In the 1980s and early 1990s, popular film presented women characters who were hard, tough and in control. While "Thelma and Louise" blew away rapists, Sigourney Weaver vapourized "Aliens", and the era of the female hero arrived. Despite the overt heterosexuality of both films, Thelma, Louise and Weaver's character, Ripley, all became incredibly popular with lesbians. This study critically embraces psychoanalytic and discourse film theory to explore this phenomenon and to assess its implications...
Clarence Brown (Screen Classics)
by Gwenda Young and Kevin Brownlow
Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy--Award--nominated director Clarence Brown (1890--1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy. Known as the "star maker," he helped guide the acting career of child sensation Elizabeth Taylor (of who...
A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with inte
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About - Port Vale FC
by MR Ian Carroll
In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humour. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s-a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature-exploring key works by Luis Garcia Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fer...
Nuclear Receptors as Drug Targets (Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry, #39)
Edited by two experts working at the pioneering pharmaceutical company and major global player in hormone-derived drugs, this handbook and reference systematically treats the drug development aspects of all human nuclear receptors, including recently characterized receptors such as PPAR, FXR and LXR. Authors from leading pharmaceutical companies around the world present examples and real-life data from their own work.
Jean Desmet's Dream Factory - the Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916)
by Jaap Guldemond and Marente Bloemheuvel
'The Edinburgh Festival' - and the Fringe that it inspired - has been the hub for numerous 'culture wars' since its inception in 1947. This book is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza, examining a moving stage of debate on such issues as the place of culture in society, the practice and significance of the arts, censorship, the role of organised religion, and the meanings of morality. From the beginning, the Edinburgh International Festiv...
So convinced is Francis Ford Coppola that "live cinema" will become a powerful medium within the larger film industry that he has crafted this instructional book, filled with lively anecdotes and invaluable lessons—a boon for cinema addicts, film students and teachers alike. As digital film-making can now be performed by one director or by a collaborative team working across the Internet, it is a matter of time before cinema auteurs will create "live" films of the highest creative quality that w...
Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas (Critical Interventions)
by Associate Professor Michelle E Bloom
The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters that are concerned both with the relationship between performance, music and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts, Film's Musical Moments will be of equal importance to students of film studies, cultural studies and music. The book is organised into four secti...
Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious, Spooky, Altogether Ooky
by Write Run and Mac Abre
Huser's study analyses the title sequences of Hitchcock's American films, showing how a variety of visual and acoustic experimental techniques employed in these sequences produce a particular mode of enunciation destined to frame the film within its own self-interpretation.
Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Castaway. Herein, Norman Kagan unlocks the mind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits-appraising each work's public and critical appeal while placing the films in the context of Zemeckis's career.
Most film critics point to classic conflicts - good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery - as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conflicts to encompass environmental themes and struggles. The environment, after all, is the fundamental stage for most western stories, from land rush...
The Art of "The Matrix"
by Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, and Geof Darrow
With two eagerly awaited sequels to be released in 2003 -- The Matrix Reloaded in May and The Matrix Revolutions in November -- this highly acclaimed book is now even more essential. To sell their amazing script for The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers employed top comic book professionals to visualise their script in the form of storyboards, all of which are included here in what is simply the most comprehensive and lavish behind-the-scenes film book ever published. Discover the full story with o...
Today, in a world of smartphones, tablets, and computers, screens are a pervasive part of daily life. Yet a multiplicity of screens has been integral to the media landscape since cinema’s golden age. In On the Screen, Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. Marshalling extensive archival research, Rogers reveals the role screens played at the...
A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture.
The New Latin American Cinema (Texas Film and Media Studies)
by Zuzana M. Pick
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 essays, and manifestos that uses social theory to inform filmmaking practices. This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema. Zuzana Pick maps out six...