Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Explores the proliferation of humor in recent cinema of the Middle East and its possible ramifications for cinematic representation, art, and politics... Lees meer

Vincente Minnelli

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Widely known for innovative films like ""Meet Me in St Louis"", ""An American in Paris"", and ""The Band Wagon"", Vincente Minnelli also directed clas... Lees meer

Hidden Light

Dan Chyutin

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Explores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel’s cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic ... Lees meer

Projecting the World

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Illustrates how Hollywood films negotiate shifting historical contexts of internationalisation through complex narratives about transnational exchange... Lees meer

To Change Reels

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point. But how can there be a discussion of national cinema when only the elite minori... Lees meer

Resetting the Scene

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene show... Lees meer

Reading the Bromance

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

Hollywood goes oriental

Karla Rae Fuller

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Fuller tracks specific cosmetic devices, physical gestures, dramatic cues, and narrative conventions to argue that representations of Oriental identit... Lees meer

Starring Tom Cruise

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectati... Lees meer

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

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• Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World ... Lees meer

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Rachel S. Harris

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Offers a feminist study of Israel's film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts... Lees meer

Movie-Made Los Angeles

John Trafton

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of photography, painting, and tourist promotion in the land of sunshine. ... Lees meer

Before the Crash

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

Birth of the Binge

Dennis Broe

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Describes serial television and "binge watching". Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality ... Lees meer

Starring Tom Cruise

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectati... Lees meer

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

Anjeana K. Hans

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Examines how uncanny films of the Weimar Republic engage with and respond to changing gender norms and women's emancipation. Lees meer

Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• This anthology examines a number of issues related to violence within the media landscape, using various methodologies to suggest the implications of ... Lees meer

Shadows of Doubt

Barry Keith Grant

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic... Lees meer

To Change Reels

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point. But how can there be a discussion of national cinema when only the elite minori... Lees meer

New Latin American Cinema Vol one; Theory, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations

Michael T. Martin

• Hardcover | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• This volume (first of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin A... Lees meer

Representing the Rural

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Demonstrates the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus the space the rural occupies, both on c... Lees meer

Horror International

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• This book aims to give the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema their due. The collection of eighteen essays examine... Lees meer

Zones of Anxiety

Vicki Callahan

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within ea... Lees meer

Fearless Vulgarity

Ken Feil

• Paperback | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• First christened ‘camp’ by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing juggernauts The Love Machin... Lees meer