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Lucrecia Martel’s Transnational Cinema
This chapter examines the evolution of Argentinian cinema in the second half of the twentieth century and locates Lucrecia Martel among filmmakers...
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Revolutionary Peripheries: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Cinema of Borgata”
The 1960s in Italy marked a controversial period in which a rapid economic growth was accompanied by an equally rapid and inexorable social and...
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Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema
Time Travel in World Literature and Cinemadiscusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter...
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Cinema
The birth of film as an art form at the end of the late nineteenth century heralded a new and captivating way for creative artists to imagine utopian...
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Media Borders in a Post-Media Age: The Historical and Conceptual Co-evolution of Cinema, Television, Video, and Computer Screens
This chapter offers an overview of literature theorizing our condition defined by electronic screens, often called a post-cinema age, the age of...
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Cities in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Cinema
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s cinema, most famously A City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989) and The Puppetmaster 戲夢人生 (1993), struck critics as films offering an...
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Media Borders in a Post-Media Age: The Historical and Conceptual Co-evolution of Cinema, Television, Video, and Computer Screens
This chapter offers an overview of literature theorizing our condition defined by electronic screens, often called a post-cinema age, the age of...
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The Commercial Genre Supersystem of Early Cinema Screen Detectives
This contribution traces the history of early detective films, discussing them as commercial genre supersystems. The analysis focuses on examples...
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Shakespeare in Bits and Bites in Indian Cinema
Citations, references, allusions, and intertextualities with Shakespeare are found everywhere in India. This chapter offers a taxonomy of this...
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Impure Realism, Pure Eventness, and Horror Cinema in the Post-truth Era: A Case Study of One Cut of the Dead
Through the case study of One Cut of the Dead—a 2017 zombie-comedy about how a film crew stage a zombie-film-within-a-zombie-film for live...
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Cities in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Cinema
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s cinema, most famously A City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989) and The Puppetmaster 戲夢人生 (1993), struck critics as films offering an...
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Hanoi in Literature and Cinema
With more than 1000 years of history, Hanoi is known as the city with the richest cultural traditions in Vietnam, but it has also experienced the...
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“The Masque of the Red Death” in Literature and Cinema: Poe’s Short Story and Corman’s Film Adaptation
Scholars have addressed the rhetorical-pragmatic aspects of “The Masque of the Red Death” from a cognitive perspective, and observed that Poe...
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Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain
This chapter examines three recent autofictional documentaries produced in Argentina and Spain—Albertina Carri’s Cuatreros (Rustlers), Mercedes...
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Julian of Norwich, the Carrow Psalter and Embodied Cinema
Biblical and contemporary accounts of encounters with presences beyond the normal most commonly understand them as auditory experiences. Medieval...
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“When a Film is Beautiful, I Remember it”: Natalia Ginzburg at the Movies
Cinema occupies a sizable part of Natalia Ginzburg’s ample corpus of articles in the press. Some of her film reviews have been reprinted in her...
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Remaking China: The Canonization of Fei Mu’s Cinema
This chapter examines Tian Zhuangzhuang’s 2002 remake of Fei Mu’s 1948 Spring in a Small Town concerning issues of cinematic memory, cultural...