Post-war Cinema and Modernity : : A Film Reader / / John Orr.

Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. Its distinguishing feature is the focus on the close connections between history, theory and textual criticism.The first section, on Film Theory and Film Form, begins with...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; Illustrated
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SECTION I FILM THEORY AND FILM FORM
  • Theory and Culture
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 AN AESTHETIC OF REALITY: NEOREALISM (CINEMATIC REALISM AND THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF THE LIBERATION)
  • 2 NOIR NARRATION
  • 3 THE 'CINEMA OF POETRY'
  • 4 THE MODERN CINEMA AND NARRATIVITY
  • 5 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ARTICULATIONS
  • 6 THE MIND'S EYE
  • 7 BEYOND THE MOVEMENT-IMAGE
  • 8 IMAGING
  • 9 TOTALITY AS CONSPIRACY
  • 10 A CINEMA OF POETRY
  • Form and Process
  • 11 A TRAVELLING SHOT OVER EIGHTY YEARS
  • 12 CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
  • 13 THE ROLE OF THE APPARATUS
  • 14 TIME, RHYTHM, EDITING
  • 15 THE FACT OF REALISM AND THE FICTION OF OBJECTIVITY
  • 16 THE ARTIFICIAL INFINITE: ON SPECIAL EFFECTS AND THE SUBLIME
  • 17 NEG-EXPRESSIONISM AND BRITISH CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE WORK OF ROBERT KRASKER AND JACK CARDIFF
  • 18 DAYS OF HEAVEN (TERRENCE MALICK - 1976)
  • 19 MICHAEL CHAPMAN (INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL CHAPMAN)
  • SECTION 2 INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 20 INTRODUCTION TO OZU
  • 21 FEMININITY BY DESIGN: VERTIGO
  • 22 INTRODUCTION TO ORSON WELLES, DIRECTOR
  • 23 BRESSON
  • 24 GODARD
  • 25 ANTONIONI'S RED DESERT
  • 26 TRANSFORMATIONS IN FASSBINDER'S BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
  • 27 BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL: THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY
  • 28 THE SHOOT
  • 29 THE CARAPACE THAT FAILED: OUSMANE SEMBENE'S XALA
  • 30 THE BOOK DEPOSITORY
  • 31 THE FORCE OF SURFACES: DEFIANCE IN ZHANG YIMOU'S FILMS
  • 32 MONUMENTS OF TIME: THE WORKS OF THEO ANGELOPOULOS
  • 33 IMAGINARY IMAGES: AN EXAMINATION OF ATOM EGOYAN'S FILMS
  • 34 BERGMAN'S SILENCE
  • 35 REPENTANCE: STALINIST TERROR AND THE REALISM OF SURREALISM
  • INDEX