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Worlds of Hungarian Writing

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Author : András Kiséry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-05-12
ISBN : 1611478413
Pages : 340 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Worlds of Hungarian Writing written by András Kiséry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from the nineteenth century to the present. They are mapping some of the ways in which a modern literature is produced by encounters with languages, cultures, and media external to its traditionally conceived boundaries. But rather than viewing intercultural exchange as an external force, the collection recognizes its enabling importance to the globalizing reception and circulation of Hungarian writing over the continuities and constraints implied by more traditional national narratives. Worlds of Hungarian Writing posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary culture.Discussions of the politics of appropriation and translation, of the impact of émigré writers and critics, and of the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989 Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century prose. The volume spans a wide generic range, from the achievements of such canonical 19th-century critics and poets as József Bajza and János Arany, to neglected women authors-translators such as Theresa Pulszky, to modernist writers and critics like Antal Szerb and György Lukács, and to the contemporary novelists Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas, and László Krasznahorkai. Each essay is an original contribution to comparative literature and to the study of this Central-European literature, but is intended to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with its traditions.

Postsocialist Mobilities

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Author : Hajnal Király
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-27
ISBN : 1527568946
Pages : 304 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Postsocialist Mobilities written by Hajnal Király and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the various forms of mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of mostly native scholars. Divided into four thematic sections, it expands the reader’s understanding of the political transition and the social changes it triggered, the transforming perceptions of gender roles and especially masculinity. The spaces of “in betweenness” and contact zones, whether geographical, interethnic or communicative, (im)mobility and transmedial encounters of Eastern European subjectivity are recurring figures of both cinematic representations and their theoretical analyses. In-depth and transcultural in their nature, the investigations gathered in this volume are informed by political, social and cultural history, genre, gender and spatial theory, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and, of equal importance, the rich personal experience of the authors who witnessed many of the discussed phenomena in “close-up”.

The Cinema of BŽla Tarr

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Author : Andr‡s Kov‡cs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-28
ISBN : 0231165315
Pages : 256 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.2/5 (311 users download)


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Download or read book The Cinema of BŽla Tarr written by Andr‡s Kov‡cs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the work of Hungary's most prominent film director, written by a scholar who has known Béla Tarr personally and professionally for more than 25 years. Tracing the evolution of the director's unique characters, themes, and style, the text locates the significance of Tarr's films in their powerful vision of an entire region and its history. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language, the shared feelings and experiences of millions of Eastern Europeans.

Slow Cinema

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Author : Tiago de Luca
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-31
ISBN : 0748696059
Pages : 320 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.7/5 (486 users download)


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Download or read book Slow Cinema written by Tiago de Luca and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.

Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe

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Author : Anna Barcz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-10
ISBN : 1350098361
Pages : 256 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.3/5 (5 users download)


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Download or read book Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe written by Anna Barcz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years Eastern European culture came under the sway of Soviet rule. What is the legacy of this period for cultural attitudes to the environment and the contemporary battle to confront climate change? This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of the Soviet era on attitudes to the environment in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of the mining industry and disasters such as the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new understandings of local political traditions and examines how they might be harnessed in the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.

Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema

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Author : Anna Batori
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-07
ISBN : 3319759515
Pages : 207 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema written by Anna Batori and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the structuring of space in Romanian and Hungarian cinema, and particularly how space is used to express the deep imprint of a socialist past on a post-socialist present. It considers this legacy of the Eastern European socialist regimes by interrogating the suffocating, tyrannical and enclosing structures that are presented in film. By tracing such paradigmatic models as horizontal and vertical enclosure, this book aims to show how enclosed spatial structuring restages the post-socialist era to produce an implicit and collective form of remembrance. While closely scrutinizing the interplay of location and image, Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema offers a new approach to the cinema of the region, which unites the filmic productions under a defined, post-socialist Eastern European spatial umbrella. By simultaneously portraying the gloom of a socialist past, while also conveying a sense of longing for a pre-capitalist era, these films convey how sense of unity and also ambivalence is a defining hallmark of Eastern European cinema.

Organic Cinema

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Author : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2017-06-01
ISBN : 1785335677
Pages : 238 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.7/5 (853 users download)


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Download or read book Organic Cinema written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “organic” is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the “slow cinema” movement. Through a wholly original analysis of the long take and other signature features of Tarr’s work, author Thorsten Botz-Bornstein establishes compelling links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture, revealing shared organic principles that emphasize the transcendence of boundaries.

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

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Author : Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2019-11-28
ISBN : 1782833749
Pages : pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.7/5 (828 users download)


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Download or read book Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming written by Laszlo Krasznahorkai and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature. Now seems as good a time as any to name him among our greatest living novelists.' Paris Review Hailed internationally as perhaps the most important novel of the young twenty-first century, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is the culmination of László Krasznahorkai's remarkable and singular career. Nearing the end of his life, Baron Bela Wenckheim decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he wishes to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. What follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. Spectacular actions are staged, death and the abyss loom, until finally doom is brought down on the unsuspecting residents of the town. 'I've said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with this novel, I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book - Satantango, Melancholy, War & War, and Baron. This is my one book.' László Krasnahorkai

Pictorialism in Cinema

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Author : Jarmo Valkola
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-23
ISBN : 1443814377
Pages : 430 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.4/5 (438 users download)


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Download or read book Pictorialism in Cinema written by Jarmo Valkola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies. Pictorialism is motivated by the commitment to develop and increase the function and effectiveness of images, sounds, and performances that aesthetically formulate, translate, and change the effects of contemporary cinema to higher dimensions and qualities of art. The book’s main focus is when pictorialism as such is the major aesthetic convention used in filmmaking practice, and when pictorialism itself forms the key element of the narrative, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration, including: What are the main challenges of pictorial communication? How is pictorialism used in films? How far is the “pictorial image” a combination of the bodily performance of the characters, the surrounding landscape, and the evocative use of the soundscape? More generally, what is the state of image studies today? The first part of this book deals with the conventions of pictorialist connections in architecture, painting and photography, and their influences on cinematic representations and on film studies and film theory. The films analysed here combine various styles, but the focus is tracking down pictorialism’s influences through a large spectre of matters. The next section explores pictorialism’s development in Hollywood cinema, in European Cinema, in avant-garde film, and in documentary. Finally, the book concludes with three large sections devoted to the developers of modern pictorialist cinema, namely Theo Angelopoulos, Aki Kaurismäki and Béla Tarr. As such, this study offers a way to understand the main ideas, subjects and stylisation of pictorialism in cinema, to explore the main ingredients of this phenomenon, and to focus on narratives that are in the service of pictorial matters.

Exile Cinema

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Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2008-03-13
ISBN : 9780791473788
Pages : 217 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Exile Cinema written by Michael Atkinson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

Samuel Beckett and Europe

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Author : Michela Bariselli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-18
ISBN : 1527509834
Pages : 193 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and Europe written by Michela Bariselli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the diverse critical debates of the ‘Beckett and Europe’ conference held in Reading, UK, in 2015, this volume brings together a selection of essays to offer an international response to the central question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for our understandings of the work of Samuel Beckett. Ranging from historical and archival work to the close interrogation of language and form, from the influences of various national literary traditions on Beckett’s writing to his influence on the work of other writers and thinkers, this book examines the question of Europe from multiple vantage points so as to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s oeuvre both challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’. With a full introductory chapter examining the challenging implications of the term ‘Europe’ in the contemporary period, this volume treats Europe as a recognition of the multiple ways that Beckett’s poetry, criticism, prose and drama invite new understandings of the role of history, culture and tradition in one of the most significant bodies of writing of the twentieth century.

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema

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Author : Rob Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-27
ISBN : 1317420586
Pages : 522 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.3/5 (174 users download)


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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to World Cinema written by Rob Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Designed as a dynamic forum for forty-three world-leading scholars, this companion contains significant expertise and insight and is dedicated to challenging complacent views of hegemonic film cultures and replacing outmoded ideas about production, distribution and reception. It offers both a survey and an investigation into the condition and activity of contemporary filmmaking worldwide, often challenging long-standing categories and weighted—often politically motivated—value judgements, thereby grounding and aligning the reader in an activity of remapping which is designed to prompt rethinking.

Work in Cinema

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Author : E. Kerr
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-18
ISBN : 1137370866
Pages : 296 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book Work in Cinema written by E. Kerr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type of audience it addresses. Here, the contributors employ transnational and transhistorical perspectives to compare filmic depictions of work.

Directory of World Cinema: East Europe

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Author : Adam Bingham
Publisher : Intellect Books
Release Date : 2012-09-19
ISBN : 1841505188
Pages : 266 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.8/5 (415 users download)


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Download or read book Directory of World Cinema: East Europe written by Adam Bingham and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the "Directory of World Cinema" series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post-war, post-Stalinist era (Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia), this new volume of the "Directory of World Cinema" series charts the trends of these national cinemas. In the decades since the 1970s, the continuing popularity of filmmakers from these countries (including Kieslowski, Bela Tarr, Istvan Szabo, Jiri Menzel), coupled with a recent international surge in the visibility of the cinemas of Serbia, Slovakia and Romania, means that these countries in East Central Europe are a central focus in the directory. Introductory essays of this title establish key players and explore important genres such as war, comedy, surrealism and art cinema while reviews and case studies analyze individual titles in considerable depth.For the film studies scholar, or for all those who love cinema and want to learn more, "Directory of World Cinema: East Europe" will be an essential companion.

The New York Times Film Reviews, 1993-1994

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Author : New York Times Staff
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 1996
ISBN :
Pages : 528 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book The New York Times Film Reviews, 1993-1994 written by New York Times Staff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slow Movies

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Author : Ira Jaffe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-25
ISBN : 0231850638
Pages : 256 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.2/5 (318 users download)


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Download or read book Slow Movies written by Ira Jaffe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.

The Story of Film

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Author : Mark Cousins
Publisher : Pavilion
Release Date : 2020-10-08
ISBN : 1911663704
Pages : 552 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.9/5 (116 users download)


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Download or read book The Story of Film written by Mark Cousins and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Filmmaker and author Mark Cousins shows how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. He demonstrates, for example, how Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s influenced Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s despairing visions of 1970s Germany; and how George Lucas’ Star Wars epics grew out of Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. The Story of Film is divided into three main epochs: Silent (1885–1928), Sound (1928–1990) and Digital (1990–Present). Films are discussed within chapters reflecting both the stylistic concerns of the film-makers and the political and social themes of the time. This edition includes new text that encompasses the further-reaching scope of world cinema today, and the huge leaps in technology that have changed cinema screens forever. Film is an international medium, so as well as covering the great American films and film-makers, The Story of Film explores cinema in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America, and shows how cinematic ideas and techniques cross national boundaries. Avoiding jargon and obscure critical theory, the author constantly places himself in the role of the moviegoer watching a film, and asks: ‘How does a scene or a story affect us, and why?’ In so doing he gets to the heart of cinematic technique, explaining how film-makers use lighting, framing, focal length and editing to create their effects. Clearly written, and illustrated with over 400 stills, including numerous sequences explaining how scenes work, The Story of Film is essential reading for both film students and moviegoers alike.

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