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Author : Sheerly Avni
Release : 2006
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cinema by the Bay by : Sheerly Avni
Download or read book Cinema by the Bay written by Sheerly Avni. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A welcome book.' Includes index.
Author : Cécile Accilien
Release : 2023-08-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 86X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bay Lodyans by : Cécile Accilien
Download or read book Bay Lodyans written by Cécile Accilien. This book was released on 2023-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Haitian Creole, bay lodyans means to tell stories to an audience, and more generally, to entertain. This book is the first to analyze popular contemporary Haitian films, looking especially at how they respond to the needs and desires of Haitian audiences in and beyond Haiti. Produced between 2000 and 2018 and largely shot with digital cameras and sometimes cellphones, these films focus on the complexities of community, nostalgia, belonging, identity, and the emotional landscapes of exile and diaspora. They reflect sociopolitical and cultural issues related to family, language, im/migration, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic hardship. Using storytelling and other less traditionally "academic" techniques, Cécile Accilien advances Haitian epistemological frameworks. Bay Lodyans integrates terms and concepts from Haitian culture, such as jerans and kafou (derived from the French words for "to manage" and "crossroads," respectively) and includes interviews with Haitian filmmakers, actors, and scholars in order to challenge the dominance of Western theoretical approaches and perspectives.
Author : Steve Anker
Release : 2010
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Radical Light by : Steve Anker
Download or read book Radical Light written by Steve Anker. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb collection, as exciting, in many ways, as the works it chronicles."--Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)
Author : Scott MacDonald
Release : 2008-01-02
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 877/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Canyon Cinema by : Scott MacDonald
Download or read book Canyon Cinema written by Scott MacDonald. This book was released on 2008-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MacDonald's selections tread a pitch-perfect path between being comprehensive and making an engrossing and illuminating narrative. He has perfected his voice, and controls the entire history of U.S. avant-garde film with an easy and graceful confidence."—David E. James, author of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
Author : Lutz Koepnick
Release : 2018-02-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 215/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Michael Bay by : Lutz Koepnick
Download or read book Michael Bay written by Lutz Koepnick. This book was released on 2018-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers. Lutz Koepnick engages the bigness of works like Armageddon and the Transformers movies to explore essential questions of contemporary filmmaking and culture. Combining close analysis and theoretical reflection, Koepnick shows how Bay's films, knowingly or not, address profound issues about what it means to live in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. According to Koepnick's astute readings, no one eager to understand the state of cinema today can ignore Bay's work. Bay's cinema of world-making and transnational reach not only exemplifies interlocking processes of cultural and economic globalization. It urges us to contemplate the future of moving images, of memory, matter, community, and experience, amid a time of rampant political populism and ever-accelerating technological change. An eye-opening look at one of Hollywood's most polarizing directors, Michael Bay illuminates what energizes the films of this cinematic and cultural force.
