Cinema is a cat : a cat lover's introduction to film studies /
"Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat, Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to film studies. Cats are...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2019]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: The languages of cinema. Cats love small spaces: framing in Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Cats love dark places: lighting in Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1942)
- Cats love chases: editing in To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1955)
- Part 2: Theories and histories of cinema. Cats are prima donnas: Feminist film theory and auteurism in Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, USA, 1931)
- Cats, mixed and hybrid: genre and stardom in Shozo, a Cat and Two Women (Toyoda Shiro, Japan, 1956)
- Drawing pictures of cats: National cinema and anime in Jungle Emperor Leo (Takeuchi Yoshio, Japan, 1997)
- Moving like a cat: realism in Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, South Korea, 2001)
- Cats old and new: modernity in Samurai Cat (Yamaguchi Yoshitaka and Watanabe Takeshi, Japan, 2014)
- Epilogue: cats like watching: history in The Cats of Mirikitani (Linda Hattendorf, USA/Japan, 2006).