The Right to Play Oneself
| Author | : Thomas Waugh |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0816645868 |
Discussions of “committed” documentary by a “committed” historian of film.
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What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
| Author | : Shad Helmstetter |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017-06-20 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1501171992 |
Learn how to reverse the effects of negative self-talk and embrace a more positive, optimistic outlook on life
New Nonfiction Film
| Author | : Dara Waldron |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2018-08-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1501322524 |
New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from – as opposed to being conflated with – the documentary film in its multiple historical guises; a premise explored in case-studies of films by distinguished artists and filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Ben Rivers, Chantal Akerman, Ben Russell Pat Collins and Gideon Koppel). The book builds a case for this new category of film, calling it the 'new nonfiction film,' and argues, in the process, that this kind of film works to dismantle the old distinctions between fiction and documentary film and therefore the axioms of Film and Cinema Studies as a discipline of study.
Melbourne on Film
| Author | : Melbourne International Film Festival |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2022-08-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1743822596 |
A collection of bold new writing capturing Melbourne's identity in cinema Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is Australia's most revered celebration of cinema. It is one of the world's oldest and most storied film festivals, continuously running since 1952. To commemorate MIFF's 70th anniversary, Black Inc. has partnered with the festival to produce an exciting collection of essays on Melbourne-made cinema. Melbourne has a long, rich and diverse film history. It was the city where the first ever feature-length film was screened in 1906 - The Story of the Kelly Gang. It was also the birthplace of classics like Monkey Grip, Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead, The Castle and Mad Max, plus many fascinating shorts and experimental films. Melbourne on Film is both a celebration of filmmaking in Melbourne, and a tribute to the city's unique creative history. The first collection of its kind, it includes personal reflections on the legacy and influence of these key films by some of the city's favourite writers, including Christos Tsiolkas, Sarah Krasnostein, John Safran, Osman Faruqi, Tristen Harwood and Judith Lucy. Melbourne on Film will be treasured by cinephiles and readers of intelligent essays on arts and culture.
Deep Play
| Author | : Diane Ackerman |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2011-06-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0307763331 |
The national bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play. "Deep play" is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves. As Diane Ackerman ranges over a panoply of artistic, spiritual, and athletic activities, from spiritual rapture through extreme sports, we gain a greater sense of what it means to be "in the moment" and totally, transcendentally human. Keenly perceived and written with poetic exuberance, Deep Play enlightens us by revealing the manifold ways we can enhance our lives.
Ghostly Desires
| Author | : Arnika Fuhrmann |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2016-05-19 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0822374250 |
Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films the characters' eroticization in the spheres of loss and death represents an improvisation on the Buddhist disavowal of attachment and highlights under-recognized female and queer desire and persistence. Her feminist and queer readings reveal the entangled relationships between film, sexuality, Buddhist ideas, and the Thai state's regulation of heteronormative sexuality. Fuhrmann thereby provides insights into the configuration of contemporary Thailand while opening up new possibilities for thinking about queer personhood and femininity.
How Do We Look?
| Author | : Fatimah Tobing Rony |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2021-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 147802190X |
In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.
The Act of Documenting
| Author | : Brian Winston |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2017-01-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 150130917X |
A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.
Mockumentary Comedy
| Author | : Richard Wallace |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2018-07-13 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 331977848X |
This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored through detailed textual analyses of a range of film and television comedies, including A Hard Day’s Night, This is Spinal Tap, The Thick of It, Veep and the works of Christopher Guest and Alison Jackson. This book broadens the scope of existing mockumentary scholarship by taking comedy seriously in a sustained way for the first time. It ultimately argues that the comedic performances—by performers and of documentary conventions—are central to the form’s critical significance and popular appeal.
Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian
| Author | : Dan Geva |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319755684 |
The theme of this book is the documentarian—what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise that the documentarian is a special—extended—sign, the book develops a model of a quadruple sign structure for-and-of the documentarian, growing out of enduring traditions in philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and documentary theory. Dan Geva investigates the intellectual premise that allows the documentarian to show itself as an extremely sophisticated, creative, and purposeful being-in-the-world—one that is both embedded in its own history and able to manifest itself throughout its entire documentary life project, as a stand-alone conceptual phase in the history of ideas.
