Raul Ruiz - Poetics of Cinema 2 [Repost]

Raul Ruiz – Poetics of Cinema 2
2007 | ISBN: 2914563256 | English | 111 pages | PDF | 14 MB

“Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about it. What I write today is rather more of a consolatio philosophica. However, let no one be mistaken about this, a healthy pessimism may be better than a suicidal optimism.” Following his research in Poetics of Cinema, 1 on new narrative models as tools for apprehending a fast-shifting world, Ruiz makes an appeal for an entirely new way of filming, writing and conceiving the image. ‘Light, more light,’ were Goethe’s last words as he died. ‘Less light, less light,’ Orson Welles cried repeatedly on a set–the one and only time I saw him. In today’s cinema (and in today’s world) there is too much light. It is time to return to the shadows. So, about turn! And back to the caverns!”

Piero Garofalo, Daniela Selisca, "Ciak… si parla italiano – Cinema for italian conversation"

Piero Garofalo, Daniela Selisca, “Ciak… si parla italiano – Cinema for italian conversation”
Publisher: Focus | 2005 | ISBN: 1585100943 | English/Italian | PDF | 290 pages | 117 Mb

‘Ciak… si parla italiano’ is a text designed specifically for courses in Italian conversation that focus on cinema as the context for discussion. This text covers sixteen films ranging from 1960-2003, and covering a broad range of genres including comedy, drama, science fiction, and historical.

Exercises include vocabulary building, character analysis, narrative comprehension, scene analysis, advanced grammar, imaginary interviews, creative script writing, further research suggestions, and poetry analysis.

Each film chapter includes readings that are varied and augment the film screenings and class discussions. There are five types of readings: background information on the director and film, cultural explications, scene transcriptions, director’s comments, and poetry. While the first two serve to orient and contextualize the films for the students, the transcriptions allows for a more detailed linguistic analysis of a particular scene. The director’s comments provide an insightful interpretation to stimulate discussion. The poetry readings were inspired by filmic references and inspire students to expand their insights beyond the specific film.

Bert Cardullo - In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art

Bert Cardullo – In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art
2004 | ISBN: 0773527060 | English | 416 pages | PDF | 8.4 MB

Italian Political Cinema

Giancarlo Lombardi, “Italian Political Cinema”
English | ISBN: 3034322178 | 2016 | 457 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary, and national identity. This book explores these political dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors currently engaged in this ‘filone’; and case studies of the films that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two Italian film scholars working in radically different academic settings, ‘Italian Political Cinema ‘brings together a wide array of critical positions and research from Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The tripartite structure and international perspective create a volume that is an accessible entry-point into a subject that continues to attract critical and cultural attention, both inside and outside of academia.

Robert Phillip Kolker - The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema

Robert Phillip Kolker – The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema
2009 | ISBN: 1906924031 | English | 348 pages | PDF | 11.3 MB

The Altering Eye covers a “golden age” of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, the author develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker’s book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.

Galatta Cinema - April 2016

Galatta Cinema – April 2016
English | 112 pages | True PDF | 19,5 MB