Film history, theory or criticism

SIX FRIENDS.

Das ›Wunderbare‹ in seiner Komplexität und Vielfältigkeit sowie seinen fachwissenschaftlich kontrovers diskutierten Varianten ist der zentrale Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses ersten interdisziplinär angelegten Sammelbandes zu Dimensionen des Wunderbaren in Kunst und Kultur.

This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity.

Mit der Erforschung der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihrer Medienverbünde im Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1945 sowie der Erfassung sämtlicher Daten in einem Onlineportal zur Recherche und visuellen Analyse liegt ein innovativer Beitrag zur Geschichtsschreibung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur vor.

Die Britische Filmindustrie im Überblick.

Die Geschichte des chinesischen Films ist maßgeblich von den gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umbrüchen dieses Jahrhunderts in China geprägt.

Thea von Harbou, Romanschriftstellerin, Drehbuchautorin, Regisseurin, Ehe- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit Fritz Lang, blieb nach dessen Emigration 1933 nach Amerika in Deutschland und wurde zu einer der berühmtesten Filmschaffenden der Nazizeit.

Internationales Standardwerk der Filmgeschichtsschreibung.

Als ein Indikator sich anbahnender epochaler Wandlungen dominiert Phantastik viele Bereiche der Kultur, insbesondere der Alltagskultur.

Das Lexikon schließt die Lücke, die seither zwischen der Lexikografie zum Film und den Nachschlagewerken zur Literatur bestand.

Filmstars gehören zu den bekanntesten öffentlichen Personen des 20.

Quentin Tarantino gehört nicht nur zu den berühmtesten Filmemachern der Gegenwart, sondern ist wohl auch der mitreißendste Filmliebhaber der Welt.

This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Haydn Smith, with a foreword from award-winning director Asif Kapadia, explores 100 of the most compelling documentaries, each with the power to radically change our perceptions and challenge the way we see the world.

Herausragende Filme, großes Kino – bei der Flut an bewegten Bildern, die über unsere Kinoleinwände und Fernsehbildschirme flimmern, braucht es manchmal den Blick des Kenners, um das Besondere zu finden oder in Erinnerung zu rufen.

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century.

A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema's visual nature.

Seit ihrem siebten Lebensjahr malt Liv mit viel Fantasie aber auch hohem Wiedererkennungswert die Heldinnen und Helden der Filme, die sie gemeinsam mit ihrer Familie sieht.

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers.

Can the stories people tell influence the way they see the world?

This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism.

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns.

The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels.

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies.

This groundbreaking edited collection is the first major study to explore the intersection between cognitive theory and documentary film studies, focusing on a variety of formats, such as first-person, wildlife, animated and slow TV documentary, as well as docudrama and web videos.

The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived.

Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement.

Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema.

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system.

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE's Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King).

This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

This book explores the rich complexity of Japan's film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology.

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing.

This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined 'extreme cinema'.

This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This collection explores the centrality of The Who's classic album, and Franc Roddam's cult classic film of adolescent life, Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British subcultural studies, and to a continuing fascination with Mod style and culture.

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence.