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The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

By: Peter Brunette

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The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

By: Peter Brunette

An analysis of the life and work of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521389925

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9780521389921

A History of Italian Cinema

By: Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni

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A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars. The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.

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753

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501307657

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9781501307652

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

Incriminating Subjects

By: Peter J. Hutchings

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The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

Incriminating Subjects

By: Peter J. Hutchings

This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.

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234

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Routledge

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1317797515

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9781317797517

A Story of Six Rivers

History, Culture and Ecology

By: Peter Coates

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A Story of Six Rivers

History, Culture and Ecology

By: Peter Coates

Many of the world’s major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation, and power, rivers sustain life and connect the world together, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that must be crossed on the way to another place. Using four European and two North American rivers as examples, A Story of Six Rivers considers the place of rivers in our world and emphasizes the inextricable links between history, culture, and ecology. Peter Coates explores six rivers, chosen as examples of the types of rivers found on the planet: the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe; the Spree, which flows through Berlin; the Po, which cuts eastward across northern Italy; the Mersey in northwest England; the Yukon, which runs through Canada and Alaska; and the Los Angeles in California. Creating a series of river biographies, Coates gives voice to each of these bodies of water, exploring how rivers nurture us, provide cultural and economic opportunities, and pose threats to our everyday lives. He challenges recent narratives that paint rivers as the victims of abuse, pollution, and damage at the hands of humans, focusing on change rather than devastation. Describing how humans and rivers form a symbiotic—and sometimes mutually destructive—relationship, Coates argues that rivers illustrate the limits of human authority and that their capacity to inspire us is as strong as our ability to pollute them. An intimate portrait of the way these bodies of water inform our lives, A Story of Six Rivers will make us reconsider the streams and tributaries we traverse each day.

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352

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Reaktion Books

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178023144X

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9781780231440

The Films of Federico Fellini

By: Peter Bondanella

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The Films of Federico Fellini

By: Peter Bondanella

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.

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224

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Cambridge University Press

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0521575737

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9780521575737

The Euro-American Cinema

By: Peter Lev

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The Euro-American Cinema

By: Peter Lev

From as scholar of mass communications, an international study of the influence of Hollywood movies on twentieth-century European art films. With McDonalds in Moscow and Disneyland in Paris and Tokyo, American popular culture is spreading around the globe. Regional, national, and ethnic cultures are being powerfully affected by competition from American values and American popular forms. This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art film style of ambiguity, authorial commentary, and borrowings from other arts. Peter Lev departs from the traditional approach of national cinema histories and discusses some of the blends, overlaps, and hegemonies that are typical of the world film industry of recent years. In Part One, he gives a historical and theoretical overview of what he terms the “Euro-American art film,” which is characterized by prominent use of the English language, a European art film director, cast and crew from at least two countries, and a stylistic mixing of European art film and American entertainment. The second part of Lev’s study examines in detail five examples of the Euro-American art film: Contempt (1963), Blow-Up (1966), The Canterbury Tales (1972), Paris, Texas (1983), and The Last Emperor (1987). These case studies reveal that the European art film has had a strong influence on world cinema and that many Euro-American films are truly cultural blends rather than abject takeovers by Hollywood cinema.

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249

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University of Texas Press

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0292763794

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9780292763791

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture

By: Peter Bondanella

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Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture

By: Peter Bondanella

The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

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240

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Cambridge University Press

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0521020875

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9780521020879

Ask Me if I'm Happy

An Actor's Life

By: Peter Bowles

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An Actor's Life

By: Peter Bowles

One of Britain's best-loved comic actors, Peter Bowles is perhaps most famous for his role as nouveau riche lord of the manor, Richard de Vere, in the hit television comedy To the Manor Born. The show earned itself cult sit-com status when it first aired in the 1970s and 80s and, as the success of the 2007 Christmas special showed, it continues to be hugely popular around the world. Now, in this witty, charming and colourful memoir, Peter Bowles recalls experiences and anecdotes from the time as well as from countless other productions he has worked on during more than half a century in the business. From his early days at Stratford under the direction of John Osborne to roles on iconic television programmes like The Avengers and The Irish R.M., to his current work with the great Peter Hall, Peter Bowles has worked, and laughed, with some of the biggest names in British drama. Funny, candid and warming in equal measure, Peter Bowlesis the very personal story of this inspiring and quintessentially British actor.

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338

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Simon and Schuster

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1847377688

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9781847377685

Wong Kar-wai

By: Peter Brunette

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Wong Kar-wai

By: Peter Brunette

Called the leading heir to the great directors of post-WWII Europe and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions of Hong Kong's film industry. Wong's visual brilliance and emphasis on atmosphere over action have set him apart from peers while earning him an admiring international audience. In the Mood for Love regularly appears on lists of the twenty-first century's greatest films while critics and filmgoers recognize works like Chungking Express and Happy Together as modern classics. Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely haunting visual films create a new form of cinema by telling a story with stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks rather than character, dialogue, and plot. As he shows, Wong's early background in genre film offers fascinating insights on his more studied later works. He also delves into Wong's perennial themes of time, love, and loss and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

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175

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University of Illinois Press

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0252095472

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9780252095474

The Cinema of Federico Fellini

By: Peter Bondanella

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The Cinema of Federico Fellini

By: Peter Bondanella

This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C. G. Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. Covering Fellini's entire career, the book links his mature accomplishments to his first employment as a cartoonist, gagman, and sketch-artist during the Fascist era and his development as a leading neo-realist scriptwriter. Peter Bondanella thoroughly explores key Fellinian themes to reveal the director's growth not only as an artistic master of the visual image but also as an astute interpreter of culture and politics. Throughout the book Bondanella draws on a new archive of several dozen manuscripts, obtained from Fellini and his scriptwriters. These previously unexamined documents allow a comprehensive treatment of Fellini's important part in the rise of Italian neorealism and the even more decisive role that he played in the evolution of Italian cinema beyond neorealism in the 1950s. By probing Fellini's recurring themes, Bondanella reinterprets the visual qualities of the director's body of work--and also discloses in the films a critical and intellectual vitality often hidden by Fellini's reputation as a storyteller and entertainer. After two chapters on Fellini's precinematic career, the book covers all the films to date in analytical chapters arranged by topic: Fellini and his growth beyond his neorealist apprenticeship, dreams and metacinema, literature and cinema, Fellini and politics, Fellini and the image of women, and La voce della luna and the cinema of poetry.

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392

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Princeton University Press

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0691223041

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9780691223049

The Matter of Vision

Affective Neurobiology & Cinema

By: Peter Wyeth

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The Matter of Vision

Affective Neurobiology & Cinema

By: Peter Wyeth

A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema’s visual nature. Cinematic analysis has often supported the notion that cinema can be understood by drawing parallels with language. Peter Wyeth contends that this analytical framework often fails to consider the fundamental fact of cinema’s visual nature. In The Matter of Vision, Wyeth seeks to redress this oversight by grounding his analysis in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, finding herein the potential for a qualitatively superior understanding of the cinematic medium.

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257

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Indiana University Press

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0861969111

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9780861969111

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

By: Peter Brunette

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The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

By: Peter Brunette

An analysis of the life and work of the Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni.

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0521389925

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Book's by Peter Antonioni

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

A History of Italian Cinema

A History of Italian Cinema

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

A Story of Six Rivers

A Story of Six Rivers

The Films of Federico Fellini

The Films of Federico Fellini

The Euro-American Cinema

The Euro-American Cinema

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Umberto Eco and the Open Text

Ask Me if I'm Happy

Ask Me if I'm Happy

Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

The Cinema of Federico Fellini

The Cinema of Federico Fellini

The Matter of Vision

The Matter of Vision

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

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