Cinema, Memory, Modernity

Cinema, Memory, Modernity
Author: Russell J.A. Kilbourn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134550154

Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: the required codes and conventions for understanding and implementing this crucial prosthetic technology — an art of memory for the twentieth-century and beyond.

Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity

Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity
Author: Ivy I-chu Chang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9811335672

This book investigates the aesthetics and politics of Post/Taiwan-New-Cinema by examining fifteen movies by six directors and frequent award winners in international film festivals. The book considers the works of such prominent directors as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang and Chang Tsuo-chi and their influence on Asian films, as well as emergent phenomenal directors such as Wei Te-sheng, Zero Chou, and Chung Mong-hong. It also explores the possibility of transnational and trans-local social sphere in the interstices of layered colonial legacies, nation-state domination, and global capitalism. Considering Taiwan cinema in the wake of globalization, it analyses how these films represent the socio-political transition among multiple colonial legacies, global capitalism, and the changing cross-strait relation between Taiwan and the Mainland China. The book discusses how these films represent nomadic urban middle class, displaced transnational migrant workers, roaming children and young gangsters, and explores how the continuity/disjuncture of globalization has not only carved into historical and personal memories and individual bodies, but also influenced the transnational production modes and marketing strategies of cinema.

Cinema, Memory, Modernity

Cinema, Memory, Modernity
Author: Russell J.A. Kilbourn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134550227

Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: the required codes and conventions for understanding and implementing this crucial prosthetic technology — an art of memory for the twentieth-century and beyond.

Film, Music, Memory

Film, Music, Memory
Author: Berthold Hoeckner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 022664975X

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of individual and collective memory. Berthold Hoeckner analyzes three critical processes through which music influenced this new culture of memory: storage, retrieval, and affect. Films store memory through an archive of cinematic scores. In turn, a few bars from a soundtrack instantly recall the image that accompanied them, and along with it, the affective experience of the movie. Hoeckner examines films that reflect directly on memory, whether by featuring an amnesic character, a traumatic event, or a surge of nostalgia. As the history of cinema unfolded, movies even began to recall their own history through quotations, remakes, and stories about how cinema contributed to the soundtrack of people’s lives. Ultimately, Film, Music, Memory demonstrates that music has transformed not only what we remember about the cinematic experience, but also how we relate to memory itself.

World Cinema and Cultural Memory

World Cinema and Cultural Memory
Author: I. Hedges
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781137465115

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.

Empty Moments

Empty Moments
Author: Leo Charney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822320906

An innovative reconceptualization of the defining quality of modernity and how it relates to cinema and literary theory.

Early Cinema Modernity Visual Culture Hb

Early Cinema Modernity Visual Culture Hb
Author: GRGIC
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9789463728300

- It is based on original archival research conducted in film archives and institutions in the Balkans and Europe and employs previously undiscovered archival materials and film footage. - It constitutes a transnational and multi-faceted examination of visual culture and early cinema development in the Balkan region and its relevance to world cinema at the time. - It comprises a first cultural study in the English language on early cinema history of the various countries in the Balkan region, which can serve as a departing point for further studies in early cinema, archives, film spectatorship and a point of reference which provides a useful context for studying later historical periods in Balkan cinemas.

The Demons of Modernity

The Demons of Modernity
Author: John Orr
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0857459791

Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman’s critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so doing, it demonstrates how Ingmar Bergman’s films illustrate the demonic struggle in modernity between faith and secularity through “his intense preoccupation with the malaise of intimacy.”

The Emergence of Cinematic Time

The Emergence of Cinematic Time
Author: Mary Ann Doane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2002-12-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780674007291

In a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.