Cinema and Media Studies - D - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
de Oliveira, Manoel
Randal Johnson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Manoel De Oliveira Introduction Manoel de Oliveira (b. 1908, Porto–d. 2015, Porto) was Portugal’s most important film director. His career spa...
Dean, James
Kurt Hemmer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
James DeanIntroductionJames Dean (b. 1931–d. 1955), along with the actors Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, ushered onto the American silver screen ...
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...
Denis, Claire
Kristin Hole
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Claire Denis Introduction Claire Denis (b. 1948) is one of the most important directors working in France today. Her unclassifiable body of wo...
Deren, Maya
Theresa Geller
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Maya Deren Introduction Maya Deren (b. 1917–d. 1961) completed only six films and two monographs in her lifetime, yet she made a huge impact o...
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...
Dietrich, Marlene
Barbara Kosta
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Marlene Dietrich Introduction Marlene Dietrich (b. 1901–d. 1992) is known as an icon of glamour whose image continues to fascinate contemporar...
Digital Media and Convergence Culture
Ethan Tussey
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Digital Media and Convergence CultureIntroduction“Convergence culture” is a term used to describe the ways in which digital media has changed the rela...
Directors
Virginia Wright Wexman
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
DirectorsIntroductionMost cinema scholarship is about directors; thus, many of the articles in the Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies r...
Disability
Martin Norden
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Disability Introduction The study of moving-image representations of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a young and vibrant subset of cinema a...
Disney, Walt
Eddy Von Mueller
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Walt Disney Introduction Few figures of the 20th century have made so deep and indelible an impact on world culture as Walt Disney. Few people...
Doctor Who
Paul Booth
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Doctor Who Introduction As a television program (and now multimedia experience) with over fifty years of history, Doctor Who has reflected an ...
Documentary Film
Zoë Druick
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Documentary FilmIntroductionSince the 1990s, there has been a veritable explosion of documentary films and digital media productions accompanied by a ...
Downton Abbey
Katherine Byrne
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Downton AbbeyIntroductionCertainly the most successful period drama, indeed perhaps the most popular television show, of the 21st century, British ser...
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Casper Tybjerg
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Carl Theodor DreyerIntroductionCarl Theodor Dreyer (b. 3 February 1889–d. 20 March 1968) was a Danish film director; in Danish usage, his middle name ...
Eastern European Television
Anikó Imre
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Eastern European TelevisionIntroductionThe field of television studies has given us a rich tapestry of the history and theory of the dominant commerci...
Eastwood, Clint
Dennis Bingham
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Clint EastwoodIntroductionClint Eastwood (b. 31 May 1930–), a dominant figure in cinema for more than five decades, has enjoyed three exceptional care...
Ecocinema
Kiu-wai Chu
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
EcocinemaIntroductionThis article introduces recent English scholarship in the expanding field of ecocinema studies. Often seen as a sub-branch of eco...
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