Films, cinema

The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully employed to analyze popular culture.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of 'East' and 'West' in the humanities and social sciences.

Mistakes are easy to make, but often difficult to undo.

A killer monkey.

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama.

The updated third edition of this popular book offers a clear and detailed overview of the postproduction process, showing readers how to manage each step in taking a film, TV, or media project from production to final delivery, from scheduling and budgeting through editing, sound, visual effects, and more.

How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film?

In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.

Science fiction movie audiences may sometimes wonder how fictitious the science in a film really is.

This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes.

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States?

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies.

A fascinating survey that shows how America's media and politics have influenced each other over the last 200 years.

Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films?

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.

A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting.

From 'audet IX to Zytchin III, this book covers it all.

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films.

Wie erzählt man eine originelle filmische Geschichte?

With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b.

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Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962.

With more than 180 films during a career spanning several decades, Jesus Franco (1930-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and chameleon-like Spanish director, covering virtually every genre from horror to film noir, adventure and erotic, and adapting to all kinds of productions.

Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata .

There is now no shortage of media for us to consume, from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides.

Hailed by Japanese critics as a milestone in the study of contemporary Japanese media, this book explores the contemporary 'boom' in Japanese media representations of the recent past.

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema.

Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker--has captured the attention of readers like few new characters have in eight decades of Batman comics.

Der Film war zu Beginn der 1940er Jahre noch zu jung, um bereits über ein größeres Schrifttum zu seiner Geschichte und den vielfältigen gesellschaftlichen, technischen oder ökonomischen Ausprägungen zu verfügen.

The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair.

The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remain one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society.

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema.

Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995.

Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.

This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology.

Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but was disdained by others of comparable talent.

In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began.

Working for Paramount in the 1940s playwright and scriptwriter Preston Sturges directed a succession of exceptional comedies of which the 'Palm Beach Story' is perhaps the finest.

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This is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic icon of Tinseltown whose rule over the hearts of American moviegoers lasted for more than half a century.

From the inception of the science fiction film, writers, directors, producers, and actors have understood that the genre lends itself to a level of social commentary not available in other formats.

Understanding how commercials are made is the key to doing it right.

At a time when debates about social inequality are in the spotlight, it is worth examining how the two most popular media of the 20th and 21st centuries--film and television--have shaped the representation of social classes.

Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies - and those have by and large been limited to the films and filmmakers most visible on the international film circuit.