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This book explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/ or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of the region. With a corpus of more than two hundred films, Latin American road movies have achieved a high profile in the last two decades at major film festivals and profitable results at the box office. The Latin American Road Movie’s twelve essays traverse diverse cinematic routes and cover extensive geographical landscapes from a common point of departure: The traveling narrative of the road movie and its focus on crossing borders—physical, metaphorical, theoretical—make the genre ideal for reexamining the ideological grounds of national and regional discourses. .

Culture --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures, American. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- American Cinema. --- Latin American Cinema. --- Latin American Culture. --- Media Studies. --- Film History. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Latin America. --- United States. --- History. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Motion pictures-History. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Culture—Study and teaching.

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This book examines performances in the American film industry’s highest-earning and most influential films. Countering decades of discourse and the conventional notion that special effects are the real stars of Hollywood blockbusters, this book finds that the acting performances in these big-budget action movies are actually better, and more genre-appropriate, than reputed. It argues that while blockbusters are often edited for speed, thrills, and simplicity, and performances are sometimes tailored to this style, most major productions feature more scenes of stage-like acting than hyper-kinetic action. Knowing this, producers of the world’s highest-budgeted motion pictures usually cast strong or generically appropriate actors. With chapters offering unique readings of some of cinema’s biggest hits, such as The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Iron Man and The Hunger Games, this unprecedented study sheds new light on the importance of performance in the Hollywood blockbuster. .

Motion picture acting. --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Film acting --- Moving-picture acting --- Acting --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Screen Performance. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Motion pictures—United States.

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This pivot considers key transformations within the Chinese film industry since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, and moved from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market. Focusing on Zhang Yimou, arguably one of China’s most innovative and controversial filmmakers and directors, the author addresses the challenges faced by contemporary Chinese cinema in the face of Hollywood dominance, notably making genre films in an increasingly globalized context, and the necessary compromises between the local and global, the national and the international. Through a combination of textual analysis and context study, it examines action-oriented films Zhang made as responses to a rapidly changing film market and industry.

Culture --- Motion pictures --- Cultural studies. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Asian Cinema. --- Cultural Studies. --- American Cinema. --- Study and teaching. --- United States. --- Asia. --- Zhang, Yimou --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Chang, I-mou --- Zhang, Yi Mou --- 张艺谋 --- 張藝謀 --- Mou, Zhang Yi --- Yimou, Zhang --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Motion pictures—United States.

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Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about the precarious can be traced in cultural and archival policies, film legislations, as well as in thematic and aesthetic choices. While conventional definitions of the precarious have been associated with notions of scarcity and insecurity, this volume looks at precariousness from a non-monolithic angle, exploring its productivity and potential for original, critical approaches, with the aim of providing new readings to the variedly rich and complex cinemas of the Americas.

Culture --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Culture. --- American Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- United States—Study and teaching.

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“An important contribution to television studies, this book draws attention to pinboards as an overlooked element of production design and narrative exposition. Combining case studies with media industries analysis, Ganzert demonstrates how the malleability and mobility of television content in the age of digital distribution have granted new registers of value to pinboarding. A fascinating read!” - Dr Jennifer Gillan, Professor of English and Media Studies, Bentley University “Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television offers a truly intriguing reading of TV’s pinboards, their meaning, audience engagement, aesthetic impact, and storytelling power – and thereby identifies TV’s obsession with them and why it is important to pay heed to them in an interdisciplinary fashion. Ganzert’s work is a must read for TV scholars and those interested in seriality, television style, transmedia, and TV form.” - Dr Bärbel Goebel Stolz, Assistant Professor and Program Director of Media and Communications, Coventry University “Some people watch TV series all the time. Some constantly evaluate charts. In this wonderful book they will discover surprising similarities. It's a piece of diagrammatology at its best!” - Dr Steffen Bogen, Professor of Art History and Image Theory, University of Konstanz This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an “age of pinboarding” has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.

Television series --- Series, Television --- Television serials --- Television programs --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Motion pictures. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Close Reading. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism