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| Author | : David BORDWELL |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674028538 |
David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such Making Meaning should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell systematically maps different strategies for interpreting films and making meaning, illustrating his points with a vast array of examples from Western film criticism. Following an introductory chapter that sets out the terms and scope of the argument, Bordwell goes on to show how critical institutions constrain and contain the very practices they promote, and how the interpretation of texts has become a central preoccupation of the humanities. He gives lucid accounts of the development of film criticism in France, Britain, and the United States since World War II; analyzes this development through two important types of criticism, thematic-explicatory and symptomatic; and shows that both types, usually seen as antithetical, in fact have much in common. These diverse and even warring schools of criticism share conventional, rhetorical, and problem-solving techniques--a point that has broad-ranging implications for the way critics practice their art. The book concludes with a survey of the alternatives to criticism based on interpretation and, finally, with the proposal that a historical poetics of cinema offers the most fruitful framework for film analysis.
| Author | : CarrieLynn D. Reinhard |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2017-08-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1501320211 |
Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions.
| Author | : Sergei Eisenstein |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780156309356 |
A renowned Soviet director discusses his theory of film as an artistic medium which must appeal to all senses and applies it to an analysis of sequences from his major movies.
| Author | : Graziele Lautenschlaeger |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2020-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3839453313 |
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice. It combines historical and analytical approaches, through new materialism, media archaeology, cultural techniques and second-order cybernetics. Known media stories are reframed from an alternative perspective, elucidating photosensitivity as a metonymy to provide guidelines to art students, artists, curators and theoreticians - especially those who are committed to critical views of scientific and technological knowledge in aesthetic experimentations.
| Author | : Simin Nina Littschwager |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2019-06-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 150133705X |
Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source Code became critical and commercial successes, often acquiring a cult status with audiences. With their multiple story lines, unreliable narrators, ambiguous twist endings, and paradoxical worlds, these films challenge traditional ways of narrative comprehension and in many cases require and reward multiple viewings. But how can me make sense of films that don't always make sense the way we are used to? While most scholarship has treated these complex films as narrative puzzles that audiences solve with their cognitive skills, Making Sense of Mind-Game Films offers a fresh perspective by suggesting that they appeal to the body and the senses in equal measures. Mind-game films tell stories about crises between body, mind and world, and about embodied forms of knowing and subjective ways of being-in-the-world. Through compelling in-depth case studies of popular mind-game films, the book explores how these complex narratives take their (embodied) spectators with them into such crises. The puzzling effect generated by these films stems from a conflict between what we think and what we experience, between what we know and what we feel to be true, and between what we see and what we sense.
| Author | : Michael Ryan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2020-04-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1501318551 |
An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences -set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more -each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films Ryan and Lenos's updated edition introduces students to the different kinds of lenses and their effects, the multiple possibilities of lighting, and the way post-production modifies images through such processes as saturation and desaturation. Students will learn to ask why the camera is placed where it is, why an edit occurs where it does, or why the set is designed in a certain way. The second section of the book focuses on critical analysis, introducing students to the various approaches to film, from psychology to history, with new analysis on postcolonial, transnational and Affect Theory. New to this edition is a third section featuring several in-depth analyses of films to put into practice what comes before: The Birds, The Shining, Vagabond, In the Mood for Love, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
| Author | : Stephen Prince |
| Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780205314157 |
Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.
| Author | : Ian Garwood |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0748678417 |
This book investigates the sensuous qualities of narration in the feature-length fiction film.
| Author | : Stephen Mulhall |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780415247955 |
This text uses a clear and imaginative style to show how films are examples of philosophy in action. It explores the nature of the sequel, narrative renewal and directorial authorship in film.
| Author | : Nathan Andersen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2014-04-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1317805895 |
Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato’s Republic, comparing their contributions to themes such as the nature of experience and meaning, the character of justice, the contrast between appearance and reality, the importance of art, and the impact of images. At the heart of the book is a novel account of the analogy between Plato’s allegory of the cave and cinema, developed in conjunction with a provocative interpretation of the most powerful image from A Clockwork Orange, in which the lead character is strapped to a chair and forced to watch violent films. Key features of the book include: a comprehensive bibliography of suggested readings on Plato, on film, on philosophy, and on the philosophy of film a list of suggested films that can be explored following the approach in this book, including brief descriptions of each film, and suggestions regarding its philosophical implications a summary of Plato’s Republic, book by book, highlighting both dramatic context and subject matter. Offering a close reading of the controversial classic film A Clockwork Orange, and an introductory account of the central themes of the philosophical classic The Republic, this book will be of interest to both scholars and students of philosophy and film, as well as to readers of Plato and fans of Stanley Kubrick.
