Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)

Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
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Publisher : Baker Academic
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781493416912
ISBN-13 : 149341691X
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Deep Focus (Engaging Culture) by : Robert K. Johnston

Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

Men Out of Focus

Men Out of Focus
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9781487531850
ISBN-13 : 1487531850
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Men Out of Focus by : Marko Dumančić

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

Focus on the Science Fiction Film

Focus on the Science Fiction Film
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Publisher : Prentice Hall
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015000843848
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Focus on the Science Fiction Film by : William Johnson

Indian Indies

Indian Indies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 9781000577174
ISBN-13 : 1000577171
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian Indies by : Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram

This book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphere. Spotlighting a specific timeline, from the Indies’ consolidated emergence in 2010 across a decade of their development, the book takes note of recent transformations in the Indian political, economic, cultural and social matrix and the concurrent release of unflinchingly interrogative and radically evocative films that traverse LGBTQ+ issues, female empowerment, caste discrimination, populist politics and religious violence. A combination of essential Indie-specific information and concise case studies makes this a must-have quick guide to the future torchbearers of Indian cinema for scholars, students, early career researchers and a global audience interested in intersecting aspects of cinema, culture, politics and society in contemporary India.

Horror, The Film Reader

Horror, The Film Reader
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781134563746
ISBN-13 : 1134563744
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Horror, The Film Reader by : Mark Jancovich

Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.

Pulling Focus

Pulling Focus
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781441186492
ISBN-13 : 1441186492
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Pulling Focus by : Jane Stadler

The most powerful films have an afterlife. Their sensory appeal and their capacity to elicit involvement in story, character and conflict reaches beyond the screen to subtly reframe the way spectators view ethical issues and agents within the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema. Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience and Narrative Film questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum and Wayne Booth's work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Dr. Stadler shows that film spectatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an affective relationship with characters and their values. Building on Vivian Sobchack's Address of the Eye and Carnal Thoughts, she uses a phenomenological approach to analyse ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing that the camera describes experience and views screen characters with an evaluative form of perception: an ethical gaze in which spectators participate. Films discussed include Dead Man Walking, Lost Highway, Batman Begins, Nil By Mouth, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Kristeva in Focus

Kristeva in Focus
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781845457945
ISBN-13 : 1845457943
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Kristeva in Focus by : Katherine J. Goodnow

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love. In addition to a selection of contemporary mainstream films, the major films for analysis are New Zealand “New Wave” films such as Alison Maclean’s Kitchen Sink and Crush; Vincent Ward’s Vigil; and Jane Campion’s Sweety, An Angel at My Table, and The Piano.

Carrie and Me

Carrie and Me
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781476706429
ISBN-13 : 1476706425
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Carrie and Me by : Carol Burnett

The New York Times bestselling memoir from legendary comedienne Carol Burnett is a “loving, poignant” (People) tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton. The daughter of one of television’s most recognizable and beloved stars, Carol Burnett, Carrie Hamilton won the hearts of everyone she met with her kindness, her quirky humor, and her unconventional approach to life. After overcoming her painful and public teenage struggle with drug addiction in a time when personal troubles were kept private, Carrie lived her adult life of sobriety to the fullest, achieving happiness and success as an actress, writer, musician, and director before losing a hard-fought battle with cancer at age thirty-eight. Now Carol Burnett shares her personal diary entries, photographs, and correspondence as she traces the journey she and Carrie took through some of life’s toughest challenges and sweetest miracles. Authentic, intimate, and full of love, Carrie and Me is a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.

Ireland in Focus

Ireland in Focus
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 0815632037
ISBN-13 : 9780815632030
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Ireland in Focus by : Eóin Flannery

From an analysis of the Guinness brand’s reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland’s relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. Ireland in Focus is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Drawing from the areas of cultural theory, postcolonial studies, art criticism, documentary and archival history, and gender studies, the essays provide novel insights on a variety of visual-cultural forms, including film, theater, photography, landscape art, political murals, and the visual iconography of commercial marketing. Bringing together established scholars and emerging young critics in the field, Ireland in Focus breaks new ground in showcasing the essential dynamism of visual culture and its relationship to Irish studies.

Movie Music, the Film Reader

Movie Music, the Film Reader
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 0415281598
ISBN-13 : 9780415281591
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Movie Music, the Film Reader by : Kay Dickinson

This reader brings together a wide range of writings to examine the role of music in cinema. Articles by leading critics including Theodor Adorno, Lawrence Grossberg and Lisa A. Lewis explore the function of the soundtrack, the place of song in film, andlook at how cinema has represented music and the music industry.