Movies

What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge

by Andrew, Dudley

fromBlackwell manifestos

0 Type: Book

"What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain idea of cinema. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema's distinct valu…

What cinema is!: Bazin's quest and its charge

by Andrew, Dudley

fromBlackwell manifestos

0 Type: Book

What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question through a sweeping look back over the phenomenal ascendancy of a certain idea of cinema. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time, this provocative volume proclaims cinema's distinct value…

Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush

by Greven, David

0 Type: Book

This is a study of the struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood that defined Hollywood masculinity from the late 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century.

Hollywood's copyright wars: from Edison to the internet

by Decherney, Peter

fromFilm and culture

0 Type: Book

Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach…

Hollywood's copyright wars: from Edison to the Internet

by Decherney, Peter

fromFilm and culture

0 Type: Book

Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the vatieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach…

Composing for the red screen: Prokofiev and Soviet film

by Bartig, Kevin

fromOxford music/media series

0 Type: Book

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arg…

Far-flung families in film: the diasporic family in contemporary European cin…

by Berghahn, Daniela

0 Type: Book

"In the age of globalisation, diasporic and other types of transnational family are increasingly represented in films such as East is East, Le Grand Voyage, Almanya -- Welcome to Germany, Immigrant Memories, Couscous, When We Leave, Monsoon Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. …

Bored to distraction: cinema of excess in end-of-the-century Mexico and…

by Schaefer, Claudia

fromSUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and cultu…

0 Type: Book

"Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise of material goods to the profusion of despair, from devastating tragedy to exaggerated rapture, a dizzying array of image…

Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history

by Neale, Stephen, Hall, Sheldon

fromContemporary approaches to film and television series

0 Type: Book

Product Description: This title considers the history of the American blockbuster-the large-scale, high-cost film-as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, …

John Woo's Bullet in the head

by Williams, Tony

fromNew Hong Kong cinema

0 Type: Book

"Though underappreciated in contemporary film criticism, Bullet in the Head is a landmark in John Woo's career as a film director. Featuring strong early work by Hong Kong stars such as Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Simon Yam, the film functions both as a modern Jacobean revenge trage…

African film and literature: adapting violence to the screen

by Dovey, Lindiwe

fromFilm and culture

0 Type: Book

"Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique o…

African film and literature: adapting violence to the screen

by Dovey, Lindiwe

fromFilm and culture

0 Type: Book

"Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique o…

Tracking King Kong: a Hollywood icon in world culture

by Erb, Cynthia Marie

fromContemporary approaches to film and television series

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Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today.

Memory and the moving image: French film in the digital era

by McNeill, Isabelle,, Dr

0 Type: Book

"In a vital rethinking of the role of the moving image in cultural memory, Isabelle McNeill investigates the impact of digital technologies on visual culture. Drawing on an interdisciplinary range of theoretical resources and an unusual body of films and moving image works, McNe…

Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context

fromFilm and media studies

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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume's contributors-the new generati…

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy

by Mayer, Vicki

0 Type: Book

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected milli…

Shell shock cinema: Weimar culture and the wounds of war

by Kaes, Anton

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'Shell Shock Cinema' shows how classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I & the trauma of Germany's humiliating defeat. Anton Kaes argues that even films which do not depict war reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock.