Táto séria skúma fascinujúce prepojenie medzi filmom a históriou, odhaľuje, ako kinematografia ovplyvňuje naše chápanie minulosti a ako historické udalosti formujú filmové rozprávanie. Každá kniha v sérii sa ponorí do špecifických tém, žánrov alebo filmárov, ponúka hlboké analýzy a nové pohľady. Je to nevyhnutné čítanie pre študentov filmu, historikov a každého, kto sa zaujíma o to, ako sa vizuálne médiá a história vzájomne prelínajú. Séria poskytuje bohatý zdroj poznatkov o kultúrnom dopade filmu a jeho úlohe pri interpretácii a uchovávaní historických naratívov.
The only person to receive four Academy Awards for best director, John Ford is considered by some to be America's greatest homegrown filmmaker. This book looks at the two genres of films for which Ford was most well-known--Westerns such as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--and military films including They Were Expendable and the Oscar-winning documentary The Battle of Midway.
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that examine the disparate portrayals of beauty and brains in film and television. This text will be of interest to scholars of film and television, communications, and women's studies, to name a few.
This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particular attention to shifts in narrative that reflect changes in American culture, attitudes, and ideas. It explains how the absence of the Cold War has... číst celé