Diese intermedial und komparatistisch angelegte Studie analysiert Narrative der Essstörung im zeitgenössischen Film und in der Erzählliteratur der europäischen, nordafrikanischen und amerikanischen Romania.
For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation.
Nightmares of Contemporary HorrorCinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium.
In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player examines how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a period of crisis and change in Japan's film industry.
Das menschliche Gesicht gilt einerseits als subtiler, „schwacher Code“, das sich im Alltag den Deutungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung immer wieder zu entziehen scheint.
Das menschliche Gesicht gilt einerseits als subtiler, „schwacher Code“, das sich im Alltag den Deutungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung immer wieder zu entziehen scheint.
Como abogado experto en derecho de autor que es tambien guionista y realizador cinematografico, Ramon Obon aborda de manera exhaustiva los aspectos legales de la industria filmica, teniendo como centro el derecho de autor: la libertad de expresion y sus limitaciones; censura, supervision y clasificacion de peliculas; titularidad de derechos, y la observancia a los instrumentos contractuales indispensable en toda produccion audiovisual.
Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.
This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the women's biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over the past decade.
Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.
Sich im Kino fesseln zu lassen, war für die Nachkriegsgesellschaft nicht nur ein harmloses Freizeitvergnügen im Übergang von der Barbarei zur Zivilisation.
This collection offers close readings on Hammer's cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed.
For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation.
Since the age of seven, Liv has been painting the heroines and heroes of the movies she watches together with her family with a lot of imagination but also with a high degree of recognisability.
David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders.
Celebrification has thrived for centuries in literature, theater, music, and other cultural spheres, as vividly illustrated by Byron, Sarah Bernhardt, and Paganini.
Based on a play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour (1961) was the first mainstream commercial American film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role.
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe.
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe.
When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age-until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest.
Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and charts new constellations in the field with significance far beyond Asian cinema studies.
In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the "e;hottest shows of lockdown"e; by outlets like The Guardian and GQ.
Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century.
Based on a play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour (1961) was the first mainstream commercial American film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role.
Dieses E-Book ist Teil einer zwölfbändigen Reihe, die die Geschichte des deutschen Films anhand der Sammlungsbestände der Deutschen Kinemathek von den Anfängen im Jahr 1895 bis zur Gegenwart dokumentiert.
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins.
