Bücher der Reihe Framing Film

Contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. This title elaborates on the cultural baggage that the screenplay carries since it is text imbued with multiple signs that - for various reasons - often get lost in the process and never make it to the screen.

Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema.

Offers a fresh approach to the study of transnational cinema by examining the representation of Chinese identity in Ang Lee's films and the public discourse from various audience communities. This book focuses on his transnational films "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) and "Lust, Caution" (2007) as two case studies.

Suffrage and the Silver Screen is an essential resource for those studying early cinema, women and cinema, the woman suffrage movement, and the use of visual media in social movements.

Intends to examine the role of other states in fomenting war during the 1940s-1970s and in keeping the subsequent peace. The author provokes the reader to look beyond the standard national parameters of Japanese culture.

The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. As the research of this book clearly shows, film depictions of Hispanics have created negative visual taxonomies based on gender, race, and class.

Focuses on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book provides the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film.

Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television employs aesthetic, feminist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiological, and sociological criticism to explore five decades of film and television texts that have captivated audiences. The study is divided into four sections, each comprised of several essays that explore the effects of narrative and visual texts.