This volume is based on the results of a survey about film spectatorship and the uses of films today that was carried out in two North African (Morocco and Tunisia), and two Sub-Saharan (Tchad and Togo) countries. The survey with 3000 respondents used a similar questionnaire adapted to local specificities in the different countries. The analysis of
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Maroc, Tchad, Togo, Tunisie
Claude Forest, Patricia Caillé
Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) is one of the undisputed masters in first cinematographic tricks and early coloring of moving images / early moving images coloring.
Truqueur, coloriste, cinématographiste… et pionnier du cinématographe
Réjane Hamus-Vallée, Jacques Malthête
Jean Grémillon and the four Elements intend, if not rehabilitate, at least to pay a renewed tribute to one of the major filmmakers of the twentieth century French school, a creator who occupies a special place, paradoxical: even if it is not quite forgotten, the work of this man nourished by musical art remains today strangely back, probably ...
Yann Calvet, Phlippe Roger
Circus and cinema have often been thought together for a long time, but in terms of themes and incorporation: it is the cinema which seizes the circus to appropriate its universe, its characters, its stories, and vice versa. But the fruitfulness of the links that unite the two practices can not be limited to a one way ticket. Circus and cinema...
Intermédialité et circulation des formes circassiennes
Sébastien Denis, Jérémy Houillère
The works of directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang, Ang Lee, Edward Yang have already secured their place in the history of film. But beyond them, what do we know about Taiwan cinema?
Son histoire, ses réalisateurs et leurs films
Matthieu Kolatte
Anthony Mann. Arpenter l'image " is the first book in French which offers an analysis of the major films of one of the most important classic Hollywood directors, Anthony Mann (1906-1967).
Natacha Pfeiffer, Laurent Van Eynde
From the cinematographic work of Spanish film Carlos Saura, this book focuses on the multiple narrative and aesthetic functions of vocal music in fictional films.
Paroles et musique au cinéma
Marianne Bloch-Robin
In countries with an enormous film supply coming essentially from other continents, but with its own (albeit irregular and sometimes non-existent) film production, what have been the dominant modes of production? What has been the impact of the digital revolution on the modes of production? What are the economic, industrial and social issues raised
Afriques et Moyen Orient
Claude Forest
From the stage to the cinema, from television to augmented and virtual realities, from circus performances to aquatic shows, the magician's practice has not ceased to be renewed and metamorphosed.
Frank Kessler, Jean-Marc Larrue
Can film renew our relation to the visual arts? Does film offer a specific type of critical discourse on works of art, art history or esthetics ? Within the domain of « films on art » which have recently gained in visibility, the goal of this volume is to delimit the zone of exchanges between the cinema and the study of the visual arts.
Les arts plastiques
Sylvain Dreyer, Dominique Vaugeois
After almost three decades since the collapse of the GDR, the image of East Germany is still present in television and film, mainly thanks to productions such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others that have deeply influenced our perception of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of life under communism. The primary scope of this book is to not...
Hélène Camarade, Elizabeth Guilhamon
The stereoscopic illusion is, most of the time, associated with digital images. Such approach occludes its history: indeed, the stereoscopic illusion is the result of a century of research, that aim at wondering people by manipulating their senses thanks to the impression of « relief » stereoscopic images give them.
Archéologie et pratiques contemporaines : photographie, cinéma, arts numériques
Miguel Almiron, Esther Jacopin, Giusy Pisano
Russian, European and American specialists contributed to this volume on contemporary Russian cinema of the 1990's and the 21st century. It explores the favourite themes, the aesthetic innovations of this cinematography, as well as it's relationship with it’s audiences and the State.
Eugénie Zvonkine
While cinemas have been closing across the African continent, film production has boomed and access to film has considerably increased for urban dwellers. How do people watch films today? Which films do they watch? Does this still count as cinema? The essays in this volume explore spectatorship in Africa.
A major fact since the end of the 20th century has been the increasing participation of internationalisation in the financing of film and audiovisual productions. Certain States strongly encourage their production, particularly tax wise, thus modifying the scope of international alliances and both quantitative and qualitative levels of films and...
A Broad narrative of Polish cinema from its origins to the present day, "Histoire du cinéma polonais" follows a traditional chronological pattern in its account of Polish historico-cinematography, from the first screenings put together in theatres on the Polish territory in 1896 up till the movies realized in 2013...
Tadeusz Lubelski
Isabelle Jannès-Kalinowski
Travels and exiles in the movies, meeting alterity concerns cultural hybridization, as translated through the screen, with no geographical restriction (American, Italian, African, Lebanese, Taiwanese, Japanese movies and so on). Beyond directors' travels and exiles, as sources of cultural and esthetical transfers, travel and exile as a movies'...
Rencontres de l'altérité
Patricia-Laure Thivat
Present since the beginnings of the cinema, Matte Painting is a special effect which can be found in thousands of fake shots with an illusion so perfect that viewers are largely unaware of it. Consisting in combining in the same wide shot a real set and its continuation in the form of a painting, whether realized with brushes on glass or ...
Une histoire du Matte Painting
Réjane Hamus-Vallée
