co-productions and Artistic Collaborations: The Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System / Jean A. Gili -- How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema / Pierre Sorlin; PART FIVE AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION -- Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini / Gianfranco Angelucci -- Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen / Dana Renga -- Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory / Millicent Marcus -- Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone / Alan O'Leary -- Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema / Catherine O'Rawe -- Women behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema / Flavia Laviosa; PART SIX NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA -- Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age / Laura Rascaroli -- Post-colonial Theory and Italy's `Multicultural' Cinema / Aine O'Healy -- Italian Film Genres and Mario Bava / Mary P. Wood -- The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema's Love Affair with Psychoanalysis / Fabio Vighi -- Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema / Peter Bondanella -- The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of Italian Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta.
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The new Italian cinema : studies in dance and despair / R.T. Witcombe New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Call No: 71(45) WITAuthor: Witcombe, R. T. (Rick Trader), 1943 Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1982PhysDes: x, 294 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: ITALY ; FERRERI, MARCO ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; CAVANI, LILIANA ; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; Fellini, Federico ; ROSI, FRANCESCO ; TAVIANI, PAOLO & VITTORIO ; VISCONTI, LUCHINO ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; BRASS, TINTO ; BELLOCCHIO, MARCO ; BOLOGNINI, MAURO ; PETRI, ELIO ; OLMI, ERMANNO ; BRUSATI, FRANCO ; BERTOLUCCI, GIUSEPPE ; DEL MONTE, PETER ; MORETTI, NANNI Notes: Includes indexISBN: 019520381X : $19.95LON: 2332499
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Pop fiction : The song in cinema / edited by Steve Lannin and Matthew Caley Porland, Oregon: Intellect, 2005.
Call No: 634.6 POPAuthor: Lannin, Steve ; Caley, Matthew Source: UKPlace: Bristol, UK; Porland, OregonPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 173 p. : 23 cmSubject: POP MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; POP MUSIC IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS ; COHEN, LEONARD ; MORETTI, NANNI ; DOORS, THE ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; PFEIFFER, MICHELLE ; Damon, Matt ; KLOVES, STEVE ; MINGHELLA, ANTHONY ; VALLI, FRANKIE ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS ; ZUCKER, JERRY ; REED, LOU ; BOYLE, DANNY ; STEALERS WHEEL ; Tarantino, Quentin ; BAKER, CHET ; WEBER, BRUCE ; WINGS ; ARMITAGE, GEORGE ; COLLINS, PHIL ; BRICKMAN, PAUL ; MASSIVE ATTACK ; WONG KAR WAI ; CARO DIARIO (IT/FR, Nanni Moretti, 1993) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (US, Joel Coen, 2000) ; FABULOUS BAKER BOYS, THE (US, Steve Kloves, 1989) ; TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE (US, Anthony Minghella, 1999) ; DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978) ; GHOST (US, Jerry Zucker, 1990) ; TRAINSPOTTING (UK, Danny Boyle, 1996) ; RESERVOIR DOGS (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1992) ; LET'S GET LOST (US, Bruce Weber, 1988) ; GROSSE POINTE BLANK (US, George Armitage, 1997) ; RISKY BUSINESS (US, Paul Brickman, 1983) ; DUOLUO TIANSHI (HK, Wong Kar-Wai, 1995) Summary: "'Pop Fiction's unique essays individually consider one song within a cinematic context. Unlike previous collected volumes about pop music in film, where a generalised approach has been adopted, it offers instead a close examination of these two most pervasive and significant mediums in contemporary culture.
"The collection introspects, assembling the pop song into various guises and documenting how individuals dissemble the multiple roles that the pop song plays in all and one audio-visual moment. The song as: ghost, role-play, memory trigger, narrator, marketing device, translator, alienator, membership rite, etc." (Taken from the back cover)Notes: Includes indexISBN: 184150078X
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Variety international film guide 1997 / edited by Peter Cowie London: Andre Deutsch, 1996.
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