This first comprehensive and most in-depth history of cinematic pornography details sex in film from 100 years ago to today, concentrating on the quarter-century since Deep Throat, when pornography became a subject of popular culture.
Of the roughly seventy-two films investigated during Britain's video nasty panic of 1983 and 1984, only thirty-nine ever resulted in a successful obscenity conviction.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From two-time Academy Award winner from 16 nominations, and five-time BAFTA award winner from 11 nominations, Sir Roger Deakins - widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time - a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life's story by way of his iconic, beloved films, including The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall, Fargo, Blade Runner 2049, The Big Lebowski, 1917, and No Country for Old Men, among others.
Entre la cancelación y la veneración acrítica de los clásicos existe otro camino: el diálogo respetuoso pero sincero con un pasado que, aunque nos incomode, sigue siendo parte fundamental de quiénes somos.
El filósofo y miembro de la Academia Francesa Alain Finkielkraut analiza, de la mano de algunos de sus autores favoritos como Milan Kundera y Philip Roth, la manera en que el poder otrora formativo de los grandes autores y obras del canon literario de Europa se va disolviendo bajo la sobra del pensamiento único de lo políticamente correcto de la sociedad actual: un recorrido por la «cultura de la cancelación» desde el impacto del #MeToo al movimiento Black Lives Matter y los nuevos ecologismos.
A través de una joven generación de actrices que imaginaron nuevos modos de ser mujer desde la indisciplina y la liberación de sus cuerpos, este libro invita a revisar el periodo convulso de la transición democrática en España.
Siempre que hay mediación tecnológica solo existe, en términos de relato audiovisual, la parte de realidad que puede ser captada con los medios disponibles.
Partiendo de los modelos clásicos de Huxley y Orwell, en un itinerario que nos llevará desde "Metrópolis" hasta el OASIS de "Ready Player One", el presente volumen notificará, a partir de una variada selección filmográfica, el fracaso de estos modelos de sociedad rígidos y reglamentados.
Vicente Molina Foix siempre ha escrito sobre cine, vertiente literaria que ha compaginado a lo largo de toda su vida con la poesía, la novela, los textos teatrales o los guiones cinematográficos.
This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film.
En Las doce vidas de Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explora el fenómeno de Hitchcock a partir de doce aspectos de la vida del genial director, con el fin de proporcionar una biografía enriquecida, no lineal pero dotada de sentidos y conexiones hasta ahora inexplorados.
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them.
This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci.
This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip.
Este libro traza las continuidades y discontinuidades filmicas subterraneas del legado del surrealismo y del compromiso politico dentro del estado espanol desde los anos treinta hasta la actualidad, desde la obra pionera de Carlos Velo, Jose Val del Omar, Luis Bunuel y Salvador Dali, hasta el cine militante actual forjado en la estela del 15-M.
"e;Script Analysis"e; explores the core components of cinematic storytelling, offering readers a framework to dissect and appreciate the underlying structure of films and television.
Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel.
Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres.
Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time.
Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film.
The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "e;quality"e; films that promulgated "e;respectable"e; culture.
As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "e;divine decadence"e;--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "e;shocking"e; British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin.
In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.
