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L’invenzione del cinema, perfezionamento della fotografia, ha dato modo agli umani di vedere doppi realistici di corpi in azione, in realtà ombre, fantasmi, spettri, prima muti, poi parlanti, suscitabili a piacere a ogni proiezione, con il solo limite d’essere condannati a ripetere ogni volta gli stessi gesti, a pronunciare le stesse parole. Eppure questo limite non è solo una condanna, non è solo ripetizione, non ricalca necessariamente i sentieri dell’identico. Il cinema, in certi casi, è in grado di veicolare con le sue immagini qualcosa come una quintessenza, e quelle ombre, quegli spettri, quei doppi, sono in grado di dirci, sul nostro corpo, sul rapporto con il mondo, sui movimenti, sui gesti, sul tempo, sull’identità, sulla memoria, sul mito, qualcosa di rilevante anche sul piano filosofico. È quanto si spera risulti dalla lettura di queste note, avvertendo comunque che esse, nel loro andamento non sistematico, si appoggeranno a oggetti e soggetti filmici in apparenza eterogenei, da Pasolini a Orson Welles, da Rossellini a Bela Tarr, da Raul Ruiz a Bressane, da Tsai Ming Liang a Cronenberg, da Ejzenštejn a Godard, da Dreyer a Scorsese, da Fellini a Gianikian e Ricci Lucchi, da Chantal Akerman a Twin Peaks 3, non senza qualche rapido excursus teatrale, tra Artaud e Carmelo Bene.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- post-cinema --- images --- movie --- philosophy

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Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars. The text looks at the way theatre and music hall spawned their stars, and asks why so many of them found the transition to film so awkward. It compares the British star system with that of Hollywood. What sort of contracts were British stars offered? How much were they paid? Who dealt with their publicity? How did Britsh fans regard them? There are essays on key figures (Novello, Fields, Formby, Dors, Bogarde, Mason, Matthews), and assessment of how British stars fared in Hollywood, an analysis of the effects of clas

Motion pictures --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Actors --- Actresses --- History. --- History

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Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding of narrative theory more broadly. A typical example of popular literature, novelization has remained an overlooked practice in spite of the cultural and commercial importance of the genre, which is as old as cinema itself.Novelization offers a historical overview of the genre, focusing on the various formats that have been adopted since the first decades of the twentieth century until today: daily and weekly novelizations, cheap brochures, pocket books, and trade editions. It studies the specific features of the genre from various points of view: narrative style, illustrations, authorship, and marketing. By studying novelization from a broad historical perspective, Baetens reframes our understanding of adaptation and the relationship between cinema and literature. Rather than assume that cinematic adaptations either cannibalize or rejuvenate literature, Novelization ultimately offers the opportunity to rethink the adaptation paradigm of film and literary studies.

Film novelizations --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Motion picture novelizations --- Motion picture novels --- Movie novelizations --- Movie novels --- Novelizations, Film --- Novelizations, Motion picture --- Novelizations, Movie --- Novels, Motion picture --- Novels, Movie --- History and criticism --- Film novelizations. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Fiction --- Film

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Rock 'n' Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have regarded rock 'n' roll, some cynically cashing in on its popularity and others responding to the music as sincere fans, some depicting rock as harmless fun and others representing it as an open challenge to mainstream norms.

Rock films --- Musical films --- History --- cinema. --- film. --- movies. --- rock and roll. --- rock movie. --- rock. --- rockumentary.

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This book is the first major study of a French silent cinema star. It focuses on Pierre Batcheff, a prominent popular cinema star in the 1920's, the French Valentino, best-known to modern audiences for his role as the protagonist of the avant-garde film classic Un chien andalou. Unlike other stars, he was linked to intellectual circles, especially the Surrealists. The book places Batcheff in the context of 1920's popular cinema, with specific reference to male stars of the period. It analyses the tensions he exemplifies between the 'popular' and the 'intellectual' during the 1920's, as cinema

Motion picture actors and actresses --- Silent films --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Actors --- Actresses --- History and criticism. --- Batcheff, Pierre, --- Batchef, Pierre,