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Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet by Peter Decherney
Category: History | Series: Film and Culture Series
Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the vatieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers ...Show more
It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age by Anthony Slide (ed.)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Film and Culture Series
Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood, ...Show more
Maya Deren: Incomplete Control by Sarah Keller
Category: Film | Series: Film and Culture Series
Maya Deren (1917--1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like ...Show more
The Lumiere Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come by Francesco Casetti
Category: Film | Series: Film and Culture Series
Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our habit ...Show more
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik by Christopher Pavsek
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Film and Culture Series
The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a "redeemed world," even in the face of new cultural ...Show more
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking by Hunter Vaughan
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Film and Culture Series
Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between phenomenology and image-philosophy to analyze the moving image and its challenge to conventional modes of thought. Striving to establish a clear foundation for the recent field of inquiry call ...Show more
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