Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr.
Born Alfred Reginald John Truscott-Jones, Welsh American actor Ray Milland (1907-1986) appeared in more than 135 theatrical releases between 1929 and 1985 and on radio, television, and the stage, while also becoming a film director; Milland's extensive canon across such a period is remarkable, especially considering his lack of formal training, his belated start in show business in his late twenties, and the fact he only lived to age seventy-nine.
Despite Hollywood's recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of non-Whites generally, and Black women specifically, in stark contrast to the broadly developed spectrum of White characters.
Das ›Wunderbare‹ in seiner Komplexität und Vielfältigkeit sowie seinen fachwissenschaftlich kontrovers diskutierten Varianten ist der zentrale Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses ersten interdisziplinär angelegten Sammelbandes zu Dimensionen des Wunderbaren in Kunst und Kultur.
Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti (Waheeda Rehman) lead him to lose his family, descend into alcoholism and ultimately retreat from the film industry.
Unter der Überschrift "Verhinderte Meisterwerke" versammelt der Band literatur- und filmwissenschaftliche Aufsätze, die sich mit nicht-verwirklichten künstlerischen Vorhaben beschäftigen.
Analyzing how masculinity is portrayed in Brazilian crime film, connecting movie messages to twenty-first-century issuesAn incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues.
'I love that I don't need to feel ashamed at my happiest, and that my joy no longer needs to go through a filter before it's ready to see the light of day'Laura Kate Dale and 15 other autistic authors from around the globe, open the door and invite you in to explore and celebrate the candid, uplifting and intimate moments of autistic joy.
Das Werk, das Chantal Akerman hinterlässt, umfasst nahezu fünfzig Filme – experimentelle und erzählende, dokumentarische und fiktionale, literarische und autobiografische Arbeiten, die für das Kino und für das Fernsehen ebenso wie als Installationen für den Ausstellungsraum entstanden sind.
Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl.
Vincendeau's analysis places 'Pepe le Moko' in its aesthetic, generic and cultural contexts, ranging from Duvivier's brilliant camera-work, to Gabin's suits and the film's orientalist setting.
Cinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China's first two big screen treatments of arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius.
This volume presents one of the first systematic inquiries into Italian experimental and avant-garde cinema in English language, thanks to contributions which deepen the history of experimental audio-visual works in Italy.
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIMECelebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike.
This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act.
