Film history, theory or criticism

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics.

Jews have been well represented in the cinema industry from the beginning of the film era: behind the screen, as producers, distributors, directors, script-writers, composers, set designers; and on the screen, as Jewish actors and as named Jewish characters in the film's plot.

Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male.

The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997.

There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and escape artist if there ever was one.

The beginning of filmmaking in the German colonies coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill.

The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator s lived body.

West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "e;New German Cinema.

Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ subjective realist narration, including recent examples such as Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The intersection between film stardom and politics is an understudied phenomenon of Fascist Italy, despite the fact that the Mussolini regime deemed stardom important enough to warrant sustained attention and interference.

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large.

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe.

Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting.

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society.

This study of Jaws (1975) examines how Steven Spielberg's breakout film not only redefined the thriller but also pioneered the summer blockbuster, cementing his reputation as a master filmmaker.

Women in Irish Film: Stories and storytellers is an interdisciplinary collection that critically explores the contribution of women to the Irish film industry as creators of culture - screenwriters, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, animators, film festival programmers and educators.

Cahiers du Cin,ma was the single most influential project in the history of film.

One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age.

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences.

In the last decade, Spanish film auteur Pedro Almod,var has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success.

From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere.

Why has a nineteenth-century author with an elitist reputation proved so popular with directors as varied as William Wyler, Franois Truffaut, and James Ivory?

Through in-depth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archivere-examines the brothers most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.

This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) —outsiders who almost always do not speak or read Japanese.

What is film noir?

What is film noir?

The Soul Stylists is about six decades of Modernism and a highly influential world of clothes and music, but one deliberately hidden away for years from the mainstream media.

The Academy Awards - or "e;the Oscars"e; - have held a unique position in defining and enacting "e;prestige"e; for film industries and their publics.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into their neck.

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape.

How did a low-key prison drama which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time?

In CROWDS: A MOVING-PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY, Gerald Stanley Lee offers a vigorous meditation on mass society, public opinion, and the spiritual possibilities of democratic life in the modern industrial age.

This book analyzes the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood.

Exploring the reception and representation of Viking culture in audiovisual media, particularly in cinema and television, this book offers a comprehensive chronological overview of films and television programmes produced in the period from the early 20th century to the present.

"e;You'll like Louis Mayer,"e; Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943.

International Film Festival (MIFF) is Australia's most revered celebration of cinema.

An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing worldWhat if Atlantis wasn t a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding?

An important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyesA vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world.

"e;A long-overdue anthology of writings by a great-and now largely forgotten-long-form journalist .

The beginning of the twentieth century evolved out of an era of Freethinking atheists and agnostics who challenged the Protestant hegemony of the day.

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house.

From Detroit Red to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man best known as Malcolm X restlessly redefined himself throughout a controversial life.

An accessible, entertaining guide that brings the infamous cryptid to life with legends, culture, and history from across the globe.

In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution.

El Feng Shui, arte chino milenario, enseña a redescubrir las energías que animan el espacio, para obtener paz y sacar provecho a los lugares donde vivimos.

¿Qué función tiene el yin y el yang chino, el prana hindú, el nirvana budista, los chakras, la geomancia, el Ayurveda, en relación a los secretos de las pirámides?

Este libro desvela los secretos del aura vital y del campo etérico del hombre.

Todos conocemos las pirámides egipcias, pero ¿cómo son por dentro?

Asimilado a menudo a las ciencias ocultas, la magia o la tradición satánica, el esoterismo es, en realidad y etimológicamente hablando, la enseñanza de «lo interior», lo que está reservado a un círculo limitado de discípulos, herederos de un saber secreto que se transmite de época en época.