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Marc Augé was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Augé's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family. Seamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, Casablanca moves between Augé's insights into the filmgoing(...)
Casablanca: movies and memory
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Marc Augé was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Augé's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family. Seamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, Casablanca moves between Augé's insights into the filmgoing experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France's wartime history, and how such events as the fall of Paris, the exodus of refugees, and the Occupation-all depicted in the film-were lived and are remembered.
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Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind.
Learning from Hollywood: Architecture and film
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Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind.
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Le cinéma aujourd'hui
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Le Cinéma aujourd'hui présente un panorama du cinéma international et des films qui se sont imposés sur nos écrans au cours des trente dernières années. L'auteur s'intéresse tout d'abord au nouvel Hollywood : ses réalisateurs et ses genres, et cette capacité à réagir aux changements qui lui a permis de conserver sa position dominante. Les films hollywoodiens sont vus par(...)
Le cinéma aujourd'hui
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Le Cinéma aujourd'hui présente un panorama du cinéma international et des films qui se sont imposés sur nos écrans au cours des trente dernières années. L'auteur s'intéresse tout d'abord au nouvel Hollywood : ses réalisateurs et ses genres, et cette capacité à réagir aux changements qui lui a permis de conserver sa position dominante. Les films hollywoodiens sont vus par des millions de spectateurs de tous pays, pas seulement pour leur qualité de production, mais aussi parce qu'ils touchent les rêves et l'imagination de chacun. L'auteur se tourne ensuite vers les autres lieux de production, l'Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Est, l'Afrique du Nord et l'Amérique latine, les pays d'Océanie et l'industrie indienne du cinéma, appelée Bollywood. Des réalisateurs aussi influents que Steven Spielberg, Chen Kaige ou Jean-Luc Godard côtoient une nouvelle génération d'artistes comme Paul Thomas Anderson, Lukas Moodysson et Samira Makhmalbaf.
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Architecture and Film, Set Design
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C'est à Berlin, en 1926, que le réalisateur russe S. M. Eisenstein découvre l'utilisation architecturale du verre et la place qu'il occupe dans un certain nombre d'utopies de réconciliation sociale (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier…). C'est alors qu'il envisage de réaliser Glass House, un projet inabouti dont il ne reste aujourd'hui que ses notes de travail,(...)
Glass house: du projet de film au film comme projet S. M. Eisenstein
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C'est à Berlin, en 1926, que le réalisateur russe S. M. Eisenstein découvre l'utilisation architecturale du verre et la place qu'il occupe dans un certain nombre d'utopies de réconciliation sociale (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier…). C'est alors qu'il envisage de réaliser Glass House, un projet inabouti dont il ne reste aujourd'hui que ses notes de travail, publiées dans cet ouvrage. Un projet pourtant tenté à Hollywood lorsqu'Eisenstein imagina la conception d'un gratte-ciel en verre où tous seraient soumis au regard de tous, où chacun serait renvoyé à sa solitude par soumission aux valeurs capitalistes, et où la question de l'aliénation sociale se mêlerait à celle du «trouble dans le genre» au travers de personnages venus tout droit de la tradition berlinoise du cabaret. Charlie Chaplin, fasciné par cette anti-utopie où lumière et transparence aboutissent à la coercition et à la mort, avait alors soutenu le réalisateur russe. Ce n'est donc pas un hasard si, dans Le Dictateur, Hinckel avoue à Napaloni être amateur de «moderne» et vouloir mettre partout des parois et plafonds en verre. Mais Glass House fut également un projet de cinéma : un cinéma échappant aux lois de la pesanteur, à l'héritage de la peinture naturaliste et à l'architecture traditionnelle, qui conduisit Eisenstein à une réflexion esthétique sur les thèmes du polycentrisme et de l'hétérotopie – thèmes que l'art moderne et contemporain ne cesseront jamais de travailler.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light est le premier livre de Daïchi Saïto, cinéaste et cofondateur du collectif montréalais Double négatif. La préface est signée par André Habib, professeur en études cinématographiques de l'Université de Montréal et spécialiste du cinéma expérimental. La version originale anglaise est incluse dans le livre.
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Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light
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Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light est le premier livre de Daïchi Saïto, cinéaste et cofondateur du collectif montréalais Double négatif. La préface est signée par André Habib, professeur en études cinématographiques de l'Université de Montréal et spécialiste du cinéma expérimental. La version originale anglaise est incluse dans le livre.
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In this imaginative and scholarly book, Steven Jacobs explores the architectural elements of Alfred Hitchcock's films and the vital role they played in providing atmosphere and facilitating plot development. Hitchcock famously left nothing to chance, and from the Greenwich Village apartment that provided the set for Rear Window or the now-iconic Bates house in Psycho,(...)
The wrong house: the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
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In this imaginative and scholarly book, Steven Jacobs explores the architectural elements of Alfred Hitchcock's films and the vital role they played in providing atmosphere and facilitating plot development. Hitchcock famously left nothing to chance, and from the Greenwich Village apartment that provided the set for Rear Window or the now-iconic Bates house in Psycho, every architectural entity plays a significant role both in setting the scene and in advancing the suspenseful narratives of which Hitchcock was master. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, the director remained intimately involved with his films' sets throughout his entire career.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Harun Farocki’s (born 1944) latest film Ein Neues Produkt looks at the structure of workplaces from architectural, social and economic perspectives, documenting a year in the life of a consulting firm. This accompanying volume includes six essays and an interview.
Brave new work : a reader on Harun Farocki's film
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Harun Farocki’s (born 1944) latest film Ein Neues Produkt looks at the structure of workplaces from architectural, social and economic perspectives, documenting a year in the life of a consulting firm. This accompanying volume includes six essays and an interview.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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As in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Johnnie To, readers will drift and dash through the streets of Central to the district’s periphery, almost recklessly, automatically, or for the sheer pleasure of roaming. The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of relationship between(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
September 2013
World film locations : Hong Kong
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As in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Johnnie To, readers will drift and dash through the streets of Central to the district’s periphery, almost recklessly, automatically, or for the sheer pleasure of roaming. The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of relationship between location and place and genre innovations in Hong Kong cinema.
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World film location : Prague
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Prague, the “Hollywood of the East,” has played an important role in the history of cinema and this publication traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital. Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear onscreen — including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Malá Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas(...)
World film location : Prague
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Prague, the “Hollywood of the East,” has played an important role in the history of cinema and this publication traverses the city’s topography to examine an internationally diverse range of movies made in the Czech capital. Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear onscreen — including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Malá Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas Square, and Prague Castle — the book also discusses the intersection of the capital city and its cinematic representations; Prague and the Czech New Wave; the iconic Barrandov Studios; and the impact of political events such as the Prague Spring, the Soviet Invasion of 1968, and the Velvet Revolution on the city’s film industry.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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This book serves as an introduction to the city for film enthusiasts, visitors, and tourists while simultaneously opening scholarly debates on global concerns such as marginalization, rapid urbanization, and child poverty.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
September 2013
World film locations: São Paulo
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This book serves as an introduction to the city for film enthusiasts, visitors, and tourists while simultaneously opening scholarly debates on global concerns such as marginalization, rapid urbanization, and child poverty.
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