No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film.
Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.
A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema.
Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film.
Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
African Documentary Cinema investigates the inception and trajectory of contemporary documentary filmmaking in sub-Saharan African countries and their diasporas.
From the silent-film era to the blockbusters of today,Horror Unmaskedisa fun-filled, highly illustrated dive into the past influences and present popularity of the horror film genre.
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity.
Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships.
Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships.
A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America's thirties and forties.
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.
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 Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
Um 1900 wurde der Aufstieg eines neuen Mediums gefeiert, das seinen Zuschauern etwas nie Dagewesenes präsentierte: das bewegte Bild der Kinematographie überschrieb alle bisherigen Formen von medialer Bewegungsdarstellung.
Die Essays beschreiben Ausschnitte der italienischen Filmgeschichte, die symptomatisch für die Entwicklung von Film und Kino in Italien von 1895 bis heute sind.
Ein kleiner Kniff und alles ist anders - auch wenn das Twist Ending zumeist mit dem Riesenerfolg The Sixth Sense (1999) in Verbindung gebracht wird, ist es fast so alt wie die Filmgeschichte selbst.
Die kulturellen Diskurse, innerhalb derer Vorstellungen von Kind und Kino miteinander verschaltet werden, sind insbesondere in den letzten Jahren allgegenwärtig, vielgestaltig und komplex vernetzt.
Eisbären im Dschungel, mysteriöse Rauchmonster, nicht alternde Figuren und Zeitsprünge, die es den Söhnen ermöglichen, ihre Eltern in Jugendjahren kennenzulernen - dies sind nur einige Elemente, die in LOST Fragen aufwerfen und den Zuschauer, gibt er sich nicht mit dem Gefühl zufrieden, verloren im Labyrinth von LOST zu sein, zur heoriebildung animieren.
Der Film ist ein Zeitmedium mit ambivalenten Eigenschaften: während er in seiner Bildfolge und -taktung der Linearität der Zeit streng unterworfen ist, kann er in seinen Bildern vergangene Zeit reproduzieren sowie narrativ eigene Zeitvorstellungen erschaffen.
Die vorliegende Arbeit fasst zeitgenössische europäische Filme aus Deutschland, Großbritannien und Frankreich unter dem Begriff der Entgrenzungsfilme zusammen.
Das komplette Angebot im Kino, Fernsehen und auf DVD/Blu-rayFür jeden Filminteressierten unverzichtbar: Auch für das Jahr 2012 bietet das Filmjahrbuch für jeden Film, der in Deutschland und der Schweiz im Kino, im Fernsehen oder auf DVD/Blu-ray gezeigt wurde, eine Kurzkritik und zeigt mit klaren Maßstäben inhaltliche Qualität und handwerkliches Können.
The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces - artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological - that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement.
The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces - artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological - that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement.
