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Set in the future dystopia of Panem, The Hunger Games trilogy follows the rise of a provincial rebellion against the wealthy and tyrannical "Capitol." As narrator and heroine, Katniss Everdeen comes……続きを見る

Second Takes presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema has been replaced by new forms of "media." Remakes, with their innate plurality, offer……続きを見る

From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Mo……続きを見る

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film's Dracula Has Ri……続きを見る

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. C……続きを見る

More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book ……続きを見る

In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction: femi……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and……続きを見る

Directing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of directing. This highly accessible guide to working in film and television includes perspectives from indus……続きを見る

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollyw……続きを見る

This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s th……続きを見る

What do Babes in Arms, Beau Geste, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Only Angels Have Wings, and Young Mr. Lincoln all have in common? They are all classic films released in the same year, but……続きを見る

This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers a……続きを見る

El falso documental ha pasado de ser una producción anecdótica a convertirse en una categoría cinematográfica reconocida por el gran público. Aunque su popularidad actual es incuestionable, no se tr……続きを見る

From their first appearance in print, Dickens's fictions immediately migrated into other media, and particularly, in his own time, to the stage. Since then Dickens has continuously, apparently inexh……続きを見る

El documental es una obra audiovisual de no-ficción. Este libro hace un repaso de la historia del documental, de sus representantes principales y de su situación actual. 続きを見る

How plausible is it to examine the medium of film through a Christian lens? Are there any grounds for supposing that, in 'going to the movies', one is participating in a religious activity? Faith in……続きを見る

William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quint……続きを見る

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things. But there is an……続きを見る

Silence, l'ultimo film di Martin Scorsese, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo del giapponese Shusaku Endo, è «uno dei pochi per cui vale ancora la pena di andare al cinema», scrive Antonio Monda nella pre……続きを見る

Die Serie ist mittlerweile zum zentralen Element der Gegenwartskultur geworden. Damit hat sie dem Fernsehen, das einst belächeltes und herabgewertetes Medium war, kulturelle Bedeutung und im „Qualit……続きを見る

Stanley Kwan gehört mit Wong Kar-Wai zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der sogenannten Second Wave im Hongkong-Kino, einer Strömung, die sich im Zuge der Übergabe der Kronkolonie an die Volksrepublik Ch……続きを見る

This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how see……続きを見る

This new text examines recent popular Chinese films and derivative cultural phenomena, with a focus on films directed by celebrity directors such as Han Han, Guo Jingming, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei. I……続きを見る

Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attentionーeven, reportedly, from Rose's own husbandーher life of……続きを見る

A Queer Film Classic on Canadian director Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, her quirky and hopeful first feature film which made its premiere at Cannes and won its Prix de la jeunes……続きを見る

David Spaner is a Vancouver Province movie critic. A graduate of Simon Fraser University and Langara College, he has worked as a reporter, editor, and feature writer for numerous publications. Born ……続きを見る

A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. ……続きを見る

Forse non lo sapete, ma il 70% dei comici americani ha origini ebraiche. Inutile che pensiate a dei comedian statunitensi a caso per provare a smentire quanto appena affermato: Woody Allen, Jerry Le……続きを見る

Dean Martin e Jerry Lewis. Semplicemente la coppia comica più famosa di sempre. La loro è stata una storia d'amore a tutti gli effetti e, come ogni love story che si rispetti, non è rimasta estranea……続きを見る