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As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of t……続きを見る

Winner, Susan Koppelman Award, Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture, 2008 The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican……続きを見る

Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and st……続きを見る

In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood o……続きを見る

Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central ste……続きを見る

Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, 2012 As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. On……続きを見る

Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as ……続きを見る

After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconographyーwhich does not have to resembl……続きを見る

With its focus on dangerous, determined femmes fatales, hardboiled detectives, and crimes that almost-but-never-quite succeed, film noir has long been popular with moviegoers and film critics alike.……続きを見る

From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The a……続きを見る

Coming of age is a pivotal experience for everyone. So it is no surprise that filmmakers around the globe explore the experiences of growing up in their work. From blockbuster U.S. movies such as th……続きを見る

If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls;……続きを見る

In 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writi……続きを見る

Television and globalization have transformed the traditional documentary almost beyond recognition, converting what was once a film genre devoted to public service and education into a popular tele……続きを見る

Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. Latin American soap operasーtelenovelasーhave found enthusiastic audie……続きを見る

Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through ……続きを見る

With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her ……続きを見る

James Joyce (1882 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet who is widely considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known……続きを見る

Season Two begins on January 15, 2013 and may answers the following questions: Will KATE ADAMS press the right button to get STEW MULLIGAN in her pants? Does PARADISE MULLIGAN have a sex change oper……続きを見る

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one……続きを見る

William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Sha……続きを見る

Euripides (c. 480 BC 406 BC) was one of the great trilogy of playwrights during the Golden Age of Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. In addition to these three Ancient Greeks writing some ……続きを見る

William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Sha……続きを見る

William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Sha……続きを見る

Of course! In fact, according to a recent study, monkeys have much better sex than humans do. According to the monkeys, anyway. (Don't quote me.) Monkeys. Sex. Monkey sex. Genetic mutations gone wil……続きを見る

WARNING: Crude and offensive humor Neo vs. Agent Smith, Peter Pan vs. Captain Hook, Voldemort vs. Dumbledore - who will win in the epic battle of . . . luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve. 続きを見る

Griet is a short story I created after being inspired by the film 'Girl with a pearl earing'. I just liked to give Griet an exceptional path to follow,given she seemed to me an exceptional girl and ……続きを見る

"I wish there was sumtin I can do… to free us from the fear of being discovered… who woulda thought that to save the world, I'd have to be the monster to destroy it first. I didn't know where my dec……続きを見る

Cinquanta idee mainstream per i tuoi status. Antologia di stati di Facebook a testimonianza dello Zeitgeist del fate girare, cazzo. 続きを見る

"Could have been worse," Gabe commented as they sat beside a heatless phantom campfire one day, "We coulda gone to Hell." "And just how would that be worse?" Louis asked darkly, in his one hundred a……続きを見る