This book considers how the long-standing superhero genre has been reinvigorated in the twenty-first century as an interlocutor of security and surveillance discourses following the events of ‘9/11’.
The book is about the multiple meanings and instances of masks (and makeup which seems to have a mask-like function such as in Kiss, many black metal bands, and Insane Clown Posse) within popular culture, specifically films and music.
The book is about the multiple meanings and instances of masks (and makeup which seems to have a mask-like function such as in Kiss, many black metal bands, and Insane Clown Posse) within popular culture, specifically films and music.
The Lure of the Imageshows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies.
The Lure of the Imageshows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies.
This book considers how the long-standing superhero genre has been reinvigorated in the twenty-first century as an interlocutor of security and surveillance discourses following the events of ‘9/11’.
American Film and the Culture Wars: Battleground in the Trump Era is an exploration of the relationship between American cinema and what many have referred to as the "e;Trump era,"e; the "e;Trump age,"e; or even the "e;Trump phenomenon.
Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves.
Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves.
Superhero film and television often portrays lead female characters, especially those who are non-White and gender non-conforming, as sexually threatening, deceptive, hysterical, or inherently evil.
Entre la cancelación y la veneración acrítica de los clásicos existe otro camino: el diálogo respetuoso pero sincero con un pasado que, aunque nos incomode, sigue siendo parte fundamental de quiénes somos.
El filósofo y miembro de la Academia Francesa Alain Finkielkraut analiza, de la mano de algunos de sus autores favoritos como Milan Kundera y Philip Roth, la manera en que el poder otrora formativo de los grandes autores y obras del canon literario de Europa se va disolviendo bajo la sobra del pensamiento único de lo políticamente correcto de la sociedad actual: un recorrido por la «cultura de la cancelación» desde el impacto del #MeToo al movimiento Black Lives Matter y los nuevos ecologismos.
Les chansons, liées au cinéma depuis ses origines, ont acquis une force nouvelle et singulière tant dans les productions commerciales que dans les films d’auteur récents, notamment en Europe et en Amérique latine.
A través de una joven generación de actrices que imaginaron nuevos modos de ser mujer desde la indisciplina y la liberación de sus cuerpos, este libro invita a revisar el periodo convulso de la transición democrática en España.
Siempre que hay mediación tecnológica solo existe, en términos de relato audiovisual, la parte de realidad que puede ser captada con los medios disponibles.
Partiendo de los modelos clásicos de Huxley y Orwell, en un itinerario que nos llevará desde "Metrópolis" hasta el OASIS de "Ready Player One", el presente volumen notificará, a partir de una variada selección filmográfica, el fracaso de estos modelos de sociedad rígidos y reglamentados.
Vicente Molina Foix siempre ha escrito sobre cine, vertiente literaria que ha compaginado a lo largo de toda su vida con la poesía, la novela, los textos teatrales o los guiones cinematográficos.
Essay aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 2,0, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Von den 1950er und bis in die 1970er Jahre hat das Kino im Zeichen von Spiegel und Gesicht aus dem reflexiven und selbstreferenziellen Potenzial des Kinos geschöpft.
This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film.
En Las doce vidas de Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explora el fenómeno de Hitchcock a partir de doce aspectos de la vida del genial director, con el fin de proporcionar una biografía enriquecida, no lineal pero dotada de sentidos y conexiones hasta ahora inexplorados.
This book uncovers the history of the concession stand in American moviegoing, which was coined 'The Second Box Office' by trade press magazines in the 1930s, such was its importance to the economic viability of movie theatres.
