Films, cinema

The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music.

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment.

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World.

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.

How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world?

Till Bambergs Obsession für den Filmtrick begann, wie bei vielen anderen auch, in früher Jugend.

Tauchen Sie ein in die tiefgehende spirituelle Welt der Sioux und entdecken Sie die Weisheit, die in ihren Ritualen und Legenden verborgen liegt.

Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D.

The recent uproar over NSA dataveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been part of our lives for decades.

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.

India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year.

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Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture-a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental.

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema.

On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "e;The New Cinema: Violence .

Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production?

Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship.

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

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture.

Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable.

Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.

In eleven feature films across two decades, Christian Petzold has established himself as the most critically celebrated director in contemporary Germany.

This survey of Sally Potter's work explores her cinematic development from the feminist reworking of La Boheme in Thriller to the provocative contemplation of romantic relationships after 9/11 in Yes.

An exploration of the book, the movie, and the author of one of the most captivating stories ever toldHow and why has the saga of Scarlett O'Hara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century?

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television—what Carroll calls “moving images.

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South African film culture, like so much of its public life, has undergone a tremendous transformation during its first decade of democracy.

Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings.

Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden.

An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the trenches of the Western Front.

In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.

For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over four-plus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of America's most original and independent directors.

A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication   We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier’s family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system.

Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.

Called the leading heir to the great directors of post-WWII Europe and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions of Hong Kong's film industry.

Celebrated as Pixar's "e;Chief Creative Officer,"e; John Lasseter is a revolutionary figure in animation history and one of today's most important filmmakers.

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus.

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat.

From cynical portrayals like The Front Page to the nuanced complexity of All the President's Men, and The Insider, movies about journalists and journalism have been a go-to film genre since the medium's early days.

Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure.

In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies.

The 2012 smash "e;Gangnam Style"e; by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation.

In this timely critical introduction to the representation of Afghanistan in film, Mark Graham examines the often surprising combination of propaganda and poetry in films made in Hollywood and the East.

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon.