Films, cinema

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen.

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (1947-2020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness and scab-picking wit.

Stalag 17 (1953), the riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951.

A superb new study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on a handful of filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience.

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children's literature.

The Bosnian war of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts to have erupted since the end of the Second World War.

'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967.

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century.

Hollywood is facing unprecedented challenges and is changing rapidly and radically as a result.

This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world.

Examining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock (1956), this book explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock 'n' roll music and culture.

A celebrated writer on contemporary art and queer culture argues that Andy Warhol''s films enable us to see differently, and to see a different world.

In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions.

The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available today.

In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.

Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

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Ever since film was brought into China at the end of the nineteenth century, translation has conquered language, ideological and cultural barriers and facilitated the dissemination of films in China.

This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World's Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City.

Les Enfants du paradis, a magnificent picaresque saga of Parisian street life and popular culture, has been called the greatest film ever made.

Though one of the most popular genres for decades, the western started to lose its relevance in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the early 1980s it had ridden into the sunset on screens both big and small.

The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature.

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Radio Pictures.

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

In December of 1997, the International Monetary Fund announced the largest bailout package in its history, aimed at stabilizing the South Korean economy in response to a credit and currency crisis of the same year.

The language of Hollywood resonates beyond the stage and screen because it often has inherent dramaor comedic effect.

Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years' experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects, Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process.

Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s.

On release in the 1930s, Snow White became a milestone in animated film, Disney production and the US box office.

What gets your heart rate going more: reading a story about dinosaurs, or being chased by one?

Italy's 1948 constitution states that Italy is a 'republic founded upon work'.

Going beyond where introductory books leave off and written for experienced editors, especially those new to Final Cut Pro X, this new and revised edition of Final Cut Pro X Beyond the Basics is brimming with cutting-edge methods to bring your editing skills to the next level.

Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two by John Russell Brown, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends by Neil Freeman, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we've created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays.

This book explores the impact of digital technology on the essay film in the early 21st century, arguing that the cinematic essay has been associated with technological evolution throughout its history.

Foretaste of Heaven is a witness to the enabling grace of God in a time of grave illness.

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan.

"e;It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood,"e; film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin.

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work.

Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics.

The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations.

This is the first complete biography of actress Peg Entwistle, known as the "e;Hollywood Sign Girl"e; because of her suicide fall from the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932.

Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the future (and sometimes the past) to comment on current social, cultural and political ideologies; the same is true of science fiction in children's film and television.

This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s.

Best remembered for the iconic classics Gone with the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) to the silver screen, Victor Fleming also counted successful films such as Red Dust (1932), Captains Courageous (1937), Test Pilot (1939), Dr.

This book explores Alan Moore's career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place.