Category: Film Television

By Stephen Bourne

By Peter Shelley

This severely analytical filmography examines forty five videos that includes "grande dames" in horror settings. Following a heritage of girls in horror ahead of 1962's What Ever occurred to child Jane?, which introduced the "Grande Dame Guignol" subgenre of older ladies featured as morally ambiguous top girls, are all such movies (mostly united states) that got here after that landmark unencumber. The filmographic info comprises forged, staff, reports, synopses, and creation notes, in addition to ordinary motifs and every role's impression at the star's profession.

By Martin M. Winkler

The essays accrued during this e-book current the 1st complete appreciation of the autumn of the Roman Empire from old, historiographical, and cinematic views. The publication additionally offers the vital classical assets at the interval. it's a significant other to Gladiator: movie and background (Blackwell, 2004) and Spartacus: movie and heritage (Blackwell, 2007) and completes a triad of scholarly reports on Hollywood’s maximum motion pictures approximately Roman historical past.

• A serious re-assessment of the 1964 epic movie the autumn of the Roman Empire, directed via Anthony Mann , from ancient, film-historical, and modern issues of view
• Presents a suite of scholarly essays and classical assets at the interval of Roman heritage that historic and sleek historians have thought of to be the turning aspect towards the eventual fall of Rome
• Contains a quick essay by way of director Anthony Mann
• Includes a map of the Roman Empire and picture stills, in addition to translations of the primary historic assets, an in depth bibliography, and a chronology of occasions

By T. Meyer

By Chiara Bucaria, Luca Barra

The essays during this assortment discover taboo and debatable humour in conventional scripted (sitcoms and different comedy sequence, lively sequence) and non-scripted varieties (stand-up comedy, genuine and truth exhibits, and advertisements) either on cable and community tv. when the point of interest is predominantly at the US and united kingdom, the participants additionally deal with extra common and worldwide matters and assorted contexts of reception, in an try to examine this type of comedy from diversified views. during the last few a long time, taboo comedy has develop into a staple of tv programming, hence elevating concerns pertaining to its services and appropriateness, and making it a very appropriate topic for these drawn to how either humour and tv paintings.

By Henrik Gustafsson, Asbjorn Gronstad

By P. Brooker

A learn of city identification and group appears to be like at chosen 20th century literary and picture texts within the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker attracts on Beck and Giddens to suggest a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the city scene. The vital towns thought of are London and long island, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Writers thought of contain Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Hanif Kureishi, Iain Sinclair, Paul Auster, Sarah Schulman and William Gibson. Filmmakers contain Patrick Keiller and Wong Kar-Wai.

By Hilary Radner

What lies at the back of present feminist discontent with modern cinema?

Through a mixture of cultural and research, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly motion pictures, Chick Flicks and customer Culture shows how the desires of conglomerate Hollywood have inspired an emphasis on patron tradition inside motion pictures made for girls. through exploring a few consultant "girly films," together with Pretty girl, Legally Blonde, Maid in new york, The satan Wears Prada, and Sex and the town: The Movie, Radner proposes that instead of being "post-feminist," as is generally assumed, such motion pictures are higher defined as "neo-feminist." interpreting their narrative layout, because it revolves round the tale of an formidable single girl who defines herself via customer tradition up to via paintings or romance, Radner argues that those movies exemplify neo-liberalist values instead of these of feminism.

As such, Neo-Feminist Cinema bargains a brand new rationalization as to why feminist-oriented students and audiences who're looking greater than "labels and love" from their movie adventure have seen fresh "girly motion pictures" as a betrayal of second-wave feminism, and why, nonetheless, such movies have confirmed to be such a success on the field office.

By James Tweedie

The Age of latest Waves examines the origins of the idea that of the "new wave" in Fifties France and the proliferation of latest waves in global cinema over the last 3 many years. The booklet means that early life, towns, and the development of a world industry were the catalysts for the cinematic new waves of the earlier part century. It starts by way of describing the enthusiastic engagement among French nouvelle obscure filmmakers and a globalizing American cinema and tradition through the modernization of France after global warfare II. It then charts the turning out to be and finally explosive disenchantment with the aftermath of that vast social, monetary, and spatial transformation within the past due Nineteen Sixties. next chapters specialize in movies and visible tradition from Taiwan and modern mainland China throughout the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, and so they hyperlink the new propagation of latest waves at the foreign movie competition circuit to the "economic miracles" and buyer revolutions accompanying the method of globalization. whereas it travels from France to East Asia, the publication follows the transnational move of a selected version of cinema prepared round mise en scène--or the interplay of our bodies, gadgets, and areas in the frame--rather than montage or narrative. The "master shot" kind of administrators like Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-Liang, and Jia Zhangke has reinvented a very important yet missed tendency in new wave movie, and this cinema of mise en scène has turn into a key aesthetic technique for representing the altering relationships among humans and the cloth international throughout the upward thrust of a world industry. the ultimate bankruptcy considers the interplay among of the main international phenomena in contemporary movie history--the transnational artwork cinema and Hollywood--and it searches for lines of an American New Wave.

By Walter McDowell

That allows you to halt expanding media festival and lowering viewers stocks, Branding has turn into the hot mantra between tv station and community executives. Branding television: ideas and Practices moment variation is going past the jargon of branding to give an explanation for the basic ideas underlying profitable branding and gives many functional innovations to degree, construct and deal with tv model fairness. For tutorial reasons, the ebook will pay specific consciousness to the neighborhood advertisement television station and its information franchise. Written by means of broadcast execs with years of expertise, this ebook exhibits how the notions of branding are not any extra ordinary than within the conflict for dominance in neighborhood information. the sensible feedback within the booklet may also help the savvy supervisor comprehend and reap the benefits of branding of their efforts to maneuver their estate to the leading edge available to buy. * comprises definitions of branding recommendations, how you can degree model fairness, and a dialogue of felony considerations*Published with the nationwide organization of Broadcasters-one of the best broadcast organisations* writer staff has greater than 50 years mixed experience!* moment variation is totally revised to incorporate transition to electronic, possession consolidation, and the promoting courting among stations and networks