Film history, theory or criticism

The Cinematic Enfant Terrible is a groundbreaking study of rule breakers in French cinema.

Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente se inserta dentro del creciente interés en los estudios sobre ciudadanía al tener como objetivo el entender las diferentes formas en las que las políticas-económicas neoliberales cuestionan, controvierten e incluso mutan el concepto de ciudadanía y el consecuente derecho a la titularidad de una serie de libertades en un espacio cada vez más privatizado.

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential filmmakers to emerge in the last half-century.

Esta obra investiga acerca de los fenómenos de importancia capital que se produjeron a lo largo del siglo XX, los autoritarismos de Estado y las relaciones que mantuvo cada uno con sus propios creadores de imágenes.

This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies.

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin.

When television was young .

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system.

Money is Hollywood's great theme-but money laundered into something else, something more.

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language.

The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation.

Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zelie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day.

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language.

The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation.

For Elena del Rio, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence.

Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America.

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts.

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s.

Popular films can do more than merely entertain us; they can contribute to our understanding of human nature and the ethical theory that informs it.

Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema.

Whats the best bud when you go out to party and want to live it up?

»Ohne geht nicht: Wie so viele andere eingefleischte Fans der Saga entdeckte ich durch das Erlebnis der ersten Star Wars-Trilogie meine Leidenschaft für das Kino.

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s.

Bestsellerautor Daniel Kehlmann ist auch ein leidenschaftlicher Kinogänger, der Arthouse-Filme ebenso anschaut wie Blockbuster.

Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture.

Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism in the Anthropocene an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume develops new ethical practice and thought with respect to art, philosophy and moving images.

Ann Sheridan was much more than just Hollywood's glamorous and sexy "e;Oomph Girl.

Seine Filme erfanden die Kinowelt neu, sein Name steht für Meisterschaft.

Esta obra analiza las posibles relaciones entre la crítica de Walter Benjamin y la experiencia cultural del capitalismo en América Latina; la hipótesis de que, vista desde la perspectiva de la producción cultural, la experiencia histórica latinoamericana del capitalismo ha estado sobredeterminada por lo político; y que la violencia constituyente que define la "acumulación originaria" no sólo precede al capitalismo, sino que lo acompaña de forma siempre como su condición de existencia y reproducción.

Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works.

Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history.

"e;The Cambridge Modern History Collection"e; is a remarkable Amazon ebook that brings together all five original volumes, offering a captivating exploration of significant historical periods.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.

Cualquier escena romántica parece incompleta sin una tierna melodía de violín.

Mónica Delgado ofrece una completa investigación sobre la precursora de la crítica de cine en Perú: María Wiesse.

Imagenes de nomadas transnacionales indaga acerca de las representaciones del migrante nacional en el cine y el video de productores ecuatorianos locales y de residentes en el exterior.

Durante el siglo XIX, los philosophical toys promovieron y acompañaron el desarrollo de los estudios sobre el movimiento, oscilando entre una mera curiosidad por los efectos ópticos y una argumentación fisiológica sobre el funcionamiento de la vista.

¿Qué es el cine clásico?

El cine sólo existe acaso bajo la forma de un sistema de distancias entre cosas que llevan el mismo nombre sin ser miembros de un mismo cuerpo.

Volver a pensar la idea de lenguaje cinematográfico implica reconsiderar algunos aspectos de la historia del cine en sus paulatinas combinaciones desde la máquina específica electromecánica y foto química original a sus paulatinas combinaciones, reemplazos y simulaciones por las tecnologías electrónicas y digitales.