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Highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. This title not only includes geographic case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins, like New Zealand and Scotland, but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures.

I Love Lucy is one of the best loved sitcoms in the history of American television. ""I Love Lucy"" aired for six seasons between 1951 and 1957 as a top-rated weekly sitcom, and its characters appeared in thirteen hour-long specials between 1958 and 1960. This title presents an analysis of ""I Love Lucy"".

This volume (first of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement, its national and continental implications (diasporic/exilic experience), and the writings of pioneer film-makers.

A collection that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) marchen (Italian folktales) to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions.

Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as a topic of serious research. Script Culture and the American Screenplay treats the screenplay as a literary work in its own right, presenting analyses of screenplays from a variety of frameworks, including feminism, Marxism, structuralism, philosophy, and psychology. In distancing the text of screenplays from the on-screen performance typically associated with them, Kevin Alexander Boon expands the scope of film studies into exciting new territory with this volume. Script Culture and the American Screenplay is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides a general background for screenplay studies, tracing the evolution of the screenplay from the early shot lists and continuities of George Mlis and Thomas Harper Ince to the more detailed narratives of contemporary works. Part 2 offers specific, primarily thematic, critical examinations of screenplays, along with discussions of the original screenplay and the screenplay adaptation. In all, Boon explains that screenplay criticism distinguishes itself from traditional film studies in three major ways. The primary focus of screenplay criticism is on the screenplay rather than the film, the focus of screenplay studies is on the screenwriter rather than the director, and screenplay criticism, like literary criticism, is written to illuminate a reader's understanding of the text. Boon demonstrates that whether we are concerned with aesthetics and identifying rules for distinguishing the literary from the non-literary, or whether we align ourselves with more contemporary theories, which recognize texts as distinguishable in their inter-relationships and marked difference, screenplays constitute a rich cache of works worthy of critical examination. Film scholars as well as students of film, creative writing, and literary studies will appreciate this singular volume.

Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry.

The 1915 massacre of the Armenians by the reactionary Ottoman Government foreshadowed a trend of genocide that would characterize much of the 20th century. This compilation of articles, published in US periodicals between 1895 and 1899, offers a window onto the world politics of the time.

Investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body - and especially male genitals - out of sight. This book examines representations of the male body and male sexuality in a variety of settings and through many different lenses. It is useful for scholars of film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies and general readers.

This book aims to give the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema their due. The collection of eighteen essays examines a many films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns.

How do we remember persons, objects, and events? This volume explores the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts. The authors show how memory is shaped, and how it operates in uniting society and creating images, pointing to the relationship between memory and culture.

Bringing together scholarly insights and research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to the norms of joke-telling in conversation in Japan and America.

Angela Carter is known for her literary fairy tales. This is a collection of essays, fiction, personal reminiscence, and interviews from an international group of scholars, artists and novelists, investigating Carter's approaches to the fairy-tale genre.

This is a study of the television programme ""The Simpsons"" which focuses on the show's dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass media hit. It addresses the show's success as a corporate-manufactured show that paraodies the very consumer capitalism it simultaneously promotes.

Presenting one of the most momentous conflicts in the history of Western civilization, this book should allow students to assess the controversial issues on both sides of this historical and political event. The authors provide critical commentary, and place the writings in a historical context.

This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include: portrayals of women in the Hebrew bible; the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity; and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.

In this volume, Julie Klein provides the first comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, supplementing her discussion with the most complete bibliography yet compiled on the subject.

Highlighting the interaction between myth and artist, word and image, Jacob Nyenhuis presents here a catalogue of the works of British artist Michael Ayrton, one that aims to enlighten Ayrton's British folowing while introducing him to an American audience.

Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans - almost 25 percent of the black population in Harlem in 1920 - and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem Renaissance.

This volume (second of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement as a comparative national project. Essays are grouped by nation into two regions.

Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on auteurs and has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the increasingly global climate of the five Nordic countries. These essays foclus on the globalization of Nordic film, particularly its trend toward transnational production procedures, themes, and actors.