In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger.
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city.
This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan.
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures.
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender.
The shark is not working den Ausruf wird keiner der Beteiligten am Dreh von Steven Spielbergs Weiem Hai vergessen, nicht nur das Salzwasser bereitete dem mechanischen Ungetum Probleme.
In extending the traditional field of Word and Music Studies to include research on film and other forms of moving visualizations, this volume focuses on innovative discussions of artistic works showing relationships between three individual communicative media.
Die Beiträge dieses Heftes nehmen einige der medialen Übergänge in der Filmgeschichte in den Blick, fragen nach ihren jeweiligen ästhetischen Strategien und hinterfragen damit zugleich «Übergang» als geeignetes Konzept für die Untersuchung ästhetischer Implikationen medialer Transformationsprozesse in der Filmgeschichte.
Arranged by category (action-adventure, cartoons, circus and magic, comedy, fun and games, information, kindly hosts and hostesses, puppets and marionettes, westerns, and specials), more than 200 children's shows are detailed.
In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China.
As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politically, and ideologically from the heterogeneous film industry of the 1920s to the centralized industry of the 1930s, and from the avant-garde to Socialist Realism.
She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians.
El propósito de este libro es analizar las relaciones que se dan entre cultura política, visualidades y cine; este objetivo se desarrollará en tres momentos; en el primero se determinan las implicaciones en la constitución de sujetos y la cultura política contemporánea, en el segundo, el diálogo entre la investigación y la creación artística, con los modelos de producción de conocimiento y saber científico, en el ámbito universitario y finalmente, una subdivisión entre la reflexión del cine a partir de la filosofía y las concepciones de justicia que se expresan o configuran en producciones visuales.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone seeking a fresh perspective - to rethink the rules of mainstream storytelling and unleash their creativity to craft authentic, groundbreaking stories.
In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of planning, economics and urban theory.
This book traces the intertextual genealogy behind Netflix’s new series Ripley, directed by Steve Zaillian, and offers a critical examination of Tom Ripley’s enduring appeal across different media.
This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone seeking a fresh perspective - to rethink the rules of mainstream storytelling and unleash their creativity to craft authentic, groundbreaking stories.
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief.
