Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative and responses to the filmic innovations of the 1960s and the question of modernism. Pasolini's landmark polemic on the cinema of poetry is a vital ......
A study of the efforts of the Warner Bros film studio to promote anti-Nazi activity before the outbreak of World War II. Through a score of films produced in the 1930s and early-1940s the studio marshalled its forces to influence the American conscience and push towards intervention in the war.
How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry
An intriguing look at how the American film industry imposed the rating system upon itself to control competition from films independently produced and distributed.
This work shows that studying the interpretative methods of spectators in their historical contexts is necessary to understand the media's role in culture and in our personal lives. This approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence and demonstrated through works like JFK.
This work shows that studying the interpretative methods of spectators in their historical contexts is necessary to understand the media's role in culture and in our personal lives. This approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence and demonstrated through works like JFK.
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an ......
The Walt Disney company is the brand name of conservative American family values, but also has a long and complex relationship with the gay and lesbian community. This text examines that relationship from the 1930s, to the 1990s Gay Nights at the Magic Kingdom.
Providing an investigation of contemporary politics, this text articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. It demonstrates what it means to think the political in terms of cinema studies and wider aesthetic contexts.
Providing an investigation of contemporary politics, this text articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. It demonstrates what it means to think the political in terms of cinema studies and wider aesthetic contexts.
