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How the Essay Film Thinks

By: Laura Rascaroli

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This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing on the centrality of the interstice in Deleuze's understanding of the cinema as image of thought, the book discusses the essay film as future philosophy-as a contrarian, political cinema whose argumentation engages with us in a space beyond the verbal. A diverse range of case studies discloses how the essay film can be a medium of thought on the basis of its dialectic use of audiovisual interstitiality. The book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing-all of these emerging as interstitial spaces of intelligence that illustrate how essayistic meaning can be sustained, often in contexts of political, historical or cultural extremity. The essayistic urge is not to be identified with a fixed generic form, but is rather situated within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.

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Oxford University Press

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0190656395

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How the Essay Film Thinks

By: Laura Rascaroli

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By: Laura Rascaroli

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Oxford University Press

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0190238267

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. This movement examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of "Europe" and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America!), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary and The Last Resort.

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Wallflower Press

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1904764673

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9781904764670

From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages with diverse films, including "Luna Park", "Run, Lola, Run", "Trainspotting", "Wonderland" and many more. It tackles the issues of postmodernity raised by these films and the changes wrought in European cities since the 1980s under the effects of political change, from the post-communist era in Moscow and Berlin to the effects of Thatcherism in Edinburgh and London.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857712772

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9780857712776

The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

This volume provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema.

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Wallflower Press

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1903364779

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Wandering Women

Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking

By: Laura Di Bianco

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Wandering Women

Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking

By: Laura Di Bianco

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking—while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency—brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature.

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Indiana University Press

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025306466X

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9780253064660

The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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The Cinema of Nanni Moretti

Dreams and Diaries

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

This volume provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema.

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Wallflower Press

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Crossing New Europe

Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie

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From Moscow to Madrid

Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

By: Ewa Mazierska,Laura Rascaroli

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Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

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Postmodern Cities, European Cinema

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I.B. Tauris

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1860648509

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Marissa Meyer

By: Laura La Bella

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Marissa Meyer

By: Laura La Bella

Riding on a wave of popular demand for YA fantasy and science fiction, Marissa Meyer’s success in the genre is the latest stage in the steady rise of an up-and-coming author. Meyer’s career milestones are discussed, including her education in creative writing, her work as an editor on other writers’ books, and her writing of the manga comic fan fiction Sailor Moon under a pseudonym. The book provides an in-depth look at the writing process and creative origins behind her first book, Cinder, the first in an ambitious four-part series that reworks traditional fairy tales in a modern context.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1499462786

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How the Essay Film Thinks

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Crossing New Europe

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From Moscow to Madrid

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Wandering Women

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Crossing New Europe

Crossing New Europe

From Moscow to Madrid

From Moscow to Madrid

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