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Drawing on media sociology and group interviews, this book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and our lived experiences.

Dive into the first issue of 2024. Immerse yourself in the world of martial arts with captivating articles that explore the legacy of Bruce Lee's masterpiece, Fist of Fury.Explore the Martial Arts Icon: Fist of Fury - Bruce Lee's MasterpieceChen Zhen: The Enduring Legacy of Bruce Lee's Fist of FuryExclusive Look: John Negron's Bruce Lee Fist of Fury Memorabilia CollectionUnveiling the Legacy: Mike Nesbitt's "Bruce Lee Column - Real or Fake: Chinese Gung Fu"Fist of Fury Photogallery!Plus Part 1 John Negron's impressive collection of Fist of Fury memorabiliaPart 1 Thomas Gross rare Fist of Fury collectibles

"Stranger Intimacies: Unveiling Shame's Power in South African Performance" delves into the world of South African performance art, exploring how artists confront and expose the power of shame in the country's social fabric. The book examines how performances create unexpected connections between strangers, fostering a sense of intimacy even as they grapple with sensitive topics. Shame, a legacy of South Africa's past, is brought to light, analyzed in its impact on individuals and society. "Stranger Intimacies" explores how performance art serves as a powerful tool for social commentary and healing, fostering a more open and honest dialogue about the complexities of South African identity.

Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data examines the intersection of the superhero genre and issues of the internet, data, and digital media to provide not only a posthuman study of the superhero, but also an examination of the ways in which the superhero acts as a lens for our interactions with technology. Contributions to this collection range from the virality of the superhero as political expression to human-nonhuman relations, social expectations, and trends in cultural products. Providing fruitful, rigorous analysis of this genre in the context of ubiquitous handheld networked technology, social media, and data harvesting techniques, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of media studies, posthuman studies, communication, and popular culture.

Never watch The Exorcist, Marlena Williams's mother told her, just as she'd been told by her own mother as a Catholic teen in rural Oregon when the horror classic premiered. And like her mother, Mary, Williams watched it anyway. An inheritance passed from mother to daughter, The Exorcist looms large-in popular culture and in Williams's own life, years after Mary's illness and death. In Night Mother, Williams investigates the film not only as a projection of Americans' worst fears in the tumultuous 1970s and a source of enduring tropes around girlhood, faith, and transgression but also as a key to understanding her mother and the world she came from. The essays in Night Mother delve beneath the surface of The Exorcist to reveal the deeper stories the film tells about faith, family, illness, anger, guilt, desire, and death. Whether tracing the career of its young star, Linda Blair, unpacking its most infamous scenes, exploring its problematic depictions of gender and race, or reflecting on the horror of growing up female in America, Williams deftly blends bold personal narrative with shrewd cultural criticism. Night Mother offers fresh insights for both fans of the film and newcomers alike.

Become a master of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!<BR><BR>The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast, incredibly varied, and richly complex. Different worlds, different timelines, countless characters. This is the guide to that universe. Created in close collaboration with Marvel Studios, it will frame the MCU's biggest events: what happened, when, and where. <BR><BR>Follow the entire story of the MCU from before the Big Bang to the Blip and beyond. Along the way, learn more about the evolution of the Iron Man armors, the hunt for the Infinity Stones, and the formation of The Multiverse. Want to know how many times aliens have invaded Earth, or the complete history of Cap's shield? Look no further!<BR><BR>A treasured keepsake for any movie buff, filled with exclusive infographics, illuminating timelines, and amazing movie stills, this book will have pride of place on any MCU fan's shelf.<BR><BR>(c) 2023 MARVEL

Hayao Miyazaki è un regista di fama internazionale che non ha bisogno di presentazioni. Questo volume raccoglie numerose interviste che mettono a nudo l¿animo dell¿artista che ha fatto sognare intere generazioni. Da Nausicaa a La città incantata, scopriamo i retroscena dei suoi film culto, ma anche la sua visione del mondo, delle civiltà e della storia. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Forewords by Gigi Saul Guerrero & Heather BuckleyIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Joshua Millican dreamed of working for a legacyhorror site like Dread Central since he began blogging in the early 2010s. He became a regularcontributor in 2016, Managing Editor in 2018, and through sheer determination and fate, became thesite's Editor in Chief in 2019. But the apex of Millican's career coincided with an unforeseen andunprecedented pandemic.The Dreadful Years is more than just a collection of interviews with the biggest names in mainstreamand independent horror. It's a snapshot of the genre immediately before and after everything changedforever. It's an extended moment that encapsulates the transition between decades, extraordinarypolitical turmoil, and powerful social revolutions. The Dreadful Years is also something of a hybridmemoir as Millican reflects on his personal journeys, his successes and failures, the highs and lows of alife steeped in terror.

Da "Ponyo sulla scogliera" a "Si alza il vento". Hayao Miyazaki si racconta in quattro lunghe interviste: questo secondo volume include anche due interviste incentrate sull'opera degli esordi "Conan", "il ragazzo del futuro" e la carriera del regista prima del debutto. Una lettura per tutti gli appassionati che desiderano conoscere l'uomo dietro il genio attraverso il punto di vista privilegiato delle sue stesse parole. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Becoming a Warrior is the triumphant memoir of about a shy, 10-year-old girl with a dream who has a dream and perseveres for fifty years to make that dream come true-to make a movie based on Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Working in the worlds of politics and entertainment, Catherine Hand learned lessons that gave her the courage and strength to navigate through personal tragedies and professional hurdles. She recounts her time spent with the legendary writer/producer Norman Lear and her 25-year-long conversation with L'Engle about the author's treasured book. In 2018, five decades after Hand first read A Wrinkle in Time, Walt Disney Studios released a major motion picture based on the award-winning classic. The movie was directed by Ava DuVernay, written by Jennifer Lee, and starred Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Storm Reid. Becoming a Warrior offers a treasure trove of wisdom and advice for anyone with who has a dream.

This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.Primary readership will be those researching, teaching and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban cultural studies, cultural studies, and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.

Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet anhand einer Motivstudie, der Untersuchung von Wasser in Animationsfilmen, einen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Animationsfilms als eigenständige und zunehmend wichtige Form innerhalb der Filmwissenschaft. Das animierte Wasser sickert überall hinein. Als Meer und Regen, in Flüssen, Trinkgläsern und Kanälen bahnt es sich seinen Weg durch die Geschichten. Animiertes Wasser spiegelt seine Umgebung wieder, bringt Mauern und Wände zum Bersten, überflutet die Welt oder beruhigt durch den Rhythmus der gleichmäßig ans Ufer rollenden Wellen. Animiertes Wasser kann in einfachen Strichen gezeichnet, in kräftigen Farben gemalt oder täuschend echt physikalisch simuliert sein. Die Ästhetik reicht von fotorealistischem Wasser, das aussieht wie real gefilmt, über Wasser in unterschiedlich schillernden Farben bis hin zu monochromen, abstrahierten Darstellungen, die nur im Erzählzusammenhang als Wasser gelesen werden können. Das animierte Wasser schwemmt die Spuren der Herstellung an die Oberfläche der animierten Bilder und schafft so einen Zugang zu verborgenen Bereichen und Zusammenhängen in den Filmen. In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem animierten Wasser tritt die tiefgehende technische, philosophische und ästhetische Reflexion zutage, die in den Filmen steckt. In den Wasseranimationen, also im Motiv, der Struktur und dem Herstellungsprozess des animierten Wassers, verdichten die Animationsfilme die vielfältigen Bedeutungsebenen von Wasser und von Animation. Somit leistet diese Arbeit einen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Animationsfilms aus phänomenologischer, kulturwissenschaftlicher und filmwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, und formuliert gleichzeitig Gedanken zur Philosophie des Wassers als transformatorisches, flüchtiges und zugleich stofflich erfahrbares, omnipräsentes Element.

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of silent film performance. It combines close reading of silent screen acting with theoretically informed analysis, stressing the overlap between different performative arts, such as film and stage acting, dance, mime, and pantomime. The boundary between silent and sound films is also challenged. Anna Pavlova's acting in The Dumb Girl of Portici is read through Freud's work on the uncanny, disability studies, and notions of intermediality. Vladimir Mayakovsky's performance in The Young Lady and the Hooligan is approached as a silent soliloquy and a representation of loneliness. Ivan Mozzhukhin's tour de force in The Late Mathias Pascal is discussed through a queer failure lens, while Pola Negri's presence in Hotel Imperial is analysed with the aid of texts on wartime anxiety. Harald Kreutzberg's stunning number in Paracelsus is examined in the light oftheories of mime and pantomime, arguing for its subversive potential in a Third Reich sound film.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023<BR><BR>From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Höritz Passion Play was filmed in the Czech Republic back in 1897. Ever since, these stories have inspired musicals, comedies, sci-fi, surrealist visions and the avant-garde not to mention spawning their own genre, the biblical epic. Filmmakers across six continents and from all kinds of religious perspectives (or none at all), have adapted the greatest stories ever told, delighting some and infuriating others.<BR><BR>100 Bible Films is the indispensable guide to this wide and varied output, providing an authoritative but accessible history of biblical adaptations through one hundred of the most interesting and significant biblical films. Richly illustrated with film stills, this book depicts how such films have undertaken a complex negotiation between art, commerce, entertainment and religion.<BR><BR>Matthew Page traces the screen history of the biblical stories from the very earliest silent passion plays, via the golden ages of the biblical epic, through to more innovative and controversial later films as well as covering significant TV adaptations. He discusses films made not only by some of our greatest filmmakers, artists such as Martin Scorsese, Jean Luc Godard, Alice Guy, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lotte Reiniger, Carl Dreyer and Luis Buñuel, but also those looking to explore their faith or share it with lovers of cinema the world over.

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A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.<BR>From Black Shuck Books and Sean Hogan comes That Fatal Shore, the twenty-ninth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . . Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and cowgirls are aware that thirty years previous to Clint Eastwood's film, a similarly named movie, The Unforgiven, featured two top 1950s Western stars, Burt Lancaster and Audie Murphy? Or that the story told in Tombstone earlier appeared in an all but lost 1940s film featuring the sadly forgotten Richard Dix? Beginning in the pre-20th Century era of silent flickers, continuing on through Hollwood's Golden Age to overlooked masterpieces from our own time, THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY features credits for each 'Oater,' rare images, and an analysis of each inclusion.. From serious psychological movies produced during the 1950s to those Singin' Cowboy B pictures that delighted audiences in the 1930s, here is a book designed to complete every Western buff's desire to know the whole story of an authentic American. genre.