Hidden Light

Dan Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Contemporary Israeli cinema's engagement with Judaism as cultural identity and mystical tradition. Over the past several decades, the prevailing attit... Lees meer

Vincente Minelli

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

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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

Projecting the World

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of global trade, crisscrossing bord... Lees meer

To Change Reels

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. But how can we speak of a national cinema when so far only an el... Lees meer

Resetting the Scene

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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 Studies
• 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 Studies
• Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-thre... Lees meer

Cinemagritte

Lucy Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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 Studies
• 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

Reading the Bromance

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance req... Lees meer

Boys in the Band

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• The Boys in the Band 's debut was revolutionary for its fictional but frank presentation of a male homosexual subculture in Manhattan. Based on Mart C... Lees meer

Hollywood Goes Oriental

Karla Rae Fuller

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some--like Fu Manchu or... Lees meer

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Rachel S Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel's film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. W... Lees meer

Birth of the Binge

Dennis Broe

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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

Transforming Harry

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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

Movie-Made Los Angeles

John Trafton

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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

Hollywood's Chosen People

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet J... Lees meer

Before the Crash

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Following the first appearance of arcade video games in 1971 and home video game systems in 1972, the commercial video game market was exuberant with ... Lees meer

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

Robin Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Robin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's int... Lees meer

Starring Tom Cruise

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• 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

The Last Laugh

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Fascinating explorations of dark, strange, unpredictable, and non-comedic laughter. For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has t... Lees meer

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

Anjeana Hans

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change, when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled, and a young, deepl... Lees meer

Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Violence has been a topic of continued concern within American culture and society. Although there have been numerous sociological and historical stud... Lees meer