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This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, History and Literary studies. Ripstein's films, often scripted by his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the region. Though several book-length studies have been published in Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to the field.
Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Latin american culture --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Film --- Ripstein y Rosen, Arturo
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This interdisciplinary study examines how state surveillance has preoccupied British and American television series in the twenty years since 9/11. Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television illuminates how the U.S. and U.K., bound by an historical, cultural, and television partnership, have broadcast numerous programs centred on three state surveillance apparatuses tasked with protecting us from terrorism and criminal activity: the prison, the police, and the national intelligence agency. Drawing from a range of case studies, such as Sherlock, Orange is the New Black and The Night Manager, this book discusses how television allows viewers, writers, and producers to articulate fears about an increased erosion of privacy and civil liberties following 9/11, while simultaneously expressing a desire for a preventative mechanism that can stop such events occurring in the future. However, these concerns and desires are not new; encompassing surveillance narratives both past and present, this book demonstrates how television today builds on earlier narratives about panoptic power to construct our present understanding of government surveillance.
Motion pictures-Great Britain. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Terrorism. --- British Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Terrorism and Political Violence. --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Motion pictures—Great Britain. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Political violence. --- Violence --- Terrorism
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What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.
Motion pictures, American. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Motion pictures. --- Youth-Social life and customs. --- Communication. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Culture. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- Youth Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- 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 --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Children in motion pictures. --- Childhood in motion pictures --- Motion pictures
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This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, History and Literary studies. Ripstein’s films, often scripted by his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the region. Though several book-length studies have been published in Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to the field.
Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures, American. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Motion pictures—Production and direction. --- Latin America—Politics and government. --- Communication. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Latin American Culture. --- Directing. --- Latin American Politics. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films
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In Politics in Gotham, scholars from a variety of fields—political science, philosophy, law, and others—provide answers to the question: “What does Batman have to do with politics?” Contributors use the Batman canon, from the comics to the feature films, to explore a broad range of issues in politics and political thought. What can Batman’s role in Gotham City teach us about democracy? How do Batman’s vigilantism and his violence fit within a society committed to the rule of law? What’s the relationship between politics in Gotham and politics in our own communities? From Machiavelli to the fake news phenomenon, this book provides a compelling introduction to the politics behind one of the world’s most enduring pop culture figures.
Batman --- Wayne, Bruce --- Political theory. --- Popular Culture. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Film genres. --- Political Theory. --- Popular Culture . --- US Politics. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Genre. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Motion pictures and television. --- Screen Studies. --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures --- Television --- Popular culture. --- Politics in literature. --- Politics in motion pictures. --- Batman (Fictitious character) --- Politics and culture. --- Democracy in literature.
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This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery—first personified by “Dirty” Harry Callahan—and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world’s “policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat. .
Police films --- Television cop shows --- Crime films --- Motion pictures --- National security in motion pictures. --- Criminal films --- Caper films --- Thrillers (Motion pictures) --- Cop shows --- Cop television shows --- Police shows (Television programs) --- Police television shows --- Television police shows --- Television crime shows --- Cop films --- Detective and mystery films --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Film genres. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Critical criminology. --- Popular Culture. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Genre. --- American Culture. --- Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Radical criminology --- Criminology --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Plots, themes, etc.
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Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson’s persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction. Screening Scarlett Johansson is more than an account of Johansson’s career; it positions Johansson as a point of reference for interrogating how femininity, sexuality, identity and genre play out through a contemporary woman star and the textual manipulations of her image. The chapters in this collection cast a critical eye over the characters Johansson has portrayed, the personas she has inhabited, and how the two intersect and influence one another. They draw out the multitude of meanings generated through and inherent to her performances, specifically looking at processes of transformation, metamorphosis and self-deconstruction depicted in her work.
Women in motion pictures. --- Femininity in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Johansson, Scarlett, --- Career in motion pictures. --- Celebrities. --- Popular Culture. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Motion pictures. --- Celebrity Studies. --- Popular Culture . --- American Cinema and TV. --- Global Cinema and TV. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Persons --- Fan clubs --- History and criticism
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Multiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexico over the last decade, fields that combine to be called multiplatform media. Combining industrial analysis of a major audiovisual field at a time of growth and change with close readings of significant texts on all screens, acclaimed author Paul Julian Smith deftly details these new audiovisual trends. The book includes perspectives on local reporting on the ground, as covered in the chapter documenting media response to the 2017 earthquake. And, for the first time in this field, the book draws throughout on star studies, tracing the distinct profiles of actors who migrate from one medium to another. As a whole, Smith’s analyses illustrate the key movements in screen media in one of the world’s largest media and cultural producing nations. These perspectives connect to and enrich scholarship across Latin American, North American, and global cases. Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center in City University of New York, USA. He was previously for nineteen years the Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he took his PhD. He is author of twenty-one books (translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish) and over one hundred academic articles.
Motion pictures --- Television programs --- Mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Motion pictures. --- Popular Culture. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies. --- Latin American Culture. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Film/TV Industry. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture and Gender. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Performing arts --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Ethnology—Latin America.
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Silent prayers (1902-1927) -- Censored prayers (1927-1939) -- Foxhole prayers (1939-1945) -- Postwar secular prayers (1946-1963) -- Cynical prayers (1964-1976) -- Revival of prayer (1976-1988) -- Postmodern prayer (1989-2000) -- Millennial prayers (2000-2017).
Motion pictures --- Prayer in motion pictures. --- Religious aspects. --- Aimee Semple McPherson. --- American cinema. --- American dream. --- American silent film. --- Cecil B. DeMille. --- Christianity. --- Cold War. --- D. W. Griffith. --- Death of God movement. --- Great Depression. --- Mary Pickford. --- Roman Catholic Church. --- Ronald Reagan. --- Vatican II. --- Victorian films. --- Vietnam War. --- Wall Street crash. --- World War II. --- apocalypse. --- baby boom. --- blasphemy. --- church history. --- civil religion. --- civil rights movement. --- comic prayer. --- dying prayers. --- exemplary prayer. --- fairy tale. --- fantasy genre. --- film noir. --- horror films. --- how to pray. --- intercessory prayer. --- ironic prayer. --- liberation theology. --- piety in films. --- popular culture. --- postmodernism. --- race cinema. --- race. --- religion and film. --- religious films. --- religious photoplays. --- religious pretenders. --- revelatory prayer. --- science fiction films. --- silent films. --- sports. --- televangelists. --- traditional prayer. --- vindictive prayer.
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Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare’s work create non-adaptations, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot. Eric S. Mallin explores how Shakespeare illuminates these movies, analyzing the ways that The Godfather, Memento, Titanic, Birdman, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre take on new life in dialogue with the famous playwright. In addition to challenging our ideas about adaptation, Mallin works to inspire new awareness of the meanings of Shakespearean stories in the contemporary world.
Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Literature, Modern. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. --- Drama. --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Shakespeare. --- Adaptation Studies. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Film Theory. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Drama --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- European literature --- Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Motion pictures, American. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- American Film and TV. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Arts --- Inspiration --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern --- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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