Films, cinema

This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema.

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world.

Since Hollywood's first motion-picture, stunt players have given blood, sweat, and tears to the business.

This is the second volume of the widely acclaimed Art of the Cut book published in 2017.

A comprehensive introduction to film music for the general student, the film historian, and the aspiring cinematographer.

"e;One of the great novels to have been written in our language"e; MARIO VARGAS LLOSA"e;Beautifully written and gripping"e; GuardianHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen.

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history.

Winning the Global TV News Game (1995) examines the worldwide TV news revolution of the 1990s, dealing with live TV news as an industry-consumer relationship.

The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; innocent birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives.

This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day.

A study of controversies over The Passion of the Christ that shows how conservative Christians united in support of Mel Gibson and in opposition to liberal, secular and Jewish critics.

In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead.

The films of Stanley Kubrick have left an indelible mark on the history of American cinema.

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain.

Comedic film actress Kay Kendall, born to a theatrical family in Northern England, came of age in London during the Blitz.

There was a time is screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular and mysterious image.

Through a century of movies, the U.

John Boorman has written and directed more than 25 television and feature films, including such classics as Deliverance, Point Blank, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur.

In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge.

Like many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends in the practice of Film and Television Studies.

Includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures.

Laurent Cantet is of one France's leading contemporary directors.

Philip French has called Alex Cox, 'British Cinema's oldest enfant terrible'; it's a description that its recipient fully approves of.

Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what "e;habeas Irish rose"e; is?

Nach 1933 flüchteten zahlreiche Menschen aus Deutschland vor den Nationalsozialisten in europäische Nachbarländer oder nach Übersee, darunter viele Filmschaffende.

First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries.

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker.

The newly-revised and updated fourth edition of Grammar of the Shot teaches readers the principles behind successful visual communication in motion media through shot composition, screen direction, depth cues, lighting, camera movement, and shooting for editing.

Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical history examines the greatest movie musicals of all time.

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

Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output.

Film production in Latin America is as old as cinema itself, but local film industries have always been in a triangulated relationship with Hollywood and European cinema.

This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music.

Red River (1947) is one of Howard Hawks' near-perfect films.

It makes us jump.

A versatile craftsman, actor Van Heflin was never concerned with popularity or comfortable with stardom.

Boxing might not have survived the 1930s if not for Max Baer.

The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance.

This book brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s.

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its mosticonic actresses.

"Alle Menschen lieben Helden" – aber Hand aufs Herz: Das Spektakel des Schurken, der in unsere Welt einbricht, ist meistens doch viel spannender.

The Franco-Algerian War (1954 62) remains a powerful international symbol of Third Worldism and the finality of Empire.

News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality.

Planet of the Apes started life in 1963 as a quirky work by Pierre Boulle, the French literary novelist famous for The Bridge over the River Kwai.

This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years.