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The Psychology of Moviegoing

Author : Ashton D. Trice,Hunter W. Greer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476636108

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The Psychology of Moviegoing by Ashton D. Trice,Hunter W. Greer Pdf

How do we choose what movies to go see? How do we process the sounds and images of those films? How do they influence our behaviors, attitudes and beliefs after we leave the theater? Using psychology theory, this book answers these questions while considering the effects of relatively permanent personality variables, our changeable moods and the people we are with in such scenarios. It also points out areas of the study in which further work is necessary and where new concepts, such as awe and aesthetic pleasure, may further understanding.

Psychology at the Movies

Author : Skip Dine Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470971772

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Psychology at the Movies by Skip Dine Young Pdf

Psychology at the Movies explores the insights to be gained by applying various psychological lenses to popular films including cinematic depictions of human behavior, the psychology of filmmakers, and the impact of viewing movies. Uses the widest range of psychological approaches to explore movies, the people who make them, and the people who watch them Written in an accessible style with vivid examples from a diverse group of popular films, such as The Silence of the Lambs, The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Good Will Hunting, and A Beautiful Mind Brings together psychology, film studies, mass communication, and cultural studies to provide an interdisciplinary perspective Features an extensive bibliography for further exploration of various research fields

Men Out of Focus

Author : Marko Dumančić
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487531850

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Men Out of Focus by Marko Dumančić Pdf

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

Disney Gothic

Author : Lorna Piatti-Farnell,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666907216

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Disney Gothic by Lorna Piatti-Farnell,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

In this edited collection exploring Disney’s dark side, attention to Disney’s Gothic reveals the ways through which Disney productions construct and reinforce conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories.

Asian American Actors

Author : Joann Faung Jean Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786407301

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Asian American Actors by Joann Faung Jean Lee Pdf

The acting profession is increasingly drawing more and more actors of Asian descent. Yet, even with the success of television programs (Martial Law), films (Mulan), and even Broadway plays (Miss Saigon) that include Asian characters, there are still limited roles for these actors. In the past, Asian characters like Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu were played by non-Asian actors in makeup. Many of the roles available for Asians today tend to be stereotypical: kung-fu sidekicks, emasculated or gang-member males, sexually accessible females, comic characters with a poor command of English. Seldom are Asian actors cast in race-neutral roles. Despite these obstacles, many excellent Asian actors continue to seek their places on screen and stage. This analysis of Asian American opportunities and experiences in the acting profession features the narratives of both aspiring and established Asian-American actors, providing a detailed examination of the opportunities, prejudices, and fears they face and the goals they set for themselves. The book covers the insights of both New York and Hollywood based actors, both the well known and the up-and-coming, and includes photographs, bibliography and index.

Screening the World

Author : Stuart Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030189952

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This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world. Going from its origins in the USA in the 1960s to its expansion overseas from the mid-1980s across Europe, Australia and other parts of Asia-Pacific, the book considers the emergence of a series of initially regional, then national and then international exhibition circuits. However, more than a consideration of US overseas expansion on the part of companies, this book examines the hegemony of the multiplex as a cultural and business form, arguing for its significance as a phenomenon that has transcended national and global boundaries and which has become the predominant venue for film viewing. Implicit in this analysis is a recognition of the domination of US media multi-nationals and Hollywood cinema, and the development of the multiplex cinema as symbolic of the extension and maintenance of the USA’s cultural and economic power. With case studies ranging from European countries such as Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands, to Pacific-Asian countries such as Australia, China, Japan and South Korea, this book is the first to explore the development of multiplexes on a global scale.

ROY, “ROCKY” & RED RYDER; “HOPPY,” DURANGO & MO[O]RE

Author : Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781480990333

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ROY, “ROCKY” & RED RYDER; “HOPPY,” DURANGO & MO[O]RE by Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D. Pdf

ROY, “ROCKY” & RED RYDER; “HOPPY”, DURANGO & MO(O)RE By: Dr. Jim Vickrey, Ph.D., J.D. From Chapter One: The Wages of Cinema -- on Coming of Age on the B-Western Movie Range, to the Conclusion: Why You Can Yet Join Me in Riding the Range Again ..., author Dr. Jim Vickrey is "hopeful that the experiences I've had while researching and writing this movie-related memoir will engender within readers the same happy thoughts I had and have resulting from my first and every subsequent encounter thereafter with the world of Western, particularly B-Western, cinema”

Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780385492508

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Totally, Tenderly, Tragically by Phillip Lopate Pdf

Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone who loves movies.

Movies as Mass Communication

Author : Garth Jowett,James M. Linton
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015015455457

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Movies as Mass Communication by Garth Jowett,James M. Linton Pdf

Since the publication of the first edition of Movies as Mass Communication in 1980, cinema has been incorporated into academic discussions of the mainstream mass media. Most introductory `media and society' courses now include a section on the cinema. In this second edition, Professors Jowett and Linton address both the persistent tendency to position the cinema as a separate form of entertainment with a specialized audience, and the extensive interrelationships between the cinema and other media. The authors also examine the economic, sociological, psychological and political aspects of film.

Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream

Author : Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461471752

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Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream by Robert W. Rieber,Robert J. Kelly Pdf

​This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of the greater culture and has served as a means of experiencing those feelings in a communal and taming environment. From Munsterberg’s original pronouncements in the early 20th century about the psychology of cinema, through the pioneering films of Melies, the works of the German expressionists, to James Bond and today’s superheroes this book weaves a narrative highlighting the importance of the social dream. It develops the idea that no art form goes beyond the ordinary process of consciousness in the same way as film, reflecting, as it does, the cognitive, emotional, and volitional aspects of human nature.​

Cinematic Independence

Author : Noah Tsika
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520386105

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Cinematic Independence by Noah Tsika Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake is the Nigerian postcolony’s role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a testament to cinema’s persistence—its capacity to stave off annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead.

Marketing to Moviegoers

Author : Robert Marich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136068614

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Marketing to Moviegoers by Robert Marich Pdf

"Marketing to Moviegoers" is the essential guide to film marketing. Although there are many resources available about how to make a film, there are few about how to get your film seen once it's made and none that reveal the closely-guarded marketing secrets of the major motion picture studios. The author goes right to the source and provides data, quotes, and insights from high profile industry professionals and information on market research that the major studios don't want the moviegoing public to know. This book will be indispensable for film marketing executives, consumer product marketers, students, and people new to the filmmaking field. It provides practical data, such as templates for advertising campaigns of different sizes, solutions, and an insight into the complicated movie marketing process. Armed with the strategies that Hollywood professionals would prefer not to share, film professionals and marketing professionals alike will have a leg up in this complicated business.

The Moral Life of Children

Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0871137704

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Explores the minds of children focusing on their consciences and moral awareness.

Introduction to Mass Communication

Author : Jay Black,Frederick C. Whitney
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mass media
ISBN : PSU:000032162318

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Introduction to Mass Communication by Jay Black,Frederick C. Whitney Pdf

In writing the second edition of Introduction to Mass Communication, we continue the main thrust found in the first edition. We have attempted to analyze the mass communication empires on their own terms, to recognize them for what they are--large, sometimes monolithic industries established to earn a profit as well as to serve the interests of their customers. The media are studied here within the broad contexts in which they operate. Technological, economic, political, philosophical, and sociological factors are considered throughout.

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume III

Author : Kenneth R. Morefield,Nicholas S. Olson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443874984

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Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume III by Kenneth R. Morefield,Nicholas S. Olson Pdf

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume III continues the work presented in the first two volumes of this title, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2008 and 2011. It provides informed yet accessible articles that will provide readers with an introduction to masters of world cinema whose works explore the themes of human spirituality and religious faith. Volume III contains essays dealing with canonical directors notably absent from the first two entries of the series, such as De Sica and Hitchcock, while also including examinations of contemporary auteurs who are still actively working, like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. While retaining an international emphasis similar to the first two volumes, it also includes a focused look at a few American auteurs not yet considered in the series. Volume III also acts as an important contribution to canon formation, illustrating the complexity and variety in the films of those who are truly the masters of world cinema. Built solidly around close, formal readings of selective films, the essays in Volume III also demonstrate familiarity with film history and bring insight from varied disciplines. Framed by the question “What makes movies material?”, Volume III continues the series’ endeavour to have faith and spirituality provide a context for considering what makes cinema significant.