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Hawks, Howard
Michael J. Anderson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Howard Hawks Introduction Critical and scholarly writing on Howard Hawks (b. 1896–d. 1977) has oscillated historically between moments of compa...
Haynes, Todd
Ruth Goldberg
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Todd Haynes Introduction Born in Los Angeles, California, on 2 January 1961, Todd Haynes is one of America’s most important and original indepe...
Hitchcock, Alfred
Sidney Gottlieb
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Alfred Hitchcock Introduction Alfred Hitchcock (b. 1899–d. 1980) is unquestionably one of the most well-known and important filmmakers to date....
Israeli Cinema
Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Israeli Cinema Introduction Scholarship on Zionist and Israeli cinema is in agreement as to the major periods and movements in this corpus. Du...
Italian Cinema
Peter Bondanella
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Italian Cinema Introduction Italian national cinema developed quickly between the last decade of the 19th century and the outbreak of World Wa...
Japanese Cinema
Scott Nygren
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Japanese Cinema Introduction Japanese film became a major area of English-language film study in the 1960s, after the publication of Anderson ...
Jazz Singer, The
Krin Gabbard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Jazz Singer Introduction Although it was not the first film in which actors talked or made noise, The Jazz Singer radically hastened the en...
Keaton, Buster
Charles Wolfe
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Buster Keaton Introduction The silent films of Buster Keaton (b. 1895–d. 1966) are among the most critically admired American motion pictures ...
Korean Cinema
Kyu Hyun Kim
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Korean Cinema Introduction The current surge of interest in Korean cinema is acknowledged to have been initiated by the international success ...
Kubrick, Stanley
Robert Kolker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Stanley Kubrick Introduction Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928–d. 1999) was a singular American filmmaker, an artist who, starting in the 1960s, lived i...
Lee, Spike
Paula J. Massood
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Spike Lee Introduction Spike Lee burst onto the national and international film scenes in 1986, when his first feature, She’s Gotta Have It, wa...
Melodrama
Linda Williams
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Melodrama Introduction Melodrama is a chameleon. The history of its use as a term shows it to be one of the most unstable in the Anglo-American...
Micheaux, Oscar
J. Ronald Green
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Oscar Micheaux Introduction Oscar Micheaux is the most prolific African American filmmaker in history, producing, between 1919 and 1948, about ...
Music and Cinema, Classical Hollywood
David Neumeyer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Music and Cinema, Classical Hollywood Introduction Commercial film production in the United States developed rapidly after World War I. Theate...
Music and Cinema, Global Practices
Kathryn Kalinak
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Music and Cinema, Global Practices Introduction Film music has always been a global phenomenon, but until recently scholarship on film music ha...
Music Video
William Straw
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Music Video Introduction Music video emerged as the object of academic writing shortly after the introduction in the United States of MTV (Mus...
Musicals
Steven Cohan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Musicals Introduction The film musical is usually identified almost exclusively with Hollywood, specifically those lavish star-filled films mad...
Native Americans
Pamela Wilson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Native Americans Introduction What role have fictionalized American “Indians”—and real, living, breathing Native Americans—played in America’s...
Philosophy and Film
Carl Plantinga
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Philosophy and Film Introduction Although the philosophy of film dates as far back as Harvard professor Hugo Münsterberg’s 1916 The Photoplay: ...
Poems, Novels, and Plays About Film
Laurence Goldstein
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Poems, Novels, and Plays About Film Introduction From the beginnings of film technology in the last decade of the 19th century, creative write...
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