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Snow white and the seven dwarfs : new perspectives on production, reception, …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Stu…
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- 9781501351198
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- 791.4372 PAL s
Animating Unpredictable Effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood's RetD Complex
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media indus…
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- 9783030742270
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- xi + 206 p
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- 791.4334 GOW a
Animating film theory
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key…
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- 9780822376811
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- x + 359 p
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- 791.4334 BEC a
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women : Gender, Space and Mobility in Conte…
Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers …
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- 9783030370398
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- XVI, 186
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- 791.43653 Ceu
Cinematic Histospheres: on the theory and practice of Historical Films
In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, s…
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- 9783030705909
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- xvi, 219p.: ill.
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- 791.43 GRE c
Animating Truth documentary and visual culture in the 21st century
Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.
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- 9781474463386
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- 791.4334 EHR a
Realist cinema as world cinema : non-cinema, intermedial passages, total cinema
"Lúcia Nagib redefines realism not as a mere question of rhetoric or style, or a product of a certain age and place, but as a deep and steadfast commitment of filmmakers to an "ethics of the real" based on various forms of engagement with physical reality, which may include "passages" provided by the other arts. Her incisive theoretical arguments and finely nuanced close readings will change f…
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- 9789048539215
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- 301 p.
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- Film Culture in Transition
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- 791.43 NAG b
Screen space reconfigured
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemp…
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- 9789048529056
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- 332 p.
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- MediaMatters,
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- 791 SCE s
Women in the silent cinema
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and…
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- 9789048524518
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- 573 p.; 22 cm.
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