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Australian Western in the Fifties: Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on
Tour, and Whiplash looks at Australian Westerns from three points
of view-film, personal appearance, and television at the beginning,
middle, and end of the 1950s, the American Western's golden age. It
looks at three significant but "forgotten" cases: (1) Kangaroo: The
Australian Story, the first Technicolor film made in Australia,
produced by the Hollywood movie studio 20th Century Fox, directed
by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lewis Milestone, starring
Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, and Richard Boone. (2) The
successful goodwill tour of Australia by the Hollywood actor
William Boyd who played the film, radio, and television cowboy
Hopalong Cassidy. (3) The British-American produced black-and-white
TV series Whiplash, made in Australia and starring the Hollywood
actor Peter Graves. The American filmmakers' ignorance of Australia
meant they learned the hard way there was more to Australian
Westerns than simply replacing the prairie with the bush, bison
with kangaroos, and Native Americans with Aboriginals. Indeed, the
depiction of place and the presentation of Aboriginal culture are
two of the most intriguing aspects of Australian Westerns. In
retelling the filmmakers' stories, a unique picture of the
Australian film and television industry and everyday life during
the 1950s is revealed.
Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship
diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male
film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to
offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media,
including film, television, video games and music videos. Each
chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Statham's career, from
his distinctive screen presence to his style, branding and
celebrity. Accessibly written, and featuring a contribution from
Hollywood director Paul Feig, who worked with Statham on the 2015
action-comedy Spy, the collection will appeal to a wide audience of
scholars, students and fans. -- .
This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used
the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of
communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and
words in this discipline operate on different logical levels; that
they are hierarchically related; that whereas writings may
encompass the images produced by film, the inverse of this cannot
be true. The author argues for this position further by suggesting
that the visual is to the written mode as "thin description"
(giving a record of the form of behaviour) is to "thick
description" (giving an account of meaning). -- .
This updated third edition of Studio Television Production and
Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio
and control room production. Accessible and focused, readers of
this updated third edition will gain fluency in essential studio
terms and technology and acquire the necessary skills to make it in
the industry. This book is your back-to-the-basics guide to common
technology-including principles of directing, assistant directing,
technical directing, audio ops, the basics of studio lighting, an
introduction to set design, camera ops, floor directing, story
types (VO, VO/SOT, PKG), basic engineering, and more. Whether an
established professional or a student, this book provides readers
with the technical expertise to successfully coordinate live or
taped studio television today. In this new edition, author Andrew
Hicks Utterback offers an expanded glossary and new material on
visualization walls, alternative camera mounts, basic engineering,
and news narrative diagramming.
With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and
psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found
little favour with the critics, but provided thrills and
entertainment for millions of people during a time of austerity and
danger. "Realism and Tinsel" looks beyond the established histories
of Ealing Comedies and realist classics to excavate a rich but
neglected tradition of melodrama, gangster films, morbid thrillers
and costume pictures. Discussing cinema in the context of the major
social, economic, and political changes that were taking place,
Robert Murphy examines the period's most popular films, including
"Madonna of the Seven Moons", "The Way Ahead" and "The Wicked
Lady". The picture that emerges challenges the reassuring, cosy
view of Britain presented in realist cinema, and throws new light
on the British film industry of the time and on our idea of the war
era itself. This book should be of interest to undergraduates,
postgraduates and academics of film, media and cultural studies.
The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues
concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film
and media. In addition to providing analyses of representations of
violence, they also critically discuss the phenomenology of the
spectator, images of atrocity in international cinema, affect and
documentary, violent video games, digital infrastructures, cruelty
in art cinema, and media and state violence, among many other
relevant topics. The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and
Media updates existing studies dealing with media and violence
while vastly expanding the scope of the field. Representations of
violence in film and media are ubiquitous but remain relatively
understudied. Too often they are relegated to questions of
morality, taste, or aesthetics while judgments about violence can
themselves be subjected to moral judgment. Some may question
whether objectionable images are worthy of serious scholarly
attention at all. While investigating key examples, the chapters in
this handbook consider both popular and academic discourses to
understand how representations of violence are interpreted and
discussed. They propose new approaches and raise novel questions
for how we might critically think about this urgent issue within
contemporary culture.
The book examines how medical knowledge is produced around bodies
that do not fit in the heteronormative framework of the state's
rationale and processes. The marginal bodies studied in this
research are termed MSM, men who have sex with men, categorized as
a high-risk group in the backdrop of HIV/AIDS. These Queer bodies
entered the registers of epidemiology and governmentality. This
classification is the point of departure for the book. The book
interrogates and asks how does a sexual subject become a political
question? To answer this political trajectory, the book analyses
the category of risk in biomedicine. It investigates how the
category of risk becomes critical to the Indian state's rationale
and policies wherein, through the ambit of health and population,
sexuality is managed. Unearthing the sexual politics in South Asia,
the book, based on rich empirical evidence derived from the lived
experiences of MSM, narrates the construction of sexual
subjectivity and masculinity. The process of construction occurs in
negotiation with the Indian state, bringing forth the dimension of
the Indian state as a medico-legal governmentality regime and how
MSM takes on the identity of a medicalized subject.
Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded
Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and
renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics,
both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider
understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary,
and national identity. This book explores these political
dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three
complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film
from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors
currently engaged in this filone; and case studies of the films
that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two
Italian film scholars working in radically different academic
settings, Italian Political Cinema brings together a wide array of
critical positions and research from Italy, France, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The
tripartite structure and international perspective create a volume
that is an accessible entry-point into a subject that continues to
attract critical and cultural attention, both inside and outside of
academia.
For more than a century, reports of a strange beast known as the
Fouke Monster have circulated among the locals in southern
Arkansas. Described as a large, hairy man-like creature, it's said
to haunt the vast Sulphur River Bottoms as it travels the secluded
waterway known as Boggy Creek. Over the years, the creature has
been seen by numerous witnesses including respected citizens,
experienced hunters, famous musicians, and even a police officer.
The encounters were often so shocking, they served as inspiration
for the classic horror film, "The Legend of Boggy Creek," by
Charles B. Pierce.
Tales of the creature have long existed in scattered pieces
across news clippings, memoirs, police reports, and movies, but it
is only now that the complete history of the Fouke Monster has been
assembled in one place. This book collects all the facts, theories,
and amazing sighting reports, and weaves them into a fascinating
tale about this undeniable southern mystery, one that lives on, as
frightening encounters with the Beast of Boggy Creek are still
being reported today
Growing up in Texas, Lyle Blackburn became fascinated with the
legends, lore, and sighting reports of alleged real-life monsters.
He is a frequent contributor and cryptozoology advisor to Rue
Morgue magazine, one of the leading horror media publications in
print today. He is also the founder and frontman for the rock band
Ghoultown. Over the last decade, Ghoultown has released six albums,
toured extensively in both the U.S. and Europe, and has appeared on
several horror movie soundtracks. Lyle currently lives near Dallas,
Texas, where he enjoys a day off now and then.
Hollywood has exerted a profound influence on British style and
design. From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of
make-up, hairstyles, and fashion was mimicked by women throughout
Britain. But the influence of Hollywood was more than skin-deep.
Nearly every form of British material culture in the twentieth
century has been influenced to some extent by American style,
disseminated through the medium of film to a broad and receptive
market.With the erection of the Chrysler Building in New York in
the late 20s, representing the city and modern American urban life,
the Manhattan skyline became an enduring icon in popular culture on
both sides of the Atlantic. Not only Hollywood film, but jazz and
American companies all combined to bring the new Moderne style to
bear on Britain. The architecture of shops, cinemas, and factories
all reflect this influence, as did various forms of transportation
and the interiors of homes. Even as late as the consumer boom in
the 80s, revivals celebrating the Moderne style were popular in
Britain as well as abroad. This influence was naturally not without
its critics. The very popularity of American design challenged the
aesthetics and elitism of British high arts and remains
controversial. Anyone interested in design, material culture, film
or architecture will find this book to be a lucid and absorbing
exploration of a popular aesthetic.
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic
methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility
of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes
provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using
the script as a blueprint, the reader is led through specific
techniques to analyze and translate its components into a visual
story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the
techniques discussed. Written for both students and entry-level
professionals, the book assumes no knowledge and introduces basic
concepts and terminology. Appropriate for screenwriters, aspiring
directors and filmmakers, Film Directing Fundamentals helps
filmmakers bring their story to life on screen. This fourth edition
is updated with a new foreword by Student Academy Award-winner
Jimmy Keyrouz, who studied with author Nicholas Proferes, as well
as an enhanced companion website by Laura J. Medina, available at
www.routledge.com/cw/proferes, which features new supplemental
material for both instructors and students, including two new
analyses of contemporary films-Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Moonlight
(2016)-study questions, suggested assignments and exercises, as
well as the instructor's manual written by Proferes in 2008.
Rediscover Todd Phillips' Joker with this deluxe edition of the
screenplay. Experience an original vision of the infamous DC
villain in this origin story infused with, but distinctly outside,
the character's more traditional mythologies. The acclaimed and
evocative cinematic depiction of Arthur Fleck's descent into
madness is a soulful, allegorical character study that continues to
captivate Batman fans and movie lovers alike. Now you can revisit
and explore the narrative at your own pace with this unique and
exclusive edition of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay.
Complete with film stills, this book definitively chronicles the
vision of screenwriters Todd Phillips and Scott Silver as they
reimagined this notorious DC Super-Villain.
This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also
green) through which to explore the different connections between
Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to
reflect on the different forms through which the historical,
cultural, and social contexts of Southern Italian regions have been
variously identified and represented. In order to explore these
connections, the volume embraces a wide range of perspectives that
may all be grouped under the key term film ecocriticism, offering
the reader a thorough analysis not only of the different ways of
representing reality but also of the processes of signification
through which reality itself can be understood, rethought, and
transformed. This is the general framework within which the authors
consider film as a proper, effective medium for ecocritical and
ecophilosophical reflections concerning not only Basilicata (to
which the greater part of the volume is dedicated) but also
Southern Italy and, therefore, its history and its territories,
communities, and identities. Furthermore, in an even more general
sense, Basilicata and Southern Italy reconnects with the very idea
of the South, and of all Souths, to which this volume is dedicated.
Celebrate the season with this officially licensed gift set, which includes a photo scrapbook, interactive journal, Ron Weasley's wand pen, gift cards, and more. A perfect gift for fans of the Wizarding World!
Photo scrapbook: Includes album modeled after the one Hagrid gives to Harry Potter, highlighting Christmas scenes and inviting the reader to add their own photo memories; Book is 8-3/8 x 5-3/4 inches and includes 32 scrapbook-style heavy stock pages
Festive frame:2 x 3-inch ceramic picture frame
Weasley-inspired journal: Record your year-end reflections in a journal measuring 4-1/4 x 7 inches, complete with quotes, writing prompts, and full-color images throughout; inspired by the Weasley Christmas sweaters, the exterior is flocked and fuzzy; write in it with the included pen replica of Ron's wand
Gift cards: Includes a set of 5 full-color printed cards with blank interior that can be given alongside gifts or sent as thank-you notes; cards are approximately 5-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches when folded; envelopes included
Keepsake box: Items packaged in a sturdy, festively designed full-color printed box measuring 10 inches long x 9 inches wide, and 3 inches high
This one-of-a kind, ultra-deluxe, Wizarding World kit is a perfect gift or self-purchase for the Harry Potter fan or collector.
Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and
Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively
modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the
songs and stories of the American musical. Freely crossing
stylistic and class boundaries, their dances were rooted in the
diverse dance and music cultures of European immigrants and
African-American migrants who mingled in jazz age America. The new
technology of sound cinema let them choreograph and fuse camera
movement, light, and color with dance and music. Preserved intact
for the largest audiences in dance history, their works continue to
influence dance and film around the world. This book centers them
and their colleagues within the history of dance (where their work
has been marginalized) as well as film tracing their development
from Broadway to Hollywood (1924-58) and contextualizing them
within the American history and culture of their era. This modern
style, like the nation in which it developed, was pluralist and
populist. It drew from aspects of the old world and new, "high" and
"low", theatrical and social dance forms, creating new sites for
dance from the living room to the street. A definitive ingredient
was the freer more informal movement and behavior of their jazz-age
generation, which fit with song lyrics that poeticized slangy
American English. The Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and others wrote
not only songs but extended dance-driven scores tailored to their
choreography, giving a new prominence to the choreographer and
dancer-actor. This book discuss how these choreographers
collaborated with directors like Vincente Minnelli and Stanley
Donen and cinematographers like Gregg Toland, musicians, dancers,
designers and technicians to synergize music and moving image in
new ways. Eventually, concepts and visual-musical devices derived
from dance-making would give entire films the rhythmic flow and
feeling of dance. Dancing Americans came to be seen around the
world as archetypal embodiments of the free-spirited optimism and
energy of America itself.
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel & WJEC Level: AS/A-level Subject:
Modern Languages First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: June
2018 Film analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in
their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to
critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding
the themes and director's technique, as well as specialist
terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and theme in
Volver, this accessible guide will enable your students to
understand the historical and social context of the film and give
them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful
essay. - Strengthen language skills with relevant grammar, vocab
and writing exercises throughout - Aim for top marks by building a
bank of textual examples and quotes to enhance exam response -
Build confidence with knowledge-check questions at the end of every
chapter - Revise effectively with pages of essential vocabulary and
key mind maps throughout - Feel prepared for exams with advice on
how to write an essay, plus sample essay questions, two levels of
model answers and examiner commentary
Based on the blockbuster film series, this official in-world
cookbook takes you straight to Isla Nublar and serves up some
mighty meals inspired by the T. rex, velociraptors, and other
unforgettable dinosaurs of the Jurassic World film series. Lunch
finds a way with this deluxe cookbook inspired by the epic films of
Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. Designed to look like an in-world
souvenir sold at the park, this colorful cookbook features
approachable at-home recipes for treats and dishes inspired by the
different regions of the iconic park-and the miraculous dinosaurs
that live there. Cook up some Tricera-tots from the Triceratops
Territory. Nosh on some Grilled Shark Skewers inspired by the
Mosasaurus Show. And for those whose appetites run to the truly
gargantuan, try the T. Rex T-Bone-the king of all steaks! Filled
with real-world dinosaur facts and data and bursting with gorgeous
photography, Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook is the perfect
cookbook for fans of the Jurassic World films and dinosaur lovers
everywhere.
Examining a range of popular fantasy films released in the past
decade, including the Harry Potter films, Jackson's Lord of the
Rings series, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies through to
The Dark Knight and Avatar, this book explores the reasons for
these films' incredible success. Pheasant-Kelly explores the
meaningfulness of such films to current audiences while considering
how technology, spectacle, and an increasing affinity for magic and
mysticism have been important in promoting the turn to fantasy. The
imagery and themes reflecting 9/11, new millennial anxieties, the
war on terror, and environmental disasters have furthered fantasy's
rise to dominance. Fantasies offer ways to subconsciously re-enact
or work through traumatic memories of these issues for viewers
reluctant to witness real images of death and destruction.
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