Film history, theory or criticism

The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century.

In 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded a revolution in the moviemaking industry with the advent of synchronized sound in full-length motion pictures.

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man.

Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others.

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand.

Considered the "e;King of Poverty Row,"e; Edgar G.

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man.

Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first produced.

This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.

Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott.

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

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.

The complete guide to everyone's favourite films.

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.

During the 1920s, a visit to the movie theater almost always included a sing-along.

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as "e;pure white stock"e; and as deeply impoverished and backward.

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection-the first of its kind-invites us to recon-sider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s.

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts?

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller.

In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon.

Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "e;the shaman"e; or "e;the scoundrel.

The NBC series Hannibal has garnered both critical and fan acclaim for its cinematic qualities, its complex characters, and its innovative reworking of Thomas Harris's mythology so well-known from Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs (1991) and its variants.

Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list.

Imprisonment is a central trope of Irish nationalism, often deployed to portray the injustice of an Ireland occupied by foreign rule.

The inspiration behind 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain' is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales.

The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world—"an essential work in anime scholarship.

CONTAINS SIXTEEN PAGES OF PHOTOSWho made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show?

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kr mer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people.

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs ignited fierce debate among censors, critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic on its release in 1971.

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.

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

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.

Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values.

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection-the first of its kind-invites us to recon-sider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s.

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.

Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures.

The New Wave of American Cinema emerged in the 1960s amid seismic social, cultural, and political shifts.

Der Golem geht ins Kino – und bleibt dort.

The Ballets Russes was one of the most influential performing arts companies of the twentieth century.

Husband gets X to kill his wife.

Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if one were to put the Dark Knight into the company of figures such as Beowulf, Robin Hood, Oedipus, and Sun Tzu, among others?

La imagen cinematográfica, revisada desde el presente, permite establecer interesantes relaciones que construyen nuevos sentidos para pensar una ciudad.

"Josefina Sartora traza una línea de tiempo desde 1917 hasta 1991, aunque elige a dos cineastas, uno precedente (Evgeny Bauer) y otro posterior (Alekesey Balanov, cuya sección en sí es un incuestionable aporte crítico), para comprender el antes y el después de un acontecimiento que signó la historia del siglo XX.

El ojo con memoria no es un libro de texto, ni un metodo exhaustivo para la grabacion de documentales; es una invitacion a adentrarse en la creacion de cine de no ficcion y reflexionar en torno a su metodo.

This book explores the intricate relationships between film, spectators, and animal bodies through the lens of gesture.