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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...
Latin American Cinema
María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Latin American CinemaIntroductionHow might the term “Latin American Cinema” be defined? The term is not exempt from controversy any more than the conc...
Latina/o Americans in Film and Television
Mary Beltrán
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Latina/O Americans in Film and Television Introduction Latino Americans, also termed Hispanics, as individuals with ancestry in the US Southwe...
Lee, Ang
Kin-Yan Szeto
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Ang LeeIntroductionHaving garnered international acclaim for his work, the Taiwan-born Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee has found artistic and c...
Lee, Chang-dong
Marc Raymond
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
Lee Chang-dongIntroductionLee Chang-dong, born in 1954 in Daegu, South Korea, came to the cinema after a career writing fiction, wanting to reach a la...
Lee, Spike
Paula J. Massood
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Spike Lee Introduction Spike Lee burst onto the national and international film scenes in 1986, when his first feature, She’s Gotta Have It, wa...
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Cinema
Niall Richardson, Jackson Nash
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) CinemaIntroductionMainstream cinema’s dominant subject has always been heterosexuality. Whether...
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The
Kristin Thompson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
The Lord of the Rings TrilogyIntroductionThe Lord of the Rings is one of the most successful and influential films ever made. Its three parts, release...
Los Angeles and Cinema
John Trafton
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Los Angeles and CinemaIntroductionThis article discusses the history of cinema in Los Angeles and the complex relationship that American film has had ...
Lubitsch, Ernst
Ben Brewster, Lea Jacobs
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Ernst LubitschIntroductionThe film director, and some-time actor, Ernst Lubitsch, was born in Berlin in 1892 and died in Los Angeles in 1947. During h...
Lumet, Sidney
Joanna E. Rapf
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Sidney LumetIntroductionSidney Lumet (b. 1924–d. 2011) was adamantly anti-auteurist, always emphasizing the collaborative nature of making movies (he ...
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