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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
Russian Cinema
Birgit Beumers
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Russian Cinema Introduction While Soviet and Russian cinema was rather understudied until the collapse of the USSR, since the early 1990s ther...
Sports in Film
Aaron Baker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Sports in Film Introduction Since the start of the motion picture industry in the United States, sports have been a frequent subject for the m...
Stand-Up Comedians
Sean Springer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Stand-Up Comedians Introduction In the 1980s, American stand-up comedy boomed. Clubs opened in every major city, cable television showcased bu...
Star Trek
Daniel Bernardi, Michael Green
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Star Trek Introduction Few popular narratives in recent history have generated as much cultural material as Star Trek: six television series an...
Star Wars
William Brooker, Davina Quinlivan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Star Wars Introduction The Star Wars saga consists of six feature films, divided into two trilogies (the Original Trilogy and, later, the Prequ...
Stardom
Elena D’Amelio
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Stardom Introduction Although fascination with the film star dates back as far as Béla Balázs’s The Visible Man (1924), the study of stars and...
Surrealism and Film
Robin Walz
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Surrealism and Film Introduction Affinities between surrealism and film have been noted since the beginning of the surrealist movement in the ...
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