This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Theodor W. Adorno's
The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms?the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and t
The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms?the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and t
This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion
Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe’s urban life and cinema, and shows how European films represent the
Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the Americ
This analysis of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years uses Moretti's films as a lens to view and discuss contemporary phenomena such as the crisis of masculinity
This analysis of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years uses Moretti's films as a lens to view and discuss contemporary phenomena such as the crisis of masculinity
The cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) embodies - more than that of any otherdirector - the substance of European art cinema. Antonioni's films are intensely stylized, stylish,demanding, bea
Today, cosmopolitanism can be identified with ideas, practices and representations that are among our most important resources as we grapple with the pressures of a globalized world. The book, in asse
Interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger, due in part to advances in technology, and indeed the area now holds an unprecedented potential appeal not only for film studies but for t
Interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger, due in part to advances in technology, and indeed the area now holds an unprecedented potential appeal not only for film studies but for t
