Films, cinema

A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic films Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offering an unflinching look at his life, career, and the gritty world of independent cinema.

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "e;The trick is not becoming a writer.

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "e;The trick is not becoming a writer.

The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,5, University of London, course: Cinema and Nation, language: English, abstract: In the 1980s Turkish-German cinema started to become an important impact on German national cinema.

Master's Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,0, University of Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: Wim Wenders, one of the key figures of New German Cinema, a movement similar to the Nouvelle Vague in some ways, is of another generation than Fellini and Godard.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume traces Neshat's evolution from Women of Allah to her feature films Women Without Men, Looking for Oum Kulthum and Land of Dreams, situating her within global debates on feminism, exile and transnational aesthetics.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: Film + Philosophy = Filmosophy, language: English, abstract: Because the times in film production change, a change in reception is also necessary.

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output.

"e;Chris Marker es una figura clave para pensar las relaciones entre cine, politica y memoria en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope.

Modernity tends to produce ever new experiences of loneliness, which, however, remain abstract, invisible and thus non-negotiable in everyday experience.

An authorized look at the life and career of Hollywood icon and Academy-Award Winning actress Anne Baxter.

Modernity tends to produce ever new experiences of loneliness, which, however, remain abstract, invisible and thus non-negotiable in everyday experience.

In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1, University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: American Film Renaissance, language: English, abstract: The term 'postmodern' has been used in different areas of study to describe similar phenomena.

In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope.

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen.

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema?

Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media.

Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation.

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7, University of Siegen, course: Serial TV, language: English, abstract: Desperate Housewives is an American comedy-drama serial created by Marc Cherry.

Este libro se propone reflexionar, interdisciplinariamente, sobre el sufrimiento en y desde el cine.

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework.

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,7, University of London, course: Latin American Cinema, language: English, abstract: Amores Perros (2000) is the first feature film of Mexican Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking.

This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster movies) and screen modes (documentary, art cinema, animation).

Creative ServiceHow Creative Minds Make the World BetterWhat if creativity is far more than talent?

This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation.

The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted.

Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,2, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Universita degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia), course: Border Crossings: Constructing Personal and Social Identity in Film, language: English, abstract: In the two selected David Lynch movies a shared motif becomes apparent: the question of identity.

Since publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce.

This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma.

The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery explores some of the key trends and films in the development of the road movie in Brazil.

The unputdownable new murder mystery in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series, from the award-winning author of Magpie Murders and Close to Death.

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms.

Wie entstehen die Bilder, die wir von „den Anderen“ haben – und warum sind sie so wirkmächtig?

Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian, examining this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination - from witch to vampire to murderer - and identifying her resurgence in seven critically acclaimed queer horror films of the late 2010s.

Wie entstehen die Bilder, die wir von „den Anderen“ haben – und warum sind sie so wirkmächtig?

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: A, Savannah College of Art and Design - The University for Creative Careers (School of Film and Digital Media, Savannah College of Art and Design), course: Film and Digital Media Production, language: English, abstract: Dean Cundey in as American cinematographer, most notably known for both, his early career in low-budget genre movies like Halloween, and his rise to one of Hollywood's most sought after cinematographers for big effects movies in the late 1980s and 1990s, like Back To The Future or Jurassic Park.

This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed 'New Queer Horror'.

This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se.

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen.

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework.

Valerio Zurlini is widely regarded as one of the most refined and poetic voices in postwar Italian cinema.

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts.

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.