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D. W. Griffith
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ISBN: 2864250357 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris : L'Equerre,

The man who invented Hollywood : the autobiography of D.W. Griffith.
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ISBN: 0879630019 9780879630010 Year: 1972 Publisher: Louisville, Ky. Touchstone Pub. Co.


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D.W. Griffith
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ISBN: 2858024194 Year: 1984 Publisher: Paris Publications de la Sorbonne / L'Harmattan

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Griffith, first artist of the movies
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ISBN: 0195026853 9780195026856 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

The Griffith actresses.
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ISBN: 049801018X 9780498010187 0900730714 9780900730719 Year: 1973 Publisher: South Brunswick A.S. Barnes

"Image" on the Art and Evolution of the Film : Photographs and Articles from the Magazine of the International Museum of Photography
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ISBN: 048623777X Year: 1979 Publisher: New York, NY : Dover,

Incorporating Images
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ISBN: 140086402X 0691600678 0691002819 9781400864027 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body takes center stage in Peucker's innovative study, for it is through this figure that the conjunction of literary and painterly discourses persistently articulates itself. It is through the human body, too, that film's consciousness of itself as a hybrid text and as a "machine for simulation" makes itself deeply felt.In films ranging from Weimar cinema through Griffith, Hitchcock, and Greenaway, Peucker probes issues in aesthetics problematized by Diderot and Kleist, among others. She argues that the introduction of movement into visual representation occasioned by film brings with it an underlying tension suggestive of castration and death. Peucker goes on to demonstrate how the encounter between narrative and image is both gendered and sexualized, rendering film a "monstrous" hybrid. In a final section, she explores in specific cinematic texts the permeable boundary between the real and representation, suggesting how effects such as tableau vivant and trompe l'oeil figure sexuality and death.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology
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ISBN: 0521774756 0521773105 0511049838 0511817673 0511153406 9780521774758 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. In the first part of the book she examines contrasting visions at work in the so-called classical British school, reassessing the legacy of Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown through the lens of early modern art and cinema. In the second part of the book, the changing relationship between vision and knowledge is explored through the anthropology of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall, and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. Vision is foregrounded in the work of these contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology whether image-based media are used or not in ethnographic enquiry.

The memory of Tiresias : intertextuality and film
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ISBN: 0520085299 0520085302 0520914724 0585228442 9780520914728 9780585228440 9780520085299 9780520085305 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality.Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with "ations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed.Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.

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