In the past 30 years, Diane Keaton has been an actress, a director and a photographer. This work begins with her early years in California, but the primary focus is on her film career from the 1970s through to the present.
In the past 30 years, Diane Keaton has been an actress, a director and a photographer. This work begins with her early years in California, but the pr...
The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair, ill-fitting outdated clothing, and thick glasses is changed into an almost unrecognizable glamour girl. Makeover scenes such as these are examined beginning with 1942's Now, Voyager. The study examines whether the film makeover is voluntary or involuntary, whether it is always successful, how much screen time it takes up, where in the narrative structure it falls, and how the scene is actually filmed. Films with a Pygmalion theme, such as My Fair Lady, Vertigo, and Shampoo, are examined in terms of gender relations:...
The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair, ill-fitting outdated clothing, and thick glasses is changed into an almos...
Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns?
Drawing on films from the 1930s to those of today, Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens investigates the ways in which these films reproduce history and represent women. Though hardly progressive in nature, many early films offered an acceptable, nonthreatening way...
Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with th...
The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures, even children's films often feature apocalyptic imagery--disintegrating cities, extreme weather events, extinctions, rogue military forces, epidemics, zombie armies and colliding worlds. Using sophisticated CGI effects, filmmakers are depicting the end of the world with ever more stunning realism. In this collection of new essays, contributors explore the phenomenon of the cinematic apocalypse and its origins in both our anxieties and real-world events, and identify some...
The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures, even children's films often...
