Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere

by Mark Cousins

Overview

Cinema has undergone huge changes in the last decade: Asian filmmaking has been making the running; the ne'er do well genre, documentary, has broken through; digitalization and DVD has revived film history and is revolutionizing projection; world cinema has shifted in the direction of the real and the visually grainy; and animation has become more dominant that any time since Disney. Month by month, in the acclaimed journal Prospect , critic and filmmaker Mark Cousins has charted and contextualized these changes. Writing from Britain, Europe, Iran, India and Mexico, he has looked at the social trends and aesthetic implications of modern cinema's shifting sands. Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere is the result; a skeptical, passionate, eye—witness account of film today, argued originally and written with panache.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905674794
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/25/2008
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Cousins is a filmmaker and producer, film critic, broadcaster and festival director. He is the author of The Story of Film (2004), a highly acclaimed volume that has been translated into many languages. His documentary subjects have included neo—Nazism and the history of Iranian cinema. He is presently Honorary Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling.

Editorial Reviews

Cousin's approach is fresh and his points well made.

Empire

A deeply felt, surprisingly personal book and there is something thought-provoking to be found on every page.

— Jon Barnes

Times Literary Supplement

A deeply felt, surprisingly personal book and there is something thought—provoking to be found on every page.

Times Literary Supplement - Jon Barnes