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Hammett, Dashiell
Nicolas Pillai
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Dashiell HammettIntroductionDashiell Hammett (b. 27 May 1894–d. 10 January 1961) may lay claim to having invented the modern “hard-boiled” American cr...
Hawks, Howard
Michael J. Anderson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Howard Hawks Introduction Critical and scholarly writing on Howard Hawks (b. 1896–d. 1977) has oscillated historically between moments of compa...
Haynes, Todd
Ruth Goldberg
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Todd Haynes Introduction Born in Los Angeles, California, on 2 January 1961, Todd Haynes is one of America’s most important and original indepe...
Hepburn, Katharine
Steven Rybin
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Katharine HepburnIntroductionIt is certainly possible to imagine as strong a person as Katharine Hepburn (b. 1907–d. 2003) existing without the Classi...
Herrmann, Bernard
Joan Titus
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2021-06-23
Bernard HerrmannIntroductionBernard Herrmann (b. 1911–d. 1975) was a prolific American composer and conductor, known primarily for his work in film. H...
Herzog, Werner
Brad Prager
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Werner HerzogIntroductionWerner Herzog was born in Munich in 1942. Before the end of World War II Herzog’s family moved to Sachrang, a small town in B...
Hindi Cinema, Popular
Gohar Siddiqui
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Popular Hindi Cinema Introduction Popular Hindi cinema enjoys mass appeal in a multilingual and multicultural country such as India. It also h...
Hitchcock, Alfred
Sidney Gottlieb
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Alfred Hitchcock Introduction Alfred Hitchcock (b. 1899–d. 1980) is unquestionably one of the most well-known and important filmmakers to date....
Hollywood Studios
Peter Lev
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Hollywood StudiosIntroduction“Studio” and “Hollywood” are interestingly complex terms. “Studio” originally meant a room with abundant natural light. T...
Holocaust Cinema
Olga Gershenson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Holocaust CinemaIntroductionThe study of Holocaust representation in cinema is located at the intersection of film studies and Holocaust studies. The ...
Homeland
Jeffrey Chown, Ace Henricks, Marilyn Lorch, Bryan Mead
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
HomelandIntroductionHomeland debuted on 2 October 2011 for the Showtime cable network. Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, who had been producers of Fox Tel...
Hong Kong Cinema
Gina Marchetti, Derek Lam
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Hong Kong Cinema Introduction Beginning as a colonial enterprise under British rule and continuing to the present day as a key creative indust...
Horror-Comedy
Rebecca Gordon
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Horror-Comedy Introduction Horror-comedy is a generic hybrid that deliberately provokes an emotional shift from terror, suspense, or dread to ...
Hsiao-Hsien, Hou
Richard I. Suchenski
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Hou Hsiao-HsienIntroductionHou Hsiao-hsien is the most important and influential Taiwanese filmmaker, and his sensuous, richly nuanced work is at the ...
Hungarian Cinema
Anikó Imre
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Hungarian CinemaIntroductionHungarian cinema’s performance on the world scene has been well out of proportion with the country’s small scale of produc...
Immigration and Cinema
Alex Lykidis
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Immigration and Cinema Introduction Films have appealed to immigrants since the early days of the medium, providing a visual and kinetic form ...
Indigenous Media
Pamela Wilson, Joanna Hearne, Amalia Córdova, Sabra Thorner
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Indigenous MediaIntroductionIndigenous media may be defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous people...
Industrial, Educational, and Instructional Television and Video
Kit Hughes
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Industrial, Educational, and Instructional Television and VideoIntroductionFor as long as television has been a darling of the commercial entertainmen...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Murray Leeder
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Invasion of the Body SnatchersIntroductionJack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers was released in 1955, having been serialized in Collier’s magazine in...
Iranian Cinema
Farshid Kazemi
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Iranian CinemaIntroductionIranian cinema first came under international attention for its prerevolutionary art cinema known as the Iranian New Wave an...
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