Cinema and Media Studies - K - Oxford Bibliographies
Exploitation Film
Ernest Mathijs
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Exploitation Film Introduction Exploitation film is a type of cinema, often cheaply produced, that is designed to create a fast profit by refe...
Fan Studies
Henry Jenkins
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Fan Studies Introduction Fan studies is a field of scholarly research focused on media fans and fan cultures. Fans might be broadly defined as...
Fellini, Federico
Peter Bondanella
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Federico Fellini Introduction Federico Fellini (20 January 1920–31 October 1993) was not only the most famous Italian director of the 20th cen...
Festivals
Marijke de Valck, Skadi Loist
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Festivals Introduction Film festivals are a ubiquitous phenomenon. Estimates vary between five hundred and three thousand film festivals takin...
Film Noir
William Luhr
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Film Noir Introduction Film noir emerged out of a nexus of American sociopolitical crises, including the Great Depression, World War II, and th...
Film Sound
Paul Young
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Film Sound Introduction Prior to the groundbreaking work by Rick Altman, John Belton, Michel Chion, Mary Ann Doane, Claudia Gorbman, Kaja Silv...
Film Theory
Krin Gabbard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Film Theory Introduction Film theory came into its own in the late 1960s and early 1970s, thanks primarily to essays published in journals such...
French Cinema
Ginette Vincendeau
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
French Cinema Introduction As befits the country of the cinema’s official “birth,” France boasts a long tradition of writing on film. In the 19...
Gangster Films
Fran Mason
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Gangster Films Introduction The study of gangster films extends back to the 1970s when the development of film studies as an academic discipli...
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, and Transgendered (GLBQT) Cinema
Niall Richardson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, and Transgendered (GLBQT) Cinema Introduction Mainstream cinema’s dominant subject has always been heterosexuali...
German Cinema
Caryl Flinn
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
German Cinema Introduction German film has had a uniquely prolific and diverse history. Its output ranges from experimental efforts during the ...
Greek Cinema
Dan Georgakas
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Greek Cinema Introduction Greek film studies have followed in the wake of the erratic history of Greek cinema. From 1900 through the end of Wor...
Griffith, D.W.
Russell Merritt
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
D. W. Griffith Introduction David Wark Griffith (b. 1875–d. 1948) continues to generate a broad range of critical reaction. Although acknowledg...
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...
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