In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the L.A. Rebellion group of African American filmmakers, James Naremore provides a close critical study of all Burnett’s major pictures for movies and television, including <I>Killer of Sheep</I>, <I>To Sleep with Anger</I>, <I>The Glass Shield</I>, <I&g ...
Was hat Nietzsches Wille zur Macht mit Frodos Ring zu tun? Wie hangen Augustinus Vorstellungen uber die Natur des Bosen mit Gandalfs Gedanken uber Saruman zusammen? Wenn ein sterbliches Wesen – zum Beispiel ein Mensch oder ein Hobbit – einen Ring der Macht besa?e,wurde er sich dann noch fur ein moralisches Leben entscheiden? Gregory Bassham und andere akademische Philosophen zeigen, wie sich im Herrn der Ringe, dem beliebtesten Buch unserer Zei ...
First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors presents a new collection of twelve interviews with award-winning film editors who discuss the art and craft of editing in the twenty-first century. As a follow-up to the successful First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors (now celebrating its 20th anniversary), this new volume explores the transition of editing from the age of celluloid to the digital age. These extraordinarily articulate ...
In <i>The Poetics of Slumberland</i>, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay’s <i>Little Nemo in Slumberland </i>to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. The book broadens to con ...
From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. «Who is she?» was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in <i>The Thin Man</i>, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career ...
The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book ...
Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkab ...
