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Accounting, Motion Picture
Mark Garrett Cooper
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Motion Picture Accounting Introduction Accounting measures and regulates social conduct. This makes it more broadly interesting than the basic...
Acting
Cynthia Baron
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
ActingIntroductionPerceptions about screen acting have been remarkably polarized: when people give priority to the now-mythical experiment by Soviet f...
Action Cinema
James Kendrick
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Action Cinema Introduction A hybrid genre that fuses the moral landscape of the western and the urban settings of film noir and police procedu...
Adaptation
Thomas Leitch, Kyle Meikle
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Adaptation Introduction Studies of cinematic adaptations—films based, as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences puts it, on ...
Advertising and Promotion
Matthew P. McAllister, Alexandra Nutter
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Advertising and Promotion Introduction Advertising is unique in its status as both a major textual genre and a revenue source for media system...
African American Cinema
Arthur Knight
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
African American CinemaIntroductionThe category “African American Cinema” presents important conceptual challenges for scholars, critics, and moviegoe...
African American Stars
Robin R. Means Coleman, Kitior Ngu, Timeka N. Tounsel
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
African American Stars Introduction African American “stars” describes conspicuously public individuals of great social, artistic, and/or poli...
African Cinema
Frank Ukadike
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
African Cinema Introduction The term “African cinema” generally refers to film production in Sub-Saharan African countries. Compared to the ot...
AIDS in Film and Television
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
AIDS in Film and TelevisionIntroductionRepresentations of AIDS in film and television have differed throughout the world. Accordingly, this article fo...
Akerman, Chantal
Maria Walsh
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Chantal AkermanIntroductionChantal Akerman (b. 1950, Brussels, Belgium–d. 2015, Paris, France) was a Belgian film director who made over forty films, ...
Allen, Woody
Sam Girgus
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Woody AllenIntroductionSince starting in the 1960s, Woody Allen (b. December 1935) has made more than forty films, an amazing record, especially consi...
Almodóvar, Pedro
Cristina Martínez-Carazo, Morgan Smith
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Pedro AlmodóvarIntroductionEccentric, innovative, kitsch, subversive, transgressive, genius, unconventional, postmodern, independent—Pedro Almodóvar (...
Alphaville
Debra Benita Shaw
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
AlphavilleIntroductionAlphaville is Jean-Luc Godard’s only science fiction film. The film was made during his Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) period, and th...
Altman, Robert
Robert T. Self
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Robert AltmanIntroductionRobert Altman (b. 1925–d. 2006) had a directing career that stretched over fifty years, from the end of World War II to 2006....
American Cinema, 1895-1915
Charlie Keil
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
American Cinema, 1895–1915 Introduction The study of early American cinema was both the beneficiary and the instigator of a wave of revisionist...
American Cinema, 1939-1975
Sarah Kozloff
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
American Cinema, 1939–1975 Introduction From 1939, when World War II started in Europe, to 1975, when the mega-success of the blockbuster Jaws
American Cinema, 1976 to Present
Derek Nystrom
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
American Cinema, 1976 to Present Introduction American cinema has undergone a series of profound transitions since 1976. In many histories of ...
American Independent Cinema
David Sterritt
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
American Independent Cinema Introduction American independent cinema, often called “indie cinema,” has no clear historical starting point and ...
American Independent Cinema, Producers
Yannis Tzioumakis
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
American Independent Cinema, Producers Introduction The concept of independence in American cinema has been widely debated as a great variety ...
American Public Broadcasting
Laurie Ouellette
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
American Public BroadcastingIntroductionPublic broadcasting arrived late in the United States. While most Western democracies developed large national...
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