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For some time now, thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of a "postsecular turn." Until now, film studies has largely been silent about this development, even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectives—the former a thoughtful meditation on faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriu...
The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who have been celebrated for their powerfully affecting social realist films. Though the Dardenne brothers’ films rarely mention religion or God, they have received wide recognition for their moral complexity and spiritual resonance. This book brings the Dardennes’ filmography into consideration with theological aesthetics, Christian ethics, phenomenological film theory, and continental philosophy. The author explores the brothers’ nine major films—beginning with The Promise (1996) and culminating in Young Ahmed (2019)—through the hermeneutics of philosopher Paul Ricoeu...
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Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence between filmmakers in France and Japan. The book provides new insights into the ways that national cinemas resist Hollywood to maintain and strengthen their own cultural practices and how these national cinemas perform the task of informing and enlightening other cultures about what it means to be French or Japanese. This book also deepens our understandings of film's role as a viable cultural and economic player in individual nations. Importantly, the reader will see that film operates as a form of cultural exchange between France and Japan, and more broadly, Europe and Asia. This is the first major book to investigate the crossover between these two diverse national cinemas by tracking their history of shared narrative and stylistic techniques.
Verbotene Beziehungen und Erpressung in der Weimarer Republik und dem England der Sechzigerjahre, der Kampf gegen unterdrückte Sehnsüchte auf einer Farm im ländlichen Montana von 1925, dramatische Liebesgeschichten in der flirrenden Atmosphäre eines Sommers im nördlichen Italien und einem Badeort in der Normandie der Achtziger; erste Sehnsucht auf der thailändischen Insel Phuket und das Aufbegehren gegen die Engstirnigkeit einer homophoben Gesellschaft im Georgien unserer Tage ... Paul Senftenbergs neue Essays zu Gänsehautmomenten in schwulen Filmen und Serien erstrecken sich nicht nur von der Zeit, als die Bilder gerade erst laufen lernten, bis zu jüngsten Produktionen, sie behandel...
In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of 'delayed cinema' to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in Mulvey's phrase, 'stillness and the moving image' enacts a drama of existential emergence. The stillness of the framed image in relation to the moving image opens 'free' cinematic time and space for a fresh engagement with crucial ethical and cultural issues. With close readings of films such as The Bicycle Thieves, Two Days, One Night, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Revenant and The Age of Innocence, this book proposes a fresh approach to reading film in the context of emerging existential presence and the ethical imperative.
Teniamo a precisare che tutti i testi inclusi nella presente opera provengono liberamente da Internet e sono reperibili su Wikipedia. Allora sorge spontanea la domanda: perché prelevare questo libro? La risposta è semplice. Si tratta di un certosino lavoro di assemblamento, con una specifica ricerca di immagini (queste ad esempio su Wikipedia non le trovate) che completa l'opera in modo da renderla unica e non ripetibile nella sua struttura. In breve, un lavoro che, pur proveniente dal lavoro di altri, si trasforma in un unicum, assumendo una sua veste logica che è quella di descrivere il tema del lesbismo nel cinema. Sono stati scelti venti film che a parere del curatore dell’opera son...
Répertoire thématique et descriptif de plus de 1.500 spectacles (opéra, danse, théâtre, arts du cirque, etc.) présentés au cours de la saison 2000-2001 en Belgique francophone. Offre en outre un répertoire d'adresses : compagnies, lieux de programmation, centres d'information, organismes de promotion et d'aide.