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Author: John Orr Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically...
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View ArticleFrom Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest Work in European Cinema from...
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Author: Abigail Loxham The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national...
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Author: Tarja Laine The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Aronofsky’s films, which include a rich...
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View ArticleCinema in Service of the State Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and...
Author: Edited by Lars Karl and Pavel Skopal The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two...
View ArticleDesires for Reality Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film
Author: Benjamin Halligan As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Film Culture Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and...
Author: Malte Hagener Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took...
View ArticleImperial Projections Screening the German Colonies
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View ArticleNationalism and the Cinema in France Political Mythologies and Film Events,...
Author: Hugo Frey It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation’s sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship?...
View ArticleNew Hong Kong Cinema Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia
Author: Ruby Cheung The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course...
View ArticleSubjective Realist Cinema From Expressionism to Inception
Author: Matthew Campora Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ “subjective realist”...
View ArticleNew Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Author: Edited by Guy Austin Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of...
View ArticleGerman Television Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Author: Edited by Larson Powell and Robert R. Shandley Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained...
View ArticleThe Man from the Third Row Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema, and the Long Shadow...
Author: Fredrik Gustafsson Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is...
View ArticleRe-Imagining DEFA East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts
Author: Edited by Seán Allan and Sebastian Heiduschke By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a...
View ArticleStars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema
Author: Edited by Tim Bergfelder, Lisa Shaw and João Luiz Vieira Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As...
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