Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241484838
Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.
Author : Joseph M. Boggs
Publisher : McGraw-Hill College
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780073535074
Accompanying CD-ROM provides short film clips that reinforce the key concepts and topics in each chapter.
Author : Art Silverblatt
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765628244
The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres - such as reality TV shows - appear? Are there differences in genres from one country to another? Combining theoretical approaches with concrete examples, the book reinforces one's understanding of the importance of genre to the creation, evolution, and consumption of media content. Each chapter in this reader-friendly book contains a detailed discussion of one of the theoretical approaches to genre studies, followed by Lines of Inquiry, which summarizes the major points of the discussion and suggests directions for analysis and further study. Each chapter also includes an example that illustrates how the particular theoretical approach can be applied in the analysis of genre. The author's careful linkage of different genres to the real world makes the book widely useful for those interested in genre study as well as media and culture, television studies, film studies, and media literacy.
Author : Tom Pendergast
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
The millenium-inspired fascination with 20th-century studies cannot be fully satisfied without a comprehensive and scholarly look at popular culture. With its emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.
Author : Danny Wedding
Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Cinematography
ISBN : 9780889374614
This popular and critically acclaimed text, using movies to help learn about mental illness, has been fully updated with DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses, dozens of evocative and informative frame grabs, a full film index, "Authors' Picks," sample syllabus, more international films and shorts... Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology - for students of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Movies and Mental Illness, written by experienced clinicians and teachers who are themselves movie aficionados, has established a great reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology. The new edition has been fully updated to include DSM-5 and ICD-10 diagnoses. The core clinical chapters each use a fabricated case history and Mini-Mental State Examination along with synopses and discussions about specific movies to explain, teach, and encourage discussion about all the most important mental health disorders. Each chapter also includes: Critical Thinking Questions; "Authors' Picks" (Top 10 Films); What To Read if You Only Have Time to Read One Book or Article; and Topics for Group Discussions. Other features of the new, expanded edition include: * Full index of films * Sample course syllabus * Ratings of around 1,500 films * Fascinating appendices, such as "Top 50 Heroes and Villains," psychotherapists in movies, misconceptions about mental illness in movies, and recommended websites, plus listings of the PRISM Awards for Feature Films and the SAMHSA Voice Awards.
Author : Robert J. Niemi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2024-08-22
Category : History
ISBN :
This book serves as a fascinating guide to 100 war films from 1930 to the present. Readers interested in war movies will learn surprising anecdotes about these films and will have all their questions about the films' historical accuracy answered. This cinematic guide to war movies spans 800 years in its analysis of films from those set in the 13th century Scottish Wars of Independence (Braveheart) to those taking place during the 21st-century war in Afghanistan (Lone Survivor). World War II has produced the largest number of war movies and continues to spawn recently released films such as Dunkirk. This book explores those, but also examines films set during such conflicts as the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, World War I, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book is organized alphabetically by film title, making it easy to navigate. Each entry is divided into five sections: Background (a brief discussion of the film's genesis and financing); Production (information about how, where, and when the film was shot); Synopsis (a detailed plot summary); Reception (how the film did in terms of box office, awards, and reviews) and "Reel History vs. Real History" (a brief analysis of the film's historical accuracy). This book is ideal for readers looking to get a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the greatest war movies ever made.
Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780205314157
Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen.
Author : Gilad Padva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137266341
Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism.
Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN :
Contains 640 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on clothing and fashion, covering such disciplines as fashion design, anthropology, sociology, business, history, and art history.
Author : Patrick Neighly
Publisher : Disinformation Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780971394223
An in-depth look at the most groundbreaking and controversial comic book series of the last decade.
