Films, cinema

Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success.

In the 1950s, science was rapidly advancing, and so were scientific opportunities for women.

From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C.

Think/Point/Shoot gives students a thorough overview of the role of ethics in modern media creation.

Everyone knows what noise is.

Hollywood Speaks Out explores that rare Hollywood feature that dared to tackle red-hot, social issues whilst American society was gripped by the convulsion and controversy they generated.

Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation.

This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it.

This new volume in the Greenwood Press series Reference Guides to the World's Cinema discusses the films and personalities of the Canadian cinema.

For the past three decades, Hollywood has faithfully adapted much of Stephen King's fiction into film.

Narrative Theory and Adaptation offers a concise introduction to narrative theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed 2002 film Adaptation.

Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art.

Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music.

"e;Chapaev"e; is the most popular film of the Soviet era.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many.

This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema.

For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece.

Film and television adaptations of classic literature have held a longstanding appeal for audiences, an appeal that this book sets out to examine.

Bela Balazs s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation.

Comic book audience expectations have fluctuated dramatically through the years, and comic book creators have had to adapt to shifting reader concerns.

Tracing the "e;American Guerrilla"e; narrative through more than one hundred years of film and television, this book shows how the conventions and politics of this narrative influence Americans to see themselves as warriors, both on screen and in history.

The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three.

Winner of the 2020 Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present.

The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works.

Nicholas Parsons enjoyed a long and varied career encompassing theatre, television, film and radio.

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This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline.

Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood.

This is a topical resource that provides a comprehensive look at the most influential women in Hollywood cinema across a wide-range of occupations rarely found together in a single volume.

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation.

This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies.

Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood.

The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Verite presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema.

Analyzes The Donna Reed Show, which aired from 1958 to 1966, as a key moment of cultural transition.

Earl Lind's 1918 autobiography has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature.

In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th.

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation.

For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture.

Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film.

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales.

He was the final addition to Universal's "e;royal family"e; of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.

Dubbed 'the Citizen Kane of juke-box movies', voted among the top 100 British films of all time, accorded a high-profile release on DVD, A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles' film debut of 1964, has proven to be that rare event - an exploitation 'quickie' that has firmly entered the cultural canon.

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.

From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of documentaries on film, television and the web.