Ex-Cinema
Title | Ex-Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Akira Lippit |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2012-09-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520953916 |
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-"—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of cinema itself.
Ex-centric Cinema
Title | Ex-centric Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Harbord |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1628922419 |
"Demonstrates how Agamben's ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade"--
Ex-iles
Title | Ex-iles PDF eBook |
Author | Mbye B. Cham |
Publisher | Africa Research and Publications |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
For abstract see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 4, 1992-1993 (1994); p. 35, no. 0126.
Ex-centric Cinema
Title | Ex-centric Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Harbord |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1628922427 |
"Demonstrates how Agamben's ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade"--
Non-Cinema
Title | Non-Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | William Brown |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2018-07-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1501327267 |
Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema,' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins, in the extreme, the overlooked and the under-funded – the sort that distributors, exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all, hence "non-cinema." Analysing numerous films, William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world, but entangled participants therewith. Non-Cinema constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom, as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa.
Ex-Centric Migrations
Title | Ex-Centric Migrations PDF eBook |
Author | Hakim Abderrezak |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2016-06-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253020786 |
“Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration.” —Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) no longer systematically target France as a destination, but instead aspire toward other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. In addition, the author investigates other migratory patterns that entail the repatriation of émigrés. His analysis reveals that the films, novels, and songs of Mediterranean artists run contrary to mass media coverage and conservative political discourse, bringing a nuanced vision and expert analysis to the sensationalism and biased reportage of such events as the Mediterranean maritime tragedies. “Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of ‘return migration’ and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France.” —H-France “Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence.” —Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism
Spanish Cinema against Itself
Title | Spanish Cinema against Itself PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Marsh |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253046343 |
Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s—with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, experimentalist José Val de Omar, and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo—through to the contemporary period. Framed by film theory this book traces the works of understudied and non-canonical Spanish filmmakers, producers, and film collectives to open up alternate, more cosmopolitan and philosophical spaces for film discussion. In an age of the post-national and the postcinematic, Steven Marsh's work challenges conventional historiographical discourse, the concept of "national cinema," and questions of form in cinematic practice.