Cinema and Media Studies - L - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Polanski, Roman
Elzbieta Ostrowska
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Roman Polanski Introduction Roman Polanski’s persona is as contradictory as his films. A Holocaust survivor, he started his cinematic career i...
Pop, Blues, and Jazz in Film
Michael Jarrett
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Pop, Blues, and Jazz in Film Introduction Let “pop” equal vernacular music that followed in the wake of Elvis Presley. Let “jazz” equal a broa...
Pornography
Damon Young
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Pornography Introduction Although not often included in standard histories of cinema, moving-image pornography has existed for as long as cine...
Psycho
Robert Kolker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Psycho Introduction Psycho (1960) is an endlessly intriguing film. At the height of his powers and having made his greatest film, Vertigo, two...
Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Todd McGowan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Psychoanalytic Film Theory Introduction Psychoanalytic film theory occurred in two distinct waves. The first, beginning in the late 1960s and e...
Queer Theory
Maria Pramaggiore
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Queer Theory Introduction Queer Theory emerged from departments of literature, film, rhetoric, and critical studies in universities in the Uni...
Race and Cinema
Diane Negra, Zélie Asava
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Race and Cinema Introduction Because of the influence that American cinema has had on ideas of race globally, both as film representations...
Reality Television
Susan Murray
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Reality Television Introduction While we can locate the start of the most recent wave of American reality TV in the 2000–2001 season with the p...
Remakes, Sequels and Prequels
Lucy Mazdon
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Introduction Remakes, sequels, and prequels have long been prominent elements of Hollywood production. Since the...
Romantic Comedy, American
Leger Grindon
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
American Romantic Comedy Introduction Romantic comedies, from classics such as Trouble in Paradise (1932) to 21st-century hits like Knocked Up