A sequel to Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936, this volume provides coverage of over 150 feature films that contain genre elements but have been overlooked by most sources covering the history of horror, science fiction and fantasy movies.
This new edition of Bill Nichols's bestselling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism.
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of social, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.
This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Fantasmagorie est un ensemble de reformes et d'idees proposees pour mettre en place un systeme de gouvernance egalitaire a Atoum, divinite dans la cosmogonie des anciens Egyptiens, un lieu ou les inegalites sociales sont extirpees.
Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender, sexuality, and national identity.
Literary scholars face a new and often baffling reality in the classroom: students spend more time looking at glowing screens than reading printed text.
Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage.
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of "e;Homeland"e; - a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and gained traction across Europe, contributing to the formation of new securitarian configurations whose impact has resonated globally.
Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the ghost story and the English stage.
"El cine en los pliegues de la historia explora la relación entre el cine y la historia en algunas producciones audiovisuales realizadas en Argentina y Chile.
On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry.
This book excavates the diverse and mostly unnoticed political meanings made available to American and German audiences by the blockbuster films helmed by transplanted West German directors Roland Emmerich and Wolfgang Petersen.
Cinema, theatre, stand up, fictions et documentaires televises, peinture, danse, depuis l'enfance tous ces arts visuels ont suscite en moi de fortes impressions et des souvenirs durables.
Just as freedom of the printed word has suffered from official censorship, or from censorship cultivated by the writer's own pen, cinema has also suffered, lately, from the authority of the censor.
L'analyse du film Mignonnes offre l'opportunite d'explorer la place des jeunes filles au sein de la societe occidentale a travers le prisme cinematographique, tant d'un point de vue geographique qu'historique.
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos.
Art oratoire chez les uns, obstination aveugle chez d'autres, l'ultracrepidarianisme est un terme designant l'habitude de s'exprimer sur des sujets qu'on ne maitrise pas.
Dans Les elucubrations d'un septuagenaire desenchante, l'auteur propose une analyse approfondie de notre monde moderne, qu'il explore a travers le prisme de son education, de ses multiples cultures et de ses experiences de vie.
Situes aux confluences de la meditation, de la confession et du manifeste, les essais rassembles dans le present volume, concus et ecrits entre 2015 et 2020, couvrent un vaste espace epistemologique.
Diese erste deutsche Einführung in das Werk des berühmten französischen Regisseurs konzentriert sich auf seine sechzehn Filme mit erotischen Themen und schildert sowohl die Natur des Rohmerschen Realismus als auch seine Philosophie des Eros.
The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them.
