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Fairbanks, Douglas
Tracey Goessel
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Douglas FairbanksIntroductionDouglas Fairbanks (b. 1883–d. 1939) is primarily remembered today for his swashbuckling films of the 1920s, and, less oft...
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...
Fantasy
David Butler
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
FantasyIntroductionFantasy films can be traced to the early years of film history and Georges Méliès, cinema’s first great fantasist, in particular. M...
Fellini, Federico
Peter Bondanella
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Federico FelliniIntroductionFederico Fellini (20 January 1920–31 October 1993) was not only the most famous Italian director of the 20th century, but ...
Festivals
Marijke de Valck, Skadi Loist
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Festivals Introduction Film festivals are a ubiquitous phenomenon. Estimates vary between five hundred and three thousand film festivals takin...
Film Aesthetics
Matthew Noble-Olson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Film AestheticsIntroductionAny consideration of aesthetics poses difficulties because of the ways the term has been used to designate particular objec...
Film and Literature
Lucy Fischer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Film and LiteratureIntroductionIn general, when scholars have considered the question of literature and film, they have conceived it in a rather narro...
Film Guilds and Unions
Kate Fortmueller
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Film Guilds and UnionsIntroductionFilm guilds and unions engage in collective bargaining on behalf of media workers in the United States and around th...
Film Noir
William Luhr
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Film Noir Introduction Film noir emerged out of a nexus of American sociopolitical crises, including the Great Depression, World War II, and th...
Film Preservation and Restoration
Matthew Stoddard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Film Preservation and RestorationIntroductionAlthough their definitions continue to be debated, “film preservation” generally refers to the practices ...
Film Theory and Criticism, Science Fiction
Ritch Calvin
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Science Fiction Film Theory and Criticism Introduction Defining science fiction is a difficult task. The origins of the term reside in the sci...
Film Theory Before 1945
Malcolm Turvey
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Film Theory Before 1945IntroductionFilm theory, defined broadly as any reflection on the nature and functions of cinema, appeared soon after cinema’s ...
Film Theory, Psychoanalytic
Todd McGowan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Psychoanalytic Film Theory Introduction Psychoanalytic film theory occurred in two distinct waves. The first, beginning in the late 1960s and e...
Film, Historical
John Trafton
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Historical FilmIntroductionFrom the advent of cinema to the present day, history has been brought to life on screen in many striking ways that have ad...
Finance Film, The
Constantin Parvulescu
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
The Finance FilmIntroductionCinematic representation of finance, financiers and financialization goes back to the early days of cinema in both Europe ...
Ford, John
Ross Schnioffsky, Richard Thompson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
John Ford Introduction John Ford’s film career began with the earliest days of Hollywood silent filmmaking c. 1914 and continued until 1968, s...
French Cinema
Ginette Vincendeau
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
French CinemaIntroductionAs befits the country of the cinema’s official “birth,” France boasts a long tradition of writing on film. In the 1920s, avan...
Game of Thrones
Jeffrey Chown, Kate Mead
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Game of ThronesIntroductionHit television shows over the last twenty years have inspired impressive amounts of academic inquiry, particularly The Sopr...
Gance, Abel
Paul Cuff
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Abel GanceIntroductionAlthough Abel Gance (1889–1981) is now recognized as a major figure of early cinema, he often struggled to find acceptance of hi...
Gangster Films
Fran Mason
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Gangster Films Introduction The study of gangster films extends back to the 1970s when the development of film studies as an academic discipli...
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