Cinematography: Theory and Practice 3rd Edition by Blain Brown, ISBN-13: 978-1138940925 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 3rd edition (September 15, 2016) Language: English 440 pages ISBN-10: 9781138940925 ISBN-13: 978-1138940925 The world of cinematography has changed more in the last few years than it has since it has in 1929, when sound recording was introduced. New technology, new tools and new methods have revolutionized the art and craft of telling stories visually. While some…
Read moreCinema 2: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze, ISBN-13: 978-0816616770 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; 1st edition (October 22, 1986) Language: English 362 pages ISBN-10: 9780816616770 ISBN-13: 978-0816616770 Cinema 2: The Time-Image (French: Cinéma 2, L’image-temps) (1985) is the second volume of Gilles Deleuze’s work on cinema, the first being Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (French: Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement) (1983). Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 have become to be known as the…
Read moreCinema 1: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze, ISBN-13: 978-0816614004 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; 1st edition (October 22, 1986) Language: English 264 pages ISBN-10: 0816614008 ISBN-13: 978-0816614004 Cinema 1: The Movement Image (French: Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement) (1983) is the first of two books on cinema by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the second being Cinema 2: The Time Image (French: Cinéma 2. L’image-temps) (1985). Together Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 have…
Read moreCinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era, ISBN-13: 978-9089640840 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (July 15, 2010) Language : English 271 pages ISBN-10: 9089640843 ISBN-13: 978-9089640840 Cinema Beyond Film elaborates on the theoretical uses of two key terms—dispositif and episteme—in order to examine their relationship as well as their larger connections to film, technology, and modernity. Although both terms originate in the work of Foucault, dispositif (“device”) intrinsically links…
Read moreGoodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum, ISBN-13: 978-0226726656 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First Edition (October 15, 2010) Language: English 408 pages ISBN-10: 0226726657 ISBN-13: 978-0226726656 The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just…
Read moreEssential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum, ISBN-13: 978-0801889714 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (June 1, 2008) Language: English 472 pages ISBN-10: 0801889715 ISBN-13: 978-0801889714 In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward…
Read moreSurrealism and Cinema by Michael Richardson, ISBN-13: 978-1845202262 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Berg Publishers (March 1, 2006) Language: English 208 pages ISBN-10: 1845202260 ISBN-13: 978-1845202262 Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the critical literature, however, focuses either on the 1920s or the work of Buuel. The aim of this book is to open up…
Read moreMotion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis by Justin Remes, ISBN-13: 978-0231169639 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition (February 24, 2015) Language: English 216 pages ISBN-10: 0231169639 ISBN-13: 978-0231169639 Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol’s Empire (1964), the Fluxus work…
Read moreRites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema by Ivone Margulies, ISBN-13: 978-0822330660 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Duke University Press Books; Illustrated edition (March 27, 2003) Language: English 360 pages ISBN-10: 0822330660 ISBN-13: 978-0822330660 Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of “performative realism,” a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social…
Read moreTsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness by Song Hwee Lim, ISBN-13: 978-0824836849 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; Illustrated edition (January 31, 2014) Language: English 240 pages ISBN-10: 0824836847 ISBN-13: 978-0824836849 How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the…
Read moreA History of Greek Cinema by Vrasidas Karalis, ISBN-13: 978-1441194473 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Continuum; 1st edition (February 2, 2012) Language: English 344 pages ISBN-10: 1441194479 ISBN-13: 978-1441194473 The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair. Greek cinema started slowly and then collapsed; for several years it struggled to reinvent itself, produced its first mature works, then collapsed completely and almost vanished. Because of such a complex historical trajectory…
Read moreThe Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism by Hermann Kappelhoff, ISBN-13: 978-0231170734 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition (August 11, 2015) Language: English 280 pages ISBN-10: 0231170734 ISBN-13: 978-0231170734 Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema’s unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein…
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