{"title":"Ismail Xavier","description":" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsmail Xavier\u003c\/strong\u003e (Curitiba, 1947) é professor emérito na Universidade de São Paulo (USP). É autor e organizador de importantes livros sobre o cinema, como \u003cem\u003eO discurso cinematográfico: a opacidade e a transparência \u003c\/em\u003ee \u003cem\u003eA experiência do cinema\u003c\/em\u003e, publicados pela Paz e Terra.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"o-discurso-cinematografico","title":"Cinematographic Discourse","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCinematographic Discourse: Opacity and Transparency\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eis the masterpiece in which renowned film researcher and theorist Ismail Xavier reveals some of the secrets of the seventh art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDoes cinema reproduce reality? Or is it a discourse about reality? If cinema is a discourse, do filmmakers seek to mask this fact? Or, on the contrary, do they seek to clearly reveal to viewers the nature of cinematic discourse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eSince the early 20th century, these questions have been the subject of theoretical reflections that have shaped aesthetic thinking about cinema, with implications for the thinking of new audiovisual media. A thorough understanding of the \u003cem\u003eimage\u003c\/em\u003e in the contemporary world is impossible without some knowledge of the reflections motivated by cinematic practice. \u003cem\u003e*Cinematic Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e *, by Ismail Xavier, a renowned film researcher and theorist, presents theories developed based on these questions, with an emphasis on the opposition between transparency and opacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In a thought-provoking, controversial, and defining look at the performing arts, Xavier, who has a vast reading background, covers practically a large part of what has been thought and written in the field of film studies, from its origins to the most recent discussions on the current reorganization of audiovisual media, especially considering the \u003cstrong\u003eFrench, Soviet, and North American schools.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWith an enviable capacity for condensing and synthesizing, the author extracts the most relevant conceptual background from the debates between different theoretical trends, using clear and accessible language, yet without compromising the complexity of the issues discussed or sacrificing the necessary conceptual density in the name of any simplistic didacticism. Furthermore, Ismail Xavier reveals his opinion, as he not only objectively presents the various theories but also takes a position on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCinematographic Discourse: Opacity and Transparency\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential title for anyone curious, interested, or researching cinematographic art today.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159252910332,"sku":"9788577530779","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/38dd04bda4debdca3036f98839708568.jpg?v=1778642112"},{"product_id":"a-experiencia-do-cinema","title":"The cinema experience","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA work responsible for forming a generation of film buffs, The Cinema Experience,\u003c\/em\u003e by Ismail Xavier \u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e returns to bookstores with a new cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In the anthology \u003cem\u003eThe Experience of Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e , Ismail Xavier brings together texts by theorists, critics, philosophers and filmmakers from the French, English-speaking, Russian and German traditions, produced between 1916 and 1980. Thus, he presents the main theories and a comprehensive reflection on cinema, revealing the diversity of analyses that have marked thinking about the cinematic experience – from the basic explanations of filmmakers from the beginning of the century to the syntheses and new aesthetic proposals of contemporary thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eTexts by: André Bazin • Béla Balázs • Christian Metz • Dziga Vertov • Edgar Morin • Hugo Mauerhofer • Hugo Münsterberg • Jean Epstein • Jean-Louis Baudry • Laura Mulvey • Luis Buñuel • Mary Ann Doane • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Robert Desnos • Serguei M. 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