Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor--often satirical--has long been ... Lees meer

To Change Reels

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• An engaging inquiry into the history of South African film and its future--one that focuses on the country's cultural history while squarely facing qu... Lees meer

Projecting the World

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s. The classical Hollywood films that were released betw... Lees meer

Vincente Minelli

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A comprehensive scholarly examination of Vincente Minnelli, one of American cinema's central filmmakers. Widely known for innovative films like Meet M... Lees meer

Reading the Bromance

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the popular cultural phenomenon of "bromance" in film and television and its oppositions between homosexual and homosocial behavior. In the m... Lees meer

Cinemagritte

Lucy Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Examines the fascinating ties between Surrealist artist René Magritte and the cinema. Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Th... Lees meer

Starring Tom Cruise

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years. Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruis... Lees meer

Hollywood Goes Oriental

Karla Rae Fuller

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film. In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the ... Lees meer

Resetting the Scene

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking. More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood ci... Lees meer

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the global dimension and local identity of Chile's vibrant contemporary cinema. Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together... Lees meer

Hitchcock's British Films

Maurice Yacowar

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A reissued classic that examines the structure and themes of each of Hitchcock's British feature films. Originally published in 1977 and long out of p... Lees meer

The Boys in the Band

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• William Friedkin's 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this ed... Lees meer

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

Robin Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Robin Wood's writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume. Robin Wood--one of the foremost critics of cinema--has ... Lees meer

Birth of the Binge

Dennis Broe

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing. Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and det... Lees meer

Hollywood's Chosen People

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Investigates the relationship between Jewish identity and American film from an interdisciplinary perspective. As studio bosses, directors, and actors... Lees meer

Transforming Harry

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media. Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Har... Lees meer

Starring Tom Cruise

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years. Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruis... Lees meer

Before the Crash

Mark J P Wolf

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash of 1983 that ended the medium's golden age. Following the first ap... Lees meer

Movie-Made Los Angeles

John Trafton

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood. Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the r... Lees meer

Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• This anthology examines a number of issues related to violence within the media landscape. Violence has been a topic of continued concern within Ameri... Lees meer

Fearless Vulgarity

Ken Feil

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• The enduring queer feminist engagement with Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann's camp comedy legacy. Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," f... Lees meer

Eye of the Taika

Matthew Bannister

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Com... Lees meer

Representing the Rural

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A comprehensive and in-depth examination of the role of rural space in the cinema, contributing needed analysis to existing work on space, place, and ... Lees meer

Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order

James Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• This is a controversial book that examines the implicit assumptions of other scholars, advocates an alternative to dominant approaches to the avant-ga... Lees meer