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43 produkter
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood
Rebooting the System
Av Neil Archer
Häftad, 2019
216 kr
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Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings …
The Vampire Film
Undead Cinema
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Melies' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organized by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of …
Queer Cinema
Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the …
Action Movies
The Cinema of Striking Back
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood …
The Heist Film
Stealing with Style
Av Daryl Lee
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s …
International Politics and Film
Space, Vision, Power
Häftad, 2014
185 kr
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International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes-borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant …
Film Theory
Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Häftad, 2014
198 kr
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Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier …
Bio-pics
A Life in Pictures
Häftad, 2014
198 kr
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Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under …
The Gangster Film
Fatal Success in American Cinema
Av Ron Wilson
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as a result of socio-cultural circumstances. From its origins in Progressive-era reforms to its use as an indictment of corporate greed, the gangster film …
Postmodernism and Film
Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthestics
Häftad, 2015
216 kr
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This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which …
Film Programming
Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives
Av Peter Bosma
Häftad, 2015
216 kr
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This study explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archives and situating film-curating issues within an international context. Artistic and commercial film availability has increased overwhelmingly as a result of the digitization of the …
The Road Movie
In Search of Meaning
Av Neil Archer
Häftad, 2016
460 kr
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Though often seen as one of America's native cinematic genres, the road movie has lent itself to diverse international contexts and inspired a host of filmmakers. As analyzed in this study, from its most familiar origins in Hollywood the road movie has become a global film practice, whether as a …
Trash Cinema
The Lure of the Low
Av Guy Barefoot
Häftad, 2017
433 kr
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This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilcam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the …
Prison Movies
Cinema Behind Bars
Inbunden, 2017
687 kr
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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a …
Prison Movies
Cinema Behind Bars
Häftad, 2017
460 kr
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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a …
Silent Cinema
Before the Pictures Got Small
Häftad, 2017
216 kr
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Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form …
Silent Cinema
Before the Pictures Got Small
Inbunden, 2017
687 kr
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Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form …
Narrative and Narration
Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling
Häftad, 2020
201 kr
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From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains …
Film and the Natural Environment
Elements and Atmospheres
Av Adam O'Brien
Häftad, 2018
216 kr
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Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance …
The Children's Film
Genre, Nation, and Narrative
Av Noel Brown
Häftad, 2017
460 kr
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Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a …
Film Censorship
Regulating America's Screen
Häftad, 2018
204 kr
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Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and classic studio system Golden Age—in which film censorship thrived—to contemporary Hollywood. From the …
The Stardom Film
Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale
Häftad, 2020
201 kr
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Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female protagonist escapes the confines of rural America in search of freedom in a western dream factory; an ambitious, conceited movie idol falls from grace and discovers what it means to …
Suburban Fantastic Cinema
Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
460 kr
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Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with …
The Pop Musical
Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias
Av Alberto Mira
Häftad, 2021
201 kr
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After Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley’s iron grip on the movie musical began to slip in the face of pop’s cultural dominance, many believed that the musical genre entered a terminal decline and finally wore itself out by the 1980s. Though the industrial model of the musical was disrupted by the …
The Contemporary Superhero Film
Projections of Power and Identity
Häftad, 2020
207 kr
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Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has ever reached. Yet despite dominating theater screens like never before, the superhero genre remains …
Fate in Film
A Deterministic Approach to Cinema
Häftad, 2022
189 kr
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The course of events is predetermined and cannot be changed. Forces beyond our control—or even our comprehension—shape our fates. Such is the deterministic worldview embedded in a wide swath of contemporary cinema, from arthouse experiments to popular genre films, through both thematic concerns and …
Teen Movies
A Century of American Youth
Häftad, 2023
207 kr
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Cinema has always engaged with the experiences, hopes, fears, and anxieties of—and about—adolescents, teenagers, and young people. This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century.Timothy Shary …
Body Horror
Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology
Häftad, 2026
207 kr
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The subgenre of body horror, associated with directors such as David Cronenberg and Coralie Fargeat, depicts the human body’s susceptibility to disease and change. Preoccupied with anatomy, pathology, and corporeality, it portrays contagion, mutilation, mutation, and metamorphosis. As organs, …
Feminist Film Studies
Writing the Woman into Cinema
Av Janet McCabe
E-bok, 2005
278 kr
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An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.
Star System
Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities
E-bok, 2001
287 kr
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-- Jane Gaines, Duke University
