Free Download Marlé Hammond, "Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide"
English | ISBN: 1474435785 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 11 MB
From the exaggerated emotions of 1930s Egyptian melodrama to the cryptic allegories of late 20th-century Palestinian cinema, Arab World Cinemas guides you through 28 Arabic-language feature films released between 1933 and 2021, including Muhammad Khan's 'Dreams of Hind and Camilia' (1989), Moufida Tlatli's 'Silences of the Palace' (1994) and Elia Suleiman's 'Divine Intervention' (2002). Written specially for students, the book is split into 3 parts: Egypt, North Africa and the eastern Arab world. Each part begins with an introductory essay that highlights the aesthetic and socio-historical trends and currents in the cinematic traditions particular to that region. Marlé Hammond then dedicates individual chapters to a group of films from the highlighted region, interpreting their form and content through the lenses of cinematic technique and concepts drawn from various disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Free Download Sabine Schrader, "The Cinemas of Italian Migration: European and Transatlantic Narratives"
English | ISBN: 1443846244 | 2013 | 340 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Italy is more strongly influenced by the experiences of migrants than many other European countries. This includes an historically ongoing internal migration from the south to the north which is strongly echoed in Neo-realism, a mass emigration mainly from western Europe and North and South America that is connected with mafia films, among others, in Italy's collective imaginary as well as a more recent immigration influx from the southwestern Mediterranean which is dealt with at a film level in New Italian Cinema in the recent decades. Thus, three forms of migration have affected politics as well as Italy's film history, the latter, through the development of new genres and sub-genres. In this manner, questions concerning cultural studies are intersected with those of film aesthetics in this volume. The Cinemas of Italian Migration: European and Transatlantic Narratives brings together for the first time international contributions on the early post-WWII cinema like Il cammino della speranza (The Road to Hope Pietro Germi, 1950) or I magliari (The Magliari Francesco Rosi, 1959) with Migrant Road Movie classics like Lamerica (Gianni Amelio, 1994) and contemporary Italian comedies like Into Paradiso (Into Paradise Paola Randi, 2010). Additionally, this volume includes articles dealing with often marginalized filmmakers (e.g. Vincenzo Marra, Roberta Torre), independent productions (among others, Carmine Amoroso's Cover Boy, 2006) and genres like contemporary Italian documentary films (e.g. Andrea Segre's A Sud di Lampedusa/South of Lampedusa, 2006). The migration narratives are shaped by European and transatlantic filmmakers, not only by Ferzan Ozpetek but also by Werner Schroeter from Germany, Denis Rabaglia from Switzerland, Martin Scorsese from the US and Sandra Gugliotta from Argentina, to name just a few examples.

Free Download Dilip M Menon, "Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 1032727470 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 63 MB
This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.

Films on Ice Cinemas of the Arctic by Scott MacKenzie PDF | 3.22 MB
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Title: Films on Ice
Author: MacKenzie, Scott,Westerstahl Stenport, Anna
Year: 2015

Free Download Scott MacKenzie, "New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis"
English | ISBN: 0520390547 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 4 MB
For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns and Indigenous media sovereignty and self-determination movements. The works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers, from Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and influence of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries-all centering the Arctic North.

Free Download Pietari Kääpä, "Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas: From Nation-building to Ecocosmopolitanism "
English | ISBN: 1441192794 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 430 KB
Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas challenges the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema by providing an ecocritical examination of Nordic cinema. The author uses a range of analytical approaches to interrogate how the national paradigm can be rethought through ecosystemic concerns, by exploring a range of Nordic films as national and transnational, regional and local texts, all with significant global implications. By synergizing transnational theories with ecological approaches, the study considers the planetary implications of nation-based cultural production.

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Nesibe is the daughter of a poor family living in a suburb of Istanbul. She suffers violence and oppression in her family. Her only consolation is the glittering world of motion pictures.

Language: Turkish
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Genre: Drama
Cast: Hülya Avsar, Sema Aybars, Yaman Okay
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Lina Khatib, "Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts"
English | ISBN: 0231163363 | 2013 | 224 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are told in films around the world, both in terms of the forms of storytelling used, and of the political, religious, historical, and social contexts informing cinematic storytelling. Drawing on films from all five continents, the book approaches storytelling from a cultural/historical multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women's social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Like its sister volume,

Tom Brown, "Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138852945, 1138548715 | PDF | pages: 292 | 2.3 mb
Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of 'classical' cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in 'Classical' Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s brings a fresh perspective on the role of the spectacular in classical sound cinema by focusing on one decade of cinema (the 1930s), in two 'modes' of filmmaking (musical and historical films), and in two national cinemas (the US and France). This not only brings to light the special rhetorical and affective possibilities offered by spectacular images but refines our understanding of what 'classical' cinema is and was.

Ksenya Gurshtein, "Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe "
English | ISBN: 9462982996 | 2022 | 334 pages | PDF | 9 MB