Films, cinema

For nearly a hundred years, the state of Utah has played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma & Louise.

From action flicks to biopics to SNL skits, how presidents are portrayed on screen: “An interesting study of the real presidency and the reel presidency.

Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry.

Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipesfrom traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreationsthat are easy to make, fun, and delicious.

Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G.

Die Geschichte des nordkoreanischen Films ist eng mit der politischen und ideologischen Entwicklung des Landes verknüpft, für dessen Konstituierung die wiederholte Narration des historischen Erbes eine wichtige Rolle spielt.

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK.

German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix approaches German television crime dramas to uncover the intersections between the genre's media-specific network and post-network formats and how these negotiate with and contribute to concepts of the regional, national, and global.

Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation.

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium.

This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes relations between place, culture, and identity.

Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944).

Völlig neue Bild- und Erfahrungswelten versprechen die jüngsten Produkte der Medienindustrie ihren Usern.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion - particularly indignation - and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers.

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.

Movies are a passion shared by people of all ages and backgrounds.

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics.

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 debut La cienaga.

This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions.

Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J.

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television's current multiplatform era.

In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them?

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present.

How do the islands and archipelagos of the New World figure in Latin American cinema?

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail.

An easy to follow, quick reference introductory guide for beginning professionals and students in filmmaking and postproduction.

White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.

Flash!

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV.

Inusuales: hogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano apunta hacia diversas muestras del cine hispano para explorar su denominador principal —lo inusual— cuya presencia, en última instancia, genera críticas sociopolíticas y culturales acerca de los contextos que las inspiran.

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative, technical, interpersonal, and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging field.

Looking for a comprehensive chronicle of the films of legendary director, screenwriter, and producer John Hughes?

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant.

Marcel Duchamp's urinal re-named 'fountain' and placed in an art gallery.

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'.

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres.

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E.

Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr.

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events.

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship.

Kyoto Animation, a studio with very humble beginnings, has gained recognition the world over as a uniquely inspired and inventive enterprise.

Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life.

Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today's Broadway elite.

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated American cinema and television in the 1970s.