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Omnibus Films : Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema.

By: Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.; Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ;, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780748695676
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Contents:
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1 "Beginnings without Ends": Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2 Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3 Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4 Key Concepts in Film Studies: Authorship, Audience, Genre, and Nation; PART II Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema.
5 Wartime "Consensus Pictures" and the "Housing" of History: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night6 Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7 Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8 Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: from Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9 The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: from Paris, je t'aime to 11'09"01; Notes; Filmography; Index.
Summary: As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, Omnibus Films fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narra.Abstract: Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1 "Beginnings without Ends": Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2 Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3 Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4 Key Concepts in Film Studies: Authorship, Audience, Genre, and Nation; PART II Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema5 Wartime "Consensus Pictures" and the "Housing" of History: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night6 Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7 Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8 Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: from Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9 The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: from Paris, je t'aime to 11'09"01; Notes; Filmography; Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-247), filmography (p. 248-265) and index.

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1 "Beginnings without Ends": Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2 Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3 Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4 Key Concepts in Film Studies: Authorship, Audience, Genre, and Nation; PART II Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema.

5 Wartime "Consensus Pictures" and the "Housing" of History: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night6 Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7 Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8 Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: from Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9 The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: from Paris, je t'aime to 11'09"01; Notes; Filmography; Index.

As the first book-length exploration of internationally distributed, multi-director episode films, Omnibus Films fills a considerable gap in the history of world cinema and aims to expand contemporary understandings of authorship, genre, narra.

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 1 "Beginnings without Ends": Conceptual Parameters and the Critical Discourses of Episodic Cinema; 2 Regulated Variety and Excess: Antecedents and Extensions of Episodic Cinema; 3 Key Concepts in Transauthorial Cinema: Abundance, Change, Containment, and Order; 4 Key Concepts in Film Studies: Authorship, Audience, Genre, and Nation; PART II Get on the Omnibus: Case Studies in Transauthorial Cinema5 Wartime "Consensus Pictures" and the "Housing" of History: from Forever and a Day to Dead of Night6 Three Cases of Maugham: Quartet, Trio, and Encore; 7 Episodic Erotics and the Politics of Place: From Love in the City to Love and Anger; 8 Collective Opposition, Political Participation, and Worldwide Competition: from Visions of Eight to Visions of Europe; 9 The Recent Revival of the Omnibus Film: from Paris, je t'aime to 11'09"01; Notes; Filmography; Index

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