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32 produkter
Hollywood TV
The Studio System in the Fifties
Häftad, 1994
413 kr
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The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry.This pioneering study …
Cinema and the Sandinistas
Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Häftad, 2003
383 kr
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Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through the creation of a national film project. Over the next eleven years, the filmmakers of INCINE …
Coming Attractions
Reading American Movie Trailers
Av Lisa Kernan
Häftad, 2004
350 kr
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Movie trailers-those previews of coming attractions before the start of a feature film-are routinely praised and reviled by moviegoers and film critics alike: "They give away too much of the movie." "They're better than the films." "They only show the spectacular parts." "They lie." "They're the …
Cinema of Solitude
A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983
Häftad, 2009
293 kr
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La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles …
Latino Images in Film
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
Häftad, 2002
290 kr
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The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady-these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles RamÍrez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for …
Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Häftad, 1991
273 kr
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"Play it again, Sam" is the motto of cult film enthusiasts, who will watch their favorite movie over and over, "beyond all reason." What is the appeal of cult movies? Why do fans turn up in droves at midnight movies or sit through the same three-hanky classics from Hollywood's golden era? These are …
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
Häftad, 1994
409 kr
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Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study …
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
Av J. E. Smyth
Häftad, 2009
447 kr
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Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century-the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely …
Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds
Av Nicholas Galichenko, Robert Allington
Häftad, 1991
233 kr
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With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet cinema underwent a revolution, one that mirrors and helps interpret the social revolution that took …
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
Häftad, 2001
383 kr
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The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it …
Euro-American Cinema
Av Peter Lev
Häftad, 1993
233 kr
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With McDonalds in Moscow and Disneyland in Paris and Tokyo, American popular culture is spreading around the globe. Regional, national, and ethnic cultures are being powerfully affected by competition from American values and American popular forms. This literate and lively study explores the …
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
Häftad, 1995
386 kr
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With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over …
Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Revolution or Evolution?
Av Megan Mullen
Häftad, 2003
276 kr
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Winner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable television to the first uses of movable type and the invention of the telephone. Cable's proponents in the late 1960s and early 1970s hoped it would …
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
Av Alisa Perren
Häftad, 2012
353 kr
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During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Shakespeare in Love earned substantial sums at the box office along with extensive critical acclaim. A disproportionate number of these hits came from one company: Miramax. Indie, Inc. …
New Latin American Cinema
A Continental Project
Häftad, 1993
293 kr
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During the 1967 festival of Latin American Cinema in ViÑa del Mar, Chile, a group of filmmakers who wanted to use film as an instrument of social awareness and change formed the New Latin American Cinema. Nearly three decades later, the New Cinema has produced an impressive body of films, critical …
Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
Häftad, 1995
333 kr
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Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman-often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top"-uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal …
Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Häftad, 2015
379 kr
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“The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new …
Selling the Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
Av Avi Santo
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Originating as a radio series in 1933, the Lone Ranger is a cross-media star who has appeared in comic strips, comic books, adult and juvenile novels, feature films and serials, clothing, games, toys, home furnishings, and many other consumer products. In his prime, he rivaled Mickey Mouse as one …
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935
Häftad, 1991
413 kr
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The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. Tensions ran high between creative freedom and institutional constraint, radical and reactionary …
Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
Av Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler
Häftad, 2002
473 kr
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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic BookFlip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or …
Selznick's Vision
Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking
Häftad, 1997
413 kr
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Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the vital shaping role played by executive producer David O. Selznick.In this book, Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a …
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
Av Justin Wyatt
Häftad, 1995
293 kr
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Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie." Spielberg's comment embodies the essence of the high concept film, which can be condensed into …
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
Häftad, 2002
284 kr
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A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many people's first stop is now the neighborhood video store. Indeed, video rentals and sales today generate …
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Av Emily Carman
Häftad, 2016
274 kr
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Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated, often manipulative industry to dictate the path of their own careers through freelancing.Runner-up, Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library …
Classical Mexican Cinema
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
Häftad, 2015
354 kr
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction …
Connecting the Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Inbunden, 2017
1033 kr
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Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002–2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial …
Connecting the Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Häftad, 2017
321 kr
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Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002–2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial …
Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
Inbunden, 2018
1274 kr
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One of the country’s most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours’ drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently and extensively filmed American city beyond the production hubs of Los Angeles and New York in the three decades after World War II. During those …
Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
Häftad, 2018
411 kr
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One of the country’s most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours’ drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently and extensively filmed American city beyond the production hubs of Los Angeles and New York in the three decades after World War II. During those …
Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
Inbunden, 2023
1245 kr
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How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to …
