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Pollmann, Inga. Cinematic Vitalism. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983656.

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This book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and vitalist conceptions of life in biology and philosophy, on the other. By considering classical film-theoretical texts and their filmic objects in the light of vitalist ideas percolating in scientific and philosophical texts of the time, Cinematic Vitalism reveals the formation of a modernist, experimental and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. The book focuses on the key concepts including rhythm, environment, mood, and d

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Chandra, Saurabh, ed. SOCRATES (Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Issue- June). 3rd ed. SOCRATES : SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2015.

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Buhler, James. Early Theories of the Sound Film. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371075.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 examines several major theories that emerged during the transition to sound film, when even the definition of the sound film was contested. The theories of sound film that arose during the transitional decade from 1926 to 1935 focused on the closely related forms of recorded theater and silent film and worked to articulate how sound film differed from them. They also gave considerable attention to asynchronous sound in part because it was a figure specific to sound film (or in any event more difficult to produce in other art forms) and in part because asynchronous sound had affinitie

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Casetti, Francesco, Silvio Alovisio, and Luca Mazzei, eds. Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9789048527106.

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Peucker, Brigitte, and Ido Lewit. New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729895.

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This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on Jewish culture, on the relation of comedy to gender and the influence of theatre on his filmmaking. The popular historical epics brought Lubitsch an invitation to Hollywood in 1922. There, Lubitsch helped develop the film musical and notably contributed to the genre of Hollywood romantic comedy. The well-known scholars—film historians, archivists, and theorists—whose essays appear in this volume expand

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Cauchi, Mark, ed. Cinema and Secularism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501388835.

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Cinema and Secularism is the first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing a number of different methodological approaches to examine their identification and differentiation across film theory, film aesthetics, film history, and throughout global cinema. The emergence of moving images and the history of cinema historically coincide with the emergence of secularism as a concept and discourse. More than historically coinciding, however, cinema and secularism would seem to have—and many contemporary theorists and critics seem to assume—a more intrins

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Buhler, James. Theories of the Soundtrack. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371075.001.0001.

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This book is concerned with summarizing and critiquing theories of the soundtrack from roughly 1929 until today. A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to it, how it is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive regime that the theory mandates for determining the meaning, sense, and structure that sound and music bring to film and other audiovisual media. Beyond that, a theory may also delineate the range of possible uses of sound (and music), classify the types of

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Shakespeare, William. The Chronicle History of Henry the Fift: With His Battell Fought at Agin Court in France, Togither with Auntient Pistoll (Modern Cultural Theorists). Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1993.

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Ingravalle, Grazia. Archival Film Curatorship. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725675.

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Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols t

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Hedberg Olenina, Ana. Psychomotor Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190051259.001.0001.

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In the late 19th century, neurophysiology introduced techniques for detecting somatic signs of psychological processes. Scientific modes of recording, representing, and interpreting body movement as “expressive” soon found use in multiple cultural domains. Based on archival materials, this study charts the avenues by which physiological psychology reached the arts and evaluates institutional practices and political trends that promoted interdisciplinary engagements in the first quarter of the 20th century. In mapping the emergence of a paradigm it calls “psychomotor aesthetics,” this book unco

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Hanaway-Oakley, Cleo. James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768913.001.0001.

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James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce’s writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readings of Joyce and film. Through a compelling combination of historical research and critical analysis, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley demonstrates that Joyce, early film-makers, and phenomenologists (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in particular) share a common enterprise: all are concerned with showing, rather than explaining, the ‘inherence of the self in the world’. Instead of portraying an objective, neutral world, bereft

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Wilson, George M. Narrative. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.003.0022.

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Narratology is the general theory of narratives and the structures they exemplify. The classical structuralist narratology of Todorov, C. Bremond, A. Greimas, and early Roland Barthes was concerned primarily with narrative as narrative product. In selecting that emphasis and in other methodological matters, these authors were influenced by their proto-structuralist predecessors, Russian formalists such as V. Shklovsky and V. Propp. Theorists in the linked traditions highlighted the fact that stories, both fictional and non-fictional, can be represented in very different narrative discourses. I

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Kazemi, Farshid. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859203.001.0001.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night analyses the eponymous film within three theoretical coordinates: vampire cinema, psychoanalytic (film) theory and German Idealism. The book situates the film in the history of the vampire genre through the spectral vampire in early German expressionist cinema (Murnau’s Nosferatu, 1922) and theorizes it as part of a transnational movement in Iranian films that represents ‘the uncanny’ between the two modes of ‘the weird and the eerie,’ theorized by Mark Fisher. The film is situated in relation to the history of Iranian horror films, as well as the female vampir

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Park, William. What is Film Noir? The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2011. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781611489095.

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Everyone seems to know what film noir is, but scholars and critics cannot agree on any definition. Some go so far as to insist that there is no such thing. What is Film Noir? claims that this confusion arises from the fact that film noir is both a genre and a period style, and as such is unique in the history of Hollywood. The genre, now known as “neo-noir,” continues into the present, while the period, which began in the early 1940s, had expired by 1960. William Park surveys the various theories of film noir, defines the genre, and explains how film noir relates to the style and the period in

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Palis, Eleni. Classical Projections. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558171.001.0001.

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Classical Projections theorizes a new term, “film quotation,” for the medium-specific repurposing, re-framing, and re-viewing of preexisting films within subsequent films. As a visual corollary to literary quotation, film quotation embeds film fragments within on-screen televisions, movie theaters, and computer screens. Quotation accesses the way the humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation are standard for citing evidence, invoking authority, or interrogating literary and scholarly writing. Film studies has yet to seriously examine how film quotations convene interacti

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Hanaway-Oakley, Cleo. Machine–Humans and Body-Subjects. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768913.003.0004.

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This chapter presents an alternative to the popular critical vein that sees Joyce’s Ulysses and early cinema as conveying a mechanical, impersonal view of the world. It is argued that Ulysses and certain genres of early cinema were engaged—naively or otherwise—in a revaluation of Cartesian dualism, involving the reappraisal of mind/body and human/machine binaries. The physical comedy of Bloom and Charlie Chaplin is analysed with reference to phenomenological ideas on prosthesis and the machine–human interface, while other genres of early cinema, such as Irish melodrama and trick films, are con

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Eisenstein, Sergei. The Eisenstein Reader. Edited by Richard Taylor. British Film Institute, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781838711023.

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For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein’s most significant work, including his famous theories of montage and articles on subjects as diverse as sound, film language and Russian history. The selection ranges from early writings on his silent masterpieces The Strike, October and The Battleship Potemkin, to later works, hatched in the hostile and paranoid environment of Stalin’s Soviet Union. Drawn from the acclaimed four-volume Selected Works, this collection, which includes a new introduction and explanatory notes by Richard Taylor

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William Padilla, Mark. Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock. Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988246.

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Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do

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Naremore, James. Letter from an Unknown Woman. British Film Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781839022371.

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James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film’s many contributors--among them Viennese author Stephan Zweig, whose 1922 novella was the source of the picture; producer John Houseman, an ally of Ophuls who nevertheless made questionable changes to what Ophuls had shot; screenwriter Howard Koch; music composer Daniéle Amfitheatrof; designers Alexander Golitzen and Travis Banton; and leading actors Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan, whose performances were

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Dombrowski, Lisa, and Justin Wyatt, eds. ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474478854.001.0001.

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Director Robert Altman’s “golden period” of critically acclaimed films coincides directly with the age of New Hollywood, roughly the late 1960s through the late 1970s. Following this period, Altman would continue to work, albeit under much different circumstances than in his first decade directing films. This anthology considers post-1970s Altman as a way to rethink and reconceive his authorship. The goal of the book is not to minimize the impact of Altman’s 1970s work, but to think about how the under-analyzed post-1979 films can be explored alone, together, and in relation to earlier work in

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Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. Adaptation and Opera. Edited by Thomas Leitch. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.013.17.

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The tried and tested, not the new and original, became the norm early in the over-400-year history of opera, the Ur-adaptive art: because opera is a costly art form to produce, misjudging one’s audience can be disastrous. This may explain the persistence of a version of that familiar, limiting fidelity theory that has gone out of fashion in recent years in other areas. Since the Romantic period, opera’s tradition of Werktreue has demanded authenticity in realizing the operatic work authenticated by tradition. This has made the critical acceptance of adaptations of opera to film, for instance,

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Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson-Skradol. State Laughter. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840411.001.0001.

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The Stalinist reign of terror was not all gloom and darkness. Much of it was, or aimed to be, entertaining, full of laughter and joy. This book explores how, and why, humor was a necessary component of one of the most oppressive regimes of the twentieth century. It covers a variety of genres, from film comedy to satirical theatre, from war caricature to court speeches at show trials, from Stalin’s political writings to traditionally bawdy folk verses and fables. The authors combine close textual analysis with reflections on genres of the comic in general. The book offers the first comprehensiv

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Bronfen, Elisabeth, and Christina Wald, eds. Shakespeare and Seriality. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350437296.

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Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with an introduction that theorizes the method of reading Shakespeare serially on page, stage and screen, the first section investigates Shakespeare himself as a serial writer and serial rewritings of Shakespeare by Joyce and Beckett.Shakespeare and Serialitythen moves to a series of case studies of performative seriality from the early modern stage to theatre, film and ballet in

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Grossman, Andrew. Animated Pasts and Unseen Futures: on the Comic Element in Hong Kong Horror. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424592.003.0006.

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Analyses of horror cinema seldom focus on the genre’s intersections with comedy, perhaps because the dominant influence of psychoanalysis on horror has emphasized gender, sexuality, trauma, abandonment, and various aspects of the unconscious. Yet Hong Kong might well boast world cinema’s most successful engagement of the horror-comedy as a sustained genre. From the late 1970s through the early 1990s, the ghosts and animated corpses of Taoist folklore became invested with the martial arts comedy advanced by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, rendering supernatural bodies as clownish cyphers rather tha

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Erley, Mieka. On Russian Soil. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755699.001.0001.

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Blending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. As the book shows, the earth has inspired utopian dreams, reactionary ideologies, social theories, and durable myths about the relationship between nation and nature. In this period of modernization, soil was understood as the collective body of the nation, sitting at the crux of all economic and soc

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Peretti, Daniel. Superman in Myth and Folklore. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496814586.001.0001.

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Many artists draw upon folklore to craft films, music, literature, and other elements of popular culture. This book examines how the opposite phenomenon occurs: the use of popular culture in the expressive culture called folklore. Superman is an ideal focus for such as study because of his ubiquity. Though Superman is under the control of a corporation, fans nonetheless have developed a sense of ownership of him, often because of an affinity they feel toward him. Early chapters of this book explore the varieties of this affinity as experienced by individuals and as understood through interview

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DeConick, April D. The Gnostic New Age. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231170765.001.0001.

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Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity. This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions, and it characterizes our underst

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Horn, Gerd-Rainer. The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199587919.001.0001.

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The moment of liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly uncertain and various alternatives and conflicting visions were up for grabs. After close to six years of total war, Nazi terror and brutal occupation policies, a growing number of Europeans were no longer content solely to fight for national liberation from fascist control. Having staked their lives in military and civilian resistance to Nazism

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Gardner, Hunter H. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796428.001.0001.

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Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the Western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE–14 CE). Relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors use largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. Plague as such functions frequently in Roman texts to enact a drama in which the concerns of

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Fontani, Marco, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna. The Lost Elements. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199383344.001.0001.

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The Periodic Table of Elements hasn't always looked like it does now, a well-organized chart arranged by atomic number. In the mid-nineteenth century, chemists were of the belief that the elements should be sorted by atomic weight. However, the weights of many elements were calculated incorrectly, and over time it became clear that not only did the elements need rearranging, but that the periodic table contained many gaps and omissions: there were elements yet to be discovered, and the allure of finding one had scientists rushing to fill in the blanks. Supposed "discoveries" flooded laboratori

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Goff, Samuel. Soviet Spectatorship. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350411197.

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What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorshipanswers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ‘structures of looking’ — surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship — that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Close readings of understudied films such asHappy Finish(1934),The Laurels of Miss Ellen

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