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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...

Canadian Cinema

Alanna Thain

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Canadian Cinema Introduction Canadian cinema began with the June 1896 screenings of the Lumière Cinematograph in Montreal. Early cinema was mar...

Censorship

Lee Grieveson

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Censorship Introduction All social orders make decisions about what facts, ideas, and representations can safely appear in public. Liberal poli...

Chan, Jackie

Gina Marchetti

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Jackie Chan Introduction Many popular books and fan guides on Jackie Chan (b. 1954) exist; however, most of the film-studies scholarship on Chan...

Children in Film

Ian Wojcik Andrews

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Children in Film Introduction The child in film is a multifaceted, wide-ranging topic that considers historical, ideological, pedagogical, and...

Chinese Cinema

Yingjin Zhang

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Chinese Cinema Introduction Chinese cinema in this bibliography covers Chinese-language cinema, including films in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Tai...

Cinema and the Visual Arts

Christine Sprengler

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2012-07-24

Cinema and the Visual Arts Introduction The relationship between cinema and the visual arts is a long and complex one, stretching back to cine...

Citizen Kane

Catherine L. Benamou

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Citizen Kane Introduction Citizen Kane (directed, produced, and co-written by Orson Welles, Mercury Productions/RKO Radio Pictures, 1941) is un...

Cocteau, Jean

James S. Williams

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Jean Cocteau Introduction Jean Cocteau (b. 1889–d. 1963) was one of French cinema’s greatest and most original directors whose work covered nea...

Color

Brian Price

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Color Introduction The history and theory of film has, from the very beginning, been characterized by subfields devoted to major stylistic ele...

Computer-Generated Imagery

Bob Rehak

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Computer-Generated Imagery Introduction Computer-generated imagery or CGI is an area of digital visualization practices that, following its em...

Copyright and Piracy

Peter Decherney

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Copyright and Piracy Introduction Copyright and piracy have always been important drivers of media industries. Copyright regulates authorship ...

Costume and Fashion

Nancy Friedland

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Costume and Fashion Introduction Costume is an essential element of the overall design of a film. Working within the director’s vision for the ...

Cuban Cinema

Ruth Goldberg

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Cuban Cinema Introduction The Cuban viewing public developed a healthy appetite for cinema during the first half of the twentieth century, but ...

Dance and Film

Sangita Shresthova

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Dance and Film Introduction The aesthetic, temporal, and interactive intersections of dance, film, and most recently new media cut across avan...

Deleuze, Gilles

Marcia Landy

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Gilles Deleuze Introduction This article covers both the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (b. 1925–d. 1995) and his influential writings on media...

Design, Art, Set, and Production

Lucy Fischer

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2012-05-23

Art, Set, and Production Design Introduction Within cinema discourse, the terms art direction, production design, and set direction are interr...

Detective Films

Philippa Gates

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2011-10-28

Detective Film Introduction The “detective film” can be defined as a film that focuses on a detective-hero’s investigation into the mystery sur...

Directors

Virginia Wright Wexman

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Directors Introduction Most cinema scholarship is about directors. The study of directors began in earnest with the advent of the auteur theor...

Documentary Film

Zoë Druick

Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Documentary Film Introduction Since the 1990s, there has been a veritable explosion of documentary films and digital media productions accompa...

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