Supercinema

Supercinema
Author: William Brown
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0857459503

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Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides its technological omnipotence through the use of continued conventions more suited to analogue cinema, in a way that is analogous to that of Superman hiding his powers behind the persona of Clark Kent. Locating itself on the cusp of film theory, film-philosophy and cognitive approaches to cinema, Supercinema also looks at the relationship between the spectator and film that utilizes digital technology to maximum, ‘supercinematic’ effect.

Des Moines

Des Moines
Author: Alfio Giovannini
Publisher: Alfio Giovannini
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Des Moines (Iowa)
ISBN: 1604411295

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In the spring of 1986, Julian and Virginia Watson, a retired couple, live on the top floor of the Excelsior, an old apartment building on the edge of downtown Des Moines. Mrs. Watson suffers from agoraphobia and has not ventured outside the Excelsior in several years. Her devoted husband and Ms. Duncan, the building's janitor, are her only contacts with the outside world. Because of Virginia's fragile mental status, Julian only absents himself to run some errands or to take a daily walk to a nearby park. However, Julian's monotonous routine is suddenly altered by his chance encounter with an autograph-seeking lady who mistakes him for Clyde Ballantine, a reclusive Des Moines-born actor he has never heard about. In the following days, Julian's life is marred by a series of odd and frightening events that only an old article in The Des Moines Register could help explain. Or maybe notA[a¬A]

Italian Colonialism

Italian Colonialism
Author: R. Ben-Ghiat
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403981582

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Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comprehensive view of the field.

Non-Cinema

Non-Cinema
Author: William Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501327267

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Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema,' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins, in the extreme, the overlooked and the under-funded – the sort that distributors, exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all, hence "non-cinema." Analysing numerous films, William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world, but entangled participants therewith. Non-Cinema constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom, as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

Superfilms

Superfilms
Author: Salvatore J. Parlato
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1976
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Commerce Reports

Commerce Reports
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1929
Genre: Consular reports
ISBN:

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Lucania

Lucania
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1943
Genre: Italy
ISBN:

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The Thirties

The Thirties
Author: Alan Jenkins
Publisher: Scarborough House
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1976
Genre: History
ISBN:

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"The Thirties presents a number of different and often contradictory social facets with photograhs and dialogue." --