Films, cinema

Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals.

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years.

Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond.

This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture.

This updated sixth edition of The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound.

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation.

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist.

The first book to treat both Doblin's novel and the film adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories of literary and film montage.

By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie.

From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the same.

Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert Altman.

Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements.

The main question addressed in this book: why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention?

The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time.

This fourth edition of Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment dives deeply into the world of interactive storytelling, a form of storytelling made possible by digital media.

Building on the work of star studies scholars, this collection provides contextual analyses of off-screen representation, as well as close textual analyses of films and star personas, thereby offering an in-depth study of the Arab star as text and context of Arab cinema.

This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama.

Over his twenty-plus year tenure in Hollywood, Spike Lee has produced a number of controversial films that unapologetically confront sensitive social issues, particularly those of race relations and discrimination.

This book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change.

This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters.

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.

The development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman''s films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies.

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context.

Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the public but great artists such as Pablo Picasso.

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.

This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated.

A contributory volume examining the work of the British playwright David Hare.

Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade.

Accompanying The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction in CRC Press' new The Metaverse Series, this book explores the ways in which the Metaverse can be used for education and learning, as well as how it is different from virtual reality (VR) application development.

Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products.

Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today's blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking.

Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion.

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience.

Once dismissed as a fading genre with little to say to contemporary audiences, the giant monster movie roared back to life in the new millennium.

This volume can rightfully be called "e;a film school in a single book.

With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b.

Do you have a concept for a reality TV show, but aren't sure about the next steps?

Develop your creative voice while acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-Cherrier's filmmaking bible, Voice & Vision.

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman's film?

Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "e;Women owned Hollywood for twenty years.

Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943.

'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian.

Return to the epic beginning of the final Skywalker trilogy with this definitive guide to the characters, locations, and vehicles of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge.

Designed to provide practical information to library workers of all types, this book offers specific strategies for supporting trans people in their libraries.

Todd Haynes's films are intricate and purposeful, combining the intellectual impact of art cinema with the emotional accessibility of popular genres.