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The avant-garde
in Film Theory an Introduction
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526185853.00013
Online Publication Date:
30 Jul 2024
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By the time of film theory's politicisation a number of studies of narrative had accumulated, mostly within literature and to a lesser extent within film. At the micro level the most persuasive analyses of narrative have been those offered by Raymond Bellour. His global concept is that narrative consists of a play of sameness and difference. Indeed the success of any narrative depends on the achievement of a balance between the two tendencies, which is what gives rise to the impression of unity. Heath's thinking on narrative has been far-reaching, particularly as his central thesis that space is organised by the logic of the narrative has received authoritative support from the work of Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson. Narrative is 'the discovery [of lack] perpetually remade with safe fictions'.
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Cover Film Theory an Introduction
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Film, Media and Music
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film theory; narrative; safe fictions; unity
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Dance and politics

Moving beyond boundaries

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Dana Mills

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21 Nov 2016
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Dance has always been a method of self- expression for human beings. This book examines the political power of dance and especially its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement using dance to protest against gendered violence, dabkeh in Palestine and dance as protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the Sun Dance within the Native American Crow tribe, the book focuses on the political power of dance and moments in which dance transgresses politics articulated in words. Thus the book seeks ways in which reading political dance as interruption unsettles conceptions of politics and dance.

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Tony Garnett

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Stephen Lacey

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19 Jul 2013
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This is a book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the ‘must-see’ series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Tony Garnett has produced some of the most important and influential British television drama. This book charts his career from his early days as an actor to his position as executive producer and head of World Productions, focusing on the ways in which he has helped to define the role of the creative producer, shaping the distinctive politics and aesthetics of the drama he has produced, and enabling and facilitating the contributions of others. Garnett's distinctive contribution to the development of a social realist aesthetic is also examined, through the documentary-inspired early single plays to the subversion of genre within popular drama series.
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Theorising Media

Power, form and subjectivity

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John Corner

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This book explores how issues of power, form and subjectivity feature at the core of all serious thinking about the media, including appreciations of their creativity as well as anxiety about the risks they pose. Drawing widely on an interdisciplinary literature, the author connects his exposition to examples from film, television, radio, photography, painting, web practice, music and writing in order to bring in topics as diverse as reporting the war in Afghanistan, the televising of football, documentary portrayals of 9/11, reality television, the diversity of taste in the arts and the construction of civic identity. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, three big chapters on each of the key notions provide an interconnected discussion of the media activities opened up for exploration and the debates they have provoked. The second part presents examples, arguments and analysis drawing on the author's previous work around the core themes, with notes placing them in the context of the whole book. The book brings together concepts both from Social Studies and the Arts and Humanities, addressing a readership wider than the sub-specialisms of media research. It refreshes ideas about why the media matter, and how understanding them better remains a key aim of cultural inquiry and a continuing requirement for public policy.