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Sirk, Douglas
Will Scheibel
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Douglas SirkIntroductionThe reputation of German director Douglas Sirk (1897–1987) rests on Hollywood films he made in the mid- to late 1950s that hav...
Soap Operas
Abigail De Kosnik, Sam Ford
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Soap Operas Introduction This bibliography on “soap operas” focuses on US daytime serial dramas, which are distinct from other national soap o...
Social Class
Erica Levin
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Social Class Introduction In contemporary film studies, the term class often appears as part of the trio of terms race/class/gender. Attention...
Social Problem Films
Steven Doles
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Social Problem Films Introduction Defined broadly, social problem films (sometimes called social-consciousness films, message movies, or other...
Soderbergh, Steven
Andrew deWaard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Steven Soderbergh Introduction Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 14 January 1963, Steven Soderbergh is a unique and prolific American filmmaking ta...
Sound Design, Film
Laura Anderson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Film Sound DesignIntroductionSound design is a relatively recent term, first used to credit Walter Murch’s work on Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse N...
Sound, Film
Paul Young
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Film Sound Introduction Prior to the groundbreaking work by Rick Altman, John Belton, Michel Chion, Mary Ann Doane, Claudia Gorbman, Kaja Silv...
Spanish Cinema
Marvin D'Lugo
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Spanish CinemaIntroductionFar overshadowed by the cultural dynamism of its neighbors and constrained by its own slow industrial underdevelopment, Spai...
Spanish-Language Television
Jillian Báez, Manuel Avilés-Santiago
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Spanish-Language TelevisionIntroductionDuring the last decade, Spanish-language television has generated much interest among media scholars. The most ...
Spielberg, Steven
Frederick Wasser
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Steven Spielberg Introduction Steven Spielberg is both a phenomenon and a film director. He is without comparison in American film history, co...
Sports and Media
David Rowe
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Sports and Media Introduction Sports and media emerged as a significant object of scholarship and research in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, w...
Sports in Film
Aaron Baker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Sports in Film Introduction Since the start of the motion picture industry in the United States, sports have been a frequent subject for the m...
Stand-Up Comedians
Sean Springer
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Stand-Up Comedians Introduction In the 1980s, American stand-up comedy boomed. Clubs opened in every major city, cable television showcased bu...
Star Trek
Daniel Bernardi, Michael Green
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Star Trek Introduction Few popular narratives in recent history have generated as much cultural material as Star Trek: six television series an...
Star Wars
William Brooker, Davina Quinlivan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Star Wars Introduction The Star Wars saga consists of six feature films, divided into two trilogies (the Original Trilogy and, later, the Prequ...
Stardom
Elena D’Amelio
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Stardom Introduction Although fascination with the film star dates back as far as Béla Balázs’s The Visible Man (1924), the study of stars and...
Stop-Motion Animation
Andrea Comiskey
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Stop-Motion AnimationIntroductionScholarship on animation frequently centers on drawn (and especially cel) animation and its computer-generated (CG) p...
Streaming Television
Karen Petruska
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Streaming TelevisionIntroductionTelevision scholars have been exploring changes within the television industry for decades, with studies of “new” medi...
Sturges, Preston
Jeff Jaeckle
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Preston SturgesIntroductionPreston Sturges has long been a study in contrasts, inspiring highly divergent characterizations such as genius and fluke, ...
Surrealism and Film
Robin Walz
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Surrealism and Film Introduction Affinities between surrealism and film have been noted since the beginning of the surrealist movement in the ...
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