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Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

By: Christine Sprengler

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Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

By: Christine Sprengler

In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and culture, navigating a path through the key debates and aligning herself with recent attempts to recuperate its critical potential. This journey opens up the myriad permutations of nostalgia across visual and material culture and their interface with cinema, with the 1950s emerging as a privileged moment. Four case studies (Sin City, Far From Heaven, The Aviator and The Good German) analyse the ways in which aspects of visual design such as props, costume and colour contribute to the nostalgic aesthetic, allowing for both critical distance and emotion. Written with verve, style and impressive attention to detail, Screening Nostalgia is an invaluable addition to existing scholarship. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the ways in which we access the past through cinema." · Pam Cook, Professor Emerita in Film, University of Southampton

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Berghahn Books

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1845458885

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9781845458881

Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

By: Christine Sprengler

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Screening Nostalgia

Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film

By: Christine Sprengler

Through a series of detailed visual analyses of popular films, the author demonstrates that the visual creation of 'pastness' does not necessarily sever our connection to history as is commonly claimed, but can yield new insights into the relationship between the present and the past.

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Berghahn Books

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1845455592

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9781845455590

Fractured Fifties

The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade

By: Christine Sprengler

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Fractured Fifties

The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade

By: Christine Sprengler

Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument that (1) cinema has helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and thus a general conception of the decade, and (2) cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s. It challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory, mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. In other words, cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s, yielding in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds, (e.g., The Leave it to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, and The Cold War Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties, etc.) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190067349

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9780190067342

Fractured Fifties

The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade

By: Christine Sprengler

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The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade

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Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli

Rewriting Kalila wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat

By: Christine van Ruymbeke

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Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli

Rewriting Kalila wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat

By: Christine van Ruymbeke

Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli (15th c. A.D.) is a Persian rewriting of the timeless and influential Kalila wa-Dimna text, done at the Timurid court. Christine van Ruymbeke offers a first in-depth analysis of the contents and style of this important text and also addresses the Kalila wa-Dimna field across its full rewriting history. This analysis shows how Kashefi’s additions function as an invaluable commentary that opens up our understanding and the appreciation of this seminal text. This studies revisits several received ideas and current misapprehensions about the text and shows why it has been such an international best-seller before being unjustly relegated to children’s literature. In Van Ruymbeke’s words, Kalila wa-Dimna is a grim text, exposing the mechanisms of sophisticated psychological manipulation and exploring universal philosophical themes, known since Antiquity and still relevant today.

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428

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BRILL

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900431475X

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9789004314757

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

By: C. Sprengler

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Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

By: C. Sprengler

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image.

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Springer

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0230392164

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9780230392168

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Screening Nostalgia

Screening Nostalgia

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Fractured Fifties

Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli

Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

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