Films, cinema

For some of us, moviegoing is an occasional pleasure.

Vampires have been a popular subject for writers since their inception in 19th century Gothic literature and, later, became popular with filmmakers.

Animated Performance shows how a character can seemingly 'come to life' when their movements reflect the emotional or narrative context of their situation: when they start to 'perform'.

This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate.

India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach.

By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives today.

This book offers the first in-depth look at the history, social context, and industrial practices behind this teen musical phenomenon to suggest that social change, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, comes to the surface despite the film's retro setting, blockbuster business model, and apparent nostalgic tone.

Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey explores the process of designing for theatre and details how each part of a designer's own process, no matter what their design specialization, can be innovated and adapted for a more confident journey and for better outcomes.

This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr.

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind.

Eine poetische Geschichte der filmischen Avantgarde am Anfang des 20.

A biography based on personal interviews with the actor as well as his friends and fellow filmmakers: “Entertaining .

What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture?

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987.

Rubbish is something we ignore.

Boudu is one of Jean Renoir's masterpieces and features Michel Simon's performance as the disreputable tramp rescued from the river.

This is the first major book-length study of the work of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, one of the most exciting and controversial personalities working in World Cinema today.

The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance.

Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and provides discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis.

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors.

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution.

Korea's Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) and US Army Military (1945-1948) periods within the larger context of cinemas in occupied territories.

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.

Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, contributing to the cultural life of an era.

Film- und Fernsehproduktionen wie »Der Baader Meinhof Komplex«, »Contergan« oder auch Stefan Raab's »TV total« rückten in den letzten Jahren nicht nur aufgrund ihrer filmischen Inhalte in den Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion, sondern auch anlässlich rechtlicher AuseinanderSetzungen: Immer häufiger fühlen sich Personen von dokumentarischen oder halbdokumentarischen Produktionen in ihren Persönlichkeitsrechten verletzt und ziehen vor Gericht.

Simone de Beauvoir s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered othering gaze.

This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899 1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.

From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture.

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering.

Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born late in the 19th century, but it was not until after his death in 1937 that he became a worldwide icon of horror and supernatural fiction.

This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain (1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.

Through the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in a pioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events.

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Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema's role as a public sphere and a mass medium of modernity.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes and - most importantly - the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective.

Few genres were as popular and as enduring in twentieth-century Mexico as the Western.

This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F.

New Hollywood extends from the radical gestures of the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster.

This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros.

"e;Art cinema"e; has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s.

In der Sneak Preview bezahlen Menschen für vergünstigte Kinokarten, ohne jedoch vorab zu wissen, welchen Film sie zu sehen bekommen werden.

Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States.

Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process.

David Lean's extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another.