World Cinema and the Visual Arts
Published on 15. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-1-78308-054-0 (ISBN)
Description
'World Cinema and the Visual Arts' combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. Originally presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2010 in New Orleans, the papers of this volume have been expanded and extended from their original points of enquiry, and analyse films from the diverse cultural traditions of China, Germany, the United Kingdom, America, Northern Ireland and India.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21+ bw illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78308-054-0 (9781783080540)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
David Gallagher
World Cinema and the Visual Arts
E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
Anthem Press
€96.99
Available for download
Person
David Gallagher is the German subfield editor for the 'Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography'.
Content
Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1. Projecting a More Habitable Globe: Hollywood's Yellow Peril and Its Refraction onto 1930s Shanghai National Cinema - Lily Wong; Chapter 2. Berlin - The City of Sound and Sensation in Fritz Lang's 'M' and E. A. Dupont's 'Variete' - Isa Murdock-Hinrichs; Chapter 3. Bond's Body: 'Diamonds Are Forever', 'Casino Royale' and the Future Anterior - Shelton Waldrep; Chapter 4. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Anna Zaluczkowska; Chapter 5. Imperial Gazes, Hollywood Predators: A Cinema of Molestation in Postcolonial Indian Literature - Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield; Chapter 6. Linguistic Identity in Fruit Chan's 1997 Trilogy - Howard Y. F. Choy; Chapter 7. The Postnational and the Aesthetics of the Spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 'Flight of the Red Balloon' - Je Cheol Park; Chapter 8. The Art Object as Text in the Practice of Comparative Visuality - Jane Chin Davidson; Chapter 9. Exploring In-humanity: Gertrude Stein's 'Tender Buttons' and Still-Life Painting - Nandini Ramesh Sankar; Chapter 10. Re-defining Art: Manuel Rivas' 'Mujer en el bano' - Ana-Maria Medina; Chapter 11. Re-envisioning the Haunting Past: Kara Walker's Art and the Re-appropriation of the Visual Codes of the Antebellum South - Minna Niemi; Bibliography; Index