Films, cinema

This book deals with film depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions of recent years.

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history.

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films.

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work.

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history.

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films.

The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.

This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease-even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics.

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work.

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema.

We love to see superheroes fight, whether to protect innocent people from supervillains or to save the world.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

Ya que el cine de ficción nos posibilita rastrear discursos y construcciones simbólicas, nos permite reconocer narrativas e imágenes asociadas a la figuración de unos rasgos comunes, constantes o diversos de un posible "nosotros".

"Con el objetivo de abarcar la actividad creativa plural y disgregante de RaúlRuiz, este libro reúne múltiples perspectivas y metodologías de análisis,ensanchando así las vías de acceso a su catálogo y propiciando laindagación crítica de sus zonas más recónditas.

Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process.

Covering significant historical and cultural moments, public figures and celebrities, art and entertainment, and technology that influenced life during the decade, this book documents the 1950s through the lens of popular culture.

A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth.

An around-the-world tour of ancient Christmas celebrations, Pagan Solstice customs, and magical seasonal plants*; Explores in depth the medicinal and magical properties of the many herbs, barks, and berries associated with the Christmas and Yuletide season*; Looks at the origins of the Christmas tree and Santa Claus, as well as female gift bringers, holiday Spirits, and Yuletide animals*; Shares crafts such as how to make a Yule Log, practices such as Winter Solstice divinations, and recipes for traditional foods and drinksFor millennia cultures have taken time out to honor the darkest days of the year with lights, foods, and festivities.

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement.

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This guide features more than twenty adorable and easy-to-make toy knitting projects-from bunnies and bears to Russian dolls and robots.

This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement.

Part rant, part reportage.

Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention.

This bio-bibliography is the first book to examine the life and career of one of Hollywood's most durable leading men, Richard Widmark.

This interesting and unusual work examines the events, concepts, and interpretations that led to the emergence of the idea of freedom of the press in the United States and to the recognition of the concept of a free press in more than one hundred other countries.

This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers.

Born in 1916 in La Jolla, California, Gregory Peck took up acting in college on a lark that would lead to a career.

This biography profiles Jon Stewart, television's most incisive deliverer of the fake news.

In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's award-winning sex, lies, and videotape.

The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse.

Donna Reed has been called everyone's favorite mother and her recognition as such has stood the test of time.

This provocative book reveals how Hollywood films reflect our deepest fears and anxieties as a country, often recording our political beliefs and cultural conditions while underscoring the darker side of the American way of life.

Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places posthumanism and feminist theory into dialogue with contemporary science fiction film and media.

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events.

Provides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political and industrial changes.

Provides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political and industrial changes.

Prime time soaps are often revered long after their runs on television have ended, as Dallas, Twin Peaks, and Beverly Hills 90210 readily demonstrate.

In der zweiten Ausgabe seines Buchs (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (2003) bemerkt Jalal Toufic: »Viele Jahre habe ich mich mit Schizophrenie und Schizophrenen beschäftigt, die in Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green, 1995, auftraten; jetzt interessiere ich mich für ›das kleine Mädchen‹, das voraussichtlich in meinem kommenden Vampir-Film eine Rolle spielen wird … Auf einer Ebene kann die  13.

From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society.

Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.

This publication engages with a futuristic progressive vision on the condition of cinema.

This study of Dylan's mission-driven music reveals a functional approach to art that not only sustained his 60-year career but forever changed an art form.