The Cinema of the Swimming Pool (New Studies in European Cinema, Band 17) - Softcover

 
9783034317832: The Cinema of the Swimming Pool (New Studies in European Cinema, Band 17)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3034317832 ISBN 13: 9783034317832
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features essays by an eclectic, international range of film researchers. Amongst the works analysed are classics such as The Cameraman (1928), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and La Piscine (1969); cult hits such as The Swimmer (1968) and Deep End (1970); and more recent representations of the pool in Water Lilies (2007), Sea Point Days (2009) and Ausente (2011). The pool is considered as a realm where artifice meets nature, where public meets private, where sexualities morph and blend; and as a space that reconfigures the relationship between architecture and narrative, in which themes of pollution, spectacle and reflexivity find unique expression. Approaching the swimming pool from a wide range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this collection stake a claim for the enduring significance of this exciting cinematic space.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Brown is Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches film and screenwriting. His articles have appeared in publications including Film Criticism and the Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and he has won several awards as a screenwriter. Pam Hirsch is Lecturer in English Literature and Film History and Theory at the University of Cambridge. She is the convenor of the undergraduate course Film, Culture and Identity and teaches on the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Her most recent articles have appeared in publications including Feminist Media Studies and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3034317832
ISBN 13 
9783034317832
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
254
Herausgeber
Brown Christopher, Hirsch Pam
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