From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the La ...
As scientific discoveries and technological advances radically modernized Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, artists of all types began ...
Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran’s film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic’s system of modesty, had to ensure that women o ...
Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaki ...
New Zealand cinema burst onto the global stage in the 1970s and has maintained its high-profile international presence with such films as Whalerider, ...
Section One 1. Modernity and the City Film: Berlin 2. The Dark City: Film Noir: Los Angeles 3. The City of Love: Paris Section Two: 4. City Film Indus ...
Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The ...
In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented a ...
In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented a ...
Cinematography for Games covers the space between the game and film industries by pointing out the most relevant cinematic techniques in today's hotte ...
Genre - or 'type' - is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate film ...
In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship w ...
From Lolita to The Sixth Sense, the figure of the child in cinematic works has been a contested site of symbolism and controversy. Childhood and Cinem ...
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across ...
How space - mental, emotional, visual - is implicated in our constructions of reality and our art is the focus of this set of innovative essays. For t ...
From conceptual artist for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and author In this amazing collection of dragon art, created over his 30-year career, i ...
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E. L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were ...
First we shape things, then they shape us , was Churchill s view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means ...
Written by leaders in a wide range of creative fields and from all corners of the Asian region, this collection of essays presents arts and education ...
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners’ guides can feel as impenetrable as the original tex ...
It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second hal ...
