Explores the story of one star of the Silver Screen's role in the Second World WarJames Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941.
A partir de tres obras colombianas contemporáneas Sólo como de un sueño nos levantamos de Beatriz Camargo, Cuando el zapatero remendón remienda sus zapatos de Carolina Vivas y Mujeres en la plaza: Memoria de la ausencia ¿Dónde están?
Amicus - The Studio That Made Us Scream and Scream Again offers an entertaining and affectionate overview of the legacy of this beloved studio and the films they produced.
A partir de tres obras colombianas contemporáneas Sólo como de un sueño nos levantamos de Beatriz Camargo, Cuando el zapatero remendón remienda sus zapatos de Carolina Vivas y Mujeres en la plaza: Memoria de la ausencia ¿Dónde están?
Im Laufe des Lebens eines Künstlers oder eben eines Menschen, der sich im Laufe der Zeit zu einem solchen entwickelt, entstehen gar viele Versuche, die Kunst zu nennen möglicherweise eine Anmaßung bedeuten, aber dennoch eben auf dem Weg zur Entwicklung der eigenen Kunst eine Bedeutung haben, und sei es auch nur für den Künstler selber.
This book offers the only examination of the television writing of David Milch and David Simon as significant contributions to American culture, literature, and social realism.
This book chronicles the fascinating life story of the supermodel turned media mogul who has become one of the most influential African American women in our popular culture.
This insightful account analyzes and provides context for the films and careers of directors who have made Latin American film an important force in Hollywood and in world cinema.
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.
This biography examines the life of a person raised in poverty and a single mother at 14, who is now one of the richest and most influential people in the world-Oprah Winfrey.
This in-depth compilation of the lives, works, and contributions of 12 icons of African-American comedy explores their impact on American entertainment and the way America thinks about race.
This work is a wide-ranging survey of American children's film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies intended for children have come to be so persistently charged with meaning.
This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways-ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day.
Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
This book project unfolds and analyzes the work of Moroccan director, producer, and scriptwriter Farida Benlyazid, whose career extends from the beginning of cinema in independent Morocco to the present.
Nachdem das aus dem Musikfernsehen bekannte Musikvideo inzwischen eine fast vierzig Jahre dauernde Geschichte vorweist, ist eine zentrale Frage, ob es immer noch gewinnbringend als Produkt einer "Kulturindustrie" lesbar ist.
The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, mystery-solving couple Nick and Nora Charles into American culture.
Viewers spend years laughing, crying, celebrating, and mourning with their favorite TV characters, but when those characters are promiscuous women, different viewers may have very different reactions.
The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen provides historical and contemporary techniques and styles for the safe training and use of the European broadsword in a theatrical setting.
