With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame, and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger than life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per capita than that of any other nation.
"Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood" lays out the cinematic history of Tinseltown the industry, the audiences, and, of course, the stars highlighting important thematic and cultural elements throughout. Profiles and analyses of many of the...
With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame, and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger t...
Since the 1970s, the works of filmmakers from the nations of Eastern Europe among them, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bela Tarr, Istvan Szabo, and Jiri Menzel have experienced an international upsurge in popularity. Charting the trends of the national cinemas of Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, as well as the lesser-known industries of Serbia, Slovakia, and Romania, this new volume in the Directory of World Cinema series explores important genres in the cinema of Eastern Europe, including war films, new wave, comedies, and surrealist art cinema, with essays on the most prolific filmmakers,...
Since the 1970s, the works of filmmakers from the nations of Eastern Europe among them, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bela Tarr, Istvan Szabo, and Jiri Men...
From bleak expressionist works to the edgy political works of the New German Cinema to the feel-good "Heimat" films of the postwar era, "Directory of World Cinema: Germany" aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany including some of the East German films recently made available to Western audiences for the first time. With contributions by leading academics and emerging scholars in the field, this volume explores the key directors, themes, and periods in German film history, and demonstrates how genres have been adapted over time to fit...
From bleak expressionist works to the edgy political works of the New German Cinema to the feel-good "Heimat" films of the postwar era, "Directory ...
From Andy Warhol s Factory films to Roger Corman s exploitation productions to contemporary features backed by Hollywood studio subdivisions, American independent cinema has undergone several incarnations since its emergence as a politically charged underground movement in the 1960s. Today, with high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, these films garner more interest than ever before. Newly revised and expanded, the "Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2" extends its chronicle of the independent...
From Andy Warhol s Factory films to Roger Corman s exploitation productions to contemporary features backed by Hollywood studio subdivisions, Ameri...
An important addition to Intellect s popular series, "Directory of World Cinema: Finland" provides historical and cultural overviews of the country s cinema. Over the course of their contributions to this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines construct a collective argument that complicates the dominant international view of Finnish cinema as small-scale industry dominated by realist art-house films.The contributors approach the topic from a variety of angles, covering genre, art, and commercial films; independent productions; blockbuster cinema; and Finnish cinema s industrial...
An important addition to Intellect s popular series, "Directory of World Cinema: Finland" provides historical and cultural overviews of the country...
Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The "Directory of World Cinema: India" provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India s major cinematic genres and movements while illuminating the field as a whole.This volume s contributors many of them leading experts in their fields approach film in India from a variety of angles, furnishing in-depth essays on significant directors and major regions; detailed historical accounts; considerations of the many faces of India represented in Indian cinema; and explorations of films made in and...
Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The "Directory of World Cinema: India" provides a broad overview of this rich variety, hi...
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of "Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, " this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of the locations that feature prominently in the countries cinema. Essays by leading critics and film scholars consider the significance of the outback and the beach in films, which are evoked as a liminal space in "Long Weekend" and a symbol of death in...
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of "Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, " thi...
Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the cinema to see. While the film industry has dramatically changed over the years stars have come and gone, studios have risen and fallen, new technologies have emerged to challenge directors and entice audiences Hollywood remains the center of global media entertainment. The second volume of "Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood" builds on its predecessor by exploring how the industry has...
Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the fi...
Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse, and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to human rights dramas and groundbreaking experimental documentaries, Argentina s cinematic output has achieved both global influence and international acclaim. A discriminating survey of the country s key films, "Directory of World Cinema: Argentina" contains provocative essays and astute reviews by scholars, critics, filmmakers, and film buffs. Chapters spotlight, among other subjects, the Buenos Aires film festival and the legacy of such iconic...
Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse, and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to hu...
Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting some genres not commonly associated with cinema in the region, including Cold War spy movies and science-fiction films; blockbusters and horror films; remakes and adventure films; and chernukha films and serials. Introductory essays establish key aspects of these genres, and directors biographies provide the background for the key players. Building on the work of its predecessor, which explored cinema from the time of the tsars to the Putin era,...
Soviet and Russian filmmakers have traditionally had uneasy relationships to the concept of genre. This volume rewrites that history by spotlighting s...