Deze serie duikt in de ingewikkelde relatie tussen cinema en geschiedenis, en onderzoekt hoe filmmaken ons begrip van het verleden vormt en hoe historische gebeurtenissen op het scherm worden weergegeven. Elk deel biedt diepgaande analyses van specifieke thema's, genres of filmmakers, en levert nieuwe perspectieven op deze dynamische wisselwerking. Het is essentiële lectuur voor filmwetenschappers, historici en iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in de culturele betekenis van visuele media. De collectie belicht de kracht van film bij het interpreteren, bewaren en soms uitdagen van historische verhalen.
The only person to receive four Academy Awards for best director, John Ford is considered by some to be America's greatest homegrown filmmaker. This book looks at the two genres of films for which Ford was most well-known--Westerns such as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--and military films including They Were Expendable and the Oscar-winning documentary The Battle of Midway.
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that examine the disparate portrayals of beauty and brains in film and television. This text will be of interest to scholars of film and television, communications, and women's studies, to name a few.
This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particular attention to shifts in narrative that reflect changes in American culture, attitudes, and ideas. It explains how the absence of the Cold War has... číst celé