Author: J.P. Mayer
Publisher: Mayer Press
Keywords: audiences, cinemas, british
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406756067
ISBN-13: 9781406756067
Text extracted from opening pages of book: British inemas and their Audiences Sociological Studies by J. P. Mayer London DENNIS DOBSON LTD From Ivan the Terrible ( see Introduction page 9) First published in Great Britain in 1948 by Dennis Dobson Ltd., 12 Park Place, St. James’s, London, S. W. i. All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain by Whitehill ( Printers) Ltd., Birmingham i 4 i/ R CONTENTS Preface I Chapter I. Introduction 3 Chapter II. Films and the Pattern of Life 1. Preliminary 13 2. Documents 15 3. An Appreciation 143 Chapter III. A Study in Film Preferences 153 1. Introdu
Author: Allen Eyle
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: library, shire, cinemas, old
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0747804885
ISBN-13: 9780747804888
No building type arouses more nostalgic affection than the traditional high street cinema, not only because of the impression made by the films on the screen and the havent if offered to courting couples, but also because of its own special atomosphere of expectations, relaxation and escape, usually enhanced by the decorative surroundings. Many picture huses were unremarkable, and some had decline to uncomfortable ’fleapits’ but the cinema inspired architects and designers to create some of the most extravagant and some of the most avant-garde buildings erected in the twentieth cen
Author: Elena del Rio
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: affection, powers, performance, cinemas, deleuze
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0748635254
ISBN-13: 9780748635252
The performing body privileges the notion of affective force over the notion of visual form, and Elena del RÃo places this at the center of theories of spectacle and performativity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza’s relevant concepts of affect and expression, del RÃo defines "affective-performative" cinema, the features of which unfold through detailed discussions of the movements, gestures, and speeds of the body in a variety of films by Douglas Sirk, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Sally Potter, Claire Denis, and David Lynch. She grounds her
Authors:Dorota Ostrowska, Graham Roberts,
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: television, cinemas, european
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0748623094
ISBN-13: 9780748623099
Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska radically rethink European cinema’s post-war history from the perspective of television’s impact on the culture of cinema’s production, distribution, consumption, and reception. In every European country television has transformed the economic, technological, and aesthetic terms of cinema production. Its growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema’s audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television. Cinematic criticism has been slow to address the impact of televisi
Authors:Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Gary Needham,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: guide, reader, cinemas, asian
Number of Pages: 473
Published: 2006-05-31
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0824830857
ISBN-13: 9780824830854
The West’s current fascination with Asian cinema must be viewed in the context of a complex and often problematic relationship between Western scholars, students, viewers, and Asian films. this book examines a number of detailed case studies (such as the films of Ozu, Hong Kong, and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, and Fifth Generation Chinese cinema) and uses them to investigate the limitations of Anglo-U.S. theoretical models and critical paradigms.
Authors:Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cinemas, national, nordic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-02-20
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415081955
ISBN-13: 9780415081955
Nordic National Cinemas explores the film histories and cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors examine each country’s domestic film production, social and political context and domestic audiences from the beginning of this century to the twentieth century.The authors not only explore the work of internationally renowned figures such as Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjostrom, Carl Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman, directors of such classics as Vampyr, Ordet, Wild Strawberries and Cries and Whispers, but also nationally important film makers such as August Blom, Bodil Ips
Authors:Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cinemas, national, nordic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-02-20
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415081947
ISBN-13: 9780415081948
Brings together discussion of cinema in 5 Scandinavian countries to reveal a wealth of cinematic history, from early pioneers to contemporary filmmakers and recent arthouse blockbusters - My Life as a Dog etc. As well as discussing cinemas, relationships with Hollywood industry and wider phenomenon of `Nordic cinema’ from 3 leading Scandinavian film scholars.
