The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination, Ryan Jay Friedman

Автор: Manca Luigi, Manca Alessandra, Pieper Gail W.
Название: Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale
ISBN: 0739198327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739198322
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book is a collection of essays which examine narratives created on the advertising page, with special focus on gender images. Through a cross-disciplinary investigation, this collection offers a varied analysis of advertising and mass media which are important for students and scholars alike.

Автор: Jyoti Mistry, Jordache A. Ellapen
Название: We Remember Differently: Race, Memory, Imagination
ISBN: 186888693X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781868886937
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Using the short film <em>we remember differently</em> (2005) as a focal point, this collection of essays addresses the conditions of cultural production in post-apartheid South Africa. Art practice in an apartheid context was strongly motivated as ‘struggle art’; but in an environment more consciously informed – by revisiting history and excavating the past – the imagination must feature strongly to exercise the breath of freedom made possible in a democratic South Africa. This invitation ‘to imagine’ is not free from the context of history and it is the central aspect of rethinking history that informs the making of the film. Each of the creative contributors in the making of the film reflects on the creative process and how history and memory informs their creative choices. <br><br> The book also steps away from the reflexive process of producing the film as described by the cultural collaborators and shifts the focus to also address issues of reception and interpretation of the film. In offering analysis these commentators describe how the imagination is still at work in hermeneutic processes but always subject to history and memory.

Автор: Michael Cramer
Название: Utopian Television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema
ISBN: 1517900387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517900380
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Описание: Television has long been a symbol of social and cultural decay, yet many in postwar Europe saw it as the medium with the greatest potential to help build a new society and create a new form of audiovisual art. Utopian Television examines works of the great filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked to television as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of its existing practices.Utopian Television illustrates how each director imagined television’s improved or “utopian” version by drawing on elements that had come to characterize it by the early 1960s. Taking advantage of the public service model of Western European broadcasting, each used television to realize works that would never have been viable in the commercial cinema. All three directors likewise seized on television’s supposed affinity for information and its status as a “useful” medium, but attempted to join this utility with aesthetic experimentation, suggesting new ways to conceive of the relationship between aesthetics and information.As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, Utopian Television turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors’ television experiments as enactments of “utopia as method.” In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium inspired and shaped hopes not only of a better future but of better moving image art as well.

Автор: Blaim, Artur
Название: Utopian visions and revisions
ISBN: 3631675658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631675656
Издательство: Peter Lang
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The book focuses on different uses of the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia. The author analyses literature, cinema, and rock music, as well as scientific and legal motifs in utopian fiction. He also considers the functions of Jewish characters in early modern utopias and looks at the utopian aspects of scientific claims of literary and cultural theories. Utopian models are also applied to the practice of literature (socialist realism) and current socio-political affairs. Among the texts and films discussed are "Utopia", "New Atlantis", "Gulliver’s Travels", "Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca", "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "A Minor Apocalypse", "Lord of the Flies", and "Even Dwarfs Started Small".

Автор: Whisenhunt, Donald W.
Название: Utopian movements and ideas of the great depression
ISBN: 1498557031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498557030
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This study examines several lesser known movements for change and reform in the Great Depression Era of the 1930s. It includes studies of a few communal societies, proposals for reform, and analyses of several books written in the 1930s that propose solutions to the nation`s economic ills.

Автор: J.W. Williamson
Название: Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films: Plot Synopses of Movies About Moonshining, Feuding and Other Mountain Topics, 1904-1929
ISBN: 0786474033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786474035
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Описание: Arranged chronologically, this reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films about moonshining, feuding, coal mining, mountain love triangles, and many other topics. Also provided are studio, date of release, and length.

Автор: Robertson Robert
Название: Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination
ISBN: 178076717X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780767178
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: So far, the study of cinema has been overwhelmingly visual. Robert Robertson instead presents cinema as an audiovisual medium, based on Sergei Eisenstein’s ideas on the montage of music, image and sound. Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination applies an audiovisual focus to films by directors such as Spike Lee, Maya Deren, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Luis Bunuel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, David Lean and Sergei Eisenstein. In addition, Eisenstein’s concept of ‘nonindifferent’ nature is extended to films beyond the European tradition – by Satyajit Ray, Kaneto Shindo, Akira Kurosawa and Chris H. Lynn– and the audiovisual and landscape is explored in films by Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Paradjanov, Bruce Conner, Jack Chambers, Derek Jarman and Alexander Sokurov. The audiovisual in avant-garde animation by John and James Whitney, Len Lye, Norman McLaren and in the film experiments of Busby Berkeley are considered too. Responding to recent developments in technology which have enabled practitioners to work extensively with music and sound on an equal level with the visual track, the book also examines the audiovisual creative process in opera, in a music/film collaboration with Dennis Dracup and in Robertson’s own music/film Oserake and The River That Walks.

Автор: Mary-Elizabeth O`Brien
Название: Post-Wall German Cinema and National History: Utopianism and Dissent
ISBN: 1571135960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571135964
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989.

Автор: Carmen A. Serrano
Название: Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film
ISBN: 0826360440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826360441
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Описание: This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided Latin American authors with a way to critique a number of issues, including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy. The book includes a literary history of the European Gothic to demonstrate how Latin American authors have incorporated its characteristics but also how they have broken away or inverted some elements, such as traditional plot lines, to suit their work and address a unique set of issues. The book examines both the modernistas of the nineteenth century and the avant-garde writers of the twentieth century, including Huidobro, Bombal, Rulfo, Roa Bastos, and Fuentes. Looking at the Gothic in Latin American literature and film, this book is a groundbreaking study that brings a fresh perspective to Latin American creative culture.

Автор: Ascari Maurizio
Название: Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield`s Writing
ISBN: 1137400358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137400352
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield`s entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted.

Автор: Nwosu, Maik
Название: Comic imagination in modern african literature and cinema
ISBN: 1138942669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138942660
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa's under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern African literature, which sometimes creatively traces a path back to African folklore, and in Nollywood -- with its aesthetic relationship to Onitsha Market Literature -- the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The poetics at work is substantially carnivalesque, a comic preference or tendency that is attributable, in different contexts, to a purposeful comic sensibility or an unstructured but ingrained or virtual comic mode. In the best instances of this comic vision, the characteristic laughter or lightness can facilitate a revaluation or reappreciation of the world, either because of the aesthetic structure of signification or the consequent chain of signification. This referentiality or progressive signification is an important aspect of the poetics of laughter as the African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value. This book marks an important contribution to African literature, postcolonial literature, world literature, comic imagination, poetics, critical theory, and African cinema.