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The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani examines the major works of leading Indian film director Kumar Shahani and explores the reaches of modernist film aesthetics in its international form. More than an auteur study, Laleen Jayamanne approaches Shahani's oeuvre conceptually, as films that reveal cinema's synesthetic capabilities. As the author illustrates, Shahani's cinematic project entails a modern reformulation of the ancient oral tradition of epic narration and performance in order to address the contemporary world, establishing a new cinematic expression. As evidenced by his films, construc

Shahani, Kumar --- Kumar Shahani --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Réalisateurs de cinéma --- Critique et interprétation

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Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers, expressed in several of their key films. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of the gift and Sufi philosophy of the image, to conceive film as abundant gift. Elaborating on how this gift may be received, this book imagines film as our indispensable mentor - a wild mentor who teaches us how to think with moving images by learning to perceive evanescent forms that simply appear and disappear.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy in motion pictures. --- Poetic Cinema, Criticism, Theories of Acting. --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetics.

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Anderson, Laurie ; Ando, Tadao ; Beuys, Joseph ; Birnbaum, Dara ; Black Audio Film Collective ; Blumenthal, Lyn ; Borofsky, Jonathan ; Boyle, Jimmy ; Burgee, John ; Eichelberger, Ethyl ; Fury, Gran ; Hammons, David ; Johnson, Philip ; Krier, Leon ; McLaren, Malcolm ; Rollins, Tim ; Savage, Lily ; Thornton, Leslie Tillotson ; Wodiczko, Krzysztof