SEENima: The Movies, the Art Form, and the Industry

Joshua Rushing

 

Always a good time for a movie but how about we take a deep dive?

At CSN Libraries, we want you to learn a little more about what makes these wonderful films and what to consider when you experience them. The materials we are sharing present the many concepts, ideas, techniques, and personas in cinema.

And for those who prefer online, full-text resources:

 

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Title: FilmQuake: The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema 

Author: Ian Hayden Smith

Location: EBSCOhost

Details: Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.

 

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Title: Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital

Author: Grazia Ingravalle

Location: JSTOR

Details: The book’s introduction places the phenomenon of film’s museumification within the context of the digital turn and the debates about its impact on the medium’s specificity, its historicization, the circulation of archival footage, and archival workflows.

 

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Title: Cinema, Media, and Human Flourishing

Author: Timothy Corrigan

Location: Oxford Scholarship Online

Details: The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life.

 

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Title: Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters With Ethical Event Films

Author: David H. Fleming

Location: DOAB

Details: Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, hallucinatory aesthetics and vomit-gore. The book in effect argues successfully and intelligently that—although difficult to watch--many of these films can provide for viewers an opportunity to come to a renewed understanding of self and world. As a result, the author takes on difficult topics, but brings them to life in an exciting, philosophical fashion that also asks readers to rethink what it is that constitutes cinema.

 

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Title: Kanopy and Libraries: A Perfect Combination

Location: Kanopy

Details: Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offer films, TV shows, educational videos, and documentaries.