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The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity(14 Critical Studies)

The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity(14 Critical Studies)


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The twentieth century, with all its turbulence and change, its conflicts and its discoveries was, perhaps above all, the century of cinema, and The Seeing Century offers an innovative, international, and interdisciplinary exploration of the role cinema plays in contemporary life and culture, and the complex and fascinating relationship between screen images and our changing concepts of personal and national identity.
Rejecting the compartmentalisation that has traditionally marked film studies, and confronting an impressively eclectic range of material, fifteen essays by leading academics from around the world cut across ‘divergent’ cultures, languages, and genres: mainstream Hollywood rubs shoulders with low-budget Icelandic or Sicilian cinema, and the popular and the esoteric feature alongside each other. In this way, the reader is offered a stimulating overview which directly addresses the contradictions and ambiguities inherent in the relationship between film and identity, and reveals the vibrancy of contemporary film debate, to which The Seeing Century makes an important and thought-provoking contribution.

Table of Contents:
1. Wendy EVERETT: Introduction From Frame to Frame: Images in Transition Section 1: (De)constructing History: Memory, Language, and Identity 2. Phil POWRIE: The ‘family portrait’, trauma and the punctum in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) 3. Peter WAGSTAFF: The Dark Side of Utopia: Word, Image, and Memory in Georges Perec’s Récits d’Ellis Island: histoires d’errance et d’espoir 4. Christopher SHORLEY: History, Memory, and Art in Louis Malle’s Au revoir, les enfants Section 2: Imaging the Self: Personal and National Identities 5. Wendy EVERETT: Mapping Iceland or the Identity of Space: Cold Fever 6. Gretchen BISPLINGHOFF: Irish Images: Constructs of Film Space/Time 7. Ernie HAMPSON: Mocking the Mafia: Ciprì and Maresco’s Sicilian Apocalypse 8. Ann JÄCKEL: Too Late? Recent Developments in Romanian Cinema 9. María CAMÍ-VELA: From ‘Reespañolear’ to ‘Europeizar’ : The Subversion of Francoist Mythology in La flor di mi secreto (The Flower of my Secret) by Pedro Almodóvar’ 10. Patrick WILLIAMS: ‘Entering and leaving modernity’ - Utopia and dystopia in Mambety’s Touki Bouki and Hyènes Section 3: Gendered Visions: Sexuality, Identity, and Representation 11. Susan HAYWARD: Luc Besson’s Cinquième élément (1997) and the Spectacular: The City-Body and the Sci-Fi movie 12. Lorna FITZSIMMONS: Of ‘Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower’: Gyno-Turning in Limit Up and Svankmajer’s Faust 13. Elisa BUSSI: Voyages and border crossings: Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) 14. Steve WHARTON: Pédés et polémiques: Faggots and Fireworks – Les Nuits fauves and its moral(ity) 15. Raya MORAG: ‘Life-Taker Heart-Breaker’: Mask-ulinity and/or Femininity in Full Metal Jacket Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789042014848
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V.
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Sub Title: Film, Vision, and Identity
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9042014849
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 14 Critical Studies
  • Weight: 390 gr


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