Films, cinema

With the release of the hit feature Star Trek: Nemesis this is the perfect opportunity to update this book with all of the Star movies featuring The Next Generation cast!

The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History examines the problems of representation inherent in the appropriation of archival film and video footage for historical purposes.

The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth.

Since its inception as an art form, anime has engaged with themes, symbols and narrative strategies drawn from the realm of magic.

Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema.

The career of Robert Bresson (b.

The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure.

Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema.

Learn the facts, figures, super-powers and origins of your favourite characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Movie stars establish themselves as brands--and Taylor's brand , in its most memorable outings, has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas.

Ohne Zweifel gehorte David Bordwell (1947-2024) in den vergangenen vier Jahrzehnten mit seinen Buchern, Blogposts, Audiokommentaren und nicht zuletzt durch seine Lehre und seine Vortrage zu den wichtigsten Stimmen in der Filmwissenschaft.

The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory.

This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis.

One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers.

This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television.

Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz.

Vampires have been a popular subject for writers since their inception in 19th century Gothic literature and, later, became popular with filmmakers.

In this sixth edition of Television Sports Production, regional Emmy Award-winning producer Jim Owens walks readers through the planning, setup, directing, announcing, shooting, and editing involved in covering a sports event.

The first of its kind, this guide to California filming sites covers five decades of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in chapter plays.

Put your rom-com expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite romantic comedy moments.

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman.

This volume summarizes the evolution of news and information in the United States as it has been shaped by technology (penny press, radio, TV, cable, the internet) and form development (investigative journalism, tabloid TV, talk radio, social media).

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.

Revolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements in Latin America.

In the media, migrants are often portrayed as criminals; they are frequently dehumanized, marginalized, and unable to share their experiences.

From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefile's guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic science fiction!

The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema.

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product visualization, and games.

Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years.

This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades.

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.

Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Zizek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.

In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "e;drift"e;-the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present.

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies.

Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfoundedFilms about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy.

Once you come to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, what is the next step?

Canadian film director David Cronenberg has long been a figure of artistic acclaim and public controversy.

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack.

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of "e;interzones"e;--geographical and ideational spaces of transit, interaction, transformation, and contested diversity--as a mechanism for analyzing European cinema.

Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding.

Gute Dialoge zu schreiben, ist für jeden Autor eine Herausforderung und muss ständig aufs Neue trainiert werden.

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