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The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities
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n summer 2008, cultural columns of Finnish newspapers were reporting an unusual
occurrence – Mika Kaurismäki, one of the most well-known Finnish directors, was
starting production on a major new film: Haarautuvan ...
The cinema of Oliver Stone : art, authorship and activism
From the outset, the research and writing for this book have ben-
efited from an ongoing and intimate collaboration with the film-
maker. On one level, this depth of engagement from Oliver Stone
should come as no ...
Wag the dog: a study on film and reality in the digital age
Wag the Dog is a good example to test Oscar Wilde’s claim. Directed by Barry
Levinson and released in the theatres a few weeks before the outbreak of the
Monica Lewinsky scandal in the press, the film appeared to prove ...
Cinema of confinement
Since the birth of cinema, filmmakers have explored different ways of
telling stories across multiple settings within the length of one film. From
the early editing experiments of Edwin S. Porter and D. W. Griffith, to ...
Making the invisible visible : reclaiming women’s agency in swedish film history and beyond
Who coined the phrase ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’? Was it
the ancient Greeks, the British poet John Lyly, William Shakespeare,
Benjamin Franklin—or in fact a long-forgotten British writer by
the name of ...
The uncanny child in transnational cinema : ghosts of futurity at the turn of the twenty-first century
The introduction outlines the book’s focus on the cinematic uncanny child,
a figure that challenges normalized ideologies of childhood by interrogating
the child’s associations with both personal and historical time. ...
The altering eye : contemporary international cinema
The Altering Eye is a book about the most fertile period of filmmaking
in the mid-twentieth century. This was a period of rediscovering cinema,
of returning to zero (as Jean-Luc Godard proclaimed) and advancing
beyond ...
Imagining Afghanistan : global fiction and film of the 9/11 wars
When photojournalist Lynsey Addario came back home to New York
City in 2000, having traveled to Afghanistan still under the rule of the
Taliban, she had trouble finding a venue for her photographs. She writes:
“For a ...
Realist cinema as world cinema : non-cinema, intermedial passages, total cinema
This book is about films and filmmakers committed to reality. For them,
the world is not a mere construct or discourse, but made of people, animals,
plants and objects that physically exist, thrive, suffer and die. They ...
Disability studies and spanish culture : films, novels, the comic and the public exhibition
In the introduction that launches his landmark 1997 reader on the
subject, Lennard J. Davis notably frames Disability Studies as a
political project, embracing an approach that envisions the field as
at once ‘an academic ...