Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.
This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain. It explores how pleasure, politics and communal solidarity intermingled in the cinemas of Jewish neighbourhoods, and how film was seen as a vessel through which Jewish communal concerns might be carried to a wider public. Addressing an array of related topics, this volume examines the lived expressive cultures of cinemas in Jewish areas and the ethnically specific films consumed within these sites; the reception of...
This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and finds that there are elements of resistance to norms and conventions in politics, to mainstream news channels and Hollywood, and to official American history already embedded in the culture.
Andrei Tarkovsky's Poetics of Cinema
by Redwood Thomas and Thomas Redwood
"If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens."Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his films remains alive and well. Recent years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of film theorists, critics and philosophers taking up the challenge to decipher what these films actually mean. But what do these films actually show us?This study undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky's later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innova...
Architecture/Film: Building Cities out of Fictions (European Community law)
by Katherine Shonfield
Young, the Restless, and the Dead, The: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers
When Continental movie-makers combined horror with sex, they unleashed a tidal wave of celluloid strangeness that lasted nearly 30 years. From sexy thrillers to pulp surrealism, from decadent erotica to blood-soaked vampire epics, this work tells the story of the cinema in Europe from 1956 to 1984. It covers the maverick directors and outrageous films and includes rare stills, interviews, features on directors, the starlets and other key personalities.
Scotland: Global Cinema: Genres, Modes and Identities
by Author David Martin-Jones
The success of "Star Trek" is due in part to the clever crafting of the show's stories, many of which come from medieval epics and romances. This is a literary and sociological criticism of "Star Trek". The first chapter shows how the specifically literary tradition of science fiction led to the creation of "Star Trek". The second chapter deals with the social history of the Federation and how it was developed to reflect actual world history, whilst the third chapter reviews how "Star Trek" trea...
Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically, this book finds consistency of vision in Van Sant's unique approach to cinema, which deploys postmodernist techniques such as appropriation, nonlinear narrative, and queering--not in the service of...
In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White, Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animat...
Ethnologie Und Die Politik Des Raums (Postcolonial Studies, #17)
by Carena Brenner
Projizierte Kunstgeschichte (Kultur- Und Medientheorie)
by Doris Berger
