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Cinema & Culture
Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001
Av E. Deidre Pribram, Frank Beaver
Häftad, 2002
342 kr
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Contemporary independent American and non-American films distributed in the United States have emerged as a distinct system of representation formulated in the expanse between principles of Hollywood popular film and alternative cinematic practices. Cinema & Culture considers independent film as an …
Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?
Film as Cultural Marker in France and Hollywood
Av David I. Grossvogel, Frank Beaver
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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The long love-hate relationship between the United States and France is a curious one that derives from misconceptions, dissimilar economic imperatives, and genuinely different cultural patterns. Didn’t You Used to Be Depardieu? identifies and analyzes these differences through the contrast of …
Scenes in the City
Film Visions of Manhattan Before 9/11
Av David I. Grossvogel, Frank Beaver
Häftad, 2003
349 kr
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On September 11, 2001, a major part of Manhattan’s skyline vanished. Before the tragic events of that day, New York has been the object of a love-hate relationship with the rest of the country. Its skyline had set the stage for innumerable motion pictures that showed the city at its most brilliant, …
Contemporary African American Cinema
Av Sheril D. Antonio, Frank Beaver
Häftad, 2002
254 kr
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For the past century African American cinema has primarily been an independent phenomenon. However, recent and consistent inclusion in the mainstream film industry of Hollywood suggests a significant change in its status. Despite a tendency to posit the «genre» as «other» it is not a separate …
Italy Meets Africa
Colonial Discourses in Italian Cinema
Av Roberta Di Carmine, Frank Beaver
Inbunden, 2011
648 kr
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Over the past few decades, Italian colonial cinema has proved to be a compelling area to explore artistic productions born during the colonial and fascist periods whose unique ideology shifted from propaganda to fiction. The films produced during the Italian colonial intervention in Africa, which …
Dangerous Dreams
Essays on American Film and Television
Inbunden, 2013
847 kr
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In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are «important – and they’re dangerous – because we’re the keepers of the dreams.» The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics, religion, and sexual …
Dictionary of Film Terms
The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art – Fifth Edition
Av Frank Beaver
Häftad, 2015
363 kr
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Now in its fifth edition, Frank Beaver’s Dictionary of Film Terms has become an indispensable reference tool for the study of films and filmmaking. This trusted and practical handbook clearly and concisely defines the essential terms of film analysis and film art, with a special focus on the …
