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The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).

Kitano, Takeshi --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma --- Bito, Takeshi --- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma --- Bīto, Takeshi --- Bīto Takeshi. --- Bi ̄to Takeshi. --- Motion pictures -- Japan -- History. --- Motion pictures -- Japan. --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Bīto Takeshi --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Directors, Motion picture --- Film directors --- Film producers --- Filmmakers --- Motion picture directors --- Moviemakers --- Moving-picture producers and directors --- Producers, Motion picture --- Persons --- Beat Takeshi --- Kitano, Beat Takeshi --- Takeshi --- ビートたけし --- ビート・たけし --- ビート武 --- 北野武

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In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction.

Science fiction films --- Science fiction television programs --- Digital cinematography. --- Sci-fi television programs --- Television programs --- Extrapolative films --- Future films (Science fiction films) --- Sci-fi films --- Sci-fiers (Motion pictures) --- Motion pictures --- Cinematography --- Digital filmmaking --- Digital moviemaking --- History. --- Digital techniques --- Digital cinematography --- #SBIB:309H525 --- #SBIB:316.7C212 --- 316.32 --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- History and criticism --- Sociologie van de audiovisuele boodschap --- Cultuursociologie: film --- History and criticism.

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Joker --- Joker (Motion picture)

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Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives - perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content, but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyzes this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors interrogate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American "quality" television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity reality tv (I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/ David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer, to narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections. Fame Now broadly examines thecontemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as Reality TV and the Internet), and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the body of the star or celebrity at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and "authenticity." Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.

Celebrities in mass media. --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Social aspects