Films, cinema

During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak.

Harry Alan Towers' reputation rests upon a corpus of 95 low-budget productions shot post-haste in every corner of the globe.

The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career.

In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in Rome and the Buddha in China.

An intimate portrait of the turmoil that spawned the New Wave in French Cinema, and the story of its greatest director, Jean-Luc Godard.

Tracing the "e;American Guerrilla"e; narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history.

Since the advent of the cinema, Jesus has frequently appeared in our movie houses and on our television screens.

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.

The power of the moving image to conjure marvelous worlds has usually been to understand it in terms of 'move magic'.

A comprehensive filmography, this book is composed of lengthy entries on about 75 films depicting legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid--from the lost Billy the Kid (1911) to the blockbuster Young Guns (1988) to the direct-to-video 1313: Billy the Kid(2012) and everything in between.

By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic to the extent it was considered at all was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value.

How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English.

Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies.

Broadcasting and Society (1983) examines the power of radio broadcasting as a medium of instant communication and entertainment.

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career.

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'.

She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life.

"e;Funny, incisive, and timely .

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023The Myth of Harm engages and analyses controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children.

The brilliant screenplay of the Academy Awardnominated film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Awardwinning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.

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

From the earliest accounts of contact with Europeans, Polynesians have been perceived as sensual and sexual beings.

In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel analyses how Shakespearean plays are transformed when they are directed for the screen.

Through a study of the contemporary German film movement the Berlin School, Olivia Landry examines how narrative film has responded to our highly digitalized and mediatized age, not with a focus on stasis and realism, but by turning back to movement, spectacle, and performance.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran's film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men.

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities.

This revised and greatly expanded edition of a well-established reference book presents 5105 feature length (four reels or more) Western films, from the early silent era to the present.

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B.

John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound's most recent poll of critics.

Sein langes kreatives Leben über führte Ingmar Bergman ­Arbeitstagebücher: kleine Spiralhefte, in denen er erste ­Entwürfe seiner Geschichten niederschrieb und auch während der Arbeit an einem Film oder Buch weiter Notizen machte.

How do we choose what movies to go see?

There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and escape artist if there ever was one.

In the past 30 years, Diane Keaton has been an actress, a director and a photographer.

The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational.

Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world.

Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination.

The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media.

This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is re-examined in a post-millennial context in this heavily researched, highly detailed study of the making of the landmark film.

Developed in the United States in the 1980s, facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women.

The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade.

Mary Pickford's ambition, passion, innate talent, and savvy business acumen sent her career into the stratosphere and set the blueprint for the modern movie star.

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several "e;x-rays"e; of the superbody's sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements.