The Seeing Century : Film, Vision, and Identity /

The twentieth century, with all its turbulence and change, its conflicts and its discoveries was, perhaps above all, the century of cinema, and The Seeing Century offers an innovative, international, and interdisciplinary exploration of the role cinema plays in contemporary life and culture, and the...

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Tác giả khác: Everett, Wendy (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2000.
Loạt:Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Critical Studies ; 14.
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Mục lục:
  • 1. Wendy EVERETT: Introduction From Frame to Frame: Images in Transition
  • Section 1: (De)constructing History: Memory, Language, and Identity
  • 2. Phil POWRIE: The 'family portrait', trauma and the punctum in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
  • 3. Peter WAGSTAFF: The Dark Side of Utopia: Word, Image, and Memory in Georges Perec's Récits d'Ellis Island: histoires d'errance et d'espoir
  • 4. Christopher SHORLEY: History, Memory, and Art in Louis Malle's Au revoir, les enfants
  • Section 2: Imaging the Self: Personal and National Identities
  • 5. Wendy EVERETT: Mapping Iceland or the Identity of Space: Cold Fever
  • 6. Gretchen BISPLINGHOFF: Irish Images: Constructs of Film Space/Time
  • 7. Ernie HAMPSON: Mocking the Mafia: Ciprì and Maresco's Sicilian Apocalypse
  • 8. Ann JÄCKEL: Too Late? Recent Developments in Romanian Cinema
  • 9. María CAMÍ-VELA: From 'Reespañolear' to 'Europeizar' : The Subversion of Francoist Mythology in La flor di mi secreto ( The Flower of my Secret ) by Pedro Almodóvar'
  • 10. Patrick WILLIAMS: 'Entering and leaving modernity'
  • Utopia and dystopia in Mambety's Touki Bouki and Hyènes
  • Section 3: Gendered Visions: Sexuality, Identity, and Representation
  • 11. Susan HAYWARD: Luc Besson's Cinquième élément (1997) and the Spectacular: The City-Body and the Sci-Fi movie
  • 12. Lorna FITZSIMMONS: Of 'Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower': Gyno-Turning in Limit Up and Svankmajer's Faust
  • 13. Elisa BUSSI: Voyages and border crossings: Jane Campion's The Piano (1993)
  • 14. Steve WHARTON: Pédés et polémiques: Faggots and Fireworks
  • Les Nuits fauves and its moral(ity)
  • 15. Raya MORAG: 'Life-Taker Heart-Breaker': Mask-ulinity and/or Femininity in Full Metal Jacket
  • Bibliography
  • Index.