Films, cinema

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama.

In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games.

Best known for her roles in Mr.

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation and hybridity.

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.

The main question addressed in this book: why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention?

In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society.

Though the creative community of Reykjavik, Iceland, has earned a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output - most notably the popular music that has emerged from the city since the 1980s - Reykjavik's filmmakers have received less attention than they merit.

An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies.

Actor William Powell is perhaps best known for his roles as charming Nick in The Thin Man films and blustery Clarence Day in Life with Father.

The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film's failure to find production funding through a major studio.

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical feature films have garnered worldwide recognition since her 2001 debut La cienaga.

Unlike most makers of modern or futuristic films, George Lucas turned away from the standard special operatives or secret agents when he created the heroes for his epic Star Wars saga.

America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world.

Robert E.

Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) was a motion picture star in his own right.

This book is about how kids become engaged with brands, and how their relationship with them changes over time as they mature as consumers.

How do you make a successful documentary in an era of media turmoil, network disruption and increasing financial restrictions?

Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began.

Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state.

Since the 1997 publication of the first Harry Potter novel, the "e;Potterverse"e; has seen the addition of eight feature films (with a ninth in production), the creation of the interactive Pottermore(c) website, the release of myriad video games, the construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, several companion books (such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), critical essays and analyses, and the 2016 debut of the original stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Gene Hackman (b.

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games.

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Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits.

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film.

For the first decade of her career Leigh appeared as the stereotypical "e;nice girl.

Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.

Few directors are characterized by both extraordinary film craft and the ironic reputation for lowbrow films.

Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives.

Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers and viewers.

This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen.

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality.

The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television.

Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways.

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

Neo-noir knows its past.

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "e;European refugee crisis"e;, and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy.

Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker's 1987 film Hellraiser has become an undisputed horror classic, spawning a movie franchise that to date includes eight films.

With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers.

The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp.

This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media.

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible.

Known as the bald cowboy in The Magnificent Seven and the sexy, charismatic male lead in The King and I, Yul Brynner was a Hollywood paragon of masculinity.

This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different ways and in a variety of academic settings--from cultural theory to film studies; from women's and gender studies to postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal to the timeless classics of English horror literature.

Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowned teams of manga artists, leaving a durable imprint in every established genre while also devising novel formulas along the way.

Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them--surf and beach movies.

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject.

This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture.

Rather than limiting the cinema, as certain French New Wave critics feared, adaptation has encouraged new inspiration to explore the possibilities of the intersection of text and film.