These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales.
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist – nicht zuletzt durch CineGraph – das Schicksal von jüdischen Filmschaffenden aus Ost-Europa, die durch den völkischen Rassismus des NS-Regimes ins Exil vertrieben wurden, häufig in den Blick genommen worden.
In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parrenas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children.
First published in English in 1974, Hollywood and After presents contemporary cinema in all its complexity, describing and analyzing the various factors which, in the sixties and seventies, brought so many changes both inside Hollywood and throughout the film industry of the USA.
The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and perpetrators.
Examining popular media portrayals of various health topics, this book offers a critical analysis of how those mediated messages can impact, for good or ill, people's physical and mental health.
In der Zeit des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die Wochenschauen im Vorprogramm jeder Kinovorstellung eine bedeutende Informationsquelle.
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed.
Seit Menschen über sich und die Bedingungen ihrer Existenz nachdenken und diesem oft leidvollen Prozess auf schöpferische Weise Ausdruck geben – sei es philosophisch, literarisch, bildhaft, musikalisch oder auf der Bühne eines Theaters –, waren ihre künstlerischen Werke immer zugleich Spiegel ihrer seelischen Prozesse und Zeugnisse der Sehnsucht, auf diese Weise eine wahrhaftige, emotional berührende und Nähe ermöglichende Verbundenheit unter den Menschen zu schaffen.
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.
Von der Ankunft des Cinématographe der Gebrüder Lumière in Wien über die Entfaltung des Kinos in Österreich bis zum Niedergang durch den Aufstieg des Fernsehens spannt sich der weite Bogen der vorliegenden Kinogeschichte.
Sus orígenes bañolenses, el sentido lúdico del arte, la vida como una fiesta diaria, Barcelona, Cannes, Locarno, París, Nueva York… Este brindis reaviva el discurso que Albert Serra improvisó como pregonero de las fiestas de San Martiriano: un lúcido recorrido por sus años de formación y un generoso homenaje a todas las personas que lo han ayudado a conformar su particular concepción del cine, el arte y la vida.
In der Zeit des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die Wochenschauen im Vorprogramm jeder Kinovorstellung eine bedeutende Informationsquelle.
Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling for Online, Broadcast and Documentary Journalists is an essential guide for solo video storytellers-from "e;backpack"e; videojournalists to short-form documentary makers to do-it-all broadcast reporters.
This book brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s.
Attention Spans' chronological review of Garrett Stewart's critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting disciplines from late New Criticism through structuralism, deconstruction, narrative theory (by way of narratography), poetics, and media studies, in which Stewart's has been so persistent and so eloquent a voice.
When Carole Lombard was tragically killed in a plane crash on January 16, 1942, she was 33 years old and had been a film actress for almost 20 years, yet her best work probably still lay ahead.
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his ';smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful' (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.
A substantial update of the previous edition, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach deconstructs recent feature films and offers a new section analysing popular television series.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
La obra de Pier Paolo Pasolini conforma un archipiélago de poesías, relatos, ensayos, intervenciones, films y documentos que invitan a una constante indagación.
A substantial update of the previous edition, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach deconstructs recent feature films and offers a new section analysing popular television series.
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed.
