Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008345253
The Velvet Light Trap
Anonim
The Velvet Light Trap
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Satire TV
Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson
Author : Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814732168
Satire TV by Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson Pdf
A fascinating look into what happens when comedy becomes political and politics becomes comedy Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre. Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil’ Bush to Chappelle’s Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today’s class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.
The Persistence of History
Vivian Carol Sobchack
Author : Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415910846
The Persistence of History by Vivian Carol Sobchack Pdf
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Hollywood Studio System
Douglas Gomery
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839020209
The Hollywood Studio System by Douglas Gomery Pdf
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitles which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, Head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the rest of the world operated by according to these principles. Cultural, social and economic changes ensured the dernise of this system after the Second World War. A new way to run Hollywood was required. Beginning in 1962, Lew Wasserman of Universal Studios emerged as the key innovator in creating a second studio system. He realized that creating a global media conglomerate was more important than simply being vertically integrated. Gomery's history tells the story of a 'tale of two systems 'using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time. Together with a range of photographs never before published the book also features over 150 box features illuminating aspect of the business.
The Casablanca Man
Dr James C Robertson,James Robertson
Author : Dr James C Robertson,James Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136158445
The Casablanca Man by Dr James C Robertson,James Robertson Pdf
Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the basis of unprecedented archive research at Warner Brothers. Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels With Dirty Faces, Mildred Pearce and Captain Blood among them - Robertson explores Curtiz' practical creative struggles and his friendships and rivalries with other film celebrities including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and James Cagney, and his discovery of future stars. Casablanca Man is the first comprehensive critical exploration of Curtiz' entire career and, linking his European work and his subsequent American work into a coherent whole, Robertson firmly re-establishes Curtiz' true standing in the history of cinema.
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema
Monika Mehta
Author : Monika Mehta
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292742512
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema by Monika Mehta Pdf
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.
Prestige Television
Seth Friedman,Amanda Keeler
Author : Seth Friedman,Amanda Keeler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978818286
Prestige Television by Seth Friedman,Amanda Keeler Pdf
Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and its primary streaming rivals, these essays examine how efforts to imbue series with prestigious or elevated status now permeate the rest of the medium, including network as well as basic and undervalued premium cable channels. Case study chapters focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized examples such as The Americans (2013-2018) and The Knick (2014-15) to contested examples like Queen of the South (2016-2021) and How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Imitations of Life
Marcia Landy
Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814320651
Imitations of Life by Marcia Landy Pdf
On melodrama.
Encyclopedia of Television
Horace Newcomb
Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2730 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135194727
Encyclopedia of Television by Horace Newcomb Pdf
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
The Cinema Book
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718695
The Cinema Book by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf
The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies. Sections address Hollywood and other World cinema histories, key genres in both fiction and non-fiction film, issues such as stars, technology and authorship, and major theoretical approaches to understanding film.
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping
Elizabeth Nathanson
Author : Elizabeth Nathanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415811392
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping by Elizabeth Nathanson Pdf
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot keep house and narratives about women who only keep house. Nathanson looks specifically at the issue of time in this context and argues that the media constructs panics about domestic time scarcity while at the same time offering solutions for those very panics. Analyzing TV programs such as How Clean is Your House, Up All Night, and Supernanny, she finds that media’s portrayals of women’s time is crucial to understanding definitions of femininity, women’s labor, and leisure in the postfeminist context.
Genre and Hollywood
Steve Neale
Author : Steve Neale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134973453
Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale Pdf
Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema. Neale takes issue with much genre criticism and genre theory, which has provided only a partial and misleading account of Hollywood's output. He calls for broader and more flexible conceptions of genre and genres, for more attention to be paid to the discourses and practices of Hollywood itself, for the nature and range of Hollywood's films to be looked at in more detail, and for any assessment of the social and cultural significance of Hollywood's genres to take account of industrial factors. In detailed, revisionist accounts of two major genres - film noir and melodrama - Neale argues that genre remains an important and productive means of thinking about both New and old Hollywood, its history, its audiences and its films.
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
David Bordwell,Janet Staiger,Kristin Thompson
Author : David Bordwell,Janet Staiger,Kristin Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134988082
The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell,Janet Staiger,Kristin Thompson Pdf
'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer 'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time.' Paul Kerr City Limits 'Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations. Despite differences of director, genre or studio, most Hollywood films operate within a set of shared assumptions about how a film should look and sound. Such assumptions are neither natural nor inevitable; but because classical-style films have been the type most widely seen, they have come to be accepted as the 'norm' of film-making and viewing. The authors show how these classical conventions were formulated and standardized, and how they responded to the arrival of sound, colour, widescreen ratios and stereophonic sound. They argue that each new technological development has served a function within an existing narrational system. The authors also examine how the Hollywood cinema standardized the film-making process itself. They describe how, over the course of its history, Hollywood developed distinct modes of production in a constant search for maximum efficiency, predictability and novelty. Set apart by its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this book is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. Now available in paperback, it is a 'must' for film students, lecturers and all those seriously interested in the development of the film industry.
American Political Movies
James Combs
Author : James Combs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317929031
American Political Movies by James Combs Pdf
Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put forward in this text is nonetheless extendable to the decades following its publication.
Dreams and Dead Ends
Jack Shadoian
Author : Jack Shadoian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0198032633
Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian Pdf
Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ending with Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), Jack Shadoian adroitly analyzes twenty notable examples of the crime film genre. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films--including The Public Enemy, D.O.A., Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather--that best define and represent each period in the development of the American crime film. Richly illustrated with more than seventy film stills, Dreams and Dead Ends details the evolution of the genre through insightful and precise considerations of cinematography, characterization, and narrative style. This updated edition includes new readings of three additional movies--Once Upon a Time in America, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and Criss Cross--and brings this clear and lively discussion of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century.