Sentences with phrase «of cinema studies»

Episode 44: Newcomer Steve Albertson discusses handmade avant - garde film with Greg Zinman, adjunct professor of cinema studies at New York University and curator of the Contraband Cinema: Love / Not Love screening at Beep Beep Gallery this Friday, February 10, 2012, 8 - 11PM.

This free screening will be followed by a discussion with Steve Wurtzler, associate professor of cinema studies, and Diana Tuite, Katz Curator, about the film's representation of landscape and the influence of wide - screen Technicolor cinematography on the early work of artist Alex Katz.

If I had to claim one area of development that signified the importance of cinema studies in the last two decades of the twentieth century, I would...

In the presentation at RU, Wu will share her curatorial research regarding this evolving formation of Asian families followed by a conversation with Zoe Jiang Meng, the Ph.D. candidate of cinema study in NYU, while showing the work by NY based artist Dachal Choi.

Not exact matches

Now in the second year of her PhD in Silvio Parodi's experimental oncology group at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa, Stefania Pasa (see photo) was a studious child who often «preferred to... study rather than go out to the cinema.»

Directed by Anton Corbijn from a book by Martin Booth, «The American» is an action thriller that refuses to deliver action or thrills, instead engaging in a brand of arty formalism rarely seen outside cinema studies classrooms.

A first - rate cinema intellectual — as a 24 - year - old graduate student he wrote «Transcendental Style in Film,» a study of Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer that is still worth reading (and has just been reissued)-- Mr. Schrader has been, to put it mildly, an uneven filmmaker.

He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made - for - television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast).

A spectacular piece of virtuoso cinema that impresses not only for its remarkable technical achievement (Lubezki reached heavens with that jaw - dropping «forged» long - take), but also for being an incredibly well - constructed (and hilarious) character study with Michael Keaton in a magnificent career - defining performance.

She received a PhD in cinema studies from LaTrobe University, and has contributed to Senses of Cinema, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian, and many others.

All Is Lost is not to be mistaken for a Hollywood star vehicle; on paper, it's Robert Redford versus the raging sea, but this near - wordless study of perseverance is, in Chandor's hands, able to take you someplace beyond the cinema entirely.

After developing a love of cinema at 8 years old, Cline studied at the University of Southern California, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism / Communication Arts.

Already widely cited and used in courses in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement in post-war cinema, the Slow Cinema movement.

«And I think a true, true devotion to cinema from the least - known B - pictures and C - pictures to the most well - known films, that sort of dedication to studying and understanding it all is really, really rare and it's really a privilege to be around.»

Daniela Espejo, 22, studies cinema criticism and aesthetics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It's no coincidence that a book - length study of its stylistic wonders of was later written by another believer in cinema's theatricalization of reality, Eric Rohmer.

Thus, together the essays form a discourse based on a specific mode of spectatorship within the study of Japanese cinema, while the section as a whole marginalises popular reception of films by ordinary filmgoers.

The volume's twenty essays present different perspectives on Japanese cinema, the field of Japanese film studies, as well as concepts of national cinema and world cinema.

The representation of rape is a fascinating site for exploring a range of ethical and political issues in cinema studies.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

It's easy to see how such a cinema might seem alien to fans of contemporary Hollywood, which seems to have forsaken the notion of consequences or responsibility (the lack of reaction shots in recent movies is a phenomenon worthy of study) in favor of pyrotechnics and virtual games in which digital effects, unlike the tracking shots of yore, are divorced from ethics.

Lastly, Nornes is the only contributor who mentions Dudley Andrew, who has been one of the dominant figures in the study of world cinema for many decades, including Japanese cinema.

«When I was studying at NYU, I took classes in critical studies, and one of my favorites was on queer cinema,» Franco says, explaining his fascination with queer art.

any consider this low - budget study of loneliness and personal isolation one of the finest works of independent cinema during the 1970s,» according to Variety.

Oana Chivoiu is finishing her dissertation in Theory and Cultural Studies at Purdue University and has special interests in issues of migration, post-communism, and realism in European cinema.

Alongside its more disposable virtues, «Unsane» serves as an interesting case study for the ever - expanding possibilities of smartphones in cinema, not least because its grimy aesthetic and breath - on - your - face atmosphere couldn't be further removed from the iridescent visual poetry of Sean Baker's «Tangerine» — the first major title handed the «iPhone movie» label.

Moreover a very important study by Andrew Horton (4) as well as significant interpretive essays by David Bordwell, Frederic Jameson, and Dan Georgakas (5) have elevated Angelopoulos to the status of a cinema master, next only to Antonioni, Bergman, Godard and Jansco, one of the truly «greats» (6) of European cinema.

A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet (Un coeur en hiver) is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema.

We don't watch horror or experimental films for finely drawn character studies but for their particular attention to what film theorists call «excess,» the stuff (color, music) that goes beyond the imperatives of most cinema, whether it's the excess that takes monstrous or supernatural shape in horror, or the material, structural, and textural excess of experimental films.

Well, it's because he actually has a Masters in Film Studies, and one heck of a thesis on cult cinema.

Unsane, says Guy Lodge, «serves as an interesting case study for the ever - expanding possibilities of smartphones in cinema, not least because its grimy aesthetic and breath - on - your - face atmosphere couldn't be further removed from the iridescent visual poetry of Sean Baker's Tangerine — the first major title handed the «iPhone movie» label.

Greg toiled for years in the hallowed bowels of the legendary Thomas Video and has studied cinema as part of the Concentration for Film Studies and Aesthetics at Oakland University.

These prior studies tend to look at the dangerous female figure as a cultural symptom, or as discrete manifestations of popular and genre cinema.

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

Even (or especially) when the film passes through its lowest depths, I try to apply the idea that a movie like Jack and Jill is some kind of meta - textual commentary, something cinema studies majors can write papers on.

The principle aspects of the stylistic system of film, cinematography, editing, mise en scène and sound are well - established in cinema studies and a primary tool for film analysis.

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) Three loosely related vignettes prove, once again, that Reichardt is American cinema's leading author of slow - cooked, subtle character studies.

Ryan Swen is a freelance film critic and a cinema and media studies MA candidate at the University of Southern California.

Nor can you mistake this study of choppy romance for anything but the work of one of modern cinema's great risk - takers.

Ryan Swen lives in Seattle and is pursuing an undergraduate degree in cinema and media studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Yorgos Lanthimos» scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is both daring and brilliant — and, while its study of parent - child relationships is still relevant today, plays a keep part in Greece's «weird wave» of cinema.

She is an appealing and active heroine, an effortlessly strong female character who isn't transparently designed to invite gender studies attention or respond to the generally male - driven worlds of adolescent - oriented superhero cinema.

Saintliness and cinema are an odd couple, enough so that auds will be caught off - guard by «This Is Martin Bonner,» a mood piece, a character study and an exercise in poetic gesture possessed of a sort of evanescent, secular spirituality.

A detailed study of 19th - century painter Joseph Mallord William Turner in his final years, Mike Leigh's latest slice of art - house cinema works in much the same way as a Turner landscape: You have to be with the piece in person, then let it wash over you, one muted colour at a time.

FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982): Ingmar Bergman's return to childhood and farewell to cinema masterfully balances lightness and dark amid a poignant tapestry of character studies that highlight the transformative power of art and the realization that to live life fully one also must accept death.

This could be a case study for when we talk about how there's nothing on at the cinema, it's all the same kind of middle - brow costume drama or whatever.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

He received his M.A. in Native American Studies, focusing on Native American exploitation in early cinema and his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma.

She is a member of FIPRESCI (Federation of International Film Critics) and has a PhD in cinema studies.

Jones begins by providing a history of the book itself, its importance to cinema studies, and why it was an important project for both Hitchcock and Truffaut.