This book is a day-by-day chronicle of 1939 Hollywood's greatest year. Each entry will focus on major news events-national and international-as well as minor curiosities or news items that would prove to be more important in the future. This will be followed by a full description and commentary on the Hollywood movies that were released each day.
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status.
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick provides an in-depth analysis of the director's work and offers an enriching view of the historical, philosophical, theoretical, artistic, and cinematic dimensions of his films. The eighteen chapters in this book provide innovative readings of Kubrick's oeuvre that will surely spark new discussions.
Offers a comprehensive history of cinematic pornography that details sex in film from 100 years ago to today. This title discusses the many controversial aspects to the porn film business, including Mafia influences, the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the industry, and the myths and realities behind child pornography.
This book focuses on revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It covers the most-up-to-date films, with a focus on thematic continuity within and between individual films.
Abortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action examines representations of abortion in popular culture, including literature, television and film, and social media. This essay collection emphasizes the importance of diverse, positive, and nuanced portrayals of abortion in challenging misconceptions about who seeks abortions and why.
The Beatles produced five films during their time together: A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be. Some were cinematic successes, and some were not, but—along with subsequent reissues, bonus material, and Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, a documentary companion to Let It Be—they comprise an ......
In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, work of the Beat Poets conjures images of unconventionality, defiance, and a changing consciousness that permeated the 1950s and 60s. In recent years, the key texts of Beat authors such as Allen ......
With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging.
