Film history, theory or criticism

Fernsehserien erfreuen sich einer ungebrochenen - populären wie wissenschaftlichen - Aufmerksamkeit.

In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century.

In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United States.

Celebrate the world of movie monsters and beasts with Kaiju Unleashed, a complete reference guide to strange creatures in film and how they came to be.

In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they wrote.

Lassen Sie sich von Hannes Rall durch die faszinierende Welt des Animationsfilms führen.

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics.

How do films work?

Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maiwenn is the first book to link these five filmmakers together through an analysis of the relationship between filming one's own body and the creative body.

Using recent scholarship in ethnography and popular culture, Miller throws light on both what these series present and what is missing, how various long-standing issues are raised and framed differently over time, and what new issues appear.

The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces.

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.

Papua New Guinea s two most powerful legal orders customary law and state law undermine one another in criminal matters.

A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, this volume combines methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studies, critical race and gender studies and anthropological thick description.

Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "e;inferential walks"e; through Italian culture in the first decades of this century.

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the "e;stone phenomenon"e; in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone.

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Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity.

Analyzes The Donna Reed Show, which aired from 1958 to 1966, as a key moment of cultural transition.

Seit Anbeginn der Filmgeschichte spielt das Thema Gewalt im amerikanischen Kino eine wichtige Rolle.

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers.

Twenty-one philosophers join forces to investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future.

This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film.

This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on Screen examines in depth the origins, development and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past 75 years.

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's lifework has been studied through the lens of queer studies, film studies, poetry, and many other angles, but there are themes that one could still study.

Marvel, like other media "e;universes,"e; is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity.

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital.

Christian religious imagery and symbolism has a long history in American baseball cinema, from The Busher (1919) to Angels in the Outfield(1994) and present-day movies.

Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century.

Filmtiere schreiben sich seit Beginn der Filmgeschichte in unsere Vorstellungen von Tieren und auch in die Selbstentwürfe der Spezies Mensch ein.

Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak.

Der Band enthält eine Auswahl von László Moholy-Nagys Schriften zum FilmAus dem Inhalt:1 «Produktion-Reproduktion» (1922)2 «Dynamik der Großstadt» (1924/25)3 «Das Simultan- oder Polykino» (1925)4 [Auszüge aus:] Die Bühne im Bauhaus (1925)5 «Das Kinoplakat» (1925)6 «Film im Bauhaus.

This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present.

'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies.

The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film's failure to find production funding through a major studio.

This collection offers close readings on Hammer's cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed.

From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century.

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised.

Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity.

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Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment?

Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure.

This is a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day.

The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One.

Place, Setting, Perspective examines the films of the Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, from a fresh viewpoint, employing the increasingly significant research area of space within a filmic text.