Film history, theory or criticism

In Urban Horror Erin Y.

Despite China's recent emergence as a major global economic and geopolitical power, its association with counterfeit goods and intellectual property piracy has led many in the West to dismiss its urbanization and globalization as suspect or inauthentic.

In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualite films made by the Lumiere brothers between 1895 and 1905.

In Paris in the Dark Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s.

In Fidel between the Lines Laura-Zoe Humphreys traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in late socialist Cuba through a focus on cinema.

From IKEA assembly guides and "e;hands and pans"e; cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media.

Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production.

In Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema.

From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media.

Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be.

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change.

From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C.

Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.

Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation?

From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C.

Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years.

From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations.

A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldons The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the worlds most iconic superheroes and the fans who love himnow with a new afterword.

This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs.

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own.

Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaster movies.

Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity.

Judy Garland was an entertainment icon whose performances on stage, screen and television had a tremendous impact across decades and media.

Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15.

As early as the Silent Era, movie studios were sued over depictions of real people and events.

While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and art films.

With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome.

Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, oratory, history and especially popular culture.

This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay.

American classic films noir, beginning with 1941's The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts.

Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir.

Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer.

Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust.

Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic.

This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry.

For decades, filmmakers worldwide have been remaking Hollywood movies in colorful ways.

Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked.

Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind's understanding of the universe has expanded.

Karl Freund is the most important film pioneer you've never heard of.

Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture.

Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema.

World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war.

Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "e;Hollywood Ten"e; jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Arctic cinemas represent a noteworthy new subfield of film studies, and in the current era of unprecedented global warming, interest in the Arctic region and its cinematic portrayals has never been greater.

Since Hollywood's first motion-picture, stunt players have given blood, sweat, and tears to the business.

Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's name alone commanded box office and theatre acclaim.

Best known for her roles in Mr.

Despite her prominence as an actress, fashionista, social activist and the "e;sexiest woman in the world,"e; Scarlett Johansson has kept her life private.

This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values.