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Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema: Film Semiology and Beyond
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TROHLER, MargritKIRSTEN, Guido

A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionalisation in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close…

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Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema
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NAGIB, Lucia

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of 'world cinema' with the more substantive concept of 'realist cinema'. Veering away from the usual focus on modes of reception and spectatorship, it locates instead cinematic realism in the way films are made. The volume is structured across three innovative categories of realist modes of production: 'non-cin…

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9789048539215
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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Faro…
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GRUNDMANN, RoySCHWARTZ, PeterWILLIAMS, Gregory

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lum…

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9789048550210
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791.43 LAB l
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Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn
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CRESPI, John A

From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of th…

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9780520973862
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700