Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)

Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Author: Robert K. Johnston
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149341691X

Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

Experimental Cinema

Experimental Cinema
Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002
Genre: Experimental films
ISBN: 9780415277877

Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

Men Out of Focus

Men Out of Focus
Author: Marko Dumančić
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487531850

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

Indian Indies

Indian Indies
Author: Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000577171

This book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphere. Spotlighting a specific timeline, from the Indies’ consolidated emergence in 2010 across a decade of their development, the book takes note of recent transformations in the Indian political, economic, cultural and social matrix and the concurrent release of unflinchingly interrogative and radically evocative films that traverse LGBTQ+ issues, female empowerment, caste discrimination, populist politics and religious violence. A combination of essential Indie-specific information and concise case studies makes this a must-have quick guide to the future torchbearers of Indian cinema for scholars, students, early career researchers and a global audience interested in intersecting aspects of cinema, culture, politics and society in contemporary India.

Kristeva in Focus

Kristeva in Focus
Author: Katherine J. Goodnow
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1845457943

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love. In addition to a selection of contemporary mainstream films, the major films for analysis are New Zealand “New Wave” films such as Alison Maclean’s Kitchen Sink and Crush; Vincent Ward’s Vigil; and Jane Campion’s Sweety, An Angel at My Table, and The Piano.

Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633696596

The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment. Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction. This volume includes the work of: Daniel Goleman Heidi Grant Amy Jen Su Rasmus Hougaard HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Movie Acting, the Film Reader

Movie Acting, the Film Reader
Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415310246

Combining classic and recent essays and examining key issues such Movie Acting, the Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting.

Queer Cinema

Queer Cinema
Author: Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Homosexuality and motion pictures
ISBN: 9780415319874

Queer Cinema, the Film Reader brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities, especially those historically designated as gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered.

Horror, The Film Reader

Horror, The Film Reader
Author: Mark Jancovich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134563744

Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.