Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Examines the ways in which the movie theater fostered its own sense of place and community, one with its own architectural styles, its own neighborhood district
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-07 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Caught between the older model of short film and the emerging classic era, the transitional period of American cinema (1907-1917) has typically posed a problem
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locating World Cinema argues for the importance of understanding the local context of a film's creation and the nuances that it conveys to the spectator. It exa
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-15 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transiti
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Intellect Books
An important addition to Intellect's popular series, Directory of World Cinema: Finland provides historical and cultural overviews of the country's cinema. Over
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-01 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of just
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-18 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-20 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema. Responding to the latest developments in Canadian fi
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-21 - Publisher: Springer
In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship with the id
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution