Esta serie profundiza en la intrincada relación entre el cine y la historia, explorando cómo la cinematografía moldea nuestra comprensión del pasado y cómo los eventos históricos son representados en la pantalla. Cada volumen ofrece análisis detallados de temas, géneros o cineastas específicos, brindando nuevas perspectivas sobre esta dinámica interacción. Es una lectura esencial para académicos del cine, historiadores y cualquier persona interesada en la importancia cultural de los medios visuales. La colección ilumina el poder del cine en la interpretación, preservación y, a veces, desafío de las narrativas históricas.
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