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The Eyes Have It
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ISBN: 0813560608 9780813560601 9781461934974 1461934974 9781299733640 1299733646 9780813560595 0813560594 9780813560588 0813560586 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences-including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs-Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930's to the 2000's to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and willfully engaged. Four meditations deal with "reality effects" from different philosophical and technical angles. "Vivid Rivals" assesses active participation and critical judgment in seeing effects with such works as Defiance, Cloverfield, Knowing, Thelma & Louise, and more. "The Two of Us" considers double placement and doubled experience with such films as The Prestige, Niagara, and A Stolen Life. "Being There" discusses cinematic performance and the problems of believability, highlighting such films as Gran Torino, The Manchurian Candidate, In Harm's Way, and other films. "Fairy Land" explores the art of scenic backing, focusing on the fictional world of Brigadoon, which borrows from both hard-edged realism and evocative landscape painting.


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World cinema and the ethics of realism
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ISBN: 1628929189 1282977598 9786612977596 1441154655 9781441154651 9781282977594 9781628929188 9781441137838 1441137831 9781441165831 1441165835 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Continuum,

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World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism is a highly original study. Traditional views of cinematic realism usually draw on the so-called classical cinema and its allegiance to narrative mimesis, but Nagib challenges this, drawing instead on the filmmaker's commitment to truth and to the film medium's material bond with the real. Starting from the premise that world cinema's creative peaks are governed by an ethics of realism, Nagib conducts comparative case studies picked from world new waves, such as the Japanese New Wave, the French nouvelle vague, the Cinema Novo, the New German Cinema, the Russo-Cuban Revolutionary Cinema, the Portuguese self-performing auteur and the Inuit Indigenous Cinema. Drawing upon Badiou and Rancière, World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism revisits and reformulates several fundamental concepts in film studies, such as illusionism, identification, apparatus, alienation effects, presentation and representation. Its groundbreaking scholarship takes film theory in a bold new direction.


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Chinese Film : Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age.
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ISBN: 1452968594 1452968586 1517914035 1452969477 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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"In Chinese Film, Jason McGrath traces the varied claims to cinematic realism made by Chinese filmmakers, critics, and scholars. He presents realism as an aesthetic form that negotiates between cultural conventions and the ever-evolving real, envisioning it as more than just a cinematic question and showing how the struggle for realism is central to the Chinese struggle for modernity itself."--


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The reality of Film
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ISBN: 1781702993 184779341X 9781847793416 9780719091377 0719091373 Year: 2010 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create.The Reality of Film investigates filmic reality by way of six key film theorists: André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Rancière. In doing so, it provides comprehensive introductions to each of these thinkers, while als


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New trends in Italian cinema : "new" neorealism
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ISBN: 144386787X 9781443867870 1322180563 9781322180564 9781443845915 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Is the legacy of the Neorealist film-making mode (or should we say mood?) a withered one? If not, what is the ideal dialogue between contemporary Italian directors and this momentous page of their cultural history all about? The aim of this book is to show that, far from being exhausted, the vivifying lymph of post-Second World War Italian Neorealism continues to sustain the aesthetic praxis of many artists. Predominantly, the staying power of Neorealism becomes apparent in the stringent mor...


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Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba : Historia y discurso en torno a la primera polémica de la Revolución, 1951–1962
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ISBN: 155753988X 1557539871 1557539898 Year: 2021 Publisher: West Lafayette : Baltimore, Md. : Purdue University Press, Project MUSE,

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"Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba: Historia y discurso entorno a la primera polemica de la Revolución, 1951-1962 [Neorealism and Cinema in Cuba: History and Discourse on the First Polemic of the Revolution, 1951-1962] examines the aesthetic history and relations between Cuban film production and Italian Neorealism. The historical framework begins in 1951 before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and ends in 1962, a year that marks a rupture between Cuban filmmakers and the Italian neorealist aesthetic. The main collaborations happened between Cuban directors Tomás Gutierrez Alea and Julio García Espinosa and Italian neorealist filmmaker Cesare Zavattini. The circumstances that led to the end of the relationship between Zavattini and the Cuban filmmakers are connected to the film El joven rebelde [The Young Rebel], directed by García Espinosa and screened for the first time in 1961. The rupture centered on creative and ideological differences regarding the way in which the protagonist was to be portrayed in the movie. This seemingly minor disagreement had considerably larger repercussions, the end result of which was that García Espinosa and Gutierrez Alea, as well as the rest of the Cuban filmmakers who worked within the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) after 1959, were driven to find their own creative strategies to craft a national film production. However, the Cuban filmmakers would not have found the necessary grammar to rewrite their own revolutionary cinema without the rupture with Zavattini. This new cinematographic language could not have existed without the various pauses and the distances that characterized the Cuban relationship with Neorealism. In other words, the fragmentary interchange between García Espinosa, Gutierrez Alea, and Zavattini created new spaces in which the Cubans could find creative opportunities to express their own cinematic vision"--

The material image : art and the real in film
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ISBN: 9780804754316 9780804754309 0804754314 Year: 2007 Volume: *11 Publisher: Stanford, CA Stanford University Press


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Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema
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ISBN: 9780748685929 9780748650736 9780748650934 9780748640546 0748640541 0748650733 9781283837323 1283837323 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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This book brings to the surface the lines of experimentation and artistic renewal appearing after the exhaustion of Neorealism, mapping complex areas of interest such as the emergence of ethical concerns, the relationship between ideology and representation, and the role of Italian counter-culture.


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Italian Neorealist Cinema
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ISBN: 9780748636129 9780748636112 9780748636136 0748636110 0748636137 9780748664771 0748664777 9780748664788 0748664785 9781299105553 1299105556 0748636129 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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How has Italian neorealist cinema changed the boundaries of cinematic narration and representation?. In this new study, Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment based on individual optiques. She accounts for the tradition's coherence in terms of its moral commitment to creating critical viewing experiences around underrepresented realities and marginalised people. By examining both acclaimed masterpieces and lesser known works, parallels are drawn to realist theories and to past and present cinematic traditions. The ways in which successive generations of directors have read


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Encounters with the real in contemporary italian literature and cinema
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ISBN: 1443862282 9781443862288 9781443811231 1443811238 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a return to reality by examining the country's rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The focus is particularly on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day which offer alternatives to notions of reality as manufactured by the collusion between the neo-liberal state and the media. The book also discusses Italy's relationship with its own cultural past by investigating how Italian authors deal with the return of the specter of Neorealism as it haunts the modern artistic imagination in this new epoch of crisis. Furthermore, the volume engages in dialogue with previous works of criticism on contemporary Italian realism, while going beyond them in devoting equal attention to cinema and literature. The resulting interactions will aid the reader in understanding how the critical arts respond to the triumph of hyperrealism in the current era of the virtual spectacle as they seek new ways to promote cognitive transformations and foster ethical interventions.

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