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Le cinéma dans l'œil du collectionneur
L’histoire du cinéma n’existerait pas sans les collectionneurs. Que ce soit par leur travail de collecte pionnier ou par leur défense passionnée de pans oubliés de la production cinématographique mondiale, leur influence durable se fait sentir tant sur le terrain que par leurs méthodes pour appréhender l’histoire des images animées. Leur contribution est toutefois restée dans l’ombre des travaux menés dans les institutions universitaires et archivistiques jusqu’à ce qu’un intérêt nouveau pour les questions relatives aux archives, à l’archéologie des médias et à l’histoire des techniques jette la lumière sur l’importance de leurs activités. Cet ouvrage, qu...
Archiver le présent
Les plateformes numériques donnent l’impression que nous pouvons avoir une connaissance exhaustive du monde, de la vie courante et des lieux où elle se déroule. Elles laissent croire qu’il est possible d’archiver le présent, c’est-à-dire de recueillir de façon soutenue des éléments du quotidien, des images, des textes et des artéfacts que nous rendons disponibles à qui veut bien les consulter. Le collectif Archiver le présent examine les pratiques artistiques et littéraires qui mettent à l’épreuve cette volonté de tout archiver – rendue possible par l’augmentation exponentielle des capacités de stockage et la gestion simplifiée des données massives –, et qui la mettent en scène et la détournent pour en exposer les dimensions paradoxales ou dystopiques. Comment la création et la culture contemporaines poussent-elles l’archive à ses limites ? Quel rapport à la connaissance et à ses modes d’organisation et de diffusion engagent-elles? Que nous disent-elles du monde dans lequel nous vivons ?
Plus de cinéma ! Images animées et effets spéciaux
Tout au long de son histoire, le cinéma a provoqué l'émerveillement et a ouvert nos yeux sur d'autres possibles : univers singuliers d'images en mouvement, couleurs envoutantes, espaces oniriques, sans parler des effets spéciaux – matière première du septième art – fruits d'une longue histoire multidisciplinaire méconnue. Ce livre, qui traverse le siècle du cinéma, propose une archéologie de certaines expérimentations menées entre le monde des prises de vue réelles et celui de l'animation. En présentant un corpus surprenant et diversifié, qui renouvelle les canons habituels des films à grand déploiement d'effets spéciaux et fait se côtoyer la science-fiction avec le cinéma expérimental, il permet de dépasser les idées reçues, notamment celle de la rupture du « tournant du numérique », et d'élargir ainsi notre connaissance de la manufacture du merveilleux.
Save More Tomorrow
One of the world’s top experts in behavioral finance offers innovative strategies for improving 401(k) plans. Half of Americans do not have access to a retirement saving plan at their workplace. Of those who do about a third fail to join. And those who do join tend to save too little and often make unwise investment decisions. In short, the 401(k) world is in crisis, and workers need help. Save More Tomorrow provides that help by focusing on the behavioral challenges that led to this crisis inertia, limited self-control, loss aversion, and myopia—and transforms them into behavioral solutions. These solutions, or tools, are based on cutting edge behavioral finance research and they can dr...
Film Culture Reader
This compilation from Film Culture magazine—the pioneering periodical in avant-garde film commentary—includes contributors like Charles Boultenhouse, Erich von Stroheim, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, Annette Michelson, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Andrew Sarris, Rudolph Arnheim, Jonas Mekas, and Parker Tyler. This collection covers a range of topics in twentieth century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema, from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary perspectives—urban planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and, cultural and media studies—and geographical contexts—Australia, the UK, US and North Africa. In overall terms, (Sub)urban Sexscapes highlights the mainstreaming of commercial sex premises—sex shops, brothels, strip clubs and quee...
Repeating Ourselves
Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.
Sound Commitments
The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful contribution to social change if their music remained t...
Abstract Film and Beyond
"Malcolm Le Grice, an important experimental filmmaker from England, film journalist for Studio International, and teacher ... gives us a lucid account, both historical and theoretical, of the main preoccupations of abstract filmmakers.... "Le Grice begins with a painter, Cezanne, to show how his preoccupation with pictorial space is a key to any understanding of the notion of abstraction. He goes on to discuss the Futurists' cinema, the early abstract film experiments by Eggeling, Duchamp and others in Germany and France of the '20s, the West Coast filmmakers of the '40s, and a stimulating view of the experimental film movement after WW II, including the works of Brakhage, Snow, Gidal and Sharits." - Art Direction "Whether or not one agrees with Le Grice's valuation of an alternate cinema, Abstract Film and Beyond clearly demonstrates that the cinema, that great twentieth-century art, is no mere entertainment, but an event of tremendous importance and implication." - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
American Cinema, 1890-1909
The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call "cinema."
