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The rapid growth of new media technologies is radically changing film production and consumption. New technologies such as DVDs, MP3s and the Internet have freed the audience from traditional ways of relating to what used to be termed "mass media". In the face of such seismic shifts, the theoretical and pedagogical structures of film and television studies are being shaken to their core. New Media responds to these revolutionary developments, bringing together authors including Constance Penley and Henry Jenkins to address topics such as computer games, digital animation techniques, media convergence, and internet audiences.
The rapid growth of new media technologies is radically changing film production and consumption. New technologies such as DVDs, MP3s and the Internet have freed the audience from traditional ways of relating to what used to be termed "mass media". In the face of such seismic shifts, the theoretical and pedagogical structures of film and television studies are being shaken to their core. New Media responds to these revolutionary developments, bringing together authors including Constance Penley and Henry Jenkins to address topics such as computer games, digital animation techniques, media convergence, and internet audiences.
Ovid's Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar
as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monuments of the
Augustan-era city, witnesses both urban and rustic seasonal
festivals, and commemorates the epic events of long-past history.
The reader also experiences the passage of the year, as measured by
the natural world: the rising and setting of constellations, the
migration of birds, and the comforting rhythms of agriculture.
Throughout, Ovid enlivens the narrative with myths, including
Romulus and Remus, Callisto and Jupiter, Lucretia and Tarquinius,
Hercules and Cacus, and many more. In doing so, he evokes the
questions of what constitutes justice, or glory, or patriotism. The
result is a lively tour of the Roman year-sometimes thoughtful,
sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant or even farcical-that
interweaves human customs into the natural world, and gives
occasional glimpses of awe-inspiring divinities on the streets of
Rome. This volume covers the first half of the Fasti (Books I-III),
including the original Latin text and also a new translation in
clear, idiomatic prose on facing pages. An introduction on Ovid's
life and Augustan literature, as well as an incisive commentary
with up-to-date bibliography, give the reader extensive background
to interpret the text.
Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity
and representation in video games, including journalists and
bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the
discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers,
and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these
critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has
lagged far behind. Gaming Representation examines portrayals of
race, gender, and sexuality in a range of games, from casuals like
Diner Dash, to indies like Journey and The Binding of Isaac, to
mainstream games from the Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, Spec Ops, The
Last of Us, and Max Payne franchises. Arguing that representation
and identity function as systems in games that share a stronger
connection to code and platforms than it may first appear, the
contributors to this volume push gaming scholarship to new levels
of inquiry, theorizing, and imagination.
Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity
and representation in video games, including journalists and
bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the
discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers,
and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these
critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has
lagged far behind. Gaming Representation examines portrayals of
race, gender, and sexuality in a range of games, from casuals like
Diner Dash, to indies like Journey and The Binding of Isaac, to
mainstream games from the Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, Spec Ops, The
Last of Us, and Max Payne franchises. Arguing that representation
and identity function as systems in games that share a stronger
connection to code and platforms than it may first appear, the
contributors to this volume push gaming scholarship to new levels
of inquiry, theorizing, and imagination.
In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as
many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were
changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood
icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the
nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas
about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and
nationality. Banderas became bona fide movie stars who carried
major films to amazing box-office success. Five of the decade's top
ten films were opened by three women-Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster,
and Whoopi Goldberg. "Chick flick" entered the lexicon as Leonardo
DiCaprio became the "King of the World," ushering in the cult of
the mega celebrity. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise defined screen
masculinity as stark contrasts between "the regular guy" and "the
intense guy" while the roles of Michael Douglas exemplified the
endangered "Average White Male." A fascinating composite portrait
of 1990s Hollywood and its stars, this collection marks the changes
to stardom and society at century's end.
In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by
recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of
black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much
of the existing scholarship on blacks and the cinema focuses on
image studies and stereotypical representations, this work
excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black
cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film
fans. Culling black newspapers, magazines, scholarly and political
journals, and monographs, Everett has produced an unparalleled
investigation of black critical writing on the early cinema during
the era of racial segregation in America. Correcting the notion
that black critical interest in the cinema began and ended with the
well-documented press campaign against D. W. Griffith’s Birth of
a Nation, she discovers that as early as 1909 black newspapers
produced celebratory discourses about the cinema as a much-needed
corrective to the predominance of theatrical blackface minstrelsy.
She shows how, even before the Birth of a Nation controversy, the
black press succeeded in drawing attention to both the callous
commercial exploitation of lynching footage and the varied work of
black film entrepreneurs. The book also reveals a feast of film
commentaries that were produced during the “roaring twenties”
and the jazz age by such writers as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes,
and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as additional pieces that were
written throughout the Depression and the pre– and post–war
periods. Situating this wide-ranging and ideologically complex
material in its myriad social, political, economic, and cultural
contexts, Everett aims to resuscitate a historical tradition for
contemporary black film literature and criticism. Returning the
Gaze will appeal to scholars and students of film, black and ethnic
studies, American studies, cultural studies, literature, and
journalism.
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the
traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center
and, at the other, by the election of the first African American
president of the United States. In between, the United States and
the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the
Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, political
uprisings around the world, and a massive meltdown of world
economies. Amid these crises and revolutions, American films
responded in multiple ways, sometimes directly reflecting these
turbulent times, and sometimes indirectly couching history in
traditional genres and stories. In American Cinema of the 2000s,
essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as
the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of
former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like
Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which
American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle
and challenging ways.
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