This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.
Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cin ma from whose editorship he was fired when the conservative Catholic opposed its turn toward politicization.
This volume is a study of the classic western film 'Rio Bravo', which, according to the author, remains 'beyond politics, as an argument as to why we should all want to go on living'.
Flamenco und Chotis, Foxtrott und Charleston - vier Tanzstile, die nahezu paradigmatisch für das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde im Spanien der Moderne sind.
In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "e;grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent,"e; while New York Magazine declared it "e;a catastrophe.
Lange Zeit von den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften ignoriert und als bloe Mainstream-Unterhaltung stigmatisiert, erlangt der Sportfilm zunehmend wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit.
Der Band nimmt zum einen in einer Doppelperspektive die distinkten Genre-Rekurse der jeweiligen Einzelmedien in den Blick wie zum anderen auch die transmediale Zirkulation von Genre-Parametern.
Auch wenn die Musealisierung des Surrealismus voranschreitet, ist seine massenmediale Wirkung größer denn je - und dies, obwohl er die von seinen Begründern proklamierte Revolution nicht auszulösen vermochte.
The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema.
Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films.
Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
Winner of the Dark Fest Film Festival Award for Best Genre Author 2024David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.
Claudia Böttcher rekonstruiert Deutungsmuster des Widerstandes gegen den Nationalsozialismus in historischen Dokumentationen des DDR-Fernsehens von 1952 bis 1989.
"e;With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood.
In this New York Times bestseller, legendary actor and star of the acclaimed documentary Val shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction.
Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainmentthe story of Twentieth Century Fox (19152015).
Using hybrid phenomenological approaches to film, this book focuses on how moving images are 'experienced' and 'encountered' as well as 'read' and 'viewed'.
Politically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world.
By breaking down classic films from the nineteen-nineties such as Forest Gump and Titanic, this book offers a reel-to-reel cultural analysis, chronicling the concept of 'spin' as a major sociopolitical persuasion strategy.
Filmed in 1966 and '67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era.
Film Studies From Hollywood to Bollywood, explore the fantastic world of film Whether you re preparing to study film at university or you simply have a passion for cinema, you re bound to enjoy this book.
Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film.
WINNER: 2014 German Studies Association AwardThe first book-length study in any language of the "e;Berlin School,"e; the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s.
