This symposium celebrates the publication of the English translation of Ngo Phuong Lan's book, Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema. The book provides a unique opportunity to examine filmmaking in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, including in the United States. It will include discussion of the history of Vietnamese cinema, the challenges of filmmaking in Vietnam, and the place …
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. The best films, Mamet argues, are composed of simple shots. The gr…
This book is divided into four sections, and it groups ten chapters corresponding to twelve previously published articles. The disparity between ten and twelve is caused by the fact that Chapter 5 was con densed out of three separate articles. As the title indicates, the articles included in this volume have been selected exclusively from the au-thor's writings on cinematographic problems.
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it. Lyden contends that approaches which interpret films only ideologically or theologically miss the mark in understanding their appeal to viewers. He devel…
Buku ini berisi kumpulan cerita pendek karangan Misbach Yusa Biran tentang insan perfilman dasawarsa 1950-an. Kala itu film Indonesia terutama lahir dari kumpulan seniman yang biasa berkumpul di Pasar Senen, Jakarta. Dalam buku ini kisah-kisah nyata pada masa itu digubah menjadi cerita yang kocak-getir tentang dunia perfilman Indonesia ketika baru saja perang kemerdekaan usai. Meski ditulis …
Film yang dibuat Lumiere dan Melies, menjadi titik tolak berkembangnya film dalam dua kategori utama, yaitu film dokumenter dan film fiksi. Buku ini memusatkan perhatian pada teknik penulisan skenario film fiksi. Kata "fiksi" berasal dari bahasa Latin "fictum" yang mengandung pengertian "se-suatu yang diciptakan". Berbeda dengan film dokumenter yang merekan peristiwa faktual, film fiksi merekam…
Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to the 'feature', it is a major source of evidence for, and an important influence upon, contemporary history, and a vivid means of bringing the recent past to life. For earlier periods, it provides a medium in which the often widely dispersed visual evidences of the past ca…
This book--accompanied by a DVD containing excerpts of all featured works and additional materials--tracks 40 years of German video art, from 1963 to the present. It offers a comprehensive overview of historical and current tendencies in video art, via 59 individual artworks. The included texts reflect on current strategies involving moving images and issues of presentation, conservation and re…