David E James

Power Misses II

Cinema, Asian and Modern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Libbey & Company
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780861967476
• ISBN-10: 086196747X
• Artikelnr.: 58813545

Autorenporträt

David E. James taught in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California for thirty years, focusing on avant-garde cinema, culture in Los Angeles, East-Asian cinema, film and music, and working-class culture. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles; Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs; and Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music , and his collection of essays (with Adam Hyman) Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Im Kwon-taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism 2. Im Kwon-taek's Use
of Nativist Korean Culture as Allegories of Cinema: Ch'unhyang, Chihwaseon
, and Hanji 3. The Name of a Desire: Recollections of Socialist Realism in
East Asian Art Cinema 4. Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American
Avant-Garde in Los Angeles 5. The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and
Community in Los Angeles 6. Towards a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics:
Representations of Los Angeles in Non-Industrial Cinema - Killer of Sheep
and Water and Power 7. Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing
Turquoise Bird 8. L.A.'s Hipster Cinema 9. The Sky Socialist: Film as an
Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption 10. The Mirror and
the Vamp: Catoptrics of Self in Andy Warhol's Lupe 11. Letter to Paul
Arthur (Letter With Endnotes) 12. Agricultural Revelation: Land, Labor, and
Voice in Three Films About Laxton