Film Studies

2015-02-20 Social Science

Author : Glyn Davis
Release : 2015-02-20
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 371/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Film Studies by : Glyn Davis

Download or read book Film Studies written by Glyn Davis. This book was released on 2015-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age. Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s approach encourages readers to think about film holistically by looking beyond the textual analysis of key films. In contrast, it engages with other vital areas, such as financing, labour, marketing, distribution, exhibition, preservation, and politics, reflecting contemporary aspects of cinema production and consumption worldwide. Key features of the book include: clear definitions of the key terms at the foundation of film studies coverage of the work of key thinkers, explained in their social and historical context a broad range of relevant case studies that reflect the book’s approach to global cinema, from Italian "white telephone" films to Mexican wrestling films innovative and flexible exercises to help readers enhance their understanding of the histories, theories, and examples introduced in each chapter an extensive Interlude introducing readers to formal analysis through the careful explication and application of key terms a detailed discussion of strategies for writing about cinema Films Studies: A Global Introduction will appeal to students studying film today and aspiring to work in the industry, as well as those eager to understand the world of images and screens in which we all live.

Border Cinema

2019-04-15 Performing Arts

Author : Monica Hanna
Release : 2019-04-15
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 15X/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Border Cinema by : Monica Hanna

Download or read book Border Cinema written by Monica Hanna. This book was released on 2019-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.

Violence, Conflict and Discourse in Mexican Cinema (2002-2015)

2022-01-26 Performing Arts

Author : Miriam Haddu
Release : 2022-01-26
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 118/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Violence, Conflict and Discourse in Mexican Cinema (2002-2015) by : Miriam Haddu

Download or read book Violence, Conflict and Discourse in Mexican Cinema (2002-2015) written by Miriam Haddu. This book was released on 2022-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have seen dramatic changes to Mexico’s socio-political landscape. A former president fleeing into exile, political assassinations, a rebellion in Chiapas, and the eruption of the so-called war on drugs provide key examples of critical events shaping the nation. This book examines Mexican cinema’s representations of, and responses to, these socio-political moments. Beginning with the definitive year 1994, which saw the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) declare war on the Mexican government, the early chapters in this book discuss the outcome of these episodes in subsequent years and how they find screen representation. The study then moves on to provide close readings of key filmic texts as reflections of the so-called narco-war and its effects on Mexican society. Focusing on both fiction and documentary filmmaking, this book explores notions of violence, victimhood, and the complex processing of grief in the context of enforced disappearances and the narco-conflict. In addition to examining films made in Mexico, this investigation incorporates the work of three of the nation’s most celebrated transnational directors: Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón. By examining their work on European soil as a comparative exercise, the analyses offer an understanding of the imprints left by warfare and trauma upon the collective and individual psyche, seen from a universal viewpoint. Using rigorous theoretical frameworks and succinct filmic analyses, this book will be essential reading for those interested in Mexican and Latin American film, as well as those working in the fields of Cultural, Screen, and Trauma Studies.

Popular eBooks

Border Cinema

Violence, Conflict and Discourse in Mexican Cinema (2002-2015)

You may also like...