Film history, theory or criticism

This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South  through  the  prisms  of  media  and  cultural  studies.

Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era.

Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority.

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema.

In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J.

A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy.

Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has nevertheless left their intimate relationship to the troubled politics of 1960s Italy unexamined.

This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the women's biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over the past decade.

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars.

From British soldier Flora Sandes to the famed World War II Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force, women across the globe have stepped up to defend their countries during every major and minor conflict of the twentieth century, and filmmakers have long attempted to capture their stories.

Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare invented or refined.

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate.

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "e;postmodernism"e;.

Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification.

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

There is no movie musical more fun than Singin in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years.

Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie.

"e;An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses .

Over the last five years, a cycle of films has emerged addressing the ongoing Iraq conflict.

Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars.

Bollywood, a popular nomenclature for India's "e;national"e; film industry in the Hindi language, along with the Taj Mahal, yoga, Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the best-known introductions and universally recognized associations with India across the world today.

Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research.

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, performance, and structuring maneuvers intended to foster the impression of a screen reality that does not exist as presented.

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production.

One of the many reasons why children and adults love the How to Train Your Dragon films is the music.

The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King.

A fully updated edition of David J.

Die U-Bahn taucht immer dann auf, wenn das Kino in den Großstadt-Untergrund abtaucht.

For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience.

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First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of 'East' and 'West' in the humanities and social sciences.

How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film?

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States?

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies.

Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films?

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.

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films.

"e;Welcome to the European family!

Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata .

There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides.

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema.

The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair.

The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remain one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society.

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema.

Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.

This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology.

Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but was disdained by others of comparable talent.

Working for Paramount in the 1940s playwright and scriptwriter Preston Sturges directed a succession of exceptional comedies of which the 'Palm Beach Story' is perhaps the finest.