Films, cinema

Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century.

While transgender and non-binary identities are increasingly visible, too many Christians have either maintained a fearful silence, or have attacked 'transgenderism' as a threat to Christian faith and practice.

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'Massively enjoyable' Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love letter to Dirty Dancing.

A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).

A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions.

This biography examines the life of one of the most charismatic individuals in public life today, in Great Britain and beyond-Prince William.

This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture.

Widely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose debut film was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or.

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in conflict, western states with geopolitical interests in Africa's Great Lakes region, militia groups, human rights activists and NGOs use gendered media narratives strategically, often engaging in politics of revisionism and denial, to change the behaviour of other actors in the international system.

Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker.

Wie der Taucher auf dem berühmten Fresko im süditalienischen Paestum, das einen Mann zeigt, der kopfüber von einer Säule springt, hat Claude Lanzmann sich in jedes Abenteuer gestürzt.

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define.

A wide-ranging and accessible study of cinema as an art form, discussing traditional photographic films, digital cinema, and videogames.

Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'.

Music in Action Film is the first volume to address the central role of music and sound in action film-arguably the most dominant form of commercial cinema today.

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in what has become an industry "e;bible.

In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era.

Providing a career-spanning view of everyone's favorite geek writer and director, Joss Whedon FAQ offers answers to fans' questions about one of the most significant pop culture auteurs of the past twenty-five years.

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man.

Located in the area where North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee meet, Pond Mountain rises to over 4,000 feet.

Dieses Buch stellt 25 rumänische Filme in Einzelportraits vor, als erste deutschsprachige Publikation dieses Zuschnitts.

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation.

The videogame series Mass Effect is a remarkable rarity not only for being an original science-fictional franchise of recent vintage that has risen to such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how science fiction as a genre will be experienced and understood in the future.

Este trabajo investiga la noción de progresividad del Análisis de la Conversación en una actividad conversacional específica: la narración colaborativa.

This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction.

First book in any language to focus on Alphaville, published on the 40th anniversary of its release Uses new interviews with Godard's main collaborators on the film to reveal new aspects Explores its multiple influences, on 'Blade Runner', for example, or 'Code 46' 2005 is the fortieth anniversary of Alphaville's release and there's also a major reassessment of Godard under way.

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Mit der Erforschung der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihrer Medienverbünde im Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1945 sowie der Erfassung sämtlicher Daten in einem Onlineportal zur Recherche und visuellen Analyse liegt ein innovativer Beitrag zur Geschichtsschreibung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur vor.

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Learn to shoot professional-quality HD footage with your DSLR Camera The DSLR Filmmaker's Handbook, 2nd Edition is the expert guide to getting professional movie-making results with an HD video-enabled DSLR camera.

A refugee from post-World War II Europe who immigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative filmmakers.

One of Americas most intriguing show-business luminaries and true rebels, Dennis Hoppers amazing life was a roller-coaster series of triumphs and failures.

Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present.

Film is a visual medium, the work of Eric Rohmer and Kevin Smith notwithstanding.

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

Robert Young began his prolific filmmaking career while a student at Harvard University, where he majored in English literature, founded the Harvard Film Society, and, with the help of several colleagues, put together his first film (about a Boston factory worker).

Aesthetic and political representation are often treated separately, but this book argues that film offers a unique perspective through which to understand the dangers to equality and freedom that lurk in representative politics.

Master the complex realities of 3D postproduction workflows and solutions with this one-of-a-kind guide.

This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century.

Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers.

Mickey Rooney is a cinematic icon whose career lasted from the silent era into the twenty-first century.

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change.

Animation is one of the fastest growing mediums in the film and television world - whether it's Frozen or Paw Patrol, Family Guy or Rick and Morty.

From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema.

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age-until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest.

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade.