The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid with a Bike (2011), an oeuvre that includes two Golden Palms at the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.

The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism (Directors' Cuts)

Arts & Photography

Mosley, Philip

Photography & Video

Wallflower Press

The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends acute observation of life on the social margins with moral fables for the postmodern age. This volume analyses the brothers' career from their leftist video documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s through their debut as directors of fiction films in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their six major achievements from The Promise (1996) to The Kid with a Bike (2011), an oeuvre that includes two Golden Palms at the Cannes film festival, for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005). It argues that the ethical dimension of the Dardennes' work complements rather than precludes their sustained expression of a fundamental political sensibility.

Illustrations in black and white . 16mo pp. 192 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine) Importante saggio che prende le mosse dai primi lavori di Bergman come regista/scrittore negli anni Quaranta fino a "Autumn Sonata" e ai suoi primi lavori fuori dalla nativa Svezia.

Ingmar Bergman: Cinema As Mistress

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Ingmar Bergman:The Cinema as Mistress. Philip Mosley's study is primarily a critical history of Bergman's films, dating from his earliest works right up to Autumn Sonata and his first projects outside of his native Sweden. He traces the development of Bergman's techniques, dialogues, and his disjointed use of time and space in the narrative. A useful and provocative companion to Bergman's films, this book includes many stills from the more famous films.

Ingmar Bergman: The Cinema As Mistress

Marion Boyars

Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

Explores the historical evolution of Belgian cinema as well as its contemporary situation within the evolving contexts of global media and European unity. In presenting the first English language study of Belgian cinema, Split Screen explores the fascinating history of a cinema largely determined by linguistic division and beset by problems of cultural identity. This “split screen” characterizes the Belgian cinema, which has not received the critical praise that it deserves, despite the recent international successes of films like Toto the Hero, and the achievements of individual directors such as Henri Storck, André Delvaux, and Chantal Akerman. In surveying the evolution of Belgian cinema from its beginnings to the present day, Philip Mosley locates all the major feature films, describes the crucial intervention of the state in film production, and reveals undervalued Belgian traditions in documentary, in animation, in short films, and in a colonial cinema created partly by missionaries in the former Belgian Congo. Due to the political and economic transformations affecting Europe, the reforms of the Belgian state, and the increasing globalization of world media industries, Belgian cinema can now inscribe itself within new national and international contexts.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

State Univ of New York Pr

This is the first book about how the Pennsylvania anthracite story is told in the postindustrial age, and it places this discourse in the broader context of environmental and socioeconomic change. It is a work of regional history that is scholarly in tone yet written in a style accessible to the general reader. It explores the various ways in which anthracite history has been represented and remembered since 1960, the chosen date for the start of the “posthistorical” era coinciding approximately with the Knox mine disaster (1959) and the beginning of the Centralia mine fire (1962-), two cataclysmic and fateful events that symbolize the beginning of the end for widescale deep anthracite mining in northeastern Pennsylvania. 
An original work of historical analysis, the book cannot be compared directly to others in the field, since it is believed to be the only one of its kind. Though much anthracite historiography and related cultural activity exists, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the field. The purpose is to draw together the multifarious strands that make up the fabric of anthracite history in the present day. It is aimed a general audience interested in the subject but not necessarily in a specialized way. Moreover, the author shares his passionate interest in the subject.

Telling of the Anthracite: A Pennsylvania Posthistory

History

Americas

Oxford Southern

Resuming Maurice: and other essays on writers and celebrity

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Lasse Press

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