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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
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 ...
Tarantino, Quentin
Lisa Coulthard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Quentin Tarantino Introduction Bursting on the scene with the controversial Reservoir Dogs (1992), Quentin Tarantino has become known for a pa...
Television Industry, American
Michele Hilmes
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
American Television Industry Introduction Critical exploration of the broadcasting industry began in the 1920s, during the period of network r...
Varda, Agnès
Sarah Cooper
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Agnès Varda Introduction Agnès Varda (b. 1928, Ixelles, Belgium) is without doubt the most significant woman director in the history of French ...
Vertigo
Susan White
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Vertigo Introduction Alfred Hitchcock made Vertigo during an especially creative period of 1958–1960, when he released three historic films, V...
Video and Computer Games
Raiford Guins, Laine Nooney
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Video and Computer Games Introduction It almost goes without saying that video games have made a profound impact across culture and society. Ac...
Violence and Cinema
Hilary Neroni
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Violence and Cinema Introduction Originally, studies on violence in the cinema were connected to particular genres or filmmakers. This scholar...
Von Stroheim, Erich
Fanny Lignon
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Erich Von Stroheim Introduction Austrian-born Erich von Stroheim (b. 1885–d. 1957) is one of the greatest directors of the American silent mov...
War Film
Robert Eberwein
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
War Film Introduction War films first appeared in 1898, a few years after the birth of the motion picture. Their subject was the Spanish-Ameri...
Wayne, John
Ross Schnioffsky, Richard Thompson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
John Wayne Introduction John Wayne’s film career began in Hollywood silent films in the late 1920s and, in one sense, ended in 1976—a half-cen...
Welles, Orson
Donald Larsson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Orson Welles Introduction The artistry of Orson Welles (b. 1915–d. 1985) can be difficult to disentangle from his own celebrity and notoriety....
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