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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miyao, Daisuke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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).