The Death of Cinema

The Death of Cinema
Title The Death of Cinema PDF eBook
Author Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2001
Genre Digital media
ISBN 9781838710125

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Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

Mourning Films

Mourning Films
Title Mourning Films PDF eBook
Author Richard Armstrong
Publisher McFarland
Pages 221
Release 2012-09-18
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786493143

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The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.

The Death of Cinema

The Death of Cinema
Title The Death of Cinema PDF eBook
Author Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 152
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1838718729

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Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of moving images to be seen, and most of them are now preserved. Today, for every film made, thousands of them disappear forever without leaving a trace. Meanwhile, public and private institutions are struggling to save the film heritage with largely insufficient resources and ever increasing pressures from the commercial world. Are they wasting their time? Is the much feared and much touted Death of Cinema already occurring before our eyes? Is digital technology the solution to the problem, or just another illusion promoted by the industry? In a provocative essay designed as a collection of aphorisms and letters, the author brings an impassioned scrutiny to bear on these issues with a critique of film preservation, an indictiment of the crimes perpetuated in its name, and a proposal to give a new analytical framework to a major cultural phenomenon of our time.

The Cinema of Terry Gilliam

The Cinema of Terry Gilliam
Title The Cinema of Terry Gilliam PDF eBook
Author Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 186
Release 2013-04-09
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231165358

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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyses a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). This collection argues that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood caution and convention.

Killing for Culture

Killing for Culture
Title Killing for Culture PDF eBook
Author David Kerekes
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1995
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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Death in Children's Literature and Cinema, and Its Translation

Death in Children's Literature and Cinema, and Its Translation
Title Death in Children's Literature and Cinema, and Its Translation PDF eBook
Author Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel
Publisher Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Pages 228
Release 2020-07-22
Genre
ISBN 9783631814376

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This volume comprises studies on death in Spanish, British/American and German children's literature cinema and audiovisual fiction; several translations from English and German into the languages of Spain are analysed. Contributions show the historical development of this topic, and how it has enabled young readers to face death maturely.

Slow Movies

Slow Movies
Title Slow Movies PDF eBook
Author Ira Jaffe
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 210
Release 2014-05-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231169795

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"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.