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This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this ‘sacred violence’ through complex blood bonds that relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new millennium. Susan Chaplin specialises in Romanticism and Gothic Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published extensively in these fields. Her works include The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820, Gothic Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections, The Romanticism Handbook (edited with Professor Joel Faflak), The Frankenstein Workbook, and Law, Literature and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction.

Literature. --- Motion pictures --- Film genres. --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- American Cinema. --- Genre. --- United States. --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- Vampires in literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Motion pictures—United States.

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This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history. Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to the show display the concept beautifully. For instance, the show posits that people must possess the correct attitudes in order to bring about an ideal society: a commitment to social justice; an unyielding commitment to the truth; and a similar commitment to scientific, intellectual discovery. These characteristics serve as perfect embodiments of Hegel’s conceptualization, and Gonzalez's analysis is sharp and exacting. George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, USA. He specializes in the fields of political theory, popular culture, and environmental politics and policy. In the areas of popular culture and political theory he has published two articles in the journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, as well as the book The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future.

Philosophy. --- Motion pictures --- History --- Idealism, German. --- German Idealism. --- Philosophy of History. --- American Cinema. --- United States. --- Star trek (Motion picture : 1979) --- Mental philosophy --- German idealism --- History, Modern --- Philosophy --- Star trek-- the motion picture (1979) --- History-Philosophy. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- American Cinema and TV. --- History—Philosophy. --- Motion pictures—United States.

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A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first Batman and Superman serials were made. The serials, and later television shows in the 1950s and 60s, were for the most part designed for children. But today, with the continuing rise of Comic-Con, they seem to be more a part of the mainstream than ever, appealing to adults as well as younger fans. This book examines comic book movies from the past and present, exploring how these films shaped American culture from the post-World War II era to the present day, and how they adapted to the changing tastes and mores of succeeding generations. Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Richard Graham is an associate professor and Media Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, and a nationally recognized authority on comic books, graphic novels, and comic book movies.

Culture --- Communication. --- Motion pictures --- Film genres. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Genre. --- Film History. --- American Cinema. --- Asian Cinema. --- Media and Communication. --- Study and teaching. --- United States. --- Asia. --- History. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Cultural studies --- History and criticism --- Sociology --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Motion pictures-History. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Motion pictures and comic books.

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This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,” there is often little to no distinction among children by race—the “child” is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Olson looks at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal.

Culture --- United States --- African Americans. --- Youth --- Communication. --- Motion pictures --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- American Cinema. --- American Culture. --- African American Culture. --- Youth Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Study and teaching. --- Social life and customs. --- United States. --- Performing arts --- History. --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Motion pictures-United States. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Youth-Social life and customs. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Motion pictures—United States. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Black people --- Blacks in motion pictures. --- Children in motion pictures. --- Racism in motion pictures. --- Children, Black, in art. --- Social aspects. --- Black people in motion pictures.

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This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful tool that can reveal aesthetic, political, social, and historical meanings of the cinematographic image instead of considering space as just a formal element of a film. From the rich cross-fertilization of different theories and disciplines, this edited collection engages with the connection between space and subjectivity in Brazilian cinema while raising new questions concerning spatiality and subjectivity in cinema and providing new models and tools for film analysis.

Brazilian literature. --- Portuguese literature --- Motion pictures, American. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Motion pictures. --- Communication. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Culture. --- Film Theory. --- Media and Communication. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures --- Space in motion pictures. --- Ethnology—Latin America.