African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.
The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "e;quality"e; films that promulgated "e;respectable"e; culture.
This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou.
As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "e;divine decadence"e;--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "e;shocking"e; British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin.
In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.
Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology.
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.
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 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.
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.
Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public.
As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cultural misunderstandings around issues of mental health.
As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cultural misunderstandings around issues of mental health.
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine offers a comprehensive critical history of artificial intelligence (AI) in Western cinema, tracing how films from Metropolis to contemporary science fiction transform technological anxiety into cultural fantasy.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit entwirft entlang der Ansätze von Genette für die literarische Erzähltheorie und derer von Gaudreault für das Kino eine Typologie, welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der narratologischen Struktur der beiden Kunstformen feststellt.
Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 6 (very good), University of Zurich (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: The language of William Shakespeare's plays has inspired film-makers ever since the invention of cinema.
Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: A, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: Globalisation has had a considerable impact on the trends and patterns within the contemporary film industry.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Macromedia Fachhochschule der Medien Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit untersucht Ästhetik, Narration und Moral aus Roy Anderssons Perspektive.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Kunst - Allgemeines, Kunsttheorie, Note: 1,3, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Veranstaltung: Bild und Einbildung.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den folgenden Ausführungen soll untersucht werden, ob die Transgressionen im Film "The Purple Rose of Cairo"wirklich nur, bizarr wirken, oder überdies eine gewisse Paradoxie aufweisen und damit in sich widersprüchlich sind.
Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,7, University of Regensburg, language: English, abstract: The Ukrainian-American avant-garde video artist Maya Deren is going to be in the object of study in the main body of this paper which focuses on the question of what, in particular, makes her representations of femininity outstanding and contrary to the ones in the contemporary woman's film.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Allgemeines, Note: 2, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inwieweit der Film "Girl on the Train" unzuverlässig erzählt wird, soll in dieser Arbeit analysiert werden, wofür die Begriffe des "offenen" und "täuschend unzuverlässigen Erzählens" von Kindt und Köppe herangezogen werden sowie Genettes Begriffe der Fokalisierung aus der Erzähltheorie.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,0, University of Gottingen (Seminar fur Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), course: The "e;Roaring Twenties"e;: Die Massenkultur der 1920er Jahre in transatlantischer Perspektive, language: English, abstract: For as long as there have been moving pictures, there have also been attempts to regulate their content.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: Distinction, Royal Holloway, University of London, language: English, abstract: This dissertation endeavors to examine the existence of cultural imperialism in 21st century film on India.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universität Paderborn (Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Literarische Pathologien - Wahnsinn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit mit dem Titel "Welche Funktion übernimmt der schwarze Schwan in Darren Aronofskys Black Swan?
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Mannheim (Philosophische Fakultat), course: Narration im Film/Narration in Film, language: English, abstract: This term paper analyzes the importance of death in the film "e;Lucky Number Slevin"e; (McGuigan, 2006).
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Medienkultur und Theater), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich Autorschaft von Regisseuren in deren Filmen konstituiert.
In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the 2016 film musical La La Land.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit soll sein, die DEFA Produktion "Dornröschen" (1971) auf ideologisch aufgeladene Inhalte zu untersuchen sowie herauszufinden, inwiefern politische Motive in Walter Becks filmischer Adaption der ursprünglich von den Gebrüder Grimm stammenden Version des Märchens Dornröschen zu finden sein mögen.
Drawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibals journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly adored antihero.
In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the director's work.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität des Saarlandes (FR Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar Erzählen in Theorie und Praxis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werden die kompositorischen Werkzeuge zur Vermittlung der Identität-Motivik in Frischs "Mein Name sei Gantenbein" und Scorseses "Taxidriver" beleuchtet.
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine offers a comprehensive critical history of artificial intelligence (AI) in Western cinema, tracing how films from Metropolis to contemporary science fiction transform technological anxiety into cultural fantasy.
In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the director's work.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Mannheim (Philosophische Fakultät - Lehrstuhl Neuere Germanistik I), Veranstaltung: HS "I did it for me": Dramaturgie, Erzählverfahren und Ideologie neuerer Serien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Thematik Islamophopie und untersucht, inwieweit diese in der Fernsehserie "Homeland" präsent ist.
