Conversation with Lav Diaz. 2010-2020
Title | Conversation with Lav Diaz. 2010-2020 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Guarneri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9788864761022 |
Sine Ni Lav Diaz
Title | Sine Ni Lav Diaz PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781789384253 |
The first book-length study of the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz, this edited volume offers a nuanced overview of the filmmaker, his corpus, career and traditions from various perspectives for film enthusiasts, researchers and general readers alike. 17 b/w illus.
Remaindered Life
Title | Remaindered Life PDF eBook |
Author | Neferti X. M. Tadiar |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2022-05-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1478022388 |
In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.
Screening Nature
Title | Screening Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Anat Pick |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1782382275 |
Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.
Southeast Asian Independent Cinema
Title | Southeast Asian Independent Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Tilman Baumgärtel |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9888083600 |
The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, following the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers there, is among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. The advent of affordable and easy access to digital technology has empowered startling new voices from a part of the world rarely heard or seen in international film circles. The appearance of fresh, sharply alternative, and often very personal voices has had a tremendous impact on local film production. This book documents these developments as a genuine outcome of the democratization and liberalization of film production. Contributions from respected scholars, interviews with filmmakers, personal accounts and primary sources by important directors and screenwriters collectively provide readers with a lively account of dynamic film developments in Southeast Asia. Interviewees include Lav Diaz, Amir Muhammad, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Eric Khoo, Nia Dinata and others. Tilman Baumgärtel taught film and media studies in Germany, Austria and the Philippines before joining Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2009. He has curated international film series and art exhibitions, and has also published books on independent cinema, Internet art, computer games and the German director Harun Farocki. His blog can be found at http://southeastasiancinema.wordpress.com
Pedro Almodovar
Title | Pedro Almodovar PDF eBook |
Author | Sanchez-Acre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-01-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780719074424 |
Transcendental Style in Film
Title | Transcendental Style in Film PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Schrader |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2018-05-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520969146 |
With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.