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By Neil Christian Pages, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, Mary Rhiel

Leni Riefenstahl is bigger than lifestyles. From the entice of her character because it enters our houses through tv to our excitement within the attractiveness of movie pictures at rock live shows, to her position as a part of the heritage of the Nazi interval, Riefenstahl lives on in our mind's eye and in our cultural productions. therefore, the editors' advent to this quantity examines the way within which Riefenstahl 'haunts' debates on aesthetics and politics, and the way her legacy reverberates within the modern cultural scene. € The essays that stick with discover our hugely invested discursive struggles over the that means o. learn more... content material: advent: Screening Riefenstahl -- Riefenstahl screened -- pt. 1: Aesthetics. Blood and glamour / Georg Seesslen ; Riefenstahl and the face of fascism / Carsten Strathausen ; 0-1 : Riefenstahl and the great thing about football / Lutz Koepnick -- pt. 2: Afterlife. The afterlife of Triumph of the need : the 1st twenty-five years / David Bathrick ; remarkable, terrible lies : Riefenstahl reminiscence and Riefenstahl background in Germany / Wulf Kansteiner ; studying Rammstein, remembering Riefenstahl : "fascist aesthetics" and German pop culture / Valerie Weinstein -- pt. three: Continuities. A founding fantasy and a grasp textual content : The blue gentle (1932) / Eric Rentschler ; To be or to not be Wagnerian : track in Riefenstahl's Nazi-era motion pictures / Celia Applegate ; The ups and downs of Leni Riefenstahl : rereading the rhythms of the memoirs / Mary Rhiel -- pt. four: "Riefen-Star". keep watch over and intake : the pictures of Leni Riefenstahl / Guinevere Narraway ; Representing the physique in our on-line world : Riefenstahl's self-staging (notes on Leni Riefenstahl's online page / Martina Thiele ; within the rearview replicate : curating Riefenstahl, Filmmuseum Potsdam, 1999 / Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey. summary: bargains a chance to reconsider where of Leni Riefenstahl and her paintings in modern tradition and in educational discourse. This quantity explores our hugely invested discursive struggles over the that means of her character and flicks in a specific ancient second: post-unification, post-twentieth century, post-Riefenstahl. learn more...

By L. Robinson

The increase of self sufficient documentary movie creation is the main radical improvement within the modern chinese language mediascape. This ebook is a sustained exam of chinese language autonomous documentary in terms of one in all its vital ideas: xianchang, or being 'on the scene'.

By L. Anderst

Eric Rohmer used to be a key determine in French New Wave cinema. participants to this quantity revisit, complicate, and upend authorized readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian themes together with the $64000 function of language in his movies, the impact of the humanities, depictions of gender and sophistication, and the jobs performed through area and position in his movies.

By Jayne Pilling

Cartoons―both from the vintage Hollywood period and from extra modern characteristic movies and tv series―offer a wealthy box for precise research and research. individuals draw on theories and technique from movie, tv, and media reports, paintings background and feedback, and feminism and gender studies.

By Robert Rodriguez

In insurgent and not using a workforce, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all of the distinctive recommendations and unique ideas he used to make his amazing debut movie, El Mariachi, on a shoestring finances. this can be either one man's amazing tale and a necessary consultant for someone who has a celluloid tale to inform and the desires and backbone to determine it via.

By S. Broadhurst

This identify deals perception right into a diversity of artwork and function practices that experience emerged accordingly a extra technological international. those practices are imperative to replacement and mainstream functionality tradition and the writer explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses different methods, together with these provided via examine into neuroesthetics.

By J. P. Telotte

This 12 months marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's community tv sequence Disneyland/The brilliant global of colour. The sequence, a part of Walt Disney's quest to re-create American leisure, premiered October 27, 1954 on ABC and was once the longest-lived software in tv heritage. through the years, Walt Disney's visions have developed into family-oriented cinema, tv, topic parks. From the cute Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to magical areas like Frontierland, Disneyland/The tremendous international of colour generated essentially the most well known fads of the period.

In Disney television, J. P. Telotte examines the historical past of the Disney tv sequence whereas putting it in context-the movie industry's response to tv within the post-World battle II period, the Disney Studios' position within the American leisure undefined, and Walt Disney's dream to create the fashionable subject matter park. Telotte's guideline during this exam is to demonstrate how Disney replaced the connection among cinema and tv and, might be extra importantly, the way it affected American culture.

The conciseness of Telotte's publication is an immense virtue over different top Disney scholarship. precise, with no together with minutia, Telotte presents the reader with the most important matters that surrounded the improvement of the Disney phenomenon. This e-book will allure a wide range of readers--scholars of tv, media, and movie experiences, pop culture scholars, and all these touched through the magic of Disney.

By David Cregan

This publication comprises an exhilarating number of essays concentrating on a number of substitute performances occurring in modern eire. range has regularly been part of Irish tradition and is, in truth, shaping what it ability to be Irish this present day. within there are provocative chapters from students, theatre manufacturers, and theatre artists from world wide examining every thing from the drag scene in Dublin to the homosexual satisfaction Parades in Belfast.

By David James

Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a set of essays, pictures, own statements, and recollections concerning the celebrated avant-garde filmmaker who died in 2003. The director of approximately 400 brief motion pictures, together with puppy celebrity guy, components I-IV, and the Roman Numeral sequence, Brakhage is widely known as one of many nice artists of the medium. His shorts eschewed conventional narrative constitution, and his options in quickly slicing, hand held camerawork, and a number of superimpositions created an unprecedentedly wealthy texture of pictures that supplied the vocabulary for the explosion of self reliant filmmaking within the Sixties. Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker chronicles either the director's own and formal improvement. The essays during this book—by historians, filmmakers, and different artists—assess Brakhage's contributions to the classy and political heritage of filmmaking, from his emergence at the movie scene and the institution of his recognition, to the early-1980s. the result's a amazing tribute to this lyrical, visionary artist.

By James Kendrick

While there was an important outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the last decade, his motion pictures are nonetheless usually mentioned as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on easy feelings and intricate lighting tricks. Even those that view his paintings favorably frequently see it as basically positive, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes another view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films--even the preferred ones that appear to alternate in effortless solutions and comforting, reassuring notions of unity and narrative resolution--are considerably darker and extra emotionally and ideologically complicated than they're typically given credits for.

Darkness within the Bliss-Out demonstrates, via shut research of a variety of Spielberg's movies, that they're merely reassuring at the floor, and that their depths include a fancy and occasionally contradictory view of the human condition.