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Author |
: Doug Dibbern |
Publisher |
: punctum books |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2021-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781953035622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1953035620 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinema's Doppelgängers by : Doug Dibbern
Cinema's Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema - or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it's a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time - a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power, and thus a world in which Sergei Eisenstein never made movies and German filmmakers like Fritz Lang never fled to Hollywood, a world in which the talkies were invented in 1936 rather than 1927, in which the French New Wave critics didn't become filmmakers, and in which Hitchcock never came to Hollywood. The book attempts, on the one hand, to explore and expand upon the intrinsically creative nature of all historical writing; like all works of fiction, its ultimate goal is to be a work of art in and of itself. But it also aims, on the other hand, to be a legitimate examination of the relationship between the economic and political organization of nations and film industries and the resulting aesthetics of film and thus of the dominant ideas and values of film scholarship and criticism. Doug Dibbern's first book, Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film, won the 2016 Peter Rollins Prize. He has published scholarly essays on classical Hollywood filmmakers, film criticism for The Notebook at Mubi.com, and literary essays for journals like Chicago Quarterly Review and Hotel Amerika. He has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, where he teaches now in the Expository Writing Program.
Author |
: Caroline Ruddell |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2013-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748692033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748692037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Besieged Ego by : Caroline Ruddell
The Besieged Ego critically appraises the representation, or mediation, of identity in film and television through a thorough analysis of doppelgangers and split or fragmentary characters. The prevalence of non-autonomous characters in a wide variety of film and television examples calls into question the very concept of a unified, 'knowable' identity. The form of the double, and cinematic modes and rhetorics used to denote fragmentary identity, is addressed in the book through a detailed analysis of texts drawn from a range of industrial, historical and cultural contexts. The doppelganger or double carries significant cultural meanings about what it means to be 'human' and the experience of identity as a gendered individual. The double also expresses in fictional form our problematic experience of the world as a social, and supposedly whole and autonomous, subject. The Besieged Ego therefore raises important questions about the representation of identity onscreen and concomitant issues regarding autonomy and what it means to be 'human', yet it also charts a generic account of the double onscreen. Case studies include horror, fantasy, and comedy.
Author |
: Paul Meehan |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476630250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476630259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghost of One's Self by : Paul Meehan
For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is usually considered an omen of misfortune or death. The theme of the double has inspired works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poe, de Maupassant, Dostoevsky and others, and has been the basis for many classic mystery, horror and science fiction movies. This critical survey examines the double in more than 100 films by such acclaimed directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Mario Bava, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, George Romero, Fritz Lang, James Cameron, Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel, John Frankenheimer, Terry Gilliam, Brian De Palma and Roman Polanski.
Author |
: Heather Duerre Humann |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2018-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476631721 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476631727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Another Me by : Heather Duerre Humann
A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television and film. The modern-day version (of the Doppelganger, or "double-goer" in German) is typically depicted in a form adapted to reflect present-day social anxieties. Focusing on a broad range of narratives, the author explores 21st century representations in novels (such as Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry, Jose Saramago's The Double), television shows (Orphan Black, Battlestar Galactica, Ringer) and movies (The Island, The Prestige, Oblivion).
Author |
: Hossein Keramatfar |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2019-12-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527544567 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527544567 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cinema and Its Representations by : Hossein Keramatfar
This volume is a timely and necessary intervention as it provides a rich, multifaceted approach to the study of cinema and visual representation. It presents a lucid and intelligent account of twentieth century film criticism essential for students in the fields of media studies and cultural studies. It leads the reader through the major contemporary philosophical and sociocultural theories of appreciating cinematic signs and themes. The book also gathers together informed discussions about the nature and principles of literary adaptation that will greatly benefit anyone interested in this field of study.
Author |
: Baryon Tensor Posadas |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2018-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452956343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452956340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Double Visions, Double Fictions by : Baryon Tensor Posadas
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Doppelgänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif of doubling can also be seen traversing historical and cultural boundaries. Double Visions, Double Fictions analyzes the myriad manifestations of the doppelgänger in Japanese literary and cinematic texts at two historical junctures: the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s and the present day. According to author Baryon Tensor Posadas, the doppelgänger marks the intersection of the historical impact of psychoanalytic theory, the genre of detective fiction in Japan, early Japanese cinema, and the cultural production of Japanese colonialism. He examines the doppelgänger’s appearance in the works of Edogawa Rampo, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, as well as the films of Tsukamoto Shin’ya and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, not only as a recurrent motif but also as a critical practice of concepts. Following these explorations, Posadas asks: What were the social, political, and material conditions that mobilized the desire for the doppelgänger? And how does the dopplegänger capture social transformations taking place at these historical moments? Double Visions, Double Fictions ultimately reveals how the doppelgänger motif provides a fascinating new backdrop for understanding the enmeshment of past and present.
Author |
: Alex Marlow-Mann |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2012-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748687657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748687653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Neapolitan Cinema by : Alex Marlow-Mann
The New Neapolitan Cinema provides close analysis of the whole of this movement, which stands as one of the most vital and stimulating currents in contemporary European Cinema.
Author |
: Lloyd Michaels |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 1998-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791435687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791435687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Phantom of the Cinema by : Lloyd Michaels
The first book to focus on the representation of character in film, encompassing the art cinema, popular movies, and documentaries.
Author |
: Nick Baron |
Publisher |
: Zebra Books |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0821750607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780821750605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Doppelgangers by : Nick Baron
When a famous teen actress mysteriously disappears, Candayce Townsend, who looks exactly like the young star, is approached by Hollywood to take over an unfinished movie role, but soon the real actress's enemies threaten to overtake her as well. Original.
Author |
: David Ray |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 427 |
Release |
: 2018-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781532058035 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1532058039 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Doppelgangers by : David Ray
Sister Mary Jacalyn was a nun in German Village, Columbus, Ohio, in the 1800s. She was tried and convicted in the disappearance and deaths of over one hundred young girls. Now, in 2007, she has returned with vengeance in mind, and the towns of Columbus and Port Clinton will never be the same as the nun uses her otherworldly abilities to wreak havoc. Sister Mary has the power to alter and recreate a person’s reality as well as control people’s feelings. All over Columbus, residents are feeling her wrath. David, Deanne, and their friends have now returned but are in for a very personal touch. According to the nun, someone opened the portal that connects this world to hers, and they must fix it. Unless the portal is closed, she threatens to force David and his friends into realities of her own making, over and over. If the portal remains open, the group of friends will become lost to another world and another reality. Sister Mary has offered them a chance to end the madness; they must find a way to close the portal or be forever lost wandering the in-between.