Film history, theory or criticism

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.

The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II.

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play.

This book explores the Situationist International's paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972.

This book explores the Situationist International's paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972.

Immersion across media opens our perception to altered states of consciousness.

Immersion across media opens our perception to altered states of consciousness.

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Well before "e;the twist"e; had become M.

This book functions as an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking and the motion picture camera.

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of public interventions in European film industries—from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe—from the end of World War II to the 1980s, bringing together key scholars in European screen studies,.

This book proposes a groundbreaking exploration into “affective intermediality,” an emerging paradigm that centres on the interplay between media, embodied experiences and material reality.

African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries.

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play.

The Law of the Looking Glass: Cinema in Poland, 1896-1939 reveals the complex relationship between nationhood, national language, and national cinema in Europe before World War II.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema, tracing how these portrayals have emerged, shifted, and been contested across different historical and political moments.

This book functions as an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking and the motion picture camera.

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of public interventions in European film industries—from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe—from the end of World War II to the 1980s, bringing together key scholars in European screen studies,.

For over 50 years, Albert R.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema, tracing how these portrayals have emerged, shifted, and been contested across different historical and political moments.

This book proposes a groundbreaking exploration into “affective intermediality,” an emerging paradigm that centres on the interplay between media, embodied experiences and material reality.

French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century, exploring the particularities of the genre on both an industrial and a theoretical basis to identify an essential 'Frenchness'.

French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century, exploring the particularities of the genre on both an industrial and a theoretical basis to identify an essential 'Frenchness'.

This volume is a critical exploration of cross-cultural Bible film reception presented through an analysis of the responses of UK and South African audiences to The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark (2014) and Son of Man (2006).

This volume is a critical exploration of cross-cultural Bible film reception presented through an analysis of the responses of UK and South African audiences to The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark (2014) and Son of Man (2006).

Robert T.

Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them.

This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art.

This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip.

Este libro traza las continuidades y discontinuidades filmicas subterraneas del legado del surrealismo y del compromiso politico dentro del estado espanol desde los anos treinta hasta la actualidad, desde la obra pionera de Carlos Velo, Jose Val del Omar, Luis Bunuel y Salvador Dali, hasta el cine militante actual forjado en la estela del 15-M.

Durante los años setenta, ochenta y noventa del siglo XX, e incluso en la primera década del XXI, el escritor, realizador y productor Augusto M.

"e;Script Analysis"e; explores the core components of cinematic storytelling, offering readers a framework to dissect and appreciate the underlying structure of films and television.

After World War II, U.

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the countrys borders, Eduardo Gonzlez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (19292005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Bentez-Rojo (19312005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b.

On the cusp of the twenty-first century, the notion of art as revelation of reality held sway in film aesthetics and criticism.

On the cusp of the twenty-first century, the notion of art as revelation of reality held sway in film aesthetics and criticism.

All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres.

Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life.

Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time.

Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film.