The seeing century
Subtitle: film, vision and identity
By: edited by Wendy Everett.
Contributors: Everett, Wendy.
Series: Critical studies; Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- vol. 14.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Motion pictures and the arts; Group identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: From frame to frame : images in transition -- Wendy Everett -- The; title: 'family portrait', trauma and the punctum in Distant voices, still lives -- Phil Powrie -- The; title: dark side of Utopia : word, image, and memory in Georges Perec's Récits d'Ellis Island : histoires d'errance et d'espoir -- Peter Wagstaff; title: History, memory, and art in Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants -- Christopher Shorley; title: Mapping Iceland or the identity of space : Cold fever -- Wendy Everett; title: Irish images : constructs of film space/time -- Gretchen Bisplinghoff; title: Mocking the Mafia : Ciprì and Maresco's Sicilian apocalypse -- Ernest Hampson; title: Too late? Recent developments in Romanian cinema -- Anne Jäckel; title: From 'reespañolear' to 'Europeizar' : the subversion of Francoist mythology in La flor de mi secreto (The flower of my secret) by Pedro Almodovar' -- María Camí-Vela; title: 'Entering and leaving modernity' - utopia and dystopia in Mambety's Touki bouki and Hyènes -- Patrick Williams; title: Luc Besson's Cinquième élément (1997) and the spectacular : the city-body and the sci-fi movie -- Susan Hayward; title: Of 'broken wall, the burning roof and tower' : gyno-turning in Limit up and Svankmajer's Faust -- Lorna Fitzsimmons; title: Voyages and border crossings : Jane Campion's The piano (1993) -- Elisa Bussi; title: Pédés et polémiques : faggots and fireworks - Les nuits fauves and its moral(ity) -- Steve Wharton; title: 'Life-taker heart-breaker' : mask-ulinity and/or femininity in Full metal jacket-- Raya Morag.