Performing Arts : Film

There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image… The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged, computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the endless 'talking heads' of television and the ever-changing array of film stars' faces have reduced the face to a banal image, while the dream of early film theorists that the 'giant severed heads' of the screen could reveal 'the soul of man' to the masses is long since dead. And yet the end of this dream opens up the possibility for a different view of the face on the screen. The aim of the book is to seize this opportunity to rethink the facial close-up in terms other than subjectivity and identity by shifting the focus to questions of death and recognition. In doing so, the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face. It suggests that we focus our attention on the places in contemporary media where the face becomes unrecognisable, for it is here that the facial close-up expresses the powers of death. Using Walter Benjamin's theory of the dialectical image as a critical tool, the book provides detailed studies of a wide range of media spectacles of faces becoming unrecognisable. It shows how the mode of recognition enabled by these faces is a shock experience that can open our eyes to the underside of the mask of self - the unrecognisable mortal face of self we spend our lives trying not to see. Turning on itself, so to speak, the face exposes the fragile relationship between social recognition and facial recognizability in the images-cultures of contemporary media. more...

Price: $39.95

Television sports coverage is examined in the first study of its kind. This book considers the historical development of sport on television and the way that sponsorship and television have re-shaped sport. more...

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Providing a key resource to new students, Film: The Essential Study Guide  introduces students to all the skills they will need to learn to succeed on a film studies course. This succinct, accessible guide covers key topics such as:.:.; Using the library.; Online research and resources.; Viewing skills.; How to watch and study foreign language films.; Essay writing .; Presentation skills.; Referencing and plagiarism.; Practical Filmmaking. Including exercises and examples, Film: The Essential Study Guide  helps film students understand how study skills are applicable to their learning and gives them the tools to flourish in their degree. more...

Price: $23.95

Examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of the communist regime on public consciousness. more...

Price: $125.00

Film and Television after DVDs  argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critically examining the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and new media studies. more...

Price: $95.00