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Moving Pictures Stopping Places
Author | : David B. Clarke,Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser,Marcus A. Doel |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2009-05-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780739132272 |
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Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'_hotels, motels, and the like_that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas. Whereas previous film theorists have focused on the movement implied by road movies and similar genres, the outstanding contributions to this volume extend the recent engagement with space and place in film studies, providing a series of fascinating explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off. Ranging from the mythical elegance of the Grand Hotel, through the uncanny spaces of the Bates motel, to Korean 'love motels,' the wealth of insights, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, that this volume delivers is set to change our understanding of the role played by stopping places in an increasingly fluid world.
Paris in the Cinema
Author | : Alastair Phillips,Ginette Vincendeau |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781838717544 |
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'Paris in the Cinema' offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, architecture and literature, the volume introduces, challenges and extends ideas about the city as the locus of screen modernity. Through a range of concrete and historically-specific case studies, ranging from particular districts such as Saint-Germain-des-Pres and les banlieues (the suburbs) in French cinema, to iconic figures such as the detective Maigret and the lovers, and from locations such as the hotel, the building site and the Eiffel Tower to filmmakers such as Agnes Varda and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this unique text demonstrates how the cinematic city of Paris now constitutes a major archive of French cultural history and memory.
Taking Place Non Representational Theories and Geography
Author | : Ben Anderson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317046967 |
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Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life. Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still-developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.
The US Mexico Border in American Cold War Film
Author | : Stephanie Fuller |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137535603 |
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Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the U.S.-Mexico border meant within the American cultural imaginary and the ways in which it worked to produce the border.
America Is Elsewhere
Author | : Erik Dussere |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199969913 |
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This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
The American Roadside in migr Literature Film and Photography
Author | : Elsa Court |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030367336 |
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The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been shaped by and through white male émigré narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture. While stressing that these narratives are limited in their understanding of the processes of exclusion and unequal flux in experiences of modern automobility, the book works through four case studies in the American works of European-born authors Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wim Wenders to unveil an early phenomenology of the postwar American highway, one that anticipates the works of late-twentieth-century spatial theorists Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Marc Augé and sketches a postmodern aesthetic of western mobility and consumption that has become synonymous with contemporary America.
Why Guattari A Liberation of Cartographies Ecologies and Politics
Author | : Thomas Jellis,Joe Gerlach,John-David Dewsbury |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781317293163 |
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This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres. Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattari’s influence in contemporary social theory and the modern social sciences continues to grow. From the ecosophy of hurricanes to the micropolitics of cinema, the book draws together a series of Guattarian motifs which animate the complexity of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic thinkers. The book examines techniques and modes of thought that contribute to a liberation of thinking and subjectivity. Divided thematically into three parts – ‘cartographies’, ‘ecologies’, and ‘micropolitics’ – each chapter showcases the singular and pragmatic grounds by which Guattari’s signature concepts can be found to be both disruptive to traditional modes of thinking, and generative toward novel forms of ethics, politics and sociality. This interdisciplinary compendium on Guattari’s exciting, experimental, and enigmatic thought will appeal to academics and postgraduates within Social Theory, Human Geography, and Continental Philosophy. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Film Mobility and Urban Space
Author | : Les Roberts |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-02-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781781386552 |
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Drawing on multi-disciplinary debates surrounding the cultural production of place, space and memory in the post-industrial city, this study explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. It uses a unique spatial database of over 1700 archive films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present day.