Popular French Cinema: From the Classical to the Trans-national, Ginette Vincendeau

Автор: Ferriss, Professor Suzanne (nova Southeastern University, Usa)
Название: Cinema of sofia coppola
ISBN: 1350178071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350178076
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion - in its various manifestations - to Coppola’s films, exploring fashion’s primacy in every cinematic dimension: in film narrative; production, costume and sound design; cinematography; marketing, distribution and auteur branding. She also explores the theme of celebrity, including Coppola’s own director-star persona, and argues that Coppola’s auteur status rests on an original and distinct visual style, derived from the filmmaker’s complex engagement with photography and painting. Ferriss analyzes each of Coppola’s six films, categorizing them in two groups: films where fashion commands attention (Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled and The Bling Ring) and those where clothing and material goods do not stand out ostentatiously, but are essential in establishing characters’ identities and relationships (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Somewhere). Throughout, Ferriss draws on approaches from scholarship on fashion, film, visual culture, art history, celebrity and material culture to capture the complexities of Coppola’s engagement with fashion, culture and celebrity. The Cinema of Sofia Coppola is beautifully illustrated with color images from her films, as well as artworks and advertising artefacts.

Автор: Gillian Kelly
Название: Tyrone Power: Gender, Genre and Image in Classical Hollywood Cinema
ISBN: 1474452957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452953
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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One of the most popular actors of the Classical Hollywood period, Tyrone Power’s appeal was initially based around his outstanding beauty, his looks remaining key to his star persona throughout his 25-year career and almost 50 films. This book presents the first substantial academic study of Power and employs a range of approaches, including stardom and genre theory, to reappraise his career from various angles including gender, genre and image. Textual analysis coincides with discussions of Power’s multi-layered performances in a variety of genres while engaging with industry systems, specifically Twentieth Century-Fox, his home studio for almost two decades, and situates Power’s performances within the contexts of industry regulations, such as the Production Code, and industry technological advances, such as CinemaScope.

Автор: Sue Matheson
Название: The Good, the Bad and the Ancient: Essays on the Greco-Roman Influence in Westerns
ISBN: 1476667640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476667645
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Outstanding film and television directors drew inspiration from antiquity when creating the Wild West, and the Graeco-Roman values and influences in their work have shaped our conceptions of the West for years. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays celebrates, affirms and critiques the West`s relationship with the classical world.

Автор: Fryer Paul
Название: The Composer on Screen: Essays on Classical Music Biopics
ISBN: 0786499656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499656
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Описание: Explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the very earliest silent films examples, these essays range in subject from the 12th century abbess, Hildegard of Bingen, through the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz and Strauss, up to the 20th century, and Elgar, Delius, Gershwin and Blitzstein.

Автор: Dixon Wheeler W.
Название: Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood
ISBN: 0813553776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813553771
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Описание: Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the ""rulers of film."" Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios' collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn't reign supreme.Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late 1940s, just before the collapse, then chronicles the last productions from the studios and their eventual demise in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, which made actors free agents; the Consent Decree, which forced the studios to get rid of their theatres; how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the television era; and the end of the conventional studio assembly line, where producers had rosters of directors, writers, and actors under their command.Complemented by rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Death of the Moguls is a compelling narrative on the end of the studio system at each of the Hollywood majors as television, the de Havilland decision, and the Consent Decree forced studios to slash payrolls, make the shift to colour, 3D, and CinemaScope in desperate last-ditch efforts to save their kingdoms. The aftermath for some was the final switch to television production and, in some cases, the distribution of independent film.

Автор: Aebischer Pascale
Название: Screening Early Modern Drama
ISBN: 1107559448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107559448
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Pascale Aebischer`s accessible and groundbreaking study examines film adaptations of early modern plays that challenge the values and conventions of mainstream cinematic Shakespeare. It explains how digital technologies, in the hands of independent filmmakers, internet users and scholar-practitioners, have helped to transform the canon of early modern drama on screen.

Автор: Marcus
Название: Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism
ISBN: 1107064996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107064997
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. Kenneth H. Marcus shows that, contrary to this perception, Schoenberg was deeply involved in the cultural and intellectual environment in which he found himself, and had multiple connections in Hollywood as well as within academia.

Автор: Meeuf Russell, Cooper Anna
Название: Projecting the World: Representing the "Foreign " in Classical Hollywood
ISBN: 0814343066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814343067
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Описание: The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of global trade, crisscrossing borders and rising to international dominance. In analysing a series of Hollywood films that illustrate moments of nuanced transnational engagement with the "foreign," Projecting the World: Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood enriches our understanding of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood cinema as a locus of imaginative geographies that explore the United States’ relationship with the world. While previous scholarship has asserted the imperialism and racism at the core of classical Hollywood cinema, Anna Cooper and Russell Meeuf’s collection delves into the intricacies—and sometimes disruptions—of this assumption, seeing Hollywood films as multivalent and contradictory cultural narratives about identity and politics in an increasingly interconnected world.Projecting the World illustrates how Hollywood films negotiate shifting historical contexts of internationalisation through complex narratives about transnational exchange—a topic that has thus far been neglected in scholarship on classical Hollywood. The essays analyse the "foreign" with topics such as the 1930s island horror film, the 1950s Mexico-set bullfighting film, Hollywood’s projection of "exoticism" on Argentina, and John Wayne’s film sets in Africa. Against the backdrop of expanding consumer capitalism and the growth of U.S. global power, Hollywood films such as Tarzan and Anatahan, as well as musicals about Paris, offered resonant images and stories that dramatised America’s international relationships in complicated ways.A fascinating exploration of an oft-overlooked aspect of classical Hollywood films, Projecting the World offers a series of striking new analyses that will entice cinema lovers, film historians, and those interested in the history of American neocolonialism.

Автор: Patrick Maille
Название: The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot
ISBN: 1496833007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496833006
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tarot cards have been around since the Renaissance and have become increasingly popular in recent years, often due to their prevalence in popular culture. While Tarot means many different things to many different people, the cards somehow strike universal chords that can resonate through popular culture in the contexts of art, television, movies, even comic books. The symbolism within the cards, and the cards as symbols themselves, make Tarot an excellent device for the media of popular culture in numerous ways. They make horror movies scarier. They make paintings more provocative. They provide illustrative structure to comics and can establish the traits of television characters. The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot begins with an extensive review of the history of Tarot from its roots as a game to its supposed connection to ancient Egyptian magic, through its place in secret societies, and to its current use in meditation and psychology. This section ends with an examination of the people who make up today's tarot community. Then, specific areas of popular culture-art, television, movies, and comics-are each given a chapter in which to survey the use of Tarot. In this section, author Patrick Maille analyzes such works as Deadpool, Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, Disney's Haunted Mansion, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Andy Griffith Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and King of the Hill. The cards are evocative images in their own right, but the mystical fascination they inspire makes them a fantastic tool to be used in our favorite shows and stories.

Автор: Cotter Robert Michael
Название: A History of the Doc Savage Adventures in Pulps, Paperbacks, Comics, Fanzines, Radio and Film
ISBN: 1476665982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476665986
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Описание: Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. In this volume, the adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with special attention paid to the horror and science fiction elements.

Автор: Winkler, Martin M. (george Mason University, Virginia)
Название: Ovid on screen
ISBN: 1108485405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108485401
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wide-ranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid's time. It ranges from the earliest days of film history (Georges Melies's discovery of screen metamorphosis) and theory (Gabriele D'Annunzio's fascination with the metamorphosis of Daphne; Sergei Eisenstein's concept of film sense) through silent films, classic sound films, commercial cinema, art-house and independent films to modernism and the C.G.I. era. Films by well-known directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Max Ophuls, Alain Resnais, and various others, are analyzed in detail.

Автор: Winkler Martin M.
Название: Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination
ISBN: 1316641872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316641873
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book argues for a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. Examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history using ancient theories of drama and rhetoric. Demonstrates the undiminished vitality and importance of classical antiquity in our visually oriented media.