Films, cinema

In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns.

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The alien abduction phenomenon is one of the enduring enigmas of our time.

In 2010, Cartoon Network debuted a new animated series called Adventure Time, and within just a few short years the show became both a pop culture phenomenon and a critical darling.

British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape.

Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema.

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other?

Managing in the Media has been devised for a broad audience.

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art.

The 1950s era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962.

Portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic underdogs, silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) is widely considered to be the most controversial film of all time.

Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with Joan Crawford.

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Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination.

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Where do program ideas come from?

Comedy is serious business - and serious money.

The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces.

Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema.

This work contains 41 engaging essays on players of the silent screen, from superstars like Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow to fascinating figures like Clarine Seymour and Arthur Johnson.

Der von 1950 bis 1953 wütende Korea-Krieg hinterließ die koreanische Halbinsel gleichermaßen zerstört wie zerrissen.

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.

In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s.

Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed analysis of individual films, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for the English past in Hollywood cinema.

Putting readers into the shoes of film and TV professionals, Adventures in the Lives of Others is a gripping insider's account of ethics, problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television.

Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present.

Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus.

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think.

It's a Gift is Norman McLeod's classic comedy of disasters, in which W.

A movie guide for film and comedy fans, by filmmakers and comedians, for the movie lover with a good sense of humor.

Robert Englund, legendary star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, peels back the Freddy Krueger mask and reveals the stuff of every horror buff's dreams.

Since the death of the French film director Eric Rohmer in 2010, interest in his work has reignited.

Queering the Redneck Riviera recovers the forgotten and erased history of gay men and lesbians in North Florida, a region often overlooked in the story of the LGBTQ experience in the United States.

What do The Age of Innocence, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Sex and the City have in common?

The Global Film Book is an accessible and entertaining exploration of the development of film as global industry and art form, written especially for students and introducing readers to the rich and varied cinematic landscape beyond Hollywood.

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations.

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays expanding the concepts of "e;ghost"e; and "e;haunting"e; beyond literary tools used to add supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility, memory and trauma, and history.

Film and video have grown to be as significant in our time as books, newspapers and magazines.

Ce livre analyse des images réunies selon des associations libres, que provoque la vision de certains films.

In Write to TV (third edition) industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen.

Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer.

"e;You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in filming Heart of Glass.

Mistakes are easy to make, but often difficult to undo.

This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "e;Go Fish"e; and "e;Desert Hearts"e; as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "e;The Children's Hour"e; and "e;The Hunger"e;.

Morality and the Movies presents the ideal introduction to philosophical ethics for film lovers.

There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks.

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, Andre Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time.