Film history, theory or criticism

The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States.

When Stephenie Meyer's first novel, Twilight, was published in 2005, it had an astounding reception, selling millions of copies.

The undead are back!

Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer, and finally studio head.

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema.

Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world.

Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott.

On September 23, 1969, five years after the first made-for-television movie premiered, the ABC network broadcast Seven in Darkness.

Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown.

Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters.

After a decade of successful films that included Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock produced Marnie, an apparent artistic failure and an unquestionable commercial disappointment.

Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship.

Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, yet few scholarly articles have been published on these works.

Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popular in the last several years.

The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists.

Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare.

By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr.

In the postwar era, the lure of controversy sold movie tickets as much as the promise of entertainment did.

Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam war (Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July), insider trading (Wall Street), presidential assassination (JFK), and a voyeuristic media (Natural Born Killers).

Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema.

Since 1992, the Directors Guild of America has hosted an annual symposium featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing.

Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures.

In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time, spawning an unprecedented merchandising phenomenon.

Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other.

In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J.

Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world.

One of the most celebrated figures in the world of cinema, Jack Nicholson has appeared in more than fifty films, stamping each with his larger-than-life presence.

The theme of surveillance has become an increasingly common element in movies and television shows, perhaps as a response to the sense that the world is now virtually under watch.

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953.

Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema.

The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking.

In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time.

In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades.

Immigration is an important and much-discussed topic throughout the world, and its depiction on screen helps shape the way we perceive this issue.

Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values.

Film comedy has been around as long as cinema itself.

Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock began work on his first American film, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-selling novel.

Charlie Chaplin produced some of the greatest films of all time, including The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator.

Widely regarded as one of cinema's most accomplished directors, David Lean helmed such classics as Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist.

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960.

In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world.

Films that dramatize historical events and the lives of historical figures-whether they are intended to educate or to entertain-play a significant role in shaping the public's understanding of the past.

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In Sight and Sound magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo placed at the top of the list, supplanting Citizen Kane.

As they transition into adulthood, many American boys and young men spend a considerable amount of time engaging in physical sports, playing violent video games, and watching action movies, including war films.

British cinema has been around from the very birth of motion pictures, from black-and-white to color, from talkies to sound, and now 3D, it has been making a major contribution to world cinema.

Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film.

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s.

Motion pictures were first introduced to China in 1896 and today China has become a major player in the film industry.

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world.