Ambiguity And Film Criticism
Download Ambiguity And Film Criticism full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Ambiguity And Film Criticism ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Ambiguity and Film Criticism
Author | : Hoi Lun Law |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3030629465 |
Download Ambiguity and Film Criticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. .
Ambiguity and Film Criticism
Author | : Hoi Lun Law |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783030629458 |
Download Ambiguity and Film Criticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask “why is it as it is?” Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Author | : Claretta Tonetti |
Publsiher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034928765 |
Download Bernardo Bertolucci Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In 1962, the year in which he directed his first film The Grim Reaper, Bernado Bertolucci published a book of poetry entitled In cerca del mistero (In Search of Mystery) - a title which characterizes his entire cinematic work. In this study, Claretta Tonetti recognizes that Bertolucci search for knowledge is never dogmatic, and that he never claims to have all the answers, aesthetically or otherwise. The open-ended quality of his films, based on his own admitted difficulty to finish, bears witness to this. Instead, Bertolucci allows the audience to take part in the director's creative process, one that - like life itself - is ever evolving.
Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism
Author | : Dominic Lash,Hoi Lun Law |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-08-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783031333057 |
Download Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s work on cinema. In the last two decades, Deleuze's two books on film have had an enormous influence on Film Studies, profoundly affecting thinking about movement, time, history, and other topics. Theoretically ambitious and philosophically rich but clearly written by a broad range of established and emerging international film scholars, the chapters in this volume will both contribute to, and in places challenge, the vibrant field of Deleuzian film studies. Topics covered range from the relationship of Deleuze to film criticism; the role of theories of movement; and studies of works by major filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Vincente Minnelli, and Orson Welles. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Deleuze but to anybody engaged with the close study of film and its philosophical ramifications.
Postcolonial Film
Author | : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,Peter Hulme |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-02-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781134747276 |
Download Postcolonial Film Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century’s end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation’s unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation’s struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.
Major Realist Film Theorists
Author | : Aitken Ian Aitken |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781474402224 |
Download Major Realist Film Theorists Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to address their work in one volume, a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between their ideas and help generate new understandings of this important, if neglected, field. Challenging preconceptions about 'classical' theory and the nature of realist representation, and in the process demonstrating how this body of work can be seen as a cohesive theoretical model, this invaluable collection will help return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry.
Ambiguous Cinema
Author | : Kelli Fuery |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Feminism and motion pictures |
ISBN | : 1399518550 |
Download Ambiguous Cinema Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty-first century. In 'Ambiguous Cinema', Fuery examines Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers. In doing so, Fuery deftly demonstrates the currency and relevancy of Beauvoir's ideas to contemporary debates in film-philosophy and feminist thought by examining how these women filmmakers navigate turbulent themes such as moral choice, power, adolescence, love, trauma and motherhood.
Film Analysis
Author | : Jeffrey Geiger,R. L. Rutsky |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780393923247 |
Download Film Analysis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Film Analysis offers concise analyses of fifty diverse and historically significant films—each written exclusively for the text by a leading scholar. Written with the undergraduate in mind, the essays are clear, readable, and great models for students to follow in helping them to hone their own writing. The Second Edition includes six new essays, a new, detailed guide to writing film analysis, and an extensive, up-to-date glossary of critical film terms.