"e;Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we're talking about when we're talking about cat videos.
Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades.
Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media.
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.
Esta antología del cine mexicano presenta 31 películas emblemáticas de todas las épocas del cine del país, desde la llamada Época de Oro de los años treinta y cuarenta hasta el cine actual, e incluye tanto obras canónicas de Sergej Eisenstein, Fernando de Fuentes, Alejandro Galindo, Luis Buñuel y Arturo Ripstein como trabajos de realizadores actuales, como Jorge Fons, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jorge Fons, Alfonso Cuarón y Fernando Eimbcke.
Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams.
This book analyses contemporary French films by focussing closely on cinematic representations of immigrants and residents of suburban housing estates known as banlieues.
Für jeden Filminteressierten unverzichtbar: Auch für das Jahr 2011 bietet das Filmjahrbuch für jeden Film, der in Deutschland und der Schweiz im Kino, im Fernsehen oder auf DVD/Blu-ray gezeigt wurde, eine Kurzkritik und zeigt mit klaren Maßstäben inhaltliche Qualität und handwerkliches Können.
This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness.
An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution.
Unlike other books on architecture and film, Architecture Filmmaking investigates how the now-expanded field of architecture utilizes the practice of filmmaking (feature/short film, stop motion animation and documentary) or video/moving image in research, teaching and practice, and what the consequences of this interdisciplinary exchange are.
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "e;tangible phase"e; of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores.
With the aim to help teachers design and deliver instruction around world films featuring child protagonists, Cultivating Creativity through World Films guides readers to understand the importance of fostering creativity in the lives of youth.
Working extensively as both artist and scientist, Aldo Giorgini (1934-1994) was one of the first computer artists to combine software writing with early printing technologies.
Über Videospiele wird oft geurteilt, aber selten diskutiert – vor allem zwischen denen, die spielen, und Außenstehenden, welche die Faszination mit Games oft schwer nachvollziehen können.
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s.
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.
The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s.
In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent.
Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity.
Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles and the realities of climate change has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies.
Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror.
Der erste Band der Reihe stellt eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme dar, zugleich liefert der Band neue Impulse zu einer zeitgemäßen interdisziplinären Film- und Textualitätsforschung.
Roosevelt's New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically.
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both 'high' and 'popular' culture side by side.
Roosevelt's New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically.
This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded.
