Films, cinema

Quart here extends her previous writings on what she terms `the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking.

Kira Muratova is a respected and original contemporary film director, yet her earliest works were not welcomed when they were shown just after the end of Brezhnev's 'period of stagnation'.

This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction.

The Digital Intermediate process (DI), or conversion of film to digital bits and then back to film again, has great potential to revolutionize the postproduction process.

From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of the most compelling films of the last 30 years.

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year"e;Eye-opening and addictively readable.

A critical and insightful exploration of arguably the greatest television show of the twenty-first century.

This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early twentieth century.

Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement.

Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous.

On release in the 1930s, Snow White became a milestone in animated film, Disney production and the US box office.

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates.

With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers.

What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans?

In the expanded second edition of Fine Cuts, Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of the greatest European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews.

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies.

The media industries in the United States and Japan are similar in much the same way different animal species are: while a horse and a kangaroo share maybe 95% of their DNA, they're nonetheless very different animals-and so it is with manga and anime in Japanese and Hollywood animation, movies, and television.

Bringing together professional standards, practices, and jargon from across the industry, Scripting Media provides a complete overview of writing for divergent forms of media.

The "e;ancient quarrel"e; between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies.

Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s.

Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public discourse.

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968.

By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted?

Soccer has the unique ability to represent and strengthen different cultural identities and ideologies throughout the world.

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

Christopher Bigsby explores the potential of television drama to offer a radical critique of American politics, myths and values.

Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise.

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft.

Conventional wisdom holds that John F.

Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K.

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms.

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane.

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception.

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Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema.

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances.

Among professional storytellers whose works have been adapted for cinematic dramatization, mid-19th century English novelist Charles Dickens stands in a class of his own.

A fun, insightful insider's look at the nuts and bolts of writing action movies, from concept to completion, by a professional screenwriter and professor of screenwriting.

Directing and Producing for Television provides essential tools required to direct and produce effectively in a variety of settings.

From the vantage point of "e;real life"e; (as dancers say), Collusion tells the story of a young girl's initiation into the disciplined, exalting world of classical ballet and into a secret love relationship with F.

In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker.

The hatching of the Cosmic Egg, the swallowing of Phanes by Zeus, and the murder of Dionysus by the Titans were just a few of the many stories that appeared in ancient Greek epic poems that were thought to have been written by the legendary singer Orpheus.

From cinema's silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure.

In the first book-length introduction to Deleuze's work
on film from a feminist perspective, Teresa Rizzo ranges across Deleuze's books
on Cinema, his other writings, and feminist re-workings of his philosophy to
re-think the film viewing experience.

Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films.

The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) are interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays.

On January 3, 1914 Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar.

Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors.