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World film locations: Tokyo
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World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world's most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films explore how motion pictures have shaped the role of Tokyo in our collective consciousness, as well as how these cinematic moments reveal aspects of the life and culture of a(...)
World film locations: Tokyo
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World Film Locations: Tokyo gives readers a kaleidoscopic view of one of the world's most complex and exciting cities through the lens of world cinema. 50 scenes from classic and contemporary films explore how motion pictures have shaped the role of Tokyo in our collective consciousness, as well as how these cinematic moments reveal aspects of the life and culture of a city that are often hidden from view.
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August 2011
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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For more than 30 years, internationally renowned moving image artists and designers the Quay Brothers have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation. Creating work in the tradition of Czech Surrealists Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Trnka, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk, the twin brothers practice a design aesthetic influenced(...)
Quay Brothers: on deciphering the pharmacist’s prescription for lip-reading puppets
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For more than 30 years, internationally renowned moving image artists and designers the Quay Brothers have been in the avant-garde of stop-motion puppet animation. Creating work in the tradition of Czech Surrealists Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Trnka, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and Polish animator Walerian Borowczyk, the twin brothers practice a design aesthetic influenced by the graphic surrealism of Polish poster artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Since 1971, they have produced more than 45 moving images, including features, music videos, dance films and documentaries, and have designed sets and projections for opera, drama and concert performances. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this publication presents their films as well as previously unseen moving image works and graphic design, drawings, typography and notebooks for films.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
July 2012
Conversation avec un cinéaste israélien imaginé : Avi Mograbi
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Une conversation imaginaire entre deux réalisateurs, libanais et israélien, qui évoque, à partir de souvenirs des conflits locaux, la manière dont le souvenir et le témoignage mêlent inéluctablement fiction et documentaire, qui apporte un éclairage singulier sur l'histoire récente du Moyen-Orient et qui pose aussi la question de ce que signifie « faire des images » aujourd'hui.
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the(...)
Drive : journeys through film, cities and landscapes
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games. It moves from the gentle deserts of The Grapes of Wrath to the adventurous city streets of The Italian Job, from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Traffic to the existential musings of Two-Lane Blacktop, Thelma and Louise and Vanishing Point, from the contemplative freeway pleasures of Lift to the Scaffold, Radio On and London Orbital to the hallucinatory high-speed dangers of Crash, Bullitt, Death Proof and C’était un Rendezvous. It shows how various kinds of driving – with different speeds, cars, attitudes, roads and cities – provide experiences and values that we ignore at our peril.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Covering an array of films that ranges from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, this volume features detailed analyses of forty-six key scenes from productions shot on location across the city, as well as spotlight essays in which contributors with expertise in German studies, urban history, and film studies focus on issues central to understanding Berlin(...)
World film locations : Berlin
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Covering an array of films that ranges from early classics to contemporary star vehicles, this volume features detailed analyses of forty-six key scenes from productions shot on location across the city, as well as spotlight essays in which contributors with expertise in German studies, urban history, and film studies focus on issues central to understanding Berlin cinema. Among the topics discussed are the roles of rubble, construction sites, and music in films set and shot in Berlin, as well as key personalities, including Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. With the help of full-color illustrations that include film stills and contemporary location shots, World Film Locations: Berlin cinematically maps the city’s long twentieth century, taking readers behind the scenes and shedding new light on the connections between many favorite and possibly soon to be favorite films.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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The contributors to this volume trace cinema in Iceland from the 1979 establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund — before which the country’s film industry barely existed — through today. In a series of scene reviews, they show how rapidly the city has changed over the past thirty years. In thematic spotlight articles, they go on to explore such topics as the relationship(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
September 2012
World film locations : Reykjavik
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The contributors to this volume trace cinema in Iceland from the 1979 establishment of the Icelandic Film Fund — before which the country’s film industry barely existed — through today. In a series of scene reviews, they show how rapidly the city has changed over the past thirty years. In thematic spotlight articles, they go on to explore such topics as the relationship between Iceland and its capital city; youth culture and night life; the relationship between film and the local music community; cinematic representations of Scandinavian crime; and filmmakers’ response to the 2008 banking crisis. Together, these varied contributions show how films shot in Reykjavík have been shaped both by Iceland’s remoteness from the rest of the world and by Icelandic filmmakers’ sense that the city remains forever on the brink of desolate and harsh wilderness.
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L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé,(...)
October 2011
L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé, exacerbe ce lien mélancolique, quasi ontologique, qui nous attache au temps et à la mémoire du cinéma (c'est-à-dire, comme le dirait Daney, à " la promesse d'un monde "): présence d'une absence, insaisissable trop tard, toujours-déjà passé, en train de disparaître. Ce brillant essai s'intéresse ainsi à décrire ces moments de cinéma où le temps, sous diverses modalités, apparaît de manière sensible, en tant qu'expérience. Ces pages décrivent moins une histoire en bonne et due forme de la ruine au cinéma, qu'un parcours subjectif de fragments disparates qui constitue un programme possible et très partiel de cet attrait.
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This publication is a catalogue of an ambitious project that celebrates the obsessions that lie behing some of cinema's most iconic on-screen moments. The idea of the thirty obsessions gets inspiration from Persol's handcrafted thirty-step process. They will be presented in three years -ten per year- in major cities worldwide. The first ones, presented in this(...)
Magnificient obsessions: Persol, cinema and craftsmanship
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This publication is a catalogue of an ambitious project that celebrates the obsessions that lie behing some of cinema's most iconic on-screen moments. The idea of the thirty obsessions gets inspiration from Persol's handcrafted thirty-step process. They will be presented in three years -ten per year- in major cities worldwide. The first ones, presented in this volume, have been exhibited in New York, Paris and Milan.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Tamara L. Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated. She provides(...)
The cinematic tango: contemporary Argentine film
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The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Tamara L. Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated. She provides in-depth analysis of Argentina's contemporary period, when financial incentives led to the production of commercial "blockbusters" as well as new opportunities for first-time directors, sparking a surge of low-budget, independent filmmaking.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Technique d’animation image par image, le stop motion fascine, attire et intrigue. Cet ouvrage présente cet art centenaire qui permet d’insuffler la vie et le mouvement à des objets inanimés. Pas à pas, il nous entraîne dans les coulisses des films, détaillant les aspects techniques du tournage et dévoilant les secrets de création des décors et des marionnettes.
Les essentiels de l'animation: stop motion
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Technique d’animation image par image, le stop motion fascine, attire et intrigue. Cet ouvrage présente cet art centenaire qui permet d’insuffler la vie et le mouvement à des objets inanimés. Pas à pas, il nous entraîne dans les coulisses des films, détaillant les aspects techniques du tournage et dévoilant les secrets de création des décors et des marionnettes.
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