Film, Television & Visual Culture

ISBN: 9788869770241
Published by : Mimesis International
As the institutionalization of the avant-garde took place, postmodern theory both reacted to and helped create the forces that eroded reason and even taste, labelled them quaint in the name of a postmodern theory, at the same time that mass commod... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869770227
Published by : Mimesis International
Volume: XIV
Over the last two decades, discoveries made in the field of cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and social sciences. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie focuses on major conceptual and epistemological arguments arising from the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819569141
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
What do Franklin Roosevelt, Dr. Seuss, the U.S. Navy, and Mr. Magoo have in common? They are all part of the surprising story of the pioneering cartoon studio UPA (United Productions of America). Throughout the 1950s, a group of artists ran a busi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819572400
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture-first as a talented animator working on Looney Tunes cartoons, then as muse to film stars Jerry... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819571434
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have not been given their due, perhaps because Mazursky's films-both sincere and ridiculous, realistic an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819571335
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
The sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching examines a subject that, despite its significance to African American film history, has gone largely unexplored ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819568274
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-firs... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819570840
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwar American cinema. In landmark motion pictures such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819569462
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the "new entrepreneur" was a lone wolf able to succeed in post-World War II corporate America by elusively meandering through various institu... .... Learn More