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Cinema and the Visual Arts
Christine Sprengler
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Cinema and the Visual Arts Introduction The relationship between cinema and the visual arts is a long and complex one, stretching back to cine...
Citizen Kane
Catherine L. Benamou
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Citizen Kane Introduction Citizen Kane (directed, produced, and co-written by Orson Welles, Mercury Productions/RKO Radio Pictures, 1941) is un...
Cocteau, Jean
James S. Williams
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Jean Cocteau Introduction Jean Cocteau (b. 1889–d. 1963) was one of French cinema’s greatest and most original directors whose work covered nea...
Color
Brian Price
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Color Introduction The history and theory of film has, from the very beginning, been characterized by subfields devoted to major stylistic ele...
Computer-Generated Imagery
Bob Rehak
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Computer-Generated Imagery Introduction Computer-generated imagery or CGI is an area of digital visualization practices that, following its em...
Copyright and Piracy
Peter Decherney
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Copyright and Piracy Introduction Copyright and piracy have always been important drivers of media industries. Copyright regulates authorship ...
Costume and Fashion
Nancy Friedland
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Costume and Fashion Introduction Costume is an essential element of the overall design of a film. Working within the director’s vision for the ...
Cuban Cinema
Ruth Goldberg
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Cuban Cinema Introduction The Cuban viewing public developed a healthy appetite for cinema during the first half of the twentieth century, but ...
Dance and Film
Sangita Shresthova
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dance and Film Introduction The aesthetic, temporal, and interactive intersections of dance, film, and most recently new media cut across avan...
Deleuze, Gilles
Marcia Landy
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gilles Deleuze Introduction This article covers both the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (b. 1925–d. 1995) and his influential writings on media...
Design, Art, Set, and Production
Lucy Fischer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Art, Set, and Production Design Introduction Within cinema discourse, the terms art direction, production design, and set direction are interr...
Detective Films
Philippa Gates
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Detective Film Introduction The “detective film” can be defined as a film that focuses on a detective-hero’s investigation into the mystery sur...
Directors
Virginia Wright Wexman
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Directors Introduction Most cinema scholarship is about directors. The study of directors began in earnest with the advent of the auteur theor...
Documentary Film
Zoë Druick
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Documentary Film Introduction Since the 1990s, there has been a veritable explosion of documentary films and digital media productions accompa...
Eastwood, Clint
Dennis Bingham
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Clint Eastwood Introduction Clint Eastwood (b. 31 May 1930–), a dominant figure in cinema for nearly five decades, has enjoyed three exceptiona...
Eisenstein, Sergei
Masha Salazkina, Katarina Mihailovic
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Sergei Eisenstein Introduction Sergei Eisenstein (Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein, b. Riga, Latvia, 1898–d. Moscow, 1948) remains one of the m...
Ethnographic Film
Pamela Wilson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Ethnographic Film Introduction The relationship between visual media and anthropology has a long history growing out of the imperializing impu...
Exhibition and Distribution
Gregory Waller
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Exhibition and Distribution Introduction The operation of movie theaters, the dangers and appeals of the social experience of moviegoing, the ...
Exploitation Film
Ernest Mathijs
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Exploitation Film Introduction Exploitation film is a type of cinema, often cheaply produced, that is designed to create a fast profit by refe...
Fan Studies
Henry Jenkins
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Fan Studies Introduction Fan studies is a field of scholarly research focused on media fans and fan cultures. Fans might be broadly defined as...
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