“…Kinematic Rhetoric…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility? -- National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions -- European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood -- ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries -- Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe -- Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990's -- Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography -- Ingmar Bergman - Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco -- Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found -- Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse -- Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light -- The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken -- Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel -- Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980's -- Europe-Hollywood-Europe -- Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles -- Raoul Ruiz's L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé -- Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema -- "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man -- British Television in the 1980's Through The Looking Glass -- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror -- Central Europe Looking West -- Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator -- Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf / Under Western Eyes: What Does Žižek Want? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Distorting and perverting --Head cinema as body without organs: on Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill films and their Spinozian parallels --That's 'really' sick: pervert horror, torture porn(ology), bad-taste and emetic affect in Lucifer Valentine's Unbecoming 'Cinema of repulsions.'…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cinema Hangs Tough -- 5. Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma or Cinema Surpasses Itself -- PART III Technological Transformations -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The influence of Jean Rouch -- 4. Acting cinema -- 5. The temptation of theatre -- 6. The rules of the game -- 7. …”

Materias:

“…More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. …”

“…The contributors to this book look at film and folklore convergences, showing how cinema conveys vernacular culture in traditional and popular venues. …”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Problems of Digital Cinema -- 1. The Why and How of Machines -- 2. Invention, Innovation, History -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Middlebrow Cinema; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Textual Note; List of Contributors; Introduction. …”

Materias: “…Earth, World, Global consciousness, Cinema, Media archaeology.…”