Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience, but is this what - or all - blockbusters are? Bringing together writings from key film scholars - such as Douglas Gomery, Peter Kramer, Jon Lewis and Steve Neale - this book addresses the work of notable blockbuster auteurs such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. It considers the contexts in which blockbusters are produced and what they say about Hollywood and the audience. The book also considers the movie scene outside America.
Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience, but is this what - or all - blockbusters are? Bringing together writings from key...
Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional form of cinema, and of its strained relationships to mainstream cinema and the processes of institutionalisation and classification. Claims that the history of academic film studies and that of cult movie fandom are inextricably intertwined and raises fundamental questions about both cult movies themselves, and film studies as a discipline. Updates work on cult movies at a time when cult films and TV...
Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues abou...
Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four articles on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to Japanese cinema history and Japanese culture and society.
Studying a range of important films, from Late Spring, Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses to Godzilla, Hana-Bi and Ring, the collection includes discussion of all the major directors of Japanese cinema including Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Oshima, Suzuki, Kitano and Miyazaki.
Each chapter discusses the film in relation to aesthetic, industrial or critical issues...
Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four articles on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive in...
Korean film has been heralded as the -newest tiger- of Asian cinema. In the past year, South Korea became one of the only countries in the world in which local films outsold Hollywood films, and Korean director Park Chan-wook was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes.
New Korean Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the production, circulation, and reception of this vibrant cinema, which has begun to flourish again in the past decade, following the lifting of repressive government policies. In addition to providing a cultural, historical, and social context for understanding...
Korean film has been heralded as the -newest tiger- of Asian cinema. In the past year, South Korea became one of the only countries in the world in...
Japanese cinema is historically one of the world's most important national film industries and one that continues to have a significant global influence. From the Golden Age of the 1930s and the 1950s art-house success of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu to the 1960s New Wave of Imamura and Oshima and the ubiquitous contemporary presence of sci-fi and anime, Japan has produced directors and genres of central importance to the development of cinema as both art and industry. Indeed, no college or university course on international film history or modern world cinema is complete without substantial...
Japanese cinema is historically one of the world's most important national film industries and one that continues to have a significant global influen...
