This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.
This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium.
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mama tambien are only the best-known examples.
This book, written from the perspective of a designer and educator, brings to the attention of media historians, fellow practitioners and students the innovative practices of leading moving image designers.
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.
This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).
This book discusses the collapse and transformation of the Hollywood movie machine in the twenty-first century, and the concomitant social collapse being felt in nearly every aspect of society.
This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in 1977.
Cinema might not be able to help heal a broken nation but it can definitely help revisit a nation's past, reframe its present and re-imagine its future.
This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis.
This book explores how the women's orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War.
Nach den drei wichtigsten Regeln des Filmemachens gefragt, antwortete Billy Wilder bekanntlich: »Du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen.
Experience the Terrifying Journey of Horror Movies Through the AgesStep into the haunting world of Dark Cinema: The Evolution of Scare Tactics in Hollywood, a chilling exploration and thought-provoking analysis of the horror genre in film.
Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games expands the 'ethical turn' in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source of ethical knowledge in The Hunger Games films.
Ein Motel, eine Dusche, eine Blondine, hektische Geigenklänge, ein Schrei, der dem Zuschauer das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt: Ein ›echter Hitchcock‹.
Viele Filmkenner halten Citizen Kane von Orson Welles für den besten Film aller Zeiten, praktisch alle wichtigen Filmwissenschaftler haben über ihn gearbeitet.
This sixth volume in the Docalogue series explores the significance of Flee, the award-winning and critically acclaimed 2021 animated documentary about one man's journey from child refugee in Afghanistan to building a stable home as an adult with his soon-to-be husband in Denmark.
Die neue filmgeschichtliche Reihe, die in ausführlichen Essays über einzelne Epochen sowie in einlässlich interpretierenden Artikeln zu deren 50 wichtigsten Filmen jeweils die Blütezeiten großer nationaler Filmproduktionen vorstellt, widmet sich mit diesem Band dem klassischen Hollywood – der Epoche von Tonfilm, Starsystem und Mega-Studios von den frühen Dreißigern bis zur künstlerischen Krise um 1960, der Epoche, die mit Gene Kelly tanzte, mit Vivien Leigh weinte, mit Henry Fonda litt, mit Humphrey Bogart den Überblick behielt und sich in Marilyn verliebte.
This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the unique sound worlds of key regions in the Global South, through an auto-ethnographic method of self-reflective conversations with prominent sound practitioners from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on 'green' film and television production.
This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the stereotype of the Italian American gangster (Little Caesar, Scarface) to its re-definition (Mean Streets), along with a peculiar depiction of Italian American masculinity (Marty, Raging Bull).
Die Studie nimmt die bisherige Diskussion der Konversion in der Antike neu auf durch eine Verknüpfung von klassischen, epigraphischen und biblischen Quellen mit einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie.
Der Band enthält zwanzig exegetische Studien aus den Jahren 1981 bis 2002 zur Literatur- und Theologiegeschichte des Alten Testaments sowie zur Frühgeschichte Israels.
