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Animation Cinema Workshop

From Motion to Emotion
Robi Engler
   Animation is at the crossroads of the visual arts, music, dance and literature. It is an artistic, creative activity in the first place, but it is also a pedagogical tool for teaching and learning. This book guides you through the different production steps of animated film making, from the creative impulse to the final editing of picture and sound. Learn the specific language of animation—its grammar and vocabulary; create your own characters—make them act to express a range of feelings. Over 20 different animation techniques are proposed. For each technique you will find the list of the necessary material, practical hints, and the tricks-of-the-trade. Whether you work with traditional film cameras or with computer software, this book is a practical guide for students and teachers.

Indiana University Press
August 2015 300pp 200 b&w illus. 9780861967209 Paperback £25.99 now only £20.79* when you quote CSL1115CIN when you order
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/53710/Animation-Cinema-Workshop


Realizing the Witch

Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Richard Baxstrom & Todd Meyers
   "Realizing the Witch is a highly original, exciting, and important book. With this work, Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers establish themselves as pioneering scholars in the emerging field between media studies and the history of science."-Henning Schmidgen, Professor of Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
   "This is a significant and groundbreaking work that is likely to make important and lasting contributions to the various fields of scholarship that it engages and to stimulate debate about the past, present and future of anthropology."-Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota
   Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Haxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history as well as the contemporary treatment of female "hysterics" and the mentally ill.
   In Realizing the Witch, Baxstrom and Meyers show how Haxan opens a window onto wider debates in the 1920s regarding the relationship of film to scientific evidence, the evolving study of religion from historical and anthropological perspectives, and the complex relations between popular culture, artistic expression, and concepts in medicine and psychology. Haxan is a film that travels along the winding path of art and science rather than between the narrow division of "documentary" and "fiction." Baxstrom and Meyers reveal how Christensen's attempt to tame the irrationality of "the witch" risked validating the very "nonsense" that such an effort sought to master and dispel. Haxan is a notorious, genre-bending, excessive cinematic account of the witch in early modern Europe. Realizing the Witch not only illustrates the underrated importance of the film within the canons of classic cinema, it lays bare the relation of the invisible to that which we cannot prove but nevertheless "know" to be there.

Fordham University Press

Forms of Living (FUP)
November 2015 296pp  9780823268252 Paperback £20.99 now only £16.79* when you quote CSL1115CIN when you order.
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/52802/Realizing-the-Witch


Rewind Italia

Early Video Art in Italy
Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge
   Italy was a vibrant center of video art production and experimentation throughout the 1970s and 1980s, attracting artists from all over the world and laying the foundation for video art as a concept in the global art and film communities. With vibrant illustrations, compelling interviews, and essays by leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights Italy’s key place in the history of video as an art form.

Indiana University Press
August 2015 352pp 50 color illus., 87 b&w illus. 9780861967216 Hardback £31.00 now only £24.80* when you quote CSL1115CIN when you order
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/53708/Rewind-Italia



The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

Nothing But a Man
Edited by David C. Wall & Michael T. Martin
   "We thought that the most powerful, useful political statement [in the struggle for civil rights] would be a human one." —Michael Roemer, filmmaker, Nothing But a Man
   "The finest comment to date on the Negro revolution in the South, but its primary distinction is that the comment is made through a universal theme, that of a young man's coming to terms with himself and with society." —Judith Crist, on the film Nothing But a Man
   "One of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country." —on the film Nothing But a Man, Washington Post
   Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional absence, contemporary audiences were acutely aware of the social context for the film's indictment of white prejudice in America. To help frame and situate the film in the context of black film studies, the book gathers primary and secondary resources, including the original screenplay, essays on the film, statements by the filmmakers, and interviews with Robert M. Young, the film’s producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Indiana University Press

Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
October 2015 306pp 32 b&w illus. 9780253018441 Paperback £20.99 now only £16.79* when you quote CSL1115CIN when you order
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/53472/The-Politics-and-Poetics-of-Black-Film

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