Author: Abe Mark Nornes
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: cinema, global, babel, translating
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-12-27
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 081665042X
ISBN-13: 9780816650422
The original foreign filmits sights and soundsis available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text or disconnected speech through which we must approach the foreign film. A bad translation can ruin a films beauty, muddy its plot, and turn any joke sour. In this wide-ranging work, Ab Mark Nornes examines the relationships between moving-image media and translation and contends that film was a globalized medium from its beginning and that its transnational traffic has been greatly influenced by interpreter
Author: Mark Schilling
Publisher: FAB Pre
Keywords: cinema, classics, action, nikkatsu, limits, borders
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1903254434
ISBN-13: 9781903254431
Nikkatsu, the oldest film studio in Japan, restarted production in 1954 after WWII. To survive in Japan’s brutally competitive film market, it launched a new genre called Nikkatsu Action. Nikkatsu Action defined cool for a generation and drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, it found salvation in Yujiro Ishihara, a hot new star who was Japan’s Elvis Presley and James Dean Nikkatsu Action pictures blended East and West fantasies, showing the gritty reality of life in postwar Japan, from the hot jazz clubs and glam cabarets of the Ginza to the foggy loneliness -
Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: cinema, modernity, series, postfilmic, time, framed
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226774163
ISBN-13: 9780226774169
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni claimed, three decades ago, that different conceptions of time helped define the split in film between European humanism and American science fiction. And as Garrett Stewart argues here, this transatlantic division has persisted since cinemas 1995 centenary, made more complex by the digital technology that has detached movies from their dependence on the sequential frames of the celluloid strip.Brilliantly interpreting dozens of recent filmsfrom Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, and The Sixth Sense to La mala educacin and Cach Stewart investigates
Author: Eileen Bowser
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: cinema, vol, american, history, transformation
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 1994-05-04
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0520085345
ISBN-13: 9780520085343
Eileen Bowser chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. The effect of the surroundingsthe size of the hall; whether the film was shown alone or along with vaudeville entertainment; and the size, quality, and relevance of the musical backgroundare all examined for their impact on the filmgoing experience.
Author: Rui Zhang
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: cinema, chinese, censorship, xiaogang, feng, commercialization
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 962209886X
ISBN-13: 9789622098862
Beginning first as a case study of Feng Xiaogang, this book explores Chinese film history since the early 1990s in terms of changes of party film policy, industry reforms, the party’s promotion of Main Melody films and the emergence and growth of popular cinema. The image of Feng that will emerge in this book is that of a filmmaker working under political and economic pressures in a post-socialist state while still striving to create works with a personal socio-political agenda. In keeping with this reality, this book approaches Feng as a special kind of film auteur whose works must be i
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: cinema, society, british, history, 1930s, alternative, unknown
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-21
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 186064628X
ISBN-13: 9781860646287
A group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema. They reassess the films, stars, genres, and directors omitted from accounts of the decade, and they evaluate its forgotten and recently discovered films. The book includes assessments of the British shocker and the British musical, popular 1930s genres, and views of cinema and national identity.
Author: Horst Sondermann
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Keywords: cinema, 4d, architecture, visualizing, rendering, shadow, space, architectural, light
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-11
List price: $53.45
ISBN-10: 3211487611
ISBN-13: 9783211487617
