Films, cinema

This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other medieval East/West encounters, and the modern inheritance of encounters between orientalist fantasy and apocalyptic conspiracy.

Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

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Biopics and other movies and television shows based on real events are increasingly appearing at the multiplex and on streaming platforms alongside blockbuster franchises and adaptations.

An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices.

From the ten scriptwriters at work to the scandal headlines of Munchkin orgies at the Culver City Hotel to the Witch's (accidental) burning, here is the real story of the making of The Wizard of Oz.

Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from Carl Bernstein (Heartburn) to the size of her breasts ("e;A Few Words About Breasts"e;).

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals.

In this book, John Corner explores how issues of power, form and subjectivity feature at the core of all serious thinking about the media, including appreciations of their creativity as well as anxiety about the risks they pose.

Consistently ranked as one of the best Canadian movies of all time, punk-rock mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996) documents the last-ditch reunion tour of an aging rock band led by vocalist Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon).

Applying Deleuze's schizoanalytic techniques to film theory, Deleuze and the Gynesis of Horror demonstrates how an embodied approach to horror film analysis can help us understand how film affects its viewers and distinguish those films which reify static, hegemonic, "e;molar"e; beings from those which prompt fluid, nonbinary, "e;molecular"e; becomings.

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Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set.

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies.

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals.

For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "e;stag films"e; - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI.

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live.

Film itself is an artifact of memory.

It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed.

Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both.

This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia.

A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features.

The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life.

During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers.

Whether it's television, radio, concerts, live appearances by comedians, Internet websites, or even the political party conventions themselves, the mixing of politics and popular culture is frequently on display.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

Discover the cinema-novelization of Arthur Miller's 1961 American western film, The Misfits, which was directed by John Huston and went on to be one of the most popular cult films of the 1960s.

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In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled.

Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes.

This book explores the practice of artist filmmaker William Raban from 1970 to the present.

Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers.

Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century explores the current state of Tamil cinema, one of India's largest film industries.

Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century.

An exploration of the wonderfully complex and beautifully disorienting world of Japanese animation - anime.

A top vaudeville comedian for the first quarter of the 20th century, Harry Langdon rose from performing in Midwest traveling shows to headlining at the Palace Theatre in New York City.

European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture.

Media Law for Producers is a comprehensive handbook that explains, in lay terms, the myriad legal issues that the producer will face on a regular basis - contracts, permits, defamation, patents, releases and insurance, libel, royalties and residuals, as well as protecting the finished production.

Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows.

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The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale.

Part memoir, part primer, part cautionary tale, this book takes the reader along on a filmmaker's 12-year journey through Hollywood Hell, culminating in the movie Angels In Stardust (2016), starring Alicia Silverstone, AJ Michalka and Billy Burke.