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The ordinary man of cinema
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ISBN: 9781584351856 1584351853 Year: 2016 Publisher: South Pasadena, CA. Semiotext(e)

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"When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the cinema offers us: the film as a work projected without memory, viewed by (and thereby lived by) a subject scarred and shaped by memory. The Ordinary Man of Cinema delineates the phenomenology of movie-going and the fleeting, impalpable zone in which an individuals personal memory confronts the cinemas ideological images to create a new way of thinking. It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaksfigures that are fundamental to Schefers conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body. Fear and pleasure breed monsters, and such are what Schefers emblematic "ordinary man" seeks and encounters when engaging in the disordering of the ordinary that the movie theater offers him. Among other things, Schefer considers "The Gods" in 31 brief essays on film stills and "The Criminal Life" with reflections on spectatorship and autobiography. While Schefers book has long been standard reading in French film scholarship, until now it has been something of a missing link to the field (and more broadly, French theory) in English. It is one of the building blocks of more widely known and read translations of Gilles Deleuze (who cited this book as an influence on his own cinema books) and Jacques Rancière."--


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The cinema of me : the self and subjectivity in first person documentary.
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ISBN: 9780231162142 0231162146 9780231162159 0231162154 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Wallflower

Subject, society and culture
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ISBN: 128125150X 1847876226 144622208X 1446237214 9786611251505 9781847876225 9781446222089 9781281251503 0803983492 9780803983496 0803983506 9780803983502 9781446237212 6611251502 Year: 2001 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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This volume explores the relationships between visual culture social theory and the individual. It shows how the concept of the individual is being reconstructed, and addresses the link between social theory, art and cinema and viewing individuals.


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Fabulations nocturnes : écologie, vitalité et opacité dans le cinéma d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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ISBN: 1785420437 1785420429 9781785420436 Year: 2017 Publisher: Open Humanities Press

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Fabulations nocturnes est un essai d?intercession. Ce n?est pas simplement un livre à propos du cinéaste Apichatpong Weerasethakul, bien qu?il se penche de près sur son ?uvre. C?est plutôt un livre qui interroge en profondeur quoi d?autre pourrait être en cause dans la mise en place des conditions de collaboration entre deux genres ? le cinéma et l?écriture.Ce projet collectif est animé d?un intérêt commun pour la pragmatique de la fabulation et son geste spéculatif générateur d?un peuple à venir. Les concepts d?écologie, de vitalité et d?opacité ont surgi de la rencontre avec le dramscape d?Apichatpong pour venir articuler un ethos de fabulation qui décadre l?expérience, recompose la subjectivité et défixe le temps.


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The eloquent screen : a rhetoric of film
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ISBN: 9780816641321 0816641323 9780816641338 0816641331 Year: 2019 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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Cinema is commonly hailed as "the universal language," but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? Drawing on a lifetime's worth of viewing an reviewing, influential critic Gilberto Perez invokes a dizzying array of masters past and present including Chaplin, Ford, Kiarostami, Eisenstein, Malick, Mizoguchi, Haneke, Hitchcock, and Godard--to explore the transaction between filmmaker and audience. The Eloquent Screen shows how cinema, as the consummate contemporary art form, establishes a thoroughly modern rhetoric in which different points of view are brought into clear focus. --


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Nocturnal fabulations : ecology, vitality and opacity in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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ISBN: 1785420410 1785420402 9781785420412 Year: 2017 Publisher: Open Humanities Press

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Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres: cinema and writing. This collective project is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpong’s cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time.


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Between the eye and the world : the emergence of the point-of-view shot
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ISBN: 9789052010359 9052010358 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bruxelles Bern Berlin [etc.] P.I.E. Peter Lang

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The point-of-view shot is usually perceived as a ±natural device, yet its naturalness is illusory. This book provides an answer to the question: ±Where does the point-of-view shot come from? It investigates the emergence of this filmic form as the product of a culture and its history, unravelling the difference between a point-of-view shot and a character's subjective viewpoint. In so doing, it shows that what would become the point of-view shot developed from the interposition, between the eye and the world, of a prosthesis capable of modifying the conditions needed to access the visible, and thus to expand the potential of human vision. Moreover, the book offers inspiration for further research on modern (and postmodern) vision as a mediated vision, an important topic in contemporary debates in the digital media landscape.


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Subjectivity : filmic representation and the spectator's experience
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ISBN: 9789089643179 9789048514205 9089643176 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.


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Le regard féminin : une révolution à l'écran
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ISBN: 9782757887998 2757887998 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris Points

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"On se souvient de la légendaire robe soulevée par le vent de Marilyn Monroe dans Sept ans de réflexion ou encore du bikini de Halle Berry, la célèbre James Bond girl, dans Meurs un autre jour. Devenues cultes, ces scènes ont marqué l'histoire du cinéma. De quoi ces images sont-elles le nom ? Depuis toujours, les femmes sont filmées comme des objets de plaisir, les privant de pouvoir au profit du regard masculin et de ses désirs. Pour faire face à ce male gaze majoritaire, Iris Brey montre comment s'est élaboré un regard féminin au cinéma et interroge le sens caché des images. Un essai crucial déjà considéré comme un classique."--

Point of View in the Cinema
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ISBN: 9027930791 3111770044 3110817594 9783110817591 9789027930798 Year: 2012 Volume: 66 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Branigan effectively criticizes the communication model of narration, a task long overdue in Anglo-American circles. The book brings out the extent to which mainstream mimetic theories have relied upon the elastic notion of an invisible, idealized observer, a convenient spook whom critics can summon up whenever they desire to "naturalize" style. The book also makes distinctions among types of subjectivity; after this, we will have much more precise ways of tracing the fluctuations among a character's vision, dreams, wishes, and so forth. Branigan also explains the necessity of distinguishing levels of narration.

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