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Rutgers University Press Documenting the American Student Abroad: The
Book Synopsis1 in 10 undergraduates in the US will study abroad. Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy and a bridge to future participation in the global marketplace. In Documenting the American Student Abroad, Kelly Hankin explores the documentary media cultures that shape these beliefs, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. From study abroad video contests and a F.B.I. produced docudrama about student espionage to reality television inspired educational documentaries and docudramas about Amanda Knox, Hankin shows how the institutional values of "global citizenship," "intercultural communication," and "cultural immersion" emerge in contradictory ways through their representation. By bringing study abroad and media studies into conversation with one another, Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of International Education offers a much needed humanist contribution to the field of international education, as well as a unique approach to the growing scholarship on the intersection of media and institutions. As study abroad practitioners and students increase their engagement with moving images and digital environments, the insights of media scholars are essential for helping the field understand how the mediation of study abroad rhetoric shapes rather than reflects the field's central institutional idealsTrade Review"Documenting the American Student Abroad is a cutting account of exactly how far off the study abroad industry is from forging a media culture, or what Hankin would call a collective visual grammar, that is ethically aligned with the many noble goals the educational field purports to promote. By placing study abroad practices under the scrutiny of analytical tools from media and cultural studies, Hankin renders the familiar unfamiliar: student-made youtube clips become avenues for fresh analysis of gender and race, and rote study abroad safety precautions become texts for questioning just how comfortable Americans really are with the ideals of global citizenship. For those with an interest in media studies, Documenting the American Student Abroad models the importance of close-reading visual texts as easily dismissed and as 'low brow' as an undergraduate's 'Vlog' sent home from abroad. For those concerned with improving the quality of international education, Hankin will provoke a full-on reckoning. Where institutions of study abroad typically see absence, Hankin finds voice. Where study abroad practitioners see accepted everyday communications strategies, Hankin finds troubling pedagogies and ideological presumptions that undermine the very premise of intercultural education. Documenting the American Student Abroad helps us to understand how it is that an educational practice that has been celebrated for an entire century as America's pathway to global redemption has ultimately done so little to shift some of the most stubborn imperialist ideals that underpin our nation's relationship to the world. "— Talya Zemach-Bersin, Education Studies Senior Capstone Coordinator and a Lecturer, Yale University The American Minute podcast: Kelly Hankin, University of Redlands – The Personal is Professional: The Study Abroad Video Contest— The American Minute podcast “This book offers an original and critical account of an influential domain of media practice—the “study abroad media culture” through which Americans learn about, experience, and document educational travel abroad. Through deft analysis of diverse types of travel media, including study abroad video contests, “homestay movies,” and student vlogs, Kelly Hankin traces how visions of the “globally engaged student” have emerged from a web of media histories, technologies, institutions, and stakeholders. Media, Hankin convincingly shows us, are central to understanding the fraught politics and transformative potential of international education.”— Katie Day Good, author of Bring The World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education “Kelly Hankin’s wide-ranging and deftly argued analysis of the ‘study abroad gaze’ is a welcome addition to current debates about tourism, travel, and intercultural exchange. She expertly guides us through such diverse topics as theories of mediated travel, reality television and vlogs, the foreign homestay, and the risks and rewards of overseas experiences. The result is an innovative reading of how this formative, multi-layered educational experience for contemporary American students is continually reframed through film and television.”— Ben McCann, University of Adelaide, Australia "NAB Podcast: Kelly Hankin on Media Cultures of Study Abroad in Higher Education"— The New American Baccalaureate ProjectTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Media Cultures of Study Abroad The Personal is Professional: First-Person Travelogues and The Study Abroad Video Contest Intercultural Communication Among “Intimate Strangers”: Reality Television and Documentary Study Abroad House Hunters International: Homestay Movies in the Digital Era Study Abroad’s Diversity Problem: Vlogs as Necessary Media Spy Kids: The Consequences of Global Citizenship in Game of Pawns Study Abroad and The Female Traveler in the “Amanda Knoxudramas” Acknowledgments Bibliography
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Rutgers University Press Star Wars Multiverse
Book SynopsisStar Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.Trade ReviewE2K: Eager to Know podcast, "Seriously Star Wars" episode interview with Carmelo Esterrich— Eager to Know podcast (e2K) "Things are never as simple as they seem. While the stories of Star Wars span multiple media forms, the universes of the franchise are vast and uncharted. In this insightful volume, Carmelo Esterrich mines the unique and multifaceted Star Wars multiverse in all its complexities, delving deeply into discussions of diversity, war, fandom, and gender across the galaxy. Whether discussing the Canon and the Legend, the Fan and the Creator, or the human and the alien (and the droid!), Esterrich proves that the force is strong with Star Wars. Don’t be a nerf herder – get this book now!" — Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media "Alumnus authors book, a 'conversation starter,' about all things Star Wars"— Penn State News "Associate Professor Carmelo Esterrich to publish Star Wars Multiverse in 2021"— Columbia College ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Seriously, Star Wars 1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars 2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life 3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism 4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Filmography Index
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Rutgers University Press Star Wars Multiverse
Book SynopsisStar Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.Trade ReviewE2K: Eager to Know podcast, "Seriously Star Wars" episode interview with Carmelo Esterrich— Eager to Know podcast (e2K) "Things are never as simple as they seem. While the stories of Star Wars span multiple media forms, the universes of the franchise are vast and uncharted. In this insightful volume, Carmelo Esterrich mines the unique and multifaceted Star Wars multiverse in all its complexities, delving deeply into discussions of diversity, war, fandom, and gender across the galaxy. Whether discussing the Canon and the Legend, the Fan and the Creator, or the human and the alien (and the droid!), Esterrich proves that the force is strong with Star Wars. Don’t be a nerf herder – get this book now!" — Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media "Alumnus authors book, a 'conversation starter,' about all things Star Wars"— Penn State News "Associate Professor Carmelo Esterrich to publish Star Wars Multiverse in 2021"— Columbia College ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Seriously, Star Wars 1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars 2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life 3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism 4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Filmography Index
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Liverpool University Press 12 Monkeys
Book SynopsisTerry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) was a commercial and critical success, but it is Gilliam’s least understood film, even on the basic plot level. Aside from recognizable debts to specific films such as La Jetée (1962) and Dr. Strangelove (1964), 12 Monkeys plays with a number of genres: apocalypse and postapocalypse movies, sci-fi, nuclear noir, and what is becoming known as “geek dystopia.” This volume in the Constellations series examines Gilliam’s film—and briefly the TV series based on it—in the context of post-apocalypse movies and with an eye to the film’s major themes, including mental illness, conspiracy theories, the impossibility of human closeness, and the nature of reality. It is the first to read 12 Monkeys’s portrayal of time travel in light of Einstein’s ideas about time and to ask what answers these ideas suggest to the film’s most basic philosophical predicament: the problem of free will versus determinism.Trade Review'One of the most admirable aspects of this book is Kord’s clear, engaging writing. This book is not only insightful but also a pleasure simply to read for the vividness and elegance of its prose. Kord is adept at communicating complex scholarly ideas in understandable language... This book makes an important contribution to Gilliam scholarship and should be read by anyone interested in the study of his films, but it is also eminently readable by a general audience.'Dominick Grace, SFRA Review
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Liverpool University Press Stalker
Book SynopsisFew filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky’s cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker parallels its speculative elements with a harrowing narrative of human fragility and philosophy. It is as much a movie about the complexity of its characters as it is the mysteriousness of its labyrinthine landscape, the ambiguous Zone and its heart, the Room of Desire. It is at once a darkly nihilistic film, ominous and threatening, and yet also profoundly hopeful and at its core a story of true faith. This book attempts to unravel the film’s complexities, from its difficult production and through its many cinematic elements: its composition and cinematography, the many philosophies it engages with, its poetic and literary influences, along with the cultural and historical landscapes that cultivated it, and the enormity of its influence across the following generations. Stalker challenges us to engage with film in a different way: a poetic cinema that asks much more of you as a viewer than most. Most of all, to explore why this film—even forty years since its original release—still affects us as an audience as profoundly as ever.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Aesthetic and Political Practices of Trans
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Palgrave Macmillan The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema
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Palgrave Macmillan Essay Cinema in the Digital Era
Book SynopsisChapter 1.- Introduction.-Chapter 2.- Essay Cinema and Technological Innovation.-Chapter 3.- Interactivity and Dialogical Exchange in Chris Marker's Immemory and Ouvroir.-Chapter 4.-Jean-Luc Godard, Intertextuality, and Digital Remix Culture.-Chapter 5.-Capturing the Domestic Space in an Era of Ubiquitous Digital Media: Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie.-Chapter 6.-Simulation, Gameplay, and the Non-Indexical Image in Harun Farocki's Serious Games I-IV and Parallel I-IV.-Chapter 7.-Conclusion: Essaying the Future.-Index.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Mensch, Maschine, Maschinenmenschen:
Book SynopsisDieses Buch setzt sich mit der viel diskutierten HBO-Serie Westworld auseinander. Aus multidisziplinären Perspektiven fragen die Autor*innen danach, wie die Science-Fiction/Western-Serie als Erzählung funktioniert und dabei Aspekte des Posthumanismus, Fragen künstlicher Intelligenz und das Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine problematisiert.Table of ContentsEinführung: Westworld, Maschinen/menschen und das amerikanische ‚Qualitätsfernsehen‘.- Westworld und die Frage nach der Menschwerdung in Erinnerungsschleifen.- Dolores und Maeve: eine erste Annäherung an die Bildung von Maschinen zu besseren Übermenschen.- Westworld: die Musikalische DNA des Posthumanismus.- Westworld an der Schnittstelle von Narrativ und Spiel.- Wozu braucht Westworld den Weste(r)n?- Unterhaltung als Hedonismus und Eudaimonie – und Westworld als ihre Dekonstruktion.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Mysterium Twin Peaks: Zeichen – Welten –
Book SynopsisDer Sammelband bringt verschiedene Zugänge und Kontexte zu Twin Peaks zusammen und greift dabei auch die besonderen produktions- und rezeptionsästhetischen Spezifika der Serie auf. Das Spektrum der Beiträge umfasst ganz unterschiedliche Themenbereiche: Genremix, Transaktualität, komplexe narrative Strukturen, Traum und Traumhaftigkeit, Geschlechts- und Identitätskonzepte, extremer Fankult, visuelle Ästhetik, akustische Dimensionen, postmoderne Verweiskultur und nicht zuletzt die Frage danach, welche anderen Quality TV-Serien durch Twin Peaks erst möglich wurden.Table of ContentsEinleitung(en).- Zeichen.- Welten.- Referenzen.- Anhang.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Stranger Things. Mundos al revés / Stranger
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Ma Non Troppo Los Lugares del Terror: La Muerte Acecha En Cada
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Editorial Fundamentos Ideología en el cine estadounidense 19902003
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comedy Films 18941954
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. It traces the beginning of comic motion pictures and the pioneer work of Paul, Gaumont, Hepworth, Pathe and Zecca. Then comes the picture palace craze and the success of the early Italian and French comedies and trick films. The work of Al Christie and Mack Sennett in America, and the rise of American films, is fully described, as knockabout gives way to slapstick, and salaries and box-office receipts soar.Now come Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and all the other bright figures of the Roaring Twenties, with favourites like Buster Keaton and Will Rogers to the fore. The development of sound and its effect on the comedians is explained, and the story comes up to date through the thirties and forties to 1954.Some of the hundreds of names to whom tribute is paid include Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Roscoe Arbuckle, Monty Banks, MaxTrade ReviewReviews for the original 1954 edition:"Loaded with facts, names, titles, biographies and anecdotes, but trotting along easily enough to make reading comfortable, I can’t think of any other book devoted to the cheerful screen which bundles together not only the internationally famous English-speaking comics, but also the great army of good comedians, the multitude of players and the multitude of films too." Dilys Powell wrote in The Sunday Times"Highly informative and interesting and, for the middle-aged, almost unbearably nostalgic," said the New Statesman"A little monument to painstaking research made readable by unswerving love," wrote Paul Dehn"A valuable and fascinating book," said Maryvonne Butcher in The TabletTable of ContentsPreface by Norman Wisdom. Foreword. 1. The First Comedies 2. The Hepworth Story 3. The Fun Continues 4. Early Film Studios 5. The Rise of the American Film 6. The Keystone Touch 7. Chaplin – The Perfect Clown 8. Harold Lloyd 9. The Roaring Twenties 10. The End of Visual Comedy 11. All Talking! 12. The Thirties 13. The British Quota Boom 14. Crosby and Company 15. Walt Disney 16. The Eccentrics 17. The Forties 18. The Summing Up 19. Flashback. Acknowledgements. Index of Names.
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Book SynopsisAs both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema. Including contributions from both established and emerging film music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the function of music in epic narratives, the socio-political implications of cinematic music, and the use of pre-existing music in epic films. Intended for students and scholars in film music, film appreciation, and media studies, the wide range of topics and the diversity of the films that the authors discuss make Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle an ideal introduction to the field of music in epic film.Table of ContentsSeries ForewordPreface: Epic Genre, Epic Style Stephen C. MeyerAcknowledgmentsPart I: Marketing and Production1. Branding the Franchise: Music and the (Corporate) Myth of Origin James Buhler2. Manufacturing the Epic Score: Hans Zimmer and the Sounds of Significance Frank LehmanPart II: Narrative and Interpretation3. Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer’s and Lisa Gerrard’s Music to Gladiator Joakim Tillman4. The Politics of Authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's Score to El Cid Stephen C. MeyerPart III: Pre-Existing Music and the Epic Style5. From Authenticity to Anachronism: Pre-Existing Music and "Epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and Commander Alexandra Wilson6. Records, Repertoire and Rollerball: Music and the Auteur Epic Julie HubbertPart IV: Songs and Themes7. "The epic and intimately human": Contemplating Tara’s Theme in Gone With the Wind Nathan Platte8. "We’re the real countries": Songs as Private Musical Territories in the Epic Romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English Patient Todd DeckerPart V: Genre and the (Anti-)Epic9. Inverting the Epic: The Music of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven Kirsten Yri10. The Western as National Epic: Musical Persona and Narrative Distance in High Noon Jordan Carmalt Stokes
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Cambridge University Press Berlin in the Twentieth Century
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Beat Up Anybody
Book SynopsisTeaching the readers how to kick anyone's ass, this title includes sections on proper attire (acid-washed denim), nutrition, and how to relax after a successful fight.
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Random House USA Inc The Last Action Heroes
Book SynopsisThe behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more.“Entertaining . . . This is a book that makes you ache for the days when the movie screen belonged not to men who dress in superhero capes but to those who lift weights.”—Washington ExaminerA NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Last Action Heroes opens in May 1990 in Cannes, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone waltzing together, cheered on by a crowd of famous faces. After years of bitter combat—Stallone once threw a bowl of flowers at Schwarzenegger’s head, and the body count in Schwarzenegger’s Commando was increased so the film would “have a bigger dick than Rambo”—the world’s biggest action stars have at last made peace.In this wildly entertai
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DK Star Wars Year by Year New Edition
Book SynopsisDiscover everything you''ve ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition presents a unique Star Wars timeline-the full history of the amazing Star Wars phenomenon as you''ve never seen it before.This stunning visual journey features trivia and cultural cornerstones from director George Lucas'' early life through to the iconic movie stills, comic books, novels, toys, video games, and theme parks that have spawned from five decades of seminal film making. Fully updated and expanded, this edition encompasses all nine episodes of the original, prequel, and sequel trilogies, along with the standalone movies Rogue One and Solo, and the acclaimed television series, The Mandalorian. Produced in full collaboration with Lucasfilm and written by renowned Star Wars experts, Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History, New Edition is ideal for Star Wars fanatics and newbies alike.© & ™ 2021 Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster
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Signum Books (Imprint of Flashpoint Media Ltd) American Gothic Six Decades of Classic Horror
Book SynopsisIn the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror lm from its 19th century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a horror star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era, the breakthrough hits produced by Universal, Warner Bros and M-G-M in the early days of talkies, the thoughtful RKO chillers of the 1940s, and the post-war boom in lurid science- fiction shockers. Out of print for more than ten years, American Gothic has been extensively revised and expanded, and is now available in hardback for the first time.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen
Book SynopsisA comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Arthur J. Pomeroy PART I The Development of the Depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen 15 1 Greece and Rome on Screen: On the Possibilities and Promises of a New Medium 17Pantelis Michelakis 2 The Creation of the Epic: Italian Silent Film to 1915 37Irmbert Schenk 3 From 1916 to the Arrival of Sound: The Systematization, Expressivity and Self–reflection of the Feature Film 61Maria Wyke 4 The Resurgence of Epics in the 1950s: Classical Antiquity in Post–war Hollywood 91Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos 5 Hollywood Ascendant: Ben–Hur and Spartacus 119Fiona Radford 6 The Peplum Era 145Arthur J. Pomeroy PART II Comedy, Drama, and Adaptation 161 7 Hollywood Meets Art-House Cinema: Michael Cacoyannis’s “Hybrid” Euripidean Trilogy 163Anastasia Bakogianni 8 Greek Tragedy as Theater in Screen-Media 187Meredith E. Safran 9 Greece and Rome on the Comic Screen 209Lisa Maurice 10 The Return of a Genre 233Jerry Benjamin Pierce 11 Franco Rossi’s Adaptations of the Classics 253Arthur J. Pomeroy 12 I, Claudius and Ancient Rome as Televised Period Drama 271Juliette Harrisson 13 Premium Cable Television 293Monica S. Cyrino 14 Thinking through the Ancient World: “Late Antique Movies” as a Mirror of Shifting Attitudes towardsChristian Religion 307Filippo Carlà–Uhink 15 Non-western Approaches to the Ancient World: India and Japan—Classical Heritage or Exotic Occidentalism? 329Anja Wieber PART III Film Production and Ancient World Cinema 349 16 Man to Man: Music and Masculine Relations in Ben–Hur (1925 and 1959) 351Stephan Prock 17 Visual Poetry on Screen: Sets and Costumes for Ancient Greek Tragedy 385Alejandro Valverde García 18 Filming the Ancient World: Have Film Historians Made a Spectacular Omission of Epic Proportions? 403Harriet Margolis PART IV The Ancient World as an Idea 427 19 High Art and Low Art Expectations: Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture 429Alastair J. L. Blanshard 20 “Soft” Science Fiction and Technical Fantasy: The Ancient World in Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who 449Otta Wenskus 21 The Ancient World is Part of Us: Classical Tragedy in Modern Film and Television 467Anastasia Bakogianni 22 Ancient World Documentaries 491Fiona Hobden 23 Mythology for the Young at Heart 515Martin Lindner Index 535
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Religious Film
Book SynopsisLush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words, And it was written... or In the year... On the screen, clouds mysteriously separate, and a semi-transparent figure appears in the sky... This is the religious film.Trade Review"The book is well referenced and illustrated...the bibliography and overviews would be useful to anyone interested in this field of study. Pamela Grace is to be congratulated on this useful addition." (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, June 2010) Table of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Religious Film and the Hagiopic. 2. Historical Overview. 3. Critical Overview. 4. King of Kings (1961): Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle. 5. The Song of Bernadette (1943): The Religious Comfort Film. 6. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000): The Religious Musical. 7. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) and Jesus of Montreal (1989): The Alternative Hagiopic. 8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999): Transcendence and Exploitation. 9. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Passion of the Christ (2004): The Sacrificial Hagiopic. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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