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Theater and Film
Kin-Yan Szeto
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Theater and Film Introduction Historically, theater and film have been closely intertwined in many respects. Indeed, theatrical genres and aes...
Theory, Cognitive Film
Ted Nannicelli
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Cognitive Film Theory Introduction Cognitive film theory, as its advocates often point out, is not actually a unified theory of film. Rather, ...
Theory, Critical Media
Kevin Glynn
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Critical Media TheoryIntroductionCritical media theory can be traced back to the development of critical theory by thinkers associated with the so-cal...
Theory, Feminist Film
Kristin Hole
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Feminist Film TheoryIntroductionFeminist theory has been foundational to the establishment and development of film studies as a discipline. Although i...
Theory, Film
Krin Gabbard
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Film Theory Introduction Film theory came into its own in the late 1960s and early 1970s, thanks primarily to essays published in journals such...
Theory, Trauma
Susannah Radstone, Janet Walker, Noah Shenker
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Trauma Theory Introduction Trauma theory denotes a vibrant, interdisciplinary area of Western scholarship developed since the 1980s through cr...
Transnational and Diasporic Cinema
Ramona Curry
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Transnational and Diasporic CinemaIntroductionAlthough from the earliest years film production, marketing, and reception involved extensive national b...
Trinh, T. Minh-ha
Yelizaveta Moss
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Trinh T. Minh-haIntroductionBorn in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1952 and raised in Saigon Trinh T. Minh-ha received her schooling in music composition in Saigon...
Truffaut, François
Alistair Fox
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
François TruffautIntroductionFrançois Truffaut (b. 1932–d. 1984) is renowned both for the originality and the enduring popularity of his films, being ...
Turkish Cinema
Diana Gonzalez-Duclert
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Turkish CinemaIntroductionBeginning with the 1982 Palme d’Or at Cannes for Yilmaz Güney’s Yol, Turkish cinema entered into the international forefront...
Twilight Zone, The
Lester H. Hunt
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
The Twilight ZoneIntroductionThe television series The Twilight Zone (1959–1964, hereafter referred to as “the series”) has attracted the attention of...
Twin Peaks
Rebecca Williams
Subject: Cinema and Media Studies »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Twin PeaksIntroductionTwin Peaks is an American television series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States on 8 April 1990. Despite it...
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...
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