Cinema and Media Studies - S - Oxford Bibliographies
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....
Wiseman, Frederick
Barry Keith Grant
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Frederick Wiseman Introduction A major figure in American documentary cinema, Frederick Wiseman (b. 1930) began making his extraordinary series...
Women and Film
Lucy Fischer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Women and Film Introduction “Women and Film” encompasses numerous issues in academic film studies, including the histories of female practition...
YouTube
Jean Burgess
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
YouTube Introduction Originally launched in 2005 with a focus on user-generated content, YouTube has become the dominant platform for online vi...