Film history, theory or criticism

Shooting Midnight Cowboy: The Controversial Classic That Transformed American CinemaIn Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author Glenn Frankel reveals the captivating history behind the groundbreaking 1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular culture.

This book examines why thousands of cinemas opened in Britain in the space of a few years before the start of the First World War.

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller.

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West.

One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noir films.

The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy.

El propósito de la presente investigación es doble; por un lado arroja luz al conocimiento de los procesos de adaptación, producción y censura de las recreaciones (tele)fílmicas españolas basadas en una de las obras canónicas más célebres de la historia literaria hispana.

What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities?

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own.

World War II on Film examines the war through the lens of 12 films.

Synthesizes research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology to provide an understanding of how film evokes emotion.

The first computer-generated animated feature film, Toy Story (1995) sustains a dynamic vitality that proved instantly appealing to audiences of all ages.

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo!

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

Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People's Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected.

How do films work?

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present.

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema.

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man.

Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents.

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Drawing on cinema and media studies, art history, American studies, and postcolonial studies, this innovative book offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics.

Melvyn Stokes's study of the 1946 classic Gilda describes the film's production and reception history, as well as addressing Rita Hayworth's complex star persona and ethnicity identity; Gilda's status as a 'noir' film; and what the film had to say about relations between men and women in a world transformed by war.

In '100 Road Movies', each entry will offer an insightful critique in terms of aesthetics, plot structure and defining formal and thematic features, whilst also considering the title in the wider context and understanding of by what criteria a film may be considered a road movie.

Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship.

Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran's leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers.

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino.

Das spätmittelalterliche Lehnswesen bietet in seiner Quellenfülle großes Forschungspotential.

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand.

America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010 is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States.

'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye.

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Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War.

Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors.

Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues.

First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War.

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into their neck.

The term 'cityscaping' is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media - text, film and artefacts.

Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events.

This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.

From the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award-nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films.

Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema.

John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western.

From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors-William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed.

A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring films of modern cinema its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit.