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Promised Lands

Cinema, Geography, Modernism

By: Sam Rohdie

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Cinema, Geography, Modernism

By: Sam Rohdie

An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn, in the 1900s - arguably an instance of French modernism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183871765X

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9781838717650

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By: Sam Rohdie

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The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By: Sam Rohdie

This is a personal account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature, written by the author of 'Antonioni' and 'Rocco and his Brothers'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839020423

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9781839020421

Fellini Lexicon

By: Sam Rohdie

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Fellini Lexicon

By: Sam Rohdie

Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films - among them La Strada (1954) The Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Otto e Mezzo (1963) and Amarcord (1973) - he created melancholy, magical worlds peopled by clowns, dreamers, conmen, trumpeters and werewolves. Fellini Lexicon explores the forms and substances, significances and insignificances, objects and shadows in Fellini's work - the dance and music of his characters, the colour, light, and movement in his images. The Lexicon accompanies Fellini's films, rather than seeking to possess them, taking pleasure in their incongruities, exaggerations, absurdities and surprises. The entries are reversible, overlapping, often unlikely, combining careful analysis of the films with a celebration of their richness. Fellini Lexicon is an original, delightful approach to Fellini's work and to the practice of film criticism.

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1838715665

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9781838715663

Promised Lands

Cinema, Geography, Modernism

By: Sam Rohdie

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1838717641

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Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

By: Sam Rohdie

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Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

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Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for existence in the industrial metropolis of Milan. Though fascinated by the social reality of modern Italy, Visconti had by this time thrown off the influence of the neorealist movement. He had developed a style all his own, enriched by his experience of directing opera for the stage. As a result, the characters in Rocco are no longer held in check by the naturalistic conventions of neorealism. Instead, they erupt on the screen with all the emotional power of heightened melodrama. The violent sexuality projected by stars Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale and the rest of Visconti's impressive cast was too much for the Italian censors, who cut several scenes. Rohdie discusses the film in terms of its 'passionate splendid realism', arguing that these two apparently opposing moods are held in balance rather than contradiction in the film, part of 'the very condition of the film's power - and grace.

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1839021969

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9781839021961

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

By: Sam B. Girgus

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Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

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In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self. In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His efforts point to a transnational pattern he terms the "cinema of redemption" that portrays the struggle to connect to others in redeeming ways. Girgus not only reveals the power of these films to articulate the crisis between ontological identity and ethical subjectivity. He also locates time and ethics within the structure and content of film itself. Drawing on the work of Luce Irigaray, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, and Ewa Ziarek, Girgus reconsiders Levinas and his relationship to film, engaging with a feminist focus on the sexualized female body. Girgus offers fresh readings of films from several decades and cultures, including Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), John Huston's The Misfits (1961), and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

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Columbia University Press

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0231519494

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9780231519496

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By: Sam Rohdie

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The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

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This is a personal account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature, written by the author of 'Antonioni' and 'Rocco and his Brothers'.

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Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

By: Sam Rohdie

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Promised Lands

Promised Lands

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The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Fellini Lexicon

Fellini Lexicon

Promised Lands

Promised Lands

Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

Rocco and his Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)

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