Film history, theory or criticism

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, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popular in the last several years.

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

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.

Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing.

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.

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

Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a disproportionately large contribution to world cinema.

Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century.

Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history.

Film noir-literally "e;black cinema"e;-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959.

Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world.

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.

Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays.

Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably.

When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience.

Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s.

While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema, very few attempt to examine both.

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

The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema.

Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years.

Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins addresses significant areas (and eras) of "e;transgressive"e; filmmaking, including many subgenres and styles that have not yet received much critical attention.