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E-BooksUncanny Histories in Film and Media



Uncanny Histories in Film and Media
Free Download Patrice Petro, "Uncanny Histories in Film and Media "
English | ISBN: 1978829957 | 2022 | 238 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamiliar or mysterious or strange. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors remind us that at the heart of the uncanny, and indeed the writing of history, is a troubling of definitions, a challenge to our inherited narratives, and a disturbance of what was once familiar in the uncanny histories of our field.



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E-BooksThrough Amateur Eyes Film and Photography in Nazi Germany



Through Amateur Eyes Film and Photography in Nazi Germany
Free Download Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany By Frances Guerin
2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0816670064 | PDF | 14 MB
We have seen the films of professionals and propagandists celebrate Adolf Hitler, his SS henchmen, and the Nazi Party. But what of the documentary films and photographs of amateurs, soldiers, and others involved in the war effort who were simply going about their lives amid death and destruction? And what of the films and photographs that want us to believe there was no death and destruction? This book asks how such images have shaped our memories and our memorialization of World War II and the Holocaust. Frances Guerin considers the implications of amateur films and photographs taken by soldiers, bystanders, resistance workers, and others in Nazi Germany. Her book explores how photographs taken by soldiers and bystanders on the Eastern Front, depictions of everyday life in the Lu3dz ghetto, and home movies and family albums of Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, among others, can challenge the conventional idea that such images reflect Nazi ideology because they are taken by perpetrators and sympathizers. Through Amateur Eyes upsets our expectations and demonstrates how these images can be understood as chillingly unrehearsed images of war, trauma, and loss. Many of these images have been reused-often unacknowledged-in contemporary narratives memorializing World War II: museum exhibitions, made-for-television documentaries, documentary films, and the Internet. Guerin shows how modern uses of these images often reinforce well-rehearsed narratives of cultural memory. She offers a critical new perspective on how we can incorporate such still and moving images into processes of witnessing the traumas of the past in the present moment.



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E-BooksThe Power of Film



The Power of Film
Free Download The Power of Film By Howard Suber
2006 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 1932907173 | EPUB | 1 MB
America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable, and will be useful both for those who want to create films and for those who just want to understand them better.



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E-BooksThe Power of Film Propaganda Myth or Reality



The Power of Film Propaganda Myth or Reality
Free Download Nicholas Reeves, "The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?"
English | 2003 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0304338710, 0304338729, 0826473903 | PDF | 15,8 mb
In the years before television, it was widely assumed that the cinema could exercise enormous influence over the mass audience. Governments and revolutionary intellectuals, party politicians and individual filmmakers, all believed that film offered a uniquely effective means of manipulating the ideology of the masses and thus, notwithstanding their very different ideological objectives, films as different as The Battleship Potemkin, Triumph of the Will, and In Which We Serve were all the product of the same assumptions about the immense power of film as a medium of political propaganda.



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E-BooksThe Epic Film Myth and History



The Epic Film Myth and History
Free Download The Epic Film: Myth and History By Elley, Derek
2014 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 0710096569 | PDF | 8 MB
As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.' This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages looks at epic form and discusses the films by historical period, showing how the cinema reworks history for the changing needs of its audience, much as the ancient mythographers did.The form's main aim has always been to entertain, and Derek Elley reminds us of the glee with which many epic films have worn their label, and of the sheer fun of the genre. He shows the many levels on which these films can work, from the most popular to the specialist, each providing a considerable source of enjoyment. For instance, spectacle, the genre's most characteristic trademark, is merely the cinema's own transformation of the literary epic's taste for the grandiose. Dramatically it can serve many purposes: as a resolution of personal tensions (the chariot race in Ben-Hur), of monotheism vs idolatry (Solomon and Sheba), or of the triumph of a religious code (The Ten Commandments).Although to many people Epic equals Hollywood, throughout the book Elley stresses debt to the Italian epics, which often explored areas of history with which Hollywood could never have found sympathy.Originally published 1984.



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E-BooksScenes of Instruction The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film



Scenes of Instruction The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film
Free Download Dana Polan, "Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film"
English | 2007 | pages: 420 | ISBN: 0520249631, 0520249623 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia University's early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industry's sponsorship of a business course on film at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Southern California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren.



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E-BooksMarlon Brando, A Life In Film



Marlon Brando, A Life In Film
Free Download Richard Schickel, "Marlon Brando, A Life In Film"
English | 2012 | pages: 32 | ASIN: B0077NB3R2 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Marlon Brando's career could have been made into an epic film. In the first act, he faces the drama of separation and departure from the community that nurtured him; in the next he overcomes a series of trials, leading to a victory of some sort; finally, he relishes a triumphant return and reintegration with the society from which he uprooted himself originally. It is interesting, and profitable, legendary film critic Richard Schickel argues, to consider Brando's career - from As Streetcar Named Desire to On the Waterfront to The Wild Ones - in that (spot) light. Here's his surprising tale.



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E-BooksLooking for the Other Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze



Looking for the Other Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze
Free Download Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze By E. Ann Kaplan
1997 | 333 Pages | ISBN: 0415910161 | PDF | 18 MB
What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at, and looking relations with, peoples different from oneself. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat, and Warrior Marks. Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.



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E-BooksLaw of Desire A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)



Law of Desire A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)
Free Download José Quiroga, "Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)"
English | 2009 | pages: 161 | ISBN: 1551522624 | PDF | 0,9 mb
"This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture."-Library Journal



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E-BooksKorean Film and History



Korean Film and History
Free Download Hyunseon Lee, "Korean Film and History "
English | ISBN: 1032245018 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 10 MB
Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made―a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and fantasy, documentary and fiction, representation and performance, entertainment and education. This interdisciplinary book examines the relationship between film and history and the links between historical research and filmic (re-)presentations of history with special reference to South Korean cinema.



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