Movie Journal

Movie Journal
Author: Jonas Mekas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231541589

In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential characteristics of these films into a unique conception of American filmmaking's next phase. He simplified complex aesthetic strategies for unfamiliar audiences and appreciated the subversive genius of films that many dismissed as trash. This new edition presents Mekas's original critiques in full, with additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and popular and avant-garde critics whom he inspired and transformed.

Viewing Positions

Viewing Positions
Author: Linda Williams
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1995
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813521336

On visual perception in film and human subjectivity

Reality Fictions

Reality Fictions
Author: Thomas W. Benson
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1989
Genre:
ISBN: 9780809389377

Psychocinematics

Psychocinematics
Author: Arthur P. Shimamura
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199862141

Largely through trial and error, filmmakers have developed engaging techniques that capture our sensations, thoughts, and feelings. Philosophers and film theorists have thought deeply about the nature and impact of these techniques, yet few scientists have delved into empirical analyses of our movie experience-or what Arthur P. Shimamura has coined "psychocinematics." This edited volume introduces this exciting field by bringing together film theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience.

Documentary Dilemmas

Documentary Dilemmas
Author: Carolyn Anderson
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1991-04-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 080938292X

A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967. This account of the Titicut Follies case is based on ten years of research and relies on interviews, journalistic accounts, and especially on the legal record, including the Commonwealth v. Wiseman transcript, to describe the entire process of independent documentary filmmaking. The trials of Titicut Follies raise crucial questions about the relation of social documentary to its subjects and audiences.

Theorizing Documentary

Theorizing Documentary
Author: Michael Renov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135213097

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'

Communication Yearbooks Vols 6-33 Set

Communication Yearbooks Vols 6-33 Set
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 17176
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136630538

The Communication Yearbook annuals originally published between 1977 and 2009 publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Topics dealt with include Communication as Process, Research Methodology in Communication, Communication Effects, Taxonomy of Communication and European Communication Theory, Information Systems Division, Mass Communication Research, Mapping the Domain of Intercultural Communication, Public Relations, Feminist Scholarship, Communication Law and Policy, Visual Communication, Communication and Cross-Sex Friendships Across the Life Cycle, Television Programming and Sex Stereotyping, InterCultural Communication Training, Leadership and Relationships, Media Performance Assessment, Cognitive Approaches to Communication.