Film: styles and genres

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit soll sich mit der filmischen Geburt von Godzilla und mit Godzilla als Metapher für ein nukleares Trauma beschäftigen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In welchem Spannungsverhältnis stehen der Kriegsfilm, das Heldenepos, das Biopic und der Historienfilm im Film „Braveheart“?

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Dusseldorf "e;Heinrich Heine"e;, language: English, abstract: In this paper Tarantino's movie "e;Django Unchained"e; will be analyzed in respect of the genres that can be applied to it in order to figure out whether it is a genre hybrid and what effects this hybridity has.

This book is a critical history of Marathi cinema, from its formative years in the 1920s till the end of 1990s.

The book presents selected papers from the Academic Track of the World Science Fiction Convention 2025.

The book presents selected papers from the Academic Track of the World Science Fiction Convention 2025.

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization.

Un exhaustivo estudio de los más de cien años de cine, desde las grandes producciones a las películas más desconocidas.

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization.

Learn about the visual and performing arts in The Movie Book.

The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States.

Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small.

Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen.

The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States.

Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small.

Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen.

Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies.

Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies.

Labeled "e;the Italian Don Siegel"e; by Quentin Tarantino, Fernando Di Lio (1932-2000) helped create the distinct style of Italian film noir.

In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war.

As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn't have to mean the end of the romantic comedy.

As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn't have to mean the end of the romantic comedy.

In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war.

We're currently in the golden age of superhero blockbusters.

We're currently in the golden age of superhero blockbusters.

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960.

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960.

A deep dive into classic noir films and how filmmakers today are refreshing and updating the genre for new generations.

A deep dive into classic noir films and how filmmakers today are refreshing and updating the genre for new generations.

In the years since Georges Melies's Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) was released in 1902, more than 1000 science fiction films have been made by filmmakers around the world.

In the years since Georges Melies's Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) was released in 1902, more than 1000 science fiction films have been made by filmmakers around the world.

';One of the best making-of books to hit the shelves' BooklistFor the first time, the director and co-creators of This is Spinal Tap provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary.

Film comedy has been around as long as cinema itself.

The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead.

By the mid-1920s, Buster Keaton had established himself as one of the geniuses of cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr.

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work.

In 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded a revolution in the moviemaking industry with the advent of synchronized sound in full-length motion pictures.

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear.

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear.

Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first produced.

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization.

Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably.

Why do funny movies make us laugh?

This unique collection explores the complex issue of vigilantism, how it is represented in popular culture, and what is its impact on behavior and the implications for the rule of law.

This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world.

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales.

In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J.

Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema.

Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres.