Edna Ferber's Hollywood

J E Smyth

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century-the four-decade partnership between histor... Lees meer

The Cult Film Experience

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• "Play it again, Sam" is the motto of cult film enthusiasts, who will watch their favorite movie over and over, "beyond all reason." What is the appeal... Lees meer

Hollywood in San Francisco

Joshua Gleich

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• One of the country's most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours' drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently... Lees meer

The Dread of Difference

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• " The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university ... Lees meer

Selznick's Vision

Alan David Vertrees

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated-the... Lees meer

High Concept

Justin Wyatt

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five wor... Lees meer

The Value Gap

Courtney Brannon Donoghue

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemp... Lees meer

Cinema of Solitude

Charles Ramírez Berg

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo C... Lees meer

Hollywood in San Francisco

Joshua Gleich

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• One of the country's most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours' drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently... Lees meer

Living Room Lectures

Nina C Leibman

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what ... Lees meer

The New Latin American Cinema

Zuzana M Pick, Thomas G Schatz

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• 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 awar... Lees meer

Independent Stardom

Emily Carman

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated... Lees meer

National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

Sumita S Chakravarty

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book ... Lees meer

Latino Images in Film

Charles Ramírez Berg

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady--these have been the defining, and demeaning, images o... Lees meer

Indie, Inc.

Alisa Perren

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• During the 1990s, films such as sex, lies, and videotape , The Crying Game , Pulp Fiction , Good Will Hunting , and Shakespeare in Love earned substan... Lees meer

Cinema and the Sandinistas

Jonathan Buchsbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute... Lees meer

Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935

Denise J Youngblood

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• The golden age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russian Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the ... Lees meer

The Unruly Woman

Kathleen Rowe, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathl... Lees meer

The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States

Megan Mullen

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Winner, McGannon Communications Research Award, 2004 In 1971, the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications likened the ongoing developments in cable t... Lees meer

Veni, Vidi, Video

Frederick Wasser

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the lat... Lees meer

Television Talk

Bernard M Timberg, Robert J Erler

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Wheth... Lees meer

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist

Bernard Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of ha... Lees meer

Glasnost-Soviet Cinema Responds

Nicholas Galichenko

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were su... Lees meer

Connecting The Wire

Stanley Corkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Texas Film and Media Studies
• Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history,... Lees meer