The ultimate compendium for any Norwegian mitten enthusiast, this gorgeous and inspiring resource was produced in conjunction with a one-of-a-kind exhibition of gloves and mittens from Selbu at the Sverresborg Trondelag Folkemuseum.
Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon.
Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism.
Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China.
From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s "e;porno chic,"e; adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history.
From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s "e;porno chic,"e; adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history.
Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has received little detailed attention in relation to film.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
African Documentary Cinema investigates the inception and trajectory of contemporary documentary filmmaking in sub-Saharan African countries and their diasporas.
From the silent-film era to the blockbusters of today,Horror Unmaskedisa fun-filled, highly illustrated dive into the past influences and present popularity of the horror film genre.
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'.
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'.
While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear construction of time.
While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear construction of time.
Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the "e;Ranown cycle,"e; is both the best and most representative of the whole cycle, which has been called "e;the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking.
En un fascinante viaje en compañía de los héroes de Grecia y Roma en su paso por la pantalla, este libro invita a conocer cómo fueron transformados los personajes míticos e históricos, en un camino de los mitos cinematográfico.
In nur zwanzig Jahren, von seiner Einführung durch die Brüder Skladanowsky und die Brüder Lumière 1895 bis zu David Wark Griffithʼ The Birth of a Nation 1915, hat der Film seine Sprache gefunden und etabliert.
Störungen der Genreerwartung entstehen, wenn etablierte Muster durch narrative, dramaturgische, allgemein ästhetische oder andere Strategien unterlaufen werden.
Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television.
The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces - artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological - that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement.
The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces - artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological - that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement.
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland.
Analoge Fotografien begegnen uns im digitalen Zeitalter oft als Dinge, die – nachdem sie verwahrt, verloren oder sogar weggeworfen worden waren – (wieder-)gefunden werden.
Analoge Fotografien begegnen uns im digitalen Zeitalter oft als Dinge, die – nachdem sie verwahrt, verloren oder sogar weggeworfen worden waren – (wieder-)gefunden werden.
Bislang hat die Forschung alternativen Formen der Filmherstellung in der ehemaligen DDR – und den sozialistischen Produktionssystemen im Allgemeinen – wenig bis gar keine Beachtung geschenkt.
Der Kulturaustausch zwischen der Sowjetunion und anderen, vor allem westeuropäischen Ländern war bestimmt durch die ideologisch bedingte Abgrenzung zur Außenwelt und eine damit einhergehende ständige Kontrolle und Zensur.
