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"A comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas over the course of five major periods: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism/art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Close readings of approximately fifty films illustrate the major aesthetic, economic, and technological trends that define each period and the transitions between them. The selection of films reflects the tripartite division of film production in the region: 75 percent are from Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina; 25 percent are from countries other than the big three"--Provided by publisher.

Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- History. --- Cultural industries --- Film --- Latin America --- History --- Motion picture industry - Latin America - History. --- Lateinamerika --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- american cinema. --- art cinema. --- comparative cinema. --- contemporary cinema. --- contemporary latin american cinema. --- film and cinema. --- film studies. --- film theory. --- latin american cinema. --- latin american cinematography. --- latin american motion pictures. --- latin american silent cinema. --- latin american studio cinema. --- latinx cinema. --- neorealism latin american cinema. --- new latin american cinema. --- silent films. --- studio films. --- the church and latin american cinema.

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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 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.

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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.

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