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Varda, Agnès
Sarah Cooper
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Agnès VardaIntroductionAgnès Varda (b. 1928, Ixelles, Belgium) is without doubt the most significant woman director in the history of French cinema. K...
Vertigo
Susan White
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Vertigo Introduction Alfred Hitchcock made Vertigo during an especially creative period of 1958–1960, when he released three historic films, V...
Vertov, Dziga
Alla Gadassik
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Dziga Vertov Introduction Dziga Vertov (b. 1896, Bialystok, Russian Empire–d. 1954, Moscow, USSR) was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker, whose fil...
Video and Computer Games
Raiford Guins, Laine Nooney
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Video and Computer Games Introduction It almost goes without saying that video games have made a profound impact across culture and society. Ac...
Video Installation
Johanna Gosse
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Video InstallationIntroductionWhile at first, “video installation” would seem to refer to a particular medium and mode of display, in practice, the te...
Violence and Cinema
Hilary Neroni
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Violence and Cinema Introduction Originally, studies on violence in the cinema were connected to particular genres or filmmakers. This scholar...
Virtual Reality
Miriam Ross
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Virtual RealityIntroductionThe early 20th century saw the coalescence of several representation technologies: moving-image photography, audio recordin...
Visconti, Luchino
Brendan Hennessey
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Luchino ViscontiIntroductionLuchino Visconti (b. 1906–d. 1976) was one of Italy’s foremost directors of cinema, theater, and opera. A cultural figureh...
Von Sternberg, Josef
Gaylyn Studlar
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Josef Von Sternberg Introduction Born in Vienna, Austria in 1894 of working-class Jewish parents, Jonas Stern’s downtrodden young life did not...
Von Stroheim, Erich
Fanny Lignon
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Erich Von StroheimIntroductionAustrian-born Erich von Stroheim (b. 1885–d. 1957) is one of the greatest directors of the American silent movie era. Ev...
von Trier, Lars
Caroline Bainbridge
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Lars Von Trier Introduction Lars von Trier has attracted a great deal of critical commentary since the release of his first feature film, The ...
War Film
Robert Eberwein
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
War FilmIntroductionWar films first appeared in 1898, a few years after the birth of the motion picture. Their subject was the Spanish-American War, w...
Warhol, The Films of Andy
J. J. Murphy
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
The Films of Andy Warhol Introduction Andy Warhol (b. 1928–d. 1987) began making films in 1963, at the height of his success as a painter and ...
Waters, John
Matt Connolly
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2022-11-29
John WatersIntroductionOne of the most influential and idiosyncratic American independent filmmakers of the last fifty years, John Waters was born in ...
Wayne, John
Ross Schnioffsky, Richard Thompson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
John Wayne Introduction John Wayne’s film career began in Hollywood silent films in the late 1920s and, in one sense, ended in 1976—a half-cen...
Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
Chairat Polmuk
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Apichatpong WeerasethakulIntroductionApichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970) is an independent Thai filmmaker whose Palme d’Or winning film, Uncle Boonmee...
Weir, Peter
Marek Haltof
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Peter WeirIntroductionPeter Weir’s name is usually inseparable from the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s. His second feature film, Picnic at H...
Welles, Orson
Donald F. Larsson
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Orson Welles Introduction The artistry of Orson Welles (b. 1915–d. 1985) can be difficult to disentangle from his own celebrity and notoriety....
Whedon, Joss
Don Macnaughtan
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Joss WhedonIntroductionJoss Whedon (b. 1964) is primarily a television and movie screenwriter, and he is also a director, producer, comic book writer,...
Whiteness
Daniel Bernardi, Michael Green
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Whiteness Introduction Notions of whiteness as race and ethnicity have existed in intellectual and political discourses since at least the sta...
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