Films, cinema

Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender.

What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era?

Reception studies have transformed the classics.

There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved.

Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen.

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years.

'The critic is dead.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity.

Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen.

"e;I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'"e;, noted Akira Kurosawa.

Children have long been one of cinema's largest audiences yet, from its infancy, cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied a succession of pastimes and new technologies as catalysts for juvenile delinquency.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema.

Why do twins remain uncanny to those born alone-in other words, most of us?

Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes.

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value.

This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen.

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes.

The internationally acclaimed films Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir only hinted at the vibrant animation culture that exists within the Middle East and North Africa.

She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes.

This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early twentieth century.

In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking.

The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades.

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker.

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us?

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique.

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought?

French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart.

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades.

Politics in the Middle East is now 'seen' and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle.

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice.

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

What common features can be found in the ancient customs and native religions of the vast Eurasian landmass?

Reception studies have transformed the classics.

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us?

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

What happens when we listen to a film?

This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen.

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.

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