Until now, Eugene O'Neills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neills life, his family, and his plays.
The Magpie and the Wardrobe A Curiosity of Folklore, Magic and Spells, is a lovingly curated compendium of time-honoured traditions and curious customs that have bewitched us for generations.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg (Deutsch), Veranstaltung: Einführung in Filmanalyse und Filmdidaktik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die facettenreiche Darstellung von Krankheit in der bewegenden Romanverfilmung "Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter".
Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based.
Movie-Struck Girls examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2, Universität zu Köln (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: War in Europe, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit setzt bei der These, "Im Westen Nichts Neues" vertrete eine rein deutsche Sicht zu den Ereignissen zum Ende des ersten Weltkrieges 1918, an und betrachtet den Film aus dem Blickwinkel zweier Konzepte der Erinnerungskultur.
Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film.
African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.
Directing in Musical Theatre offers a comprehensive guide which will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end.
As critic for the Soho Weekly News and the Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Banes enjoyed an incomparable perspective on the development of what she describes as "e;the mongrel, elusive, indefinable genre of performance art.
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.
The works of Shakespeare and Dante or the figures of George Washington and Moses do not often enter into popular conceptions of the silent cinema, yet, between 1907 and 1910, the Vitagraph Company frequently used such material in producing "e;quality"e; films that promulgated "e;respectable"e; culture.
The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three original American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.
This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates todays best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity.
The wild innovations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde have been widely celebrated for their influence on the course of experimental drama but rarely examined closely and systematically.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Veranstaltung: Filmanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Leviathan ist ein im Jahr 2014 erschienenes russisches Filmdrama des Regisseurs Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia Landy shows that cultural life under fascism was not monopolized by official propaganda.
This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou.
As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "e;divine decadence"e;--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "e;shocking"e; British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin.
"e;Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter,"e; writes Eva Stehle, "e;but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party.
In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1 (A), Ohio University (School of Telecommunication), course: Multicultural Broadcasting, language: English, abstract: MTV - an "e;all encompassing mediator of popular culture"e; (Goodwin, 1992) or as the Washington Post once put it "e;perhaps the most influential single cultural product of the [eighties]"e; (McGrath 1996, p.
This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years.
Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based.
Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology.
Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australian context.
Comprehensively rewritten and updated, this new edition of the leading textbook on dubbing provides a solid overview of the world of dubbing and is fundamentally interactive in its approach.
This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines.
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1- (A-), Ohio University (School of Telecommunication), course: Cable Communication, language: English, abstract: In last Thursday's edition of USA Today concerned parents had no doubt about what was responsible for the High School shootings in Colorado.
