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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...
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