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Acting
Cynthia Baron
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Acting Introduction Perceptions about acting in film have been remarkably polarized: when people give priority to the now-mythical experiment b...
Advertising and Promotion
Matthew P. McAllister, Alexandra Nutter Smith
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Advertising and Promotion Introduction Advertising is unique in its status as both a major textual genre and a revenue source for media system...
Altman, Robert
Robert T. Self
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Robert Altman Introduction Robert Altman (b. 1925–d. 2006) had a directing career that stretched over fifty years, from the end of World War II...
American Cinema, 1895-1915
Charlie Keil
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
American Cinema, 1895–1915 Introduction The study of early American cinema was both the beneficiary and the instigator of a wave of revisionist...
Animation and the Animated Film
Paul Wells
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Animation and the Animated Film Introduction For many years, animation received minimal recognition as a significant form of cinematic and art...
Arzner, Dorothy
Theresa Geller
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dorothy Arzner Introduction In 1936, Dorothy Arzner (b. 1897–d. 1979) was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America; it would be s...
Asian American Cinema
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Asian American Cinema Introduction Asian American cinema refers to an ongoing struggle for moving image representation by and about Asian Amer...
Astaire, Fred and Rogers, Ginger
Adrienne L. McLean
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Introduction Fred Astaire (1899–1987) and Ginger Rogers (1911–1995) would likely have become movie stars on the...
Australian Cinema
Jonathan Rayner
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Australian Cinema Introduction The cinema of Australia has been the subject of continual, complex, and interdisciplinary scrutiny since the rev...
Auteurism
Timothy Corrigan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Auteurism Introduction Auteurism has arguably been at the center of film practice, theory, and historiography since the 1950s. Originating in t...
Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
Robin Blaetz
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Introduction Experimental and avant-garde film is cinema made outside of the film industry on an artisanal b...
Battle of Algiers, The
Nicholas Harrison
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Battle of Algiers Introduction The Battle of Algiers (1966) offers a moving account of an early phase in the Algerian war of independence....
Bazin, André
Dudley Andrew
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
André Bazin Introduction André Bazin (b. 1918–d. 1958) may well be the most influential critic ever to have written about cinema. He contribute...
Birth of a Nation, The
Daniel Bernardi, Michelle J. Martinez
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Birth of a Nation Introduction Released fifty years after the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, D. W. ...
Blade Runner
Rob Latham, Jeffrey Hicks
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Blade Runner Introduction Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, was originally released in June of 1982 to mixed reviews and a poor showing a...
Blockbusters
Sheldon Hall
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Blockbusters Introduction The word “blockbuster” originated in World War II as the nickname of a particularly large bomb (1,000 pounds or heavi...
Brakhage, Stan
David Sterritt
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Stan Brakhage Introduction Stan Brakhage (b. 1933–d. 2003) is widely considered to have been the most innovative and prolific avant-garde film...
Brando, Marlon
Krin Gabbard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Marlon Brando Introduction Many critics have called Marlon Brando (b. 1924–d. 2004) the greatest American actor of the 20th century. Frank Sina...
British Cinema
Amy Sargeant
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
British Cinema Introduction Before the 1960s, much historical and critical writing on British cinema was generated outside of the academy—for i...
Campion, Jane
Alistair Fox
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Jane Campion Introduction Since Jane Campion (b. 1954) was first recognized as a filmmaker of exceptional talent, with the screening of her ear...
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