Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire's point of view.
This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.
With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones--archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe--has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the big screen.
Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race.
A Queer Film Classic on the 2005 film debut by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Valle (best known for Dallas Buyers Club and Wild), about a young gay man who struggles to find his sense of self amidst a "e;crazy"e; family of four brothers and a homophobic father who seeks to cure him.
A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction.
A Queer Film Classic on Canadian director Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, her quirky and hopeful first feature film which made its premiere at Cannes and won its Prix de la jeunesse.
A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America.
Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "e;Hermione-Approved"e; MuggleNet podcast by the same name.
Almost 20 years since he first appeared in Henning Mankel's novel Faceless Killers, the sad Swedish detective Kurt Wallander has become a worldwide success story.
American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre.
Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker deliver a highly original exploration of how the government-entertainment complex has influenced the worlds most popular movie genresuperhero films.
This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s.
Del papa Francisco a Evita, de Gilda al clan Puccio, de San Martín al Che Guevara, los capítulos de este libro realizan un recorrido por distintas películas biográficas del cine argentino de los últimos años.
Teniendo en cuenta que tanto la historia escrita como la historia audiovisual constituyen actos de interpretación articulados a los contextos de producción y, en ese sentido, pueden hablarnos tanto del presente en que son producidas, como del hecho histórico que intentan evocar, este libro parte de la premisa que considera el audiovisual y la historia escrita como fuentes y objetos de reflexión sobre los imaginarios de la historia, los usos del pasado y los condicionamientos e incidencias sociales de la producción del conocimiento histórico.
Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator.
Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator.
Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television seeks to identify and appreciate the continual influence of the ancient Sanskrit drama treatise, the Natyashastra, and its theory of aesthetics, the rasa theory, on the unique narrative attributes of Indian cinema.
Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television seeks to identify and appreciate the continual influence of the ancient Sanskrit drama treatise, the Natyashastra, and its theory of aesthetics, the rasa theory, on the unique narrative attributes of Indian cinema.
An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time.
"ROUTE 66, FILA 7" es un viaje de cine por los grandes clásicos norteamericanos del Séptimo Arte, un recorrido que te transportará desde los años 30 hasta principios de los 60 con una revisión sentimental y emocional por todos aquellos grandes momentos que, aunque fueron ficción, siempre formarán parte de nuestra memoria.
Depuis ses origines, le cinéma est lié à l'histoire dans une double perspective rétrospective et prospective, qu'il soit geste d'appropriation du passé par la mémoire ou qu'il soit mouvement d'anticipation du futur.
A 25th anniversary history and celebration of The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most cherished American films of the late twentieth century and one of the finest movies made from a Stephen King story.
With a worldwide box office of more than a half-billion dollars, The Purge franchise has become one of the top horror franchises in film history, with many reviewers wowed by the concept of the series and differentiating on the execution.
Film- und Fernsehproduktionen wie »Der Baader Meinhof Komplex«, »Contergan« oder auch Stefan Raab's »TV total« rückten in den letzten Jahren nicht nur aufgrund ihrer filmischen Inhalte in den Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion, sondern auch anlässlich rechtlicher AuseinanderSetzungen: Immer häufiger fühlen sich Personen von dokumentarischen oder halbdokumentarischen Produktionen in ihren Persönlichkeitsrechten verletzt und ziehen vor Gericht.
Das Genre ist die narrative DNS jeder Story und seine Wahl somit die wichtigste dramaturgische Grundsatzentscheidung, die Drehbuchautor*innen und Schriftsteller*innen treffen müssen.
Werbe-, Produkt-, Image-, Schulungs-, Messe- oder Eventfilme – der Corporate Film boomt und die visuelle Präsenz von Unternehmen und Organisationen gewinnt weiter an Bedeutung.
"Nichts ist spannender als die Realität": Ganz nach diesem Motto teilt der mehrfach prämierte Dokumentarist Thomas Schadt seine Leidenschaft für den Beruf des Dokumentarfilmers mit uns.
Der bisherige Fokus der TV-Serienforschung auf US-amerikanische Produktionen hat gemeinsam mit dem steten Aufstieg innovativer Serienformate aus der Romania zu einer großen Forschungslücke geführt.
Anhand paradigmatischer sowjetischer, ost- und westdeutscher Kriegsfilme über den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die die kollektive Gewalterfahrung und vor allem die zentralen Ereignisse der Erinnerungs- und somit Identitätspolitik jeweiliger Staaten verarbeiten, erfasst die Studie genuin filmische Strategien, mit welchen Geschichte und Erinnerung gestaltet wird.
