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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"world cinema"”.
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Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema
… to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US). These cinemas are bound together through the hyperbolic application of the long take, which promotes a sensory viewing …
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The Emergence and Development of Digital Film-Making in Iran
… emerged and developed since 2000 in the Iranian cinematic context, mainly follows a trend based on the nature of new media. However, this trend is subject to fluctuation because of specific aspects of Iranian cinema. In addition, due to the realistic cinematic culture of Iran and the presence of …
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Negotiating the Politics of Representation in Iranian Women’s Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution
… of representation of Iranian women in the cinema before and after the Islamic revolution, with the aim of deconstructing the readily-available notions of women’s oppression in Iran. It analyzes the works of female Iranian directors Forough Farrokhzad, Samira Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan …
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Cut off by the 'Iron Curtain'
… have an impact on the representation of Polish cinema in English-language film criticism? Judging by the number of books about Polish cinema as a whole or about Polish directors and their films it would seem that the answer must be negative. However, a closer look at other books about world …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… explore the question of becoming at home in the world. It does so in dialogue both with these directors’ oeuvres and with resonant films, as well as with thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Rowan Williams, and Gillian Rose. I begin by introducing the question …
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Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema
… has always been a central narrative theme in cinema. Korean cinema has been no exception, where the family has proved to be a popular subject since its earliest days. Yet Western scholarship on Korean cinema has given little attention to this dominant theme, preferring to concentrate on the …