Films, cinema

Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change.

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image is the first dedicated anthology that explores vision and perception as it materializes as viewers watch screen content.

Polanski is one of the most talented and distinguished of modern film makers.

The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism.

Deutsche Western-Produktionen, das sind vor allem die ikonischen Karl-May-Verfilmungen der 1960er Jahre.

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms.

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Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military's intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma.

From an award-winning actress, a memoir about learning to survive in Hollywood while staying true to her quirky vision of the world.

This book offers a clearly written and engaging introduction to the basics of interactive digital media.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market.

When Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, it was hailed as a turning point for German cinema.

This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the "e;cinematic envelope"e; with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes.

New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people.

Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men.

Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display.

This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'.

Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan and his union backers.

During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films.

This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory.

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Providing intriguing insights for students, film buffs, and readers of various genres of fiction, this fascinating book delves into the psychology of 100 well-known fictional characters.

Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of experimental film production as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches.

This handbook brings together contributions from the main experts in the field of multilingualism and language varieties (including dialects, accents, sociolects, and idiolects of specific speech communities) as expressed in fictional dialogue on-screen in films, and television series.

Jesus films arose with cinema itself.

Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas.

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience.

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries.

Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century.

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Many of our favourite movies come with a side of iconic food moments: the comforting frothy butterbeer from Harry Potter, the sumptuous apple strudel from Inglorious Basterds, the delectable deli fare from When Harry Met Sally, or Remy the rat-chef's signature ratatouille in Ratatouille.

Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "e;Hermione-Approved"e; MuggleNet podcast by the same name.

Warum beschäftigen uns manche Filme länger als andere?

Filmmakers and cinema fans can turn to this visual encyclopedia for an array of creative camera setups and moves.

A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew.

If Hollywood had a superhero throne, Spider-Man would be perched upon it.

When Jerry Grayson left the Royal Navy's Search and Rescue helicopter fleet aged 25, he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.

Immer erzählen Städte im Kino von den Chancen und Zwängen der Menschen im urbanen Leben, sei es realistisch inszeniert oder fantastisch konstruiert.

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the "e;hottest shows of lockdown"e; by outlets like The Guardian and GQ.

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s.

This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism.

He's the porn world's Everyman.

Scriptwriting for Web Series: Writing for the Digital Age offers aspiring writers a comprehensive how-to guide to scriptwriting for web series in the digital age.

Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today.

In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation.

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former.