Films, cinema

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema.

In 1895, Louis Lumiere supposedly said that cinema is "e;an invention without a future.

Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu.

With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years.

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium.

Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers.

In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C.

Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s.

In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video.

Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century?

Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible.

Edgar G.

Discovered by Charlie Chaplin in 1919, four-year-old Jackie Coogan soared to overnight stardom for his title role in the silent masterpiece, The Kid.

Gaspar No 's Irreversible is uncompromising and visceral, an essential piece of modern cinema.

From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era.

This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime.

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 19581977explores how documentarians working between the election of John F.

This book focuses on modern theatrical adaptations that rework classic plays in new British and Irish settings.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations-such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis.

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy-Lord Dunsany, E.

Robert B.

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies.

This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact.

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance).

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

The idea of the "e;mamma italiana"e; is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy.

The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist.

This book examines performances in the American film industry's highest-earning and most influential films.

In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context.

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art.

An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen.

This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema.

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability.

During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times - both a symptom and a symbol of new social values.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films.

Most producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century.

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor.

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders.

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture.

This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents.

This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies.

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote.