Film history, theory or criticism

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

Es gibt literarische Werke und Filme, in denen die Verletzung der Alltagslogik und die Missachtung der natürlichen Gesetze zum Programm gehören: In Märchen und Fabeln können Tiere sprechen, in Abenteuergeschichten überschreiten die Leistungen der Helden das eigentlich Menschenmögliche, in Science-Fiction-Produktionen werden unendlich weite Reisen unternommen, und in einer berühmten Erzählung Franz Kafkas verwandelt sich ein Mann plötzlich in ein Ungeziefer.

Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations.

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema.

Where is the place of the voice in film?

David O.

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall.

Barbara La Marr's (1896--1926) publicist once confessed: "e;There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr.

When themes of historical and cultural identity appear and repeat in popular film, it is possible to see the real pulse of a nation and comprehend a people, their culture and their history.

From action flicks to biopics to SNL skits, how presidents are portrayed on screen: “An interesting study of the real presidency and the reel presidency.

Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G.

Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation.

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium.

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion - particularly indignation - and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers.

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics.

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 debut La cienaga.

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present.

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema?

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail.

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV.

Inusuales: hogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano apunta hacia diversas muestras del cine hispano para explorar su denominador principal —lo inusual— cuya presencia, en última instancia, genera críticas sociopolíticas y culturales acerca de los contextos que las inspiran.

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'.

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres.

Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr.

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

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.

The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field.

In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital.

Identifies key - and in some cases previously overlooked - cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways.

Terrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers.

The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced.

The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema.

Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre.

Directed by Vasisli Pichul and released in 1988 "e;Little Vera"e; received the European Film Award for best screenplay as well as the special jury prize at Montreal.

Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres.

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they'd like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones?

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present.

Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States, and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s.

The first collection dedicated to David Bowie's acting career shows that his film characterisations and performance styles shift and reform as decoratively as his musical personas.

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world.