Put your Christmas-movie expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite holiday-film moments.
This book uncovers the history of exclusion and erasure of women's work within the Mumbai film industry and highlights the challenges women face at every stage of filmmaking, from pre-production to distribution.
This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.
This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes, the affective histories that surround minicomics, and the implications for conceptualizing the subject that writes, draws, photocopies, distributes, reads, and stores minicomics.
Although the 1930s and 1940s marked Hollywood's "e;Golden Age"e; for some, Black male actors were most often confined to minor roles as servants or porters.
The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since the Historikerstreit of the 1980s.
Taxi Driver, Toro salvaje, Buenos muchachos, Casino, El lobo de Wall Street, Los infiltrados, El irlandés… Con estas y muchas otras películas, Martin Scorsese ha dejado una huella indeleble en el último medio siglo del cine.
Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is a film of striking significance, which achieved widespread critical acclaim for its well crafted and superbly acted study of suburban morality in 1970s America.
Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is a film of striking significance, which achieved widespread critical acclaim for its well crafted and superbly acted study of suburban morality in 1970s America.
Drawing on extensive research of 153 feature films by 65 female directors, this book examines the dislocation between Chinese women's cinema and Western feminist theories.
This collective work brings together contributions from academic researchers and film critics who offer analyses of the singular aesthetics of Filipino filmmaker, Lav Diaz's cinema.
Drawing on extensive research of 153 feature films by 65 female directors, this book examines the dislocation between Chinese women's cinema and Western feminist theories.
This collective work brings together contributions from academic researchers and film critics who offer analyses of the singular aesthetics of Filipino filmmaker, Lav Diaz's cinema.
Through labelling theory, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema examines how stigma affects marginalised youth across global societies by analysing key films that reflect broader social trends.
Through labelling theory, Crime and Marginalisation: Young People in World Cinema examines how stigma affects marginalised youth across global societies by analysing key films that reflect broader social trends.
Tricksters of Gotham explores the "e;trickster"e; tale through an in-depth look at Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.
Within this book, Ruth Netzer explores the archetypal components of therapist-patient relations in cinema from the perspective of Jungian archetypal symbolism, and within the context of myth and ritual.
Within this book, Ruth Netzer explores the archetypal components of therapist-patient relations in cinema from the perspective of Jungian archetypal symbolism, and within the context of myth and ritual.
David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century.
Highlighting the importance of Third Cinema on twenty-first-century political filmmaking, this book examines films that have adopted Third Cinema's experimental film techniques for the purpose of political intervention.
Highlighting the importance of Third Cinema on twenty-first-century political filmmaking, this book examines films that have adopted Third Cinema's experimental film techniques for the purpose of political intervention.
Legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889-20 March 1968) was born in Copenhagen to a single mother, Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, a Swede.
This book explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-depth examination of Capcom's Dead Rising series, which alludes to, recontextualises, and builds upon George A.
This book explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-depth examination of Capcom's Dead Rising series, which alludes to, recontextualises, and builds upon George A.
Salas, negocios y públicos de cine en Latinoamérica, 1896-1960 nos brinda claves para aventurarnos a una mirada más compleja de las sociedades del siglo XX, cuando el cine se constituía en una experiencia cultural que ocupaba el centro de la escena; y lo hace considerando la necesidad de situar espacial y temporalmente nuestras tradiciones académicas sobre el tema para no reproducir viejas, y no tan viejas, prácticas de dependencia intelectual que obliteran los aportes teóricos y artísticos latinoamericanos.
This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.
This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.
This timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other marginalised queer subjects through the mobilisation of both material and diegetic space.
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1969 and 1973.
