A Waterstones Best Book of 2024There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.
Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best First Monograph AwardIn A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980.
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.
This book meticulously examines the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (including numerous letters) to present their thoughts on communication and media studies from the perspective of "e;world intercourse"e; to reveal their spread in all areas of social information dissemination of ideas.
This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club.
Adopting a multi-perspective ontological approach to language in social life, this book investigates the concept of journalistic stance, defining it as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations.
This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture.
This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films.
This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films.
The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture.
A través de diversas exploraciones del vínculo entre los cines latinoamericanos y el período de la transición democrática, este libro se propone abrir polémicas, plantear interrogantes, combatir contra lugares comunes, rever nociones y lecturas canonizadas, fomentar la emergencia de categorías analíticas que den cuenta de la complejidad del fenómeno focalizado.
This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009.
This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations.
This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009.
This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations.
This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices.
For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most memorable and influential American roots music soundtracks in film history.
Adult-directed utopian fiction has historically rejected depictions of persons with disabilities, underrepresenting a community that comprises an estimated 15% of the world's population.
In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they wrote.
En 1993, lors de négociations dans le cadre du GATT qur l(audiovisuel, le monde de la télévisine t du cinéma français s'enflamme contre la menca américaine.
Ce livre couvre une aire culturelle « turcopersane » allant de l’actuelle Turquie à l’Asie centrale, en passant par l’Iran, et réunit ainsi des mondes musulmans chiites comme sunnites, culturellement et politiquement pluriels (empire ou nation).
Con el impulso de un camino andado certeramente, en este segundo volumen el critico Ayala Blanco revisa las cintas de una industria cinematografica ya establecida y, al mismo tiempo, aborda con mirada atenta las renovadoras experiencias cinematograficas del cine independiente, senalando lucidos aciertos y tambien caminos equivocados.
La decimocuarta entrega del celebre abecedario del cine mexicano, precedida de La aventura / busqueda / condicion / disolvencia / eficacia / fugacidad / grandeza / heretica / ilusion / justeza / khatarsis / lucidez / madurez del cine mexicano, presenta en exclusiva material inedito de la investigacion en curso del critico cinematografico con mayor trayectoria en nuestro pais.
Hoy convertido en un clasico, La aventura del cine mexicano es el primer volumen y obra de inspiracion del ya celebre abecedario del cine mexicano, del critico y ensayista Jorge Ayala Blanco.
Estudio minucioso sobre la temática y el alcance cultural del cine mexicano a principios de los años noventa, este conjunto de análisis fílmico-literario puede frecuentarse de manera independiente o en el interior del contexto particular que le es exclusivo y lo desborda.
La decimotercera entrega del célebre abecedario del cine mexicano (precedida de La aventura / búsqueda / condición / disolvencia / eficacia / fugacidad / grandeza / herética / ilusión / justeza / khátarsis / lucidez del cine mexicano) presenta en exclusiva material inédito de la investigación en curso del crítico cinematográfico con mayor trayectoria en nuestro país.
La duodecima entrega del ya canonico alfabeto del cine nacional esta integrada por textos analiticos, igualmente rigurosos y respaldados teorica y metodologicamente por el nutrido bagaje de uno de los investigadores y criticos con mayor reconocimiento y trayectoria en Mexico.
For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most memorable and influential American roots music soundtracks in film history.
Adult-directed utopian fiction has historically rejected depictions of persons with disabilities, underrepresenting a community that comprises an estimated 15% of the world's population.
Decimoséptima entrega del célebre «Abecedario del cine mexicano» (precedida de La aventura / búsqueda / condición / disolvencia / eficacia / fugacidad / grandeza / herética / ilusión / justeza / khátarsis / lucidez / madurez / novedad / ñerez / orgánica del cine mexicano), fue publicada por vez primera en su versión impresa por la ENAC, en 2020, presenta en exclusiva material inédito de la investigación en curso del crítico cinematográfico con mayor trayectoria en nuestro país.
La decimoquinta entrega del célebre abecedario del cine mexicano, precedida de La aventura / búsqueda / condición / disolvencia / eficacia / fugacidad / grandeza / herética / ilusión / justeza / khátarsis / lucidez / madurez / novedad del cine mexicano, presenta en exclusiva material inédito de la investigación en curso del crítico cinematográfico con mayor trayectoria en nuestro país.
Éste es el décimo de una serie de libros publicados por orden alfabético (comenzando por La aventura del cine mexicano) que su autor ha dedicado al estudio crítico de las producciones más recientes del cine nacional y su muy particular imaginario.
