In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces a long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close re...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂安·麦茨，1931年生于法国，1953年获德国文学文学士，从1966年开始在法国高等社会科学院任教，1971年获语言学博士学位。罗兰·巴特的学生。在巴黎大学讲授过克拉考尔的电影理论。后来为巴黎三大影视研究所教授。麦茨是充满理想主义和理性主义的迄今为止最深刻的电影理论家。

克里斯蒂安·麦茨，1931年生于法国，1953年获德国文学文学士，从1966年开始在法国高等社会科学院任教，1971年获语言学博士学位。罗兰·巴特的学生。在巴黎大学讲授过克拉考尔的电影理论。后来为巴黎三大影视研究所教授。麦茨是充满理想主义和理性主义的迄今为止最深刻的电影理论家。

..". less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." -- American FilmEmploying Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

..". less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." -- American FilmEmploying Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.

How can a voice whose source is never seen--such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho--have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brillia...(展开全部)

In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications...(展开全部)