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The ArtsJanuary 2019Robert Bresson
by Keith Reader
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his little-seen early short Affaires publiques and his short treatise Notes on cinematography.. The films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.. The major critical responses to his work, from the adulatory to the dismissive, are summarized and analyzed.. The work includes a full filmography and a critical bibliography.
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The ArtsSeptember 2024The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé
Feminism and Francoism
by Sally Faulkner
Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolomé's name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnès Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century. With this bold claim, this book seeks both to write the history of Bartolomé's extant filmography, and speculative about censored and un-filmed work, thereby fashioning a new way of writing a feminist creative life in film. The first volume on this director to be written in English, The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé is also the first volume on the director published in any language for over twenty years. By focusing on Spanish-language cinema of the 1960s-1990s, the period when feminism, like democracy, was re-born and seemingly consolidated in Spain, the study brings historical depth and transnational reach to current debates in the wake of #MeToo.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019European Film Noir
by Andrew Spicer
European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an authoritative understanding of an important aspect of European cinema and of film noir itself, for too long considered as a solely American form. The Introduction reviews the problems of defining film noir, its key characteristics and discusses its significance to the development of European film, the relationship of specific national films noirs to each other, to American noir and to historical and social change. Eight chapters then discuss film noir in France, Germany, Britain and Spain, analysing both earlier developments and the evolution of neo-noir through to the present. A further chapter explores film noir in Italian cinema where its presence is not so well defined. Each piece provides a critical overview of the most significant films in relation to their industrial and social contexts. European Film Noir is an important contribution to the study of European cinema that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.
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The ArtsApril 2018NEW HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA II
by Fernão Pessoa Ramos and Sheila Schvarzman (editors)
This second volume of New History of Brazilian Cinema covers Brazilian cinema from the postwar period up to the present, discussing the Cinema Novo and Cinema Marginal movements, the state-owned producer Embrafilme, pornochanchada (soft-core sex comedies) and the crisis and revival of Brazilian film production from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, ending with an overview of experimental filmmaking, documentary film and contemporary film fiction up to 2016. Ebook version brings additional texts: “Brazilian New Cinema (1960-1972)”, by Bertrand Ficamos, and the extensive filmography “Brazilian films released from 1969 to 2016”, by Luiz Felipe Miranda
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Films, cinemaConnecticut's Fife & Drum Tradition
by Sam Wasson
Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. Mazursky's films are peopled with characters so raw, and so baffled by their own emotional tumult, their sincerity is as forceful as it is ridiculous. This makes films like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, and Enemies, A Love Story difficult to classify, but all the richer. In the first ever book-length examination of one of America's most important and least appreciated filmmakers, Sam Wasson sits down with Mazursky himself to eat, laugh, and talk movies. Going over Mazursky's oeuvre one film at a time, interviewer and interviewee delve into how the director works with actors, his writing process, his admiration of Fellini, and the state of Hollywood today, among many other things. The book includes a filmography and never-before-seen photos.
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2020JOAN BAEZ
The Last Leaf
by Elizabeth Thomson
Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music. Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to integrated audiences in an era of segregation. When Time magazine chronicled the folk revival in November 1962, her portrait was on the cover. Her voice was “as lustrous and rich as old gold.” She has mentored generations of singer-songwriters, most famously Bob Dylan. But Joan Baez has always been much more than simply a singer. Even before she joined Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. on the podium at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, she had used her gift to bring solace and hope to people who had little of either. In words and deeds, Baez has consistently championed social justice, nonviolence the guiding principle of her life, and the causes for which she has campaigned are legion. Whether playing to integrated audiences in the American south during the years of segregation, in Latin America during the years of brutal dictatorships, or Sarajevo under siege, Baez offered “an act of love, sharing, witness and music”. Approaching 80, she has stepped down from the stage following a worldwide farewell tour and a final, Grammy-nominated album. She is now embarked on a new chapter of life—painting.Drawing on interviews with long-time friends and musical associates, and on conversations across four decades with Baez herself, Joan Baez: The Last Leaf is a celebration of a timeless figure whose music and influence will endure long after her voice is silenced. The Discography is by Grammy-nominated music historian Arthur Levy. "I don t think it is an exaggeration to say that this is a book destined to become the definitive word on the life and times of Joan Baez; put it on your list of this year's essential reads."Americana UK Author Elizabeth Thomson has written articles and interviews in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Times and MOJO. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, Thomson is also the editor of Conclusions on the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan and the co-editor of The Dylan Companion.
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Individual film directors, film-makersNovember 2011Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben …' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945
Eine Gesamtübersicht
by Weniger, Kay
The title of this encyclopedia origins from a film song composed by Hans May, written by Ernst Neubach and sung by the legendary tenor and actor Joseph Schmidt during their emigration. This specific line resembles the atmosphere many of the people felt who were banished from Germany at that time – especially Jews who fled from the National Socialism and from the home that could no longer be their home. The present work contains around 575 biographies from the emigrated filmmakers. Ten years ago the Hamburger art historian and film scholar Weniger already published the lexicon ‘Das große Personenlexikon des Films’ in eight volumes which nowadays is a recognized standard reference in the field of international film biographies. 2008 the book ‘Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater/, Film/ und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945‘ followed. The present book is a logical and congenial addition to the last one. The preface is informative and deals with every aspect of the subject in detail. Moreover it outlines the situation of the film artists in the Thirties in Germany and Austria. Weniger also focusses on the effects of the national socialist cultural politics and describes the problems of emigrated artists in their exile countries by using specific examples. Depending on the country they faced very different work conditions. In chapter three Weniger displays the fates of the emigrated film makers. Thereby he describes the most important ones with bio/ and filmographies in detail. Well/known names like Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt, Billy Wilder, Elisabeth Bergner and Franz Wachsmann can surely be found in this work. Many still circulating errors could be revealed and eliminated and even more rather unknown facts are given about the time in exile of film makers like Reinhold Schünzel, Franziska Gaal, Richard Eichberg, Detlef Sierck, Curt Goetz oder Ludwig Berger. Even the biographies of people who were rather sporadically active in the field of film, like Berthold Brecht and Victor Barnowsky, receive new and highly interesting aspects. Especially through the introduction of biographies of people, who have never been portrait in so much detail, this book is of particular importance. These people consists of the actors and actresses Josef Almas, Martha Angerstein, Ilse Bois, Grete Freund, Christiane Grautoff, Hilde Jennings, Hannele Meierzak, Lore Mosheim and Hedwig Schlichter, the movie directors Richard Löwenbein and Josef Stein, the documentalist Friedrich Dalsheim, scriptwriters Katrin Holland and Josef Than, the film producer Lothar Stark, as well as the cutters Jean Oser and Mark Sorkin.
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December 2021Queering Chinese Kinship
Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China
by Lin Song
What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture.
