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In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules(...)
Artificial darkness: an obscure history of modern art and media
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In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space.
The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
The Chaplin machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the international Communist avant-garde, 1917-1937
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"The Chaplin Machine" reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion for American slapstick. Set against the backdrop of the great Russian revolutionary experiment, Owen Hatherley tells the tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century and spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Berlin's history of conflict, violence, and transformation has created an arena of particular urban surfaces, from which the present-day city and its layered, wounded past are projected simultaneously. In this publication, cultural historian Stephen Barber explores the intimate connections between those surfaces and the works of art and film that have both incised(...)
The walls of Berlin: urban surfaces, art, film
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Berlin's history of conflict, violence, and transformation has created an arena of particular urban surfaces, from which the present-day city and its layered, wounded past are projected simultaneously. In this publication, cultural historian Stephen Barber explores the intimate connections between those surfaces and the works of art and film that have both incised Berlin's urban screens and been inspired by them. Drawing on a vast range of material - from the first films of Berlin in the 1890s to the city's place in contemporary digital art - this book takes the form of a series of image-propelled journeys across the face of Berlin and through its urban histories, excavating the ricochets among the city, art, and film. In Barber's hands, Berlin's walls become apertures that mediate the city's preoccupations and manias, damage and scars, strata and outgrowths, sexual obsessions, and urban vanishings. The Walls of Berlin is a cultural history of the city's memories-as well as its acts of forgetting-that illuminates overlooked spaces and the sensory presences that inhabit them.
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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
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,(...)
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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, 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.
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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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World film locations: Paris
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Reviewers consider cinematic movements and genres such as Poetic Realism; the New Wave; the Left Bank Group; cinéma-vérité; the Cinéma du Look, while essays foreground contributions from francophone African directors, émigré filmmakers, and the occasionally demonized Paris of some of Claire Denis’ films. Screengrabs illustrate the importance of location, while(...)
World film locations: Paris
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Reviewers consider cinematic movements and genres such as Poetic Realism; the New Wave; the Left Bank Group; cinéma-vérité; the Cinéma du Look, while essays foreground contributions from francophone African directors, émigré filmmakers, and the occasionally demonized Paris of some of Claire Denis’ films. Screengrabs illustrate the importance of location, while contemporary photographs coincide with cinematic narratives set in the storied City of Light.
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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later. As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key(...)
Hollywood cinema and the real Los Angeles
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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later. As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key contributions to its rapid growth and frequent crises in economic, social, political and cultural life. Whether filmmakers engaged with the real city on location or recreated it on a studio set, Los Angeles shaped the films that were made there and circulated influentially worldwide. The book pays particular attention to early cinema, slapstick comedy, movies about the movies and film noir, which are each explored in new ways, with an emphasis on urban and architectural space and its representation, as well as filmmaking style and technique.
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