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

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

The Last Laugh

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

1968 and Global Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events. 1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in film studies. Although scholarsh... Lees meer

Documenting the Documentary

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Essays on important documentary films from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documen... Lees meer

German Cinema

Marc Silberman

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, a... Lees meer

Beyond Method

Scott Balcerzak

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the methodologies and influence of acting teacher Stella Adler on her male students. Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American ... Lees meer

Appetites and Anxieties

Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films. Cinema is a mo... Lees meer

Stars and Silhouettes

Joceline Andersen

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• Extensive account of the cameo's production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture. Stars and Silhouettes: The History of... Lees meer

Movie-Made Los Angeles

John Trafton

• Hardcover | 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

Transforming Harry

• Paperback | 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

Woman Up

Julia Havas

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up:... Lees meer

Woman Up

Julia Havas

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television. While American television has long... Lees meer

American Television During a Television Presidency

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency. Karen McNally and contributors critically ... Lees meer

Mothers of Invention

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures. Mothers of Invention constructs a feminist genealogy that... Lees meer

Beyond Method

Scott Balcerzak

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the methodologies and influence of acting teacher Stella Adler on her male students. Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American ... Lees meer

American Television During a Television Presidency

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency. Karen McNally and contributors critically ... Lees meer

Leaving Springfield

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A study of the landmark television program The Simpsons which focuses on the show's dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass medi... Lees meer

Personal Views

Robin Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A reissue of a significant and hard-to-find text in film studies with a new introduction and three additional essays included. Robin Wood, the renowne... Lees meer

Mothers of Invention

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures. Mothers of Invention constructs a feminist genealogy that... Lees meer

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• A provcative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of girls in modern cinema. From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the S... Lees meer

Transnational Cinema in a Global North

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
• The first scholarly work to address the globalization of film in the Nordic region, covering major films, directors, and trends in the region's five c... Lees meer