Cinema Is a Cat
Cinema Is a Cat
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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.
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Cinema Is a Cat by Daisuke Miyao
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.
Miyao skillfully combines cats and cinema not simply to open up his enjoyable account of some of the basic approaches to film studies to a broader audience, but also to explore the cat-like—to Miyao "phantomlike"—nature of the movie mediumSome say "the internet is made of cats," but in some ways, so is the cinema, a continuity which enables Miyao to engagingly elucidate the past, present, and future of film in a new mediated world. Cinema Is a Cat is one of the most original and creative introductory volumes to cinema studies. Accessible, clearly written, and with spot-on examples, it covers the core themes of the discipline in a smart and witty way. It will surely satisfy students of film—and cat lovers—both in the classroom and out.
Daisuke Miyao is professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780824879709 |
| ISBN 10 | 0824879708 |
| Titre | Cinema Is a Cat |
| Auteur | Daisuke Miyao |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Année de publication | 2019-11-30 |
| Nombre de pages | 200 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |