Films, cinema Books

This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found...

"Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the...

Written by scholars working across translation studies, film and media studies, this volume examines the ways in which Korean media has been received and translated in the UK, as well as how British media has fared in South Korea.

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be...

What Steven Walker labels a cryptic subtext, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep...

Post-war cinema saw a rapid rise in the production of B-movies - low-budget genre films dealing with such subjects as horror, science fiction, juvenile delinquency and beatniks, bad girls and women in prison, bikers, gangsters, jungle terror, mondo, drug...

There was a time when "American popular entertainment" referred only to radio and motion pictures. With the coming of talking pictures, Hollywood cashed in on the success of big-time network radio by bringing several of the public's favorite broadcast...

This is the stage music for "Cléopatre," a drama in five acts and six scenes by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau. The music was composed by Xavier Leroux. This work provides insight into the musical accompaniment of late 19th-century...

Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the tortured relationship between human heroine Bella Swan and her vampire love Edward Cullen has become a world-wide sensation--inciting screams of delight, sighs of...

'Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature and Media' examines how Latin American writers, filmmakers, and artists use monstrosity to reflect on marginalization, identity, and social trauma. This volume brings...

This reader is the first comprehensive look at representations of race, gender, disability, body size, age, and sexuality in US entertainment media. The "bible" of media representation, it weaves contemporary media examples together with quantitative...

Interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies.Sex panics saturate contemporary discourse and politics in the United States. While such panics have a...

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries...

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.Eccentric Laughter...

At 36, Pat Treuer walked away from a high-paying corporate job-complete with titles, bonuses, and skyline views-to chase a dream with no roadmap: stand-up comedy. By 42, after launching a million-dollar pandemic-era comedy business and sinking every cent...

In the wake of the unprecedented success of the Star Wars franchise and Excalibur, famous producing team, Ted Mann and Rob Silverman began assembling a team of the most talented filmmakers in existence along with an experienced cast of screen legends and...

For 43 years, Eddie Murphy has dazzled audiences of all sorts whether it's edgy comedies (Bowfinger), cherished remakes (The Nutty Professor), family films (Shrek), or biopics (Dolemite is My Name). Pop culture author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi (The Films of...

A seductive journey into horror based on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde". JACKIE, (Gabriella Hall) a lonely and shy telemarketer in her late twenties, gets a phone call informing her that her uncle has just passed away and she is the only...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and...

The 1994 movie This Is How We Love touched the hearts of so many critics and fans alike when it was released, and has since captivated an even wider audience after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture! Now you, too, can...

The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse explores key developments and evolving techniques, processes, and technology within contemporary theatrical lighting design through the career and impact of US lighting designer...

The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as...

The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are...

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides...

Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged...

In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen...

From the Authors Since writing my book, "A Dream Within a Dream," in 2008, the enigmas of the Kiger family have slowly been peeled away, revealing pain, suffering, regret, and forgiveness. My wife, Barbara, a psychologist who has worked with adolescent...

Chris Wade takes a look at the films of Henry Jaglom, one of the most fiercely independent filmmakers in American history. Beginning with his earliest pictures, A Safe Place and Tracks, Wade delves deep into Jaglom's 80s period, charting his rise as an...

Introducing the ultimate production tracker for film and TV professionals! This journal is designed specifically to help you stay organized and on track during production. Whether you're a producer, director, cinematographer, or runner, this journal has...

Chris Wade explores the film career of movie icon Bela Lugosi. From his silent films in Europe, his early American movies, the iconic roles in the likes of Dracula, The Black Cat, and White Zombie, through the low budget B movies of the 1940s, up to his...

Dive into the intriguing and colorful history of Croatian cinema, from its inception in the early 20th century to its dynamic and promising state in the 21st. Uncover the transformation of Croatian filmmaking through diverse political and cultural eras,...

FVM Magazine Dynamic Issue Special Edition With Gail PorterDAndra SimmonsKevin WillsDr. Matt HarringtonPablo Adame Luz LuzbSabina MarthinsenSandi BogleDonna Williams SalibIrina JacobsonKirk Richards Liz McConaghyLilly PalmerAndrea Jane Bunker

The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education, specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers...

Fully revised and updated, Archival Storytelling second edition is a timely, pragmatic look at the use of audiovisual materials available to filmmakers and scholars, from the earliest photographs of the 19th century to the work of media makers today...

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Chick flicks. Brokeback Mountain. Bollywood. Superhero movies. Sophie's Choice. Sandra Bullock. Avant-garde musicals... If this sort of stuff is your cup of tea, then this isn't the book for you. Blokey film enthusiast Dave Franklin instead concentrates...