Film

Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became...

Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music...

The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910433768Author Nigel PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462493Author Belinda SmaillFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries SUNY...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464381Author Francisca ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Showcases film and entertainment industry in a global perspectiveDemonstrates Hollywood distribution trends since the Covid-19 pandemicA critical reference for film students, film scholars and the public etc.Commissioned by UNESCO Cities of Film...

Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of...

Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became...

From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory and critical feminist mapping...

Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have...

Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one...

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. Founded on substantial original research accessing the highest level of industry practitioners.Will be essential reading for scholars with an interest in the...

* Provides a unique perspective to media production while considering aesthetics, ideas and ethics and includes a robust companion website with interactive exercises for each chapter as well as a downloadable instructor's manual. * Suitable for beginner...

This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre...

This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions. At a time of resurgent...

Christoph Schlingensief, film & video, history, criticisim, theatre, performanceAbout the AuthorIlinca Todorut is IB Theatre Arts Teacher at the United World College in Changshu, China.Book InformationISBN 9780367487539Author Ilinca TodorutFormat...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798555910301Author Nathan MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 473gDimensions(mm)...

The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the American South as a space of ruin, decay, melancholy,...

Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket and negative perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse yet comparable narratives creatively responding to their...

In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of value for the historian seeking to understand and...

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. This book presents new perspectives on Ozu's aesthetic sensibility and his influence on global...

Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from...

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China's marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the subaltern. Focusing on contemporary China, his work...

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief. Discover Singapore's preoccupations with space,...

During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France,...

William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays presents for the first time and in one volume the five screenplays Faulkner wrote while under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox in the mid 1930s and a sixth he wrote in 1952. An...

The Moving Image: A Complete Introduction to Film provides students with an accessible and complete introduction to the world of motion pictures. The text covers the basics of how films are constructed, why they matter, and how to analyze them. It...

Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.Through an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production,Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 discusses which queer representations are erased and which are...

This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day. It establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part...

We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The digital uncanny does not erase the uncanny feeling we experience as deja vu or when confronted with robots...

Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips,...

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer...