The western

Inside film

Inside film.

The Western as an imaginary space -- The Western in film and cultural studies -- The films -- Where the Western came from: Antecedents of the Western film -- The silent Western -- The series Western -- The epic Western -- The romance Western -- The dystopian Western -- The elegiac Western -- The revisionist Western.

Truant pastures : the complete poems of Harry C. Staley

Introduction I / Chalk It -- Pesky Art of Harry C. Staley / Lives of a Shell-Shocked Chaplain: Charles McCaffery (b. 1920 d. 1987) -- Early Times -- Preliminary Report From Dr. Peters, Geo-therapist -- Penmanship (1931, 1984) -- Argument from Design -- Nocturnes (from early films) -- Dog-fight -- Autopsy -- Double-Feature -- All Quiet on the Western Front -- Services (1929) -- Biology One (1934, 1957) -- Take Us In Mister? -- Asymptote (1945) -- Le Bourget -- Engagement -- Therapy (1970-1974) -- Immersion -- Casualties -- Sacrifications -- Dark Cubes -- Morning Song -- Apochrypha -- About the Aeneid -- Mother Behold Thy Son -- Early Gothic -- Tidings (Christmas 1930s, 1973) -- Contractions -- Ex-Capt. McCaffery -- Fr. Charles Visits Athens -- ^

Film genre 2000 : new critical essays

Film genre two thousand

The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.

Introduction: the new genre cinema / New wave black cinema in the 1990s / So much is lost in translation: literary adaptations in the 1990s / Of tunes and toons: the movie musical in the 1990s / Political film in the nineties / Martial arts film in the 1990s / Same as it ever was: innovation and exhaustion in the horror and science fiction films of the 1990s / "Fighting and violence and everything, that's always cool": teen films in the 1990s / Left-handed form of human endeavor: crime films during the 1990s / Action films: the serious, the ironic, the postmodern / Children's films in the 1990s / Noir in the red and the nineties in the black / Fade-out in the west: the western's last stand? / Hanging on a star: the resurrection of the romance film in the 1990s

Hollywood's West : the American frontier in film, television, and history

The new Western history in 1931 : RKO and the challenge of Cimarron / Tradition, parody, and adaptation : Jed Buell's unconventional West / The Lone Ranger : adult legacies of a juvenile Western / Wee Willie Winkie goes West : the influence of the British Empire genre on Ford's cavalry trilogy / Beyond the river : women and the role of the feminine in Howard Hawks's Red River / The "ache for home" : assimilation and separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's doorway / Giant helps America recognize the cost of discrimination : a lesson of World War II / Rewriting High noon : transformations in American popular political culture during the Cold War, 1952-1968 / Almost angels, almost feminists : women in the professionals / Cowboys and comedy : the simultaneous deconstruction and reinforcement of generic conventions in the Western parody / Historical discourse and American identity in Westerns since the Reagan era / Challenging legends, complicating border lines : the concept of "frontera" in John Sayles's Lone star / Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films : engaging audiences through genre and themes

Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry

African expressive cultures

African expressive cultures.

Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry / Nollywood's transportability: the politics and economics of video films as cultural products / Transnational Nollywood. The Nollywood diaspora: a Nigerian video genre / Nollywood made in Europe / Made in America: urban immigrant spaces in transnational Nollywood films / Reversing the filmic gaze: comedy and the critique of the postcolony in Osuofia in London / Nollywood and postcolonial predicaments: transnationalism, gender, and the commoditization of desire in Glamour girls / Nollywood and its audiences. Nollywood in urban Southern Africa: Nigerian video films and their audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek / Religion, migration, and media aesthetics: notes on the circulation and reception of Nigerian films in Kinshasa / "African movies" in Barbados: proximate experiences of fear and desire / Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy / Nigerian videos and their imagined western audiences: the limits of Nollywood's transnationality / Appropriations of Nollywood. Transgressing boundaries: reinterpretation of Nollywood films in Muslim Northern Nigeria / Karishika with Kiswahili flavor: a Nollywood film retold by a Tanzanian video narrator / Bloody bricolages: traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian video films

East-West montage : reflections on Asian bodies in diaspora

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Establishing Shots -- Intercut on :Asian Anus -- 1 Anal Apocalypse: On the W/Hole of Asia and the Christian West -- 2 Camp Scatology: A Comparative Study of Body (as) Waste in Japanese American Literature -- Intercut on :Asian Penis -- 3 Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures: Global Phallus, Colonial Acephalus -- 4 Kung Fu Films in Diaspora: Death of Bamboo Hero -- Intercut on: Asian Dubbing -- 5 De/Alienation in Diasporic Dubbing/Rubbing of Maoist China -- 6 Anime's Atom Dialectic: From Trauma to Manna -- Intercut on :the Korean Wave -- 7 The O of Han Ju: Those Full, (Over)Painted Lips that Dare to Confess -- 8 Tradition and/of Bastards in the Korean Wave -- Intercut on: Body Oriental -- 9 Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Chopsticks" Musicals -- 10 The Nine Lives of Blackhawk's Oriental: Chop Chop, Wu Cheng, and Weng Chan -- Intercut on Asian Magic -- 11 Asian Immigrants with "Magical" Disabilities: Oriental Tongues and Bound Feet -- 12 Dalai Lama Superstar: Mystery and Politics in Western Films and Narratives on Tibet -- Intercut on Asian Deceased -- 13 Hmong Refugee's Death Fugue -- 14 The Fad(k)ing of the 0.5 Generation: On Taiwanese and Chinese Retirees in the United States -- Finis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The philosophy of the western

The philosophy of popular culture

Philosophy of popular culture.

The cowboy way : the essence of the western hero. "Do not forsake me, oh, my darling" : loneliness and solitude in westerns / Civilization and its discontents : the self-sufficient western hero / Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be pragmatists / Two ways to Yuma : Locke, liberalism, and western masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma / Landscapes of gendered violence : male love and anxiety on the railroad / The code of the West : the cowboy and society. "Order out of the mud" : Deadwood and the state of nature / Order without law : The Magnificent Seven, East and West / From dollars to iron : the currency of Clint Eastwood's westerns / The duty of reason: Kantian ethics in High Noon / Outlaws : challenging conventions of the western. The cost of the code : ethical consequences in High Noon and the Ox-Bow Incident / "Back off to what?" The search for meaning in The Wild Bunch / No Country for Old Men : the decline of ethics and the west(ern) / The northwestern : McCabe and Mrs. Miller / On the fringe : the encounter with the other -- Savage nations : Native Americans and the western / Regeneration through stories and song : the view from the other side of the west in Smoke Signals / Go west, young woman! "Hegel's dialectic and women's identities in western films / Beating a live horse : the elevation and degradation of horses in westerns

New Zealand cinema : intepreting the past

Introduction: the historical film in New Zealand cinema / Rudall Hayward and the cinema of Maoriland: genre-mixing and counter-discourses in rewi's last stand (1925), The te kooti trail (1927) and rewi's last stand/ Rudall Hayward's democratic cinema and the "civilising mission" in the "land of the wrong white crowd" / Western, New Zealand history and commercial exploitation: The te kooti trail, utu and crooked earth / Unsettled historiography: postcolonial anxiety and the burden of the past in pictures / Cross-currents: river queen's national and trans-national heritages / Tracking Titokowaru over text and screen: pakeha narrate the warrior, 1906-2005 / Rites of passage in post-second world war New Zealand cinema: migrating the masculine in journey for three (1950) / Cinema and the interpretation of 1950s New Zealand history: John O'Shea and Roger Mirams, broken barrier (1952) / Re-representing indigeneity: approaches to history in some recent New Zealand and Australian films / "The Donations of history": Mauri and the transfigured "Maori gaze": towards a bi-national cinema in aotearoa / History, hybridity and indeterminate space: the Parker-Hulme murder, heavenly creatures and New Zealand cinema / Screening women's histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand heritage film, from the biopic to the female gothic / Time and the place: music and costume and the "affect" of history in the New Zealand films of Jane Campion / Mining for forgotten gold: Leon Narbey's illustrious energy (1987)

Screening the golden ages of the classical tradition

Screening antiquity

Screening antiquity.

Frontmatter -- Index -- Series Editors' Preface -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron -- PART I The Glory That Was Greece -- 1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996) -- 2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980) -- 3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -- 4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006) -- 5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) -- 6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) -- 7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010-) -- PART II The Grandeur That Was Rome -- 8 "All That Glitters . . .": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid and the Western Film Genre -- 9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005) -- 10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO's Rome (2005-2007) -- 11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros' Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-) -- 12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015 -- 13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film -- 14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Yasujiro Ozu, die japanische Kulturwelt und der westliche Film : Resonanzen, Prämissen, Interdependenzen.

Film

Film (Transcript (Firm))

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorbemerkung -- 1. Vorüberlegungen -- 1.1 Film, kulturelle Globalisierung und komparative Ästhetik -- 1.2 Umwelt, Welt, Kulturwelt, Lebenswelt -- 1.3 Die räumliche Struktur der medialen Welt -- 2. Materialien -- 2.1 Filme und Schriften Ozus -- 2.2 Sekundärliteratur -- 3. Shakkei. Ozu und der geliehene Raum -- 3.1 Ozus sekundäre ästhetische Schicht -- 3.2 Ozus Grab. Das shakkei-Konzept -- 3.3 Besuch des Engakuji. Konkrete Analyse des shakkei -- 3.4 Late Spring (Banshun). Shakkei als Konzept kinematographischer Ästhetik -- 3.5 Drehort Kōtōkuin -- 3.6 Walk Cheerfully (Hogaraka ni ayume, 1930) -- 3.7 There Was a Father (Chichi ariki, 1942) und die Bildlichkeit des shakkei -- 3.8 Early Summer (Bakushū, 1951) und das shakkei-Konzept -- 3.9 Weitere shakkei-Szenen in Ozus Werk -- 4. Semiotische Räume. Ozus Zeichen -- 4.1 Die stille Schrift. Schrift und Zeichen in der japanischen Kultur. Schrift als Voraussetzung filmischen Erzählens -- 4.2 Schilder, Schrift und Schreiben in Yasujirō Ozus An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji, 1962) -- 5. Action-Cut. Drehbuch-Analyse von Equinox Flower (Higanbana) -- 5.1 Kurzbeschreibung des Equinox Flower (Higanbana)-Drehbuchs -- 5.2 Das Notationssystem des Equinox Flower-Drehbuchs -- 5.3 Der Titel Higanbana und der Jahreszeitenbezug -- 5.4 Die ›Grammatik‹ des Films, Ozus Action-Cuts. Siglen und Montagetechnik -- 5.5 Ozus Action-Cuts -- 6. Spiritueller Raum. Gedanken, Erinnerung und Trance -- 6.1 Aberglaube in Late Autumn (Akibiyori) -- 6.2 Synchronizität und Tōkyō Story (Tōkyō monogatari) -- 6.3 Spiritualität bei Ozu und im amerikanischen Western. Fred Zinnemanns High Noon (1952) als Vorbild -- 6.4 Late Autumn und der Umgang mit der Absence des Anderen -- 6.5 Synchronizität, spirituelle Rituale, das Yijing. Zeichen als Omen in der japanischen Kultur -- 7. Ozus Räume -- 7.1 Sinnesfelder -- 7.2 Kulissenräume und Location Scouting -- 7.3 Labyrinthe -- 7.4 Bildräume -- 8. Skizze. Ozu und John Ford -- 9. Blicke. Scham- und Schuldkulturen -- 9.1 Ozus Filme als Blickdramen -- 9.2 Der Blick bei Jean-Paul Sartre und die Authentifizierung der filmischen Welt -- 9.3 Scham und Blick bei Agnes Heller und Sartre -- 9.4 Scham- und Schuldkulturen -- 9.5 Scham und Blick in der japanischen Kultur -- 9.4 Ozus Anti-Dramaturgie und die Darstellung schamkultureller Eigenart durch Blicke -- 10. Ausblick -- Benutzte DVD-Medien -- Benutzte Literatur -- Anhang -- In der Kawakita-Foundation gesichtete Unterlagen Ozus -- Bildtafeln zu Kap. 5. Action-Cut. Drehbuch-Analyse von Equinox Flower (Higanbana) -- Aufbau von Yasujirō Ozu, die japanische Kulturwelt und der westliche Film

European cinema : face to face with Hollywood

Film culture in transition

Film culture in transition.

Introduction -- European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility? [2005] -- National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions -- European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood [1994] -- ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries [2005] -- Film Festival Networks: the New Topographies of Cinema in Europe [2005] -- Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990s [2005] -- Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference -- Ingmar Berman -- Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco [1994] -- Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found [1985] -- Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse [1992] -- Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light [1996] -- The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken [2004] Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel [1992] -- Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980s [1987] -- Europe-Hollywood-Europe -- Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles [1975] -- Raoul Ruiz's Hypothese du Tableau Vole [1984] -- Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema [1984] -- "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man [2003] -- British Television in the 1980s Through The Looking Glass [1990] -- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror [2003] -- Central Europe Looking West -- Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator [1968] -- Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf [2001] -- Under Western Eyes: Who Does Zizek Want? [1995] -- Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory's No Man's Land [2003] -- Europe Haunted by History and Empire -- Is History an Old Movie? [1986] -- Edgar Reitz' Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood [1985] -- Discourse and History: One Man's War -- An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky [1984] -- Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes [1989] -- Joseph Losey's The Go-Between [1972] -- Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen [1988] -- Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport -- Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death [1987] -- Andy Engel's Melancholia [1989] -- On the High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky's Dutch Adventure [1983] -- Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra [1972] -- Ruy Guerra's Erendira [1986] -- Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema Between Hollywood and Art Cinema [1992].

Violence and open spaces : the subversion of boundaries and the transformation of the Western genre

American studies,

American studies (Munich, Germany) ;