Cinema And Classical Texts
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Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2009-02-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0521518601 |
This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107191289 |
This book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2001-06-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0198029780 |
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author | : Eleftheria Thanouli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Cinematography |
ISBN | : 9781906660093 |
This work presents a timely theoretical intervention in the analysis of contemporary film language. It has a truly international scope, featuring films and filmmakers from around the world.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001-05-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0195351568 |
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image.
Author | : Joe McElhaney |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0791481115 |
The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers—Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Vincente Minnelli—and the films they made during the decline of the traditional Hollywood studio system. Faced with the significant challenges posed by alternative art cinema and modernist filmmaking practices in the early 1960s, these directors responded with films that were self-conscious attempts at keeping pace with the developments in film modernism. These films—Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Hitchcock's Marnie, and Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town—were widely regarded as failures at the time and bolstered critics' claims concerning the irrelevance of their directors in relation to contemporary filmmaking. However, author Joe McElhaney sheds new light on these films by situating them in relation to such acclaimed modernist works of the period as Godard's Contempt, Fellini's La dolce vita, Antonioni's Red Desert, and Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad. He finds that these modernist films, rather than being diametrically opposed in form to the work of Hitchcock, Lang, and Minnelli, are in fact profoundly linked to them.
Author | : David Bordwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134988087 |
'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer 'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time.' Paul Kerr City Limits 'Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations. Despite differences of director, genre or studio, most Hollywood films operate within a set of shared assumptions about how a film should look and sound. Such assumptions are neither natural nor inevitable; but because classical-style films have been the type most widely seen, they have come to be accepted as the 'norm' of film-making and viewing. The authors show how these classical conventions were formulated and standardized, and how they responded to the arrival of sound, colour, widescreen ratios and stereophonic sound. They argue that each new technological development has served a function within an existing narrational system. The authors also examine how the Hollywood cinema standardized the film-making process itself. They describe how, over the course of its history, Hollywood developed distinct modes of production in a constant search for maximum efficiency, predictability and novelty. Set apart by its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this book is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. Now available in paperback, it is a 'must' for film students, lecturers and all those seriously interested in the development of the film industry.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Bordwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 791 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134988095 |
Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.
Author | : Mervyn Cooke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1316264866 |
This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer's working practices.