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"Perché siamo affascinati dalla rappresentazione della morte? Che cosa ci attrae dei contenuti audiovisivi ritenuti inaccettabili e morbosi?Partendo dalle origini del cinematografo, il volume analizza le strategie promozionali e la ricezione critica di film che in passato sono stati censurati e al tempo stesso avidamente collezionati, oggetti proibiti che sono ormai considerati prodotti di culto presso specifiche nicchie di pubblico. Uno studio che si intreccia con l’impatto che la tecnologia ha avuto sulla diffusione delle immagini di morte: dal filmato Zapruder alla nascita degli shock sites, dal fenomeno del War Porn ai killer che utilizzano ingegnosamente i social media.Dai cosiddetti snuff movies e shockumentaries a certe manifestazioni dell’arte contemporanea, dalla “necrocultura” al terrorismo, quello proposto è un percorso all’interno del caos della morte dall’era analogica a quella digitale.Nicolò Gallio è Dottore di ricerca in Studi teatrali e cinematografici e si interessa in particolare della relazione tra prodotti audiovisivi e media digitali. Ha tenuto corsi e seminari presso l’Università di Bologna, University of Brighton, Middlesex University e Birmingham City University. Ha scritto articoli e saggi pubblicati su libri e riviste italiane e internazionali, ed è co-autore de Lo spettacolo del cibo. I cooking show nella televisione italiana. È consulente di marketing e comunicazione per agenzie creative, festival e programmi di sviluppo di film indipendenti."

Film theory & criticism

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Since the first moving pictures, no one genre of film has captured the hearts of Americans as has the Western. In Shooting Stars, Archie McDonald, scholar and self-confessed cowboy hero worshipper, presents a rich, informative array of essays on our favorite Western stars. These twelve contributions by established scholars of Western film review the biographical and cinematic lives of stars from the 1920s to the present; together, they constitute a unique collection and a fitting tribute to the influence of these heroes on our lives.

Film theory & criticism --- Film history, theory & criticism

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What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.

Films, cinema --- Film theory & criticism --- Media studies --- Affectivity --- comedy --- temporality

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New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of social media platforms and their impact on contemporary film and television production, arguing that they have fundamentally shifted the creator dynamics of these industries. Through first-hand research with creators, platform and portal executives, and intermediaries such as talent agents and multi-channel networks, Mehta develops the concept of the 'new screen ecology'. He reveals how the Indian screen industries are affected by the social relations between these agents, and how industrial practices are blurring the amateur-professional divide through creator and content interdependencies. Mehta goes beyond theoretical analysis by interrogating the production practices of 13 different platforms and portals, including Hotstar, Netflix, YouTube, and TVFPlay. He analyses the extent to which they benefit from the lack of censorship and restrictive industrial practices that are characteristic of traditional media structures. By doing so, he provides a unique and insightful examination of the dynamics of digital transformation in the screen industries in a region-specific context. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. This book has been published open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen.

Film theory & criticism --- Television --- Films, cinema --- Digital media --- Technological innovations

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Wenn audiovisuelle Bewegtbilder als Medien historischer, kultureller oder politischer Diskurse analysiert werden - sei es in kulturwissenschaftlichen oder in sozialwissenschaftlichen Studien - stehen zumeist repräsentierte Sachverhalte audiovisueller Bilder zur Diskussion, die sich ohne jede analytische Operation feststellen und benennen lassen. Nimmt man aber den Gedanken ernst, dass unser Sinnesapparat ein Produkt der Geschichte der Medien menschlicher Wahrnehmung ist, dann ist das Sehen, Hören, Fühlen zunächst eine Frage des Mediengebrauchs. Der Diskurs audiovisueller Bewegtbilder ist daher auf Seiten der Medienrezeption zu verorten: Sie entfaltet sich als eine kulturelle Praxis, in der Menschen ihre subjektive Wahrnehmungswirklichkeit als Teil einer gemeinsam geteilten Welt zu fassen suchen. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, anhand einer Theorie der Poetologie filmischen Denkens und insbesondere der "Cinematic Metaphor" darzulegen, wie filmische Bilder ein Verstehen und Denken generieren, das neue Differenzen und Modalitäten in diese geteilte Wirklichkeit einführt.

Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- Film theory, understandings of film. --- conceptual metaphor theory. --- metaphorology.