The social science of cinema
With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', this book draws upon popular business-oriented shows from both sides of the Atlantic to explore the relati…
This study shows how film produces a sensory-affective experience for the spectator. It argues that we must explore this affective dimension if we want to understand how cinema takes up cultural or thematic issues.
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the str…
Introduction : material mediations -- Collecting and recollecting : Battlestar Galactica through video's varied technologies of memory -- The commercial economy of film history : or, looking for Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- "Let's movie" : how TCM made a lifestyle of classic film …
"The digital revolution in contemporary movie-making has engendered a wave of cinephilia among those nostalgic for the culture of cinema and the medium of film. It has also spawned growing concerns about their future. The concept of cinephilia, Keller argues, is hardly new as te…
Introduction: "advancing the interests of private and political virtue": the stakes of the early American stage -- "The imitation of life": how men act -- American actors/acting American -- "O patriotism!/ thou wond'rous principle of God-like action!": the changing meanings of t…