Film history, theory or criticism

The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots.

The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema.

Examines the most successful literary adaption of a clutch of 1990s films based on Henry James' The Wings of the Dove (Ian Softley, 1997).

The site of cinema is on the move.

It was only a forty-minute foreign film, but it sparked a legal confrontation that has left its mark on America for more than half a century.

Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range of 'mediated' narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint.

Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field.

Since its release, Annie Hall has established itself as a key film for Woody Allen's career and the history of romantic comedy more generally.

Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "e;modernist"e; cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure.

This BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro's masterpiece.

In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C.

Jessica Hausner (geb.

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.

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.

Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies.

Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoe Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences.

The Oriental Obscene is a sophisticated analysis of Americans' reactions to visual representations of the Vietnam War, such as the photograph of the "e;napalm girl,"e; news footage of the Tet Offensive, and feature films from The Deer Hunter to Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and 60s.

Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory.

What does camp have to do with capitalism?

Ever since John Grierson popularized the term 'documentary,' British non-fiction film has been renowned, sometimes reviled, but seldom properly appreciated.

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the historiography of children's and youth literature is available.

The majority of scholarly treatments for film adaptation are put forth by experts on film and film analysis, thus with the focus being on film.

Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, oratory, history and especially popular culture.

Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon.

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more.

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film.

Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics.

Andre Bazin's writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written.

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.

This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989.

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars.

This second edition of William Rothman''s classic includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword.

Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr.

As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The X-Files both promoted the regime's gendered logic and raised significant questions about that logic and its gendered roles.

From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic.

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood.

This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present.

Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades.

This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the "e;cinematic envelope"e; with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes.

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.

This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies.

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

Cinema articulates the economic anxieties of each generation of filmmakers and audiences.

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value.

"e;Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity,"e; wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914.

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat.

Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art.