This book analyzes 116 films distributed throughout the United States over nearly 75 years, to construct a theory, grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy, of curriculum in the movies. The portrayal of teachers in popular motion pictures is based on individual, rather…
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished film theorists working in India today to examine the phenomenon of popular Indian cinema from silent films to today's blockbusters. The articles explore the political implications of Indian popular cinema through formal …
"In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator's encounter with the cinematic scene of violence - rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Prov…
"In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media techno…
In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon, winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps best known for Cache, The Piano Teacher, and his remake of his own disturbing Fu…
Basics Film-Making: The Language of Film explores the means by which film communicates meaning to its audience. It will help you understand how films communicate by considering the stories they tell, the sign systems they deply, the interpretive contexts the viewer is invited to…
From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, Imperial Screen is a highly readable accou…
Cinema has long been recognised as the privileged bridge between Soviet ideologues & their mass public. Recent feminist-oriented work has drawn out the symbolic role of women in Soviet culture, but men too were expected to play their part. This is a study of masculinity in Stali…
Shyam Benegal is one of India's major film directors. A career spanning more than 40 years includes documentaries and television programs as well as over 20 feature films. These lively interviews cover Benegal's life and work and, in doing so, present a history of Indian cinema.
This study situates Indian director Satyajit Ray's work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments revive the category of political or "committed" art. It suggests that in their depictions of Indian life, Ray's films intimate t…
In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath…
German cinema is normally seen as a distinct form, but this new series emphasizes connections, influences, and exchanges of German cinema across national borders, as well as its links with other media and art forms.
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy, love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith, remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, the author argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find t…
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy "love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith" remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues philosophy must be brought to bear on contemporary discourse surro…
Egypt has long been a presence in Western culture, and images of Egypt have been a mass-culture staple since the nineteenth century. Based upon information gleaned from isolated artifacts and fanciful travelers' tales, the "Egypt" known to the West was primarily a product of the…
The aesthetic traditions in the West may be considered bifurcated--oral and literate practices, folk and high arts, religious and secular expressions--one neither supplanting nor fully integrating the other, and yet conjoined in some movie practices. Employing a phenomenological…
Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence …
