[PDF] World Cinema Through Global Genres eBook

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1118712919

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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1118712927

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World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

Author : Silvia Dibeltulo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319901346

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Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content—the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis—is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other. In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.

Author : Corey K Creekmur
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0748654305

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A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.

Author : Barry Langford
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.

Author : Julie F. Codell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405132329

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Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion. A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each

Author : José Duarte
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Road films
ISBN : 9781783208777

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The Global Road Movie looks at the road movie genre from a wider perspective, exploring the motif of travel not just in American films. Through analyses of several films, this book enables us to think afresh about how today's road movies fit into the history of the genre and what they can tell us about how people move about in the world today.

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0198742428

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Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world.

Author : Igor Krstic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474406882

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Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Author : Louis Bayman
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1783202300

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Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well versed in the topic. It brings into sharp focus some of the most important movements, genres and themes from across the eras of Brazilian cinema, from cinema novo to musical chanchada, the road movie to cinema de bordas, avant-garde to pornochanchada. Delving deep beyond the surface of cinema, the volume also addresses key themes such as gender, indigenous and diasporic communities and Afro-Brazilian identity. Situating Brazilian cinema within the country's changing position in the global capitalist system, the essays consider uneven modernization, class division, dictatorship, liberation struggles and globalization alongside questions of entertainment and artistic innovation.