Film history, theory or criticism

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased.

This book sets out to answer why genre matters when analysing sagas, medieval literature, and creation in general.

Jane Giles' study traces the origins of 'The Crying Game' in Neil Jordan's early, award-winning films and books.

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silent era, which astounded audiences by splicingin or editing out key frames, all the way to today's cutting-edgeeffects technologies.

Das Telefon eröffnet einen Raum des Imaginären, ist Wunschmaschine und angsteinflößender Zauberapparat.

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention.

This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen.

In the first book-length introduction to Deleuze's work
on film from a feminist perspective, Teresa Rizzo ranges across Deleuze's books
on Cinema, his other writings, and feminist re-workings of his philosophy to
re-think the film viewing experience.

Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work.

Jane Giles' study traces the origins of 'The Crying Game' in Neil Jordan's early, award-winning films and books.

Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti (Waheeda Rehman) lead him to lose his family, descend into alcoholism and ultimately retreat from the film industry.

Martin Scorsese ist einer der bedeutendsten Regisseure der Gegenwart.

The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood.

Celine Sciamma's 2011 film Tomboy is the central work in the French filmmaker's coming-of-age trilogy.

This appreciative account of the 'Three Colours' trilogy communicates the power and imagery of the films, and demonstrates how Kieslowski's art is brought to bear in their moving renditions of the lives of its characters.

Die Konjunktur des Politischen in neueren Kinofilmen und Fernsehserien ist mit tradierten Oppositionen – wie der von Inhalt und Form – nicht mehr zu beschreiben.

Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work.

Wenn Kong sich aus seinen Fesseln befreit, um zu zerstören, wenn Carol Anne sich im Informationschaos des Weißen Rauschens verliert und wenn japanische Teenager von einem tödlichen Videovirus heimgesucht werden, dann befinden sich die Zuschauenden inmitten von Leinwandgeschichten der dunklen Art.

This collection of 39 original essays is designed to support film screenings.

From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features.

In der Weimarer Republik fand eine hitzige Diskussion um ein Medium statt, dem eine große Prägekraft zugesprochen wurde: den amerikanischen Film.

Despite Hollywood's recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of non-Whites generally, and Black women specifically, in stark contrast to the broadly developed spectrum of White characters.

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention.

A través del análisis de los múltiples elementos que forman parte de un film, este libro de José María Aguilar es una inmensa declaración de amor al cine.

Marriage Susan Ferrier - Susan Ferriers novel "e;Marriage"e;, published in 1818, is a good read and interesting in a number of ways, one of which is its Scottishness.

Para Isaac León Frías, editor del presente volumen, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italia, 1922-1975), a cien años de su nacimiento y casi cincuenta de su trágica muerte, sigue siendo nuestro contemporáneo.

Imagen por imagen, originalmente publicado en 1987, recoge ensayos sobre la naturaleza del cine y estudios y críticas sobre más de doscientas películas, publicados por Desiderio Blanco en las revistas Hablemos de Cine y Oiga, entre 1965 y 1977.

Este libro estudia el desarrollo del cine documental que el Estado argentino produjo, de manera directa o por encargo, desde la década de 1930 hasta el golpe de Estado que provoca la caída del primer peronismo en 1955.

[…] la figura, no entendida como imagen fílmica, sino como operación figural del lenguaje –donde puede haber imagen, pero donde también están presentes las otras series para la producción de sentido del cine (palabra, música, montaje, etc.

La curaduría es una escritura política.

Entre el ensayo breve y el relato, Fernando Nemi teje un entramado de ideas, personajes y reflexiones que invitan a pensar, pero también a disfrutar.

En Colombia nunca han faltado los críticos de cine, dice Oswaldo Osorio.

"La comunidad en montaje de Luis Ignacio García es un libro fundamental que se atreve al cruce entre la filosofía, los estudios de memoria y los estudios visuales.

Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl Clemens Brentano - Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano de La Roche (* 9.

The Bond Code is the remarkable story of how Fleming's association with the occult world led him to create a masterful series of clever clues, cyphers, and codes within his books.

La problemática de la otredad constituye una de las preocupaciones centrales de la contemporaneidad.

A través de diversas exploraciones del vínculo entre los cines latinoamericanos y el período de la transición democrática, este libro se propone abrir polémicas, plantear interrogantes, combatir contra lugares comunes, rever nociones y lecturas canonizadas, fomentar la emergencia de categorías analíticas que den cuenta de la compleji­dad del fenómeno focalizado.