How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.
Bringing together an international and diverse group of scholars, Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar period.
Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a dynamic and expanding practice that is celebrated as a "e;new-wave"e; but has not received much critical engagement.
Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a dynamic and expanding practice that is celebrated as a "e;new-wave"e; but has not received much critical engagement.
This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it.
Reframing remembrance examines films about the Nazi Occupation of France, charting how this period has been commemorated and how it has affected the articulation of French national identity.
The butterfly Manar says: "Then I lost my way, and came to a human hut surrounded by lamps, and when I saw the reflection of my wings, I remembered the words of the praying mantis, and I became certain that our colorful wings are the cause of the danger facing us.
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.
Focusing on an integral aspect of screenplays, this book takes students and writers at all levels through the process of understanding and writing better scenes.
A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes, the first book on the history of cinema in this region, depicts the journey from the first Assamese film, Joymoti (1935), to the present time.
Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion.
Drawing from over a decade of research and writings, this book takes you on an epic journey through the history of Indian Parallel Cinema (1968 - 1995).
Johannes Fehring (1926–2004) ist einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vor allem als Leader der ORF-Big Band, durch sein Engagement für den Jazz und seine Arrangements für Künstler*innen wie Peter Alexander, Marianne Mendt, Arik Brauer oder Kurt Sowinetz in Erinnerung geblieben.
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw lovers, criminal heists, corrupt police, and doomed or endangered outsiders.
Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film, Wanda (1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miner's wife and mother, electing instead to drift.
This book guides you through the process of using your phone to create different kinds of video and audio for TV, theaters, YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts.
From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.
