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Le monde animal fascine les hommes, toutes civilisations confondues, depuis les origines de l'humanité. Cette fascination s'accompagne bien souvent d'une réinterprétation suivant les époques, voire d'une récupération et d'une instrumentalisation en fonction d'enjeux propres à chaque moment historique.
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Cet essai est consacré au montage au cinéma. Outre un rappel de la façon dont il est envisagé par différents cinéastes (De Palma, Antonioni, Eisenstein, Vertov, Epstein, Tarkovski, Renoir, Godard, Bresson, Van der Keuken...), l'ouvrage propose une analyse de ses objectifs et de son langage. La « théorie du montage » développée ici est construite comme une théorie scientifique, avec comme postulat de départ l'existence d'une énergie de l'image, portée par les plans d'un film et polarisée par le montage. Cette approche originale permet de saisir toute l'essence du montage, au-delà des considérations syntaxiques, narratives et plastiques. L'auteur illustre son propos de nombreux exemples issus de l'histoire du cinéma.
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Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetics. --- History. --- Aesthetics. --- Philosophy.
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In this important new contribution to Buddhist studies and Buddhist film criticism, Francisca Cho argues that films can do more than simply convey information about Buddhism. Films themselves can become a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice that enables the viewer not only to see the Buddha, but to see like the Buddha. Drawing upon her extensive knowledge of both Buddhism and film studies, Cho examines the aesthetic vision of several Asian and Western films that explicitly or implicitly embody Buddhist teachings about karma, emptiness, illusion, and overcoming duality. Her wide-ranging analysis includes Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring (South Korea, 2003), Nang Nak (Thailand, 1999), Rashomon (Japan, 1950), Maborosi (Japan, 1995), and the films of American Terrence Malick.
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Motion pictures --- Architecture in motion pictures --- History
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The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries - via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative channels - there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the region.Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema over time.
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Are You Watching Closely? is the first book to explore the recent spate of "misdirection films," a previously unidentified Hollywood genre characterized by narratives that inspire viewers to reinterpret them retrospectively. Since 1990, Hollywood has backed more of these films than ever before, many of which, including The Sixth Sense (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Inception (2010), were both commercial and critical successes. Seth Friedman examines this genre in its sociocultural, industrial, and technological contexts to explain why it has become more attractive to producers and audiences.The recent popularity of misdirection films, Friedman argues, is linked to new technologies that enable repeat viewings and online discussion, which makes it enticing to an industry that depends increasingly on the aftermarket, as well as to historically specific cultural developments. That is, in addition to being well suited for shifting industrial and technological conditions, these films are appealing because they suggest that it remains possible to know what "actually" occurred and who was "really" responsible for events at a time when it is also becoming increasingly recognized that "truth" is relative. Are You Watching Closely? shows how Hollywood's effective strategies for these changing circumstances put it at the forefront of a storytelling trend that has increasingly become important across media. Through close analyses of how misdirection films have been designed, marketed, and received in relation to their contexts, Friedman demonstrates the ways in which they epitomize a kind of narrative experimentation that has become a crucial facet of twenty-first-century audiovisual storytelling.
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Much of our time at the movies is spent in other peoples homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to address the question of the ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic architecture. Arguing that in cinema we pay to occupy spaces we cannot occupy, John David Rhodes explores how the house in cinema both structures and criticizes fantasies of property and ownership. Rhodes tells the story of the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in looking at private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties it produces. He begins by laying out a theory of film spectatorship that proposes the concept of the spectator-tenant, with reference to films such as Gone with the Wind and The Magnificent Ambersons. The book continues with three chapters that are each occupied with a different architectural style and the films that make use of it: the bungalow, the modernist house, and the shingle style house. Rhodes considers a variety of canonical films rarely analyzed side by side, such as Psycho in relation to Grey Gardens and Meet Me in St. Louis. Among the other films discussed are Meshes of the Afternoon, Mildred Pierce, A Star Is Born, Killer of Sheep, and A Single Man. Bringing together film history, film theory, and architectural history as no book has to date, Spectacle of Property marks a new milestone in examining cinemas relationship to realism while leaving us vastly more informed about, if less at home inside, the houses we occupy at the movies.
Dwellings in motion pictures. --- Dwellings in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- History --- United States.
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Extremely lusty, busty and energetic dishwater blonde Lili Marlene was born on March 18, 1954, in Ohio. She began her career in the adult-film industry doing 8mm loops in the late 1970s and made her adult feature debut in 1982 at age 28 in Doing It! (1982). Best known for her ferocious and insatiable penchant for wild, raunchy and uninhibited anal intercourse, Lili also specialized in oral sex, group sex and interracial couplings. Blessed with full breasts, a lovely face with high cheekbones, a shapely figure and a remarkably dynamic and voracious persona, she worked prolifically throughout the 1980s in well over 100 films. Her on-screen partners include such hardcore legends as John Holmes, Ron Jeremy and African-American stud King Paul. Lili retired from the adult industry in the early 1990s.
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