Landscape and Film
Title | Landscape and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Lefebvre |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0415975557 |
This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
Cinema and Landscape
Title | Cinema and Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Harper |
Publisher | Intellect Books |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Nature |
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The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment. Written by well-known cinema scholars, this volume both extends the existing field of film studies and stakes claims to overlapping, contested territories in the humanities and social sciences.
Landscape Allegory in Cinema
Title | Landscape Allegory in Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | D. Melbye |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2010-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230109799 |
This study seeks to understand the form of cinematic space referred to as 'the landscape of the mind,' in which natural, outdoor settings serve as outward manifestations of characters' inner subjective states.
Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts
Title | Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Salim Kemal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521558549 |
A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.
Cinematic Landscapes
Title | Cinematic Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Linda C. Ehrlich |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780292720879 |
On Chinese and Japanese art and cinema.
Palestinian Cinema
Title | Palestinian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Nurith Gertz |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2008-01-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0748634096 |
Although in recent years, the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian relationship, there are few truly reliable sources of information regarding Palestinian society and culture, either concerning its relationship with Israeli society, its position between east and west or its stances in times of war and peace. One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is its cinema which has devoted itself to serving the national struggle. In this book, two scholars--an Israeli and a Palestinian--in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. They discover that the more the social, political and economic conditions worsen and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema becomes involved with the national struggle. As expected, Palestinian cinema has unfolded its national narrative against the Israeli narrative, which tried to silence it.
Literati Lenses
Title | Literati Lenses PDF eBook |
Author | Mia Yinxing Liu |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2019-07-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0824859871 |
Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political guidelines. Through four films—Li Shizhen (1956), Stage Sisters (1964), Early Spring in February (1963), and Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1979)—Mia Liu reveals how landscape offered an alternative text that could operate beyond political constraints and provide a portal for smuggling interesting discourses into the film. While allusions to pictorial traditions associated with a bygone era inevitably took on different meanings in the context of Mao-era cinema, cinematic engagement with literati landscape endowed films with creative and critical space as well as political poignancy. Liu not only identifies how the conventions and aesthetics of traditional literati landscape art were reinvented and mediated on multiple levels in cinema, but also explores how post-1949 Chinese filmmakers configured themselves as modern intellectuals in the spaces forged among the vestiges of the old. In the process, she deepens her analysis, suggesting that landscape be seen as an allegory of human life, a mirror of the age, and a commentary on national affairs.