Films, cinema

The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion.

Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs.

In 1988, director Martin Scorsese fulfilled his lifelong dream of making a film about Jesus Christ.

Yes, you can love God and binge Netflix!

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing.

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities?

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat.

The NAB Engineering Handbook is the definitive resource for broadcast engineers.

The next best thing to an intensive training workshop on how to use the Steadicam(R) and become a successful owner-operator, this book brings together interviews and instruction by the world's premier Steadicam professionals to get you up and running with your rig and to improve.

The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster.

The twentieth century has seen a remarkable revival of "e;the Old Religion,"e; as adherents of New-paganism call the native religious traditions of Europe and tribal traditions from North America that predated Christianity.

This volume brings together writing on the topic of home media, and in particular releases described as appealing to 'cult' fans and audiences.

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding.

This book develops the idea of the "e;Eastern"e; as an analytically significant genre of film.

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice.

For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself.

This book places long overdue focus on the Palestine solidarity films of two important Arab women directors whose cinematic works have never received due attention within the scholarly literature or the cultural public sphere.

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain.

This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television.

This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies.

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.

This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema.

This book uses corpus and multimodal methods to present a comparative study of three major Canadian TV crime series, Flashpoint (2008-2010), Motive (2013-2015) and 19-2 (2014-2016), paying special attention to cinematic techniques.

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films.

This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee.

This book illustrates the many ways that actors contribute to American independent cinema.

In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction: feminist 'blockbusters'.

Falling Down (1993) caused controversy because of its depiction of violence and vigilantism, and was accused of racism in its portrayal of a Korean shopkeeper.

Bad Boy Bubby focuses on a 35 year-old man-child whose 'mother/keeper' keeps him imprisoned in a windowless hovel.

Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created.

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "e;noir"e; and "e;neo-noir"e; have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse.

In iconic films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino personified the spirit of '90s filmmaking, boldly forging his own opportunities rather than waiting for the movie industry to come knocking on his door.

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media-the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames.

This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies - from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels - to understand the uses of genres in comics.

Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imaginationindeed, it is the basis for the legend she created.

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What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative?

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction.

Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students with a practical, critical and comprehensive understanding of the main principles and techniques used in radio programming.

Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

This book explores the evolution of audience receptions of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012-14) as an exemplar of the contemporary blockbuster event film franchise.

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s.

Going beyond the process of adaptation, Geraghty is more interested in the films themselves and how they draw on our sense of recall.

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller.

This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies.

This book analyzes George Orwell's politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic.