Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research.
Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research.
Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification.
Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification.
Based on the premise that a society's sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the war film.
Based on the premise that a society's sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the war film.
Allgegenwärtig und auf vielfache Weise in den sozialen Alltag eingebettet sind die Produkte aus Film und Fernsehen ebenso Vermittler als auch Archivare gesellschaftlichen Wissens.
Allgegenwärtig und auf vielfache Weise in den sozialen Alltag eingebettet sind die Produkte aus Film und Fernsehen ebenso Vermittler als auch Archivare gesellschaftlichen Wissens.
Though the phenomenon known as "e;unreliable narration"e; or "e;narrative unreliability"e; has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration.
Though the phenomenon known as "e;unreliable narration"e; or "e;narrative unreliability"e; has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration.
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.
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.
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland.
Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity.
At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures - 'turning points' - in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever.
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.
Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity.
Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory.
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.
Atmosphere, Cinema, Architecture: Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place explores cinema and architecture as ambient and affective settings or circumstances that can enable the emergence of atmosphere.
A granular history (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, which Publishers Weekly calls a rollicking portrait of a director on the cusp of greatness and Booklist, in a starred review, says, Hazelgrove’s feverishly focused retelling of the broadcast as well as the fallout makes for a propulsive read as a study of both a cultural moment of mass hysteria and the singular voice at its root.
Dieses Buch versteht sich als eine Charakterologie der großen Filmkomiker wie Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Langdon, Fields, die Marx Brothers, Tati, Karl Valentin und Hans Moser.
Wie haben die Filmemacher der zwanziger Jahre politisches Engagement ästhetisch zum Ausdruck zu bringen versucht, was für filmische Mittel verwandten sie dazu, welche filmspezifische »Sprache« entstand dabei?
Über die Darstellung von Krieg im Hollywood-FilmAmerikas traumatische Kriegsgeschichte wird am ehesten verständlich, wenn man sie durch die Linse von Filmen erfasst.
Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main area in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.
Am Film des Mainstream-Kinos wurde seit den 20er Jahren von Schriftstellern, Kunst- und Kulturkritikern, aber auch von den Theoretikern und Publizisten des Films immer wieder die Neigung zum Formelhaften, zu Klischees, zu konventionellen Bildern, wiederkehrenden Erzählmustern und Vorstellungswelten hervorgehoben.
