Films, cinema

Tracing public and critical responses to TV from its pioneering days, this book gathers and gives context to the reactions of those who saw television's early broadcasts-from the privileged few who witnessed experimental and limited-schedule programming in the 1920s and 1930s, to those who bought TV sets and hoisted antennae in the post-World War II television boom, to still more who invested in color receivers and cable subscriptions in the 1960s.

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema.

These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "e;natural"e; world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community.

Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema's last phase of transition in the 1980s.

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more.

This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock.

A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema - the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.

Stop-motion animation has long been perceived as a technical practice rather than a creative, demanding art.

PAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERSDavid Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today.

This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century.

Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio.

Cl o de 5 7 (Cl o from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cl o, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition.

American Disaster Movies of the 1970s is the first scholarly book dedicated to the disaster cycle that dominated American cinema and television in the 1970s.

The theme of this book is the documentarian-what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept.

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This book examines the life of the remarkable Paul Newman-an iconic actor, director, race car driver, political activist, businessman, philanthropist, devoted husband, and father.

Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of films about ghetto life.

Though Luis Buuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period.

This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire within the context of nostalgia and modernity.

At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore.

Jean Renoir's 1937 film La Grande Illusion is set during the First World War, but its themes of Franco-German conflict, divided loyalties in a time of war and the rise of anti-Semitism made it compelling and controversial viewing.

In the world of slapstick comedy, few are more beloved than the Three Stooges.

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr.

Despite the prominence of "e;awkwardness"e; as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media studies.

Lange Zeit von den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften ignoriert und als bloe Mainstream-Unterhaltung stigmatisiert, erlangt der Sportfilm zunehmend wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit.

The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating.

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

As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously.

A comprehensive resource, this book reviews current and historical examples of violence in film, television, radio, music, music videos, video games, and novels.

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound.

This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character's longevity is largely due to the medium's unique formal qualities.

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television.

With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror.

Packed with colour film stills, exclusive pre-production artwork and behind-the-scenes production images, this landmark book celebrates the production designer's contribution to visual storytelling on screen.

Shot by Shot is the world's go-to directing book, now newly updated for a special 25th Anniversary edition!

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating.

Delving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on "e;what works"e; to promote women in politics today.

This volume reframes the critical conversation about Shakespeare's histories and national identity by bringing together two growing bodies of work: early modern race scholarship and adaptation theory.

The War of the Worlds was one of a handful of high-prestige science fiction productions in a low-budget era, and initiated modern cinema's reliance on screen-filling special effects.

Mencutekin takes on the role of ideology in the history of Turkish cinema critically analyzing the values and ideas that have shaped the message and stories of Turkish movies.

The undead are back!

The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself.

Gender diversity knows no borders.

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby.

Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall.

There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing.

Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age.

This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema.

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century.