Obscure Objects of Desire

Obscure Objects of Desire PDF Author: Johanna Malt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199253425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Obscure Objects of Desire

Obscure Objects of Desire PDF Author: Johanna Malt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199253425
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Figures of Desire

Figures of Desire PDF Author: Linda Williams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078963
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave

Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression

Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression PDF Author: Sandra Bartoli
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN: 9783038600336
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Tiergarten is Berlin's oldest park, with more than five hundred acres of woodland in the heart of the city. Before it was absorbed by the city, the area that became Tiergarten was a naturally occurring forest. Throughout its history, it was used as royal hunting grounds and as a landscaped public park, and--in the years of hardship following World War II-- an area where trees were felled for firewood, before changing social and political circumstances and the growing ecological movement led to measures to restore and replant the vast public space. Thus, Tiergarten has become not only a very popular place of recreation but as well a biotope of extraordinarily high biodiversity. Generously illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs, Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression takes readers through the history of the park, with an eye toward exploring it as a radical spatial expression--a space where humans and other species and conflicting histories coexist in close proximity, and a model for future environments in areas of intense urbanization. Born of a recent symposium staged by the Technische Universit t Berlin, the book brings together twelve essays with a range of archival documents, including newspaper articles, maps, reports, plans, and photographs.

A Companion to Luis Buñuel

A Companion to Luis Buñuel PDF Author: Gwynne Edwards
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the eyeball in Un Chien andalou (1929) one of the most memorable episodes in the history of cinema. The Forgotten Ones (1950) and He (1952), made in Mexico, were followed, from 1960, in Spain and France, by the films for which he is best known: Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), Tristana (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Gwynne Edwards analyses the films in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values, and religion - suggesting that the film-maker experienced a degree of sexual inhibition surprising in a surrealist. GWYNNE EDWARDS is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Hitchcock--the Murderous Gaze

Hitchcock--the Murderous Gaze PDF Author: William Rothman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674404113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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About Alfred Hitchcock's following movies: "The lodger", "Murder!", "The thirty-nine steps", "Shadow of a doubt" and "Psycho".

Woman and Puppet, Etc

Woman and Puppet, Etc PDF Author: Pierre Louÿs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Control (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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The Films of Luis Buñuel

The Films of Luis Buñuel PDF Author: Peter William Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Uniquely, the book offers an extended analysis of Bunuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in film studies, focusing in particular on questions of subjectivity and desire. Throughout, Bunuel's films are viewed as both the brilliant, subversive expressions of the director's fantasies and obsessions and as reflections of wider cultural norms and preoccupations. Making use of psychoanalysis and gender theory, Peter Evans explores Bunuel's characteristic thematics of transgression and his status as exile or outsider.

Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name PDF Author: André Aciman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374707723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time OscarTM Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

The Secret Language of Film

The Secret Language of Film PDF Author: Jean-Claude Carrière
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Carriere, whose screenwriting credits include The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Cyrano de Bergerac, explores the vocabulary of the visual language of film. Filled with anecdote and insight, this book provides readers with an illuminating new way to see and enjoy the movies.

Veiled Desires

Veiled Desires PDF Author: Maureen Sabine
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823251659
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.