Film history, theory or criticism

The essays collected here reflect the spectacular rise of Iranian cinema in recent years as well as the strong contributions of contemporary filmmakers from countries such as Belgium, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Scotland, and Spain.

MacFadyen further analyses Soviet animation through phenomenology, arguing that the latter is a viable alternative not only to dogmatic Marxism but also to the ideological vacuum of post-Soviet times.

This acknowledgement of their dramatic origins has often led to criticism that these movies remain too rigidly anchored to the stage; too "e;stage-bound.

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

Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic objects.

In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation.

Other Canadian film producers concentrated their efforts on short productions, mostly in government or commercial companies such as Associated Screen News of Montreal.

A fun, opinionated, illustrated look at Westernswith great photographs from great moviesThis unique compendium of short essays about, and evocative photos from, the 100 greatest Western movies of all time is the authoritative new resource on the subjectand the ideal illustrated gift book for all cowboy enthusiasts and cinema fans.

Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult films history within American culture.

Why do we watch movies?

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century.

Cinemulacrum, a conflation of "e;cinema,"e; the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture.

Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century.

Interrogating the Image argues that movies examining the role film and television plays in the lives of their audience have created changes both in the movies themselves and in their viewers, and considers fourteen films where the moving picture is central to the narratives.

In 1995, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville) and three fellow Danish directors swore allegiance to a vow of chastity aimed at jolting filmmakers around the world who had become stuck in the mire of slick, emotionally manipulative, high-concept, and bombastic movie productions.

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain.

This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary.

As in western cinema, cross-dressing is a recurrent theme in Turkish film.

As in western cinema, cross-dressing is a recurrent theme in Turkish film.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s.

A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure.

A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure.

During ""the thaw"" from Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s and Khrushchev's rule, Soviet society experienced major transformations.

During ""the thaw"" from Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s and Khrushchev's rule, Soviet society experienced major transformations.

With the advent of the Second World War a new mood was discernible in film drama - an atmosphere of disillusion and a sense of foreboding, a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art.

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking.

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America s most successful export.

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking.

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America s most successful export.

Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present.

Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not black.

Now faced with the "e;zero hour"e; created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world, aesthetically as well as politically.

This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C.

This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.

This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema.

With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (19132001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day.

Maurice, James Ivory's 1987 adaptation of the E.

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific.

Forever known for its blazing cinematic image of General George S.

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that theres no such thing as black film per se.

The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat.

Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War.

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