Cinema and Media Studies - I - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Irish Cinema
Kevin Rockett
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Irish Cinema Introduction Irish cinema occupied a marginal status in world cinema until the double Oscar success in 1990 of the Irish feature
Israeli Cinema
Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Israeli Cinema Introduction Scholarship on Zionist and Israeli cinema is in agreement as to the major periods and movements in this corpus. Du...
It Happened One Night
Linda Mizejewski
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
It Happened One NightIntroductionThe low-budget sleeper It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra (b. 1897–d. 1991) was the first film to ...
Italian Americans in Cinema and Media
Jonathan J. Cavallero
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Italian Americans in Cinema and MediaIntroductionFrom early crime films about the “black hand” to more recent films and television shows like Green Bo...
Italian Cinema
Peter Bondanella
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Italian Cinema Introduction Italian national cinema developed quickly between the last decade of the 19th century and the outbreak of World Wa...
Japanese Cinema
Scott Nygren
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Japanese Cinema Introduction Japanese film became a major area of English-language film study in the 1960s, after the publication of Anderson ...
Jazz Singer, The
Krin Gabbard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Jazz Singer Introduction Although it was not the first film in which actors talked or made noise, The Jazz Singer radically hastened the en...
Jews in American Cinema and Media
Vincent Brook
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Jews in American Cinema and MediaIntroductionThe outsized contribution of Jews to American entertainment precedes their rise to prominence in the Holl...
Keaton, Buster
Charles Wolfe
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Buster Keaton Introduction The silent films of Buster Keaton (b. 1895–d. 1966) are among the most critically admired American motion pictures ...
King Kong
Fatimah Tobing Rony
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
King Kong Introduction When the fantasy/adventure movie King Kong, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, was released in 1933...
Kitano, Takeshi
Bob Davis
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2022-09-26
Takeshi KitanoIntroductionTakeshi Kitano was born on 18 January 1947, the youngest of a Tokyo working-class couple’s four children. Prodded by his mot...
Korean Cinema
Kyu Hyun Kim
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Korean Cinema Introduction The current surge of interest in Korean cinema is acknowledged to have been initiated by the international success ...
Kracauer, Siegfried
Johannes von Moltke
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Siegfried Kracauer Introduction Siegfried Kracauer (b. 1889–d. 1960) was one of the preeminent film theorists and cultural critics of the 20th...
Kubrick, Stanley
Robert Kolker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Stanley Kubrick Introduction Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928–d. 1999) was a singular American filmmaker, an artist who, starting in the 1960s, lived ...
Lang, Fritz
Kristin Hole, Philip Moore
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Fritz LangIntroductionA visual artist who studied architecture, Viennese-born Fritz Lang (b. 1890–d. 1976) began his career as a scenarist for UFA bef...
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