Beyond the Stars: Plot conventions in American popular film

Beyond the Stars: Plot conventions in American popular film
Author: Paul Loukides
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1991
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879725174

The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Beyond the Stars: Themes and ideologies in American popular film

Beyond the Stars: Themes and ideologies in American popular film
Author: Paul Loukides
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1990
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879727017

The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Beyond the Stars: Locales in American popular film

Beyond the Stars: Locales in American popular film
Author: Paul Loukides
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879725891

One of five volumes devoted to exploring some of the peripheral aspects of American films. Essays describe the depiction of such geographical and conceptual places as Arizona and the Arabic world, such public and ritual spaces as churches and western saloons, and such private arenas and commonplace spaces as the men's room and poolsides. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film

Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film
Author: Paul Loukides
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1990
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879724795

The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Projecting Ethnicity and Race

Projecting Ethnicity and Race
Author: Marsha J. Hamilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003-03-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0313052697

This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present. Coverage includes books, reference works, book chapters within larger works, and individual essays from collections and anthologies. Concise annotations provide content summaries; unique features; major films and filmmakers discussed; and useful information on related titles, purpose, and intended readership. The studies included range from specialized scholarly treatises to popular illustrated books for general readers, making ^IProjecting Ethnicity and Race^R an invaluable resource for researchers interested in ethnic and racial film imagery. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, while four separate indexes make the work simple to navigate by author, subject, gender, race, ethnic group, nationality, country, religion, film title, filmmaker, performer, or theme. Although the majority of studies published examine images of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians in film, the volume contains studies of groups including Africans, Arabs, the British, Canadians, South Sea Islanders, Tibetans, Buddhists, and Muslims—making it a unique reference book with a wide range of uses for a wide range of scholars.

Media Resistance

Media Resistance
Author: Trine Syvertsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 331946499X

This book is open access under a CC BY license. New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers two questions: What is at stake for resisters and how does media resistance inspire organized action? Despite the interest in media scepticism and dislike, there seems to be no book on the market discussing media resistance as a phenomenon in its own right. This book explores resistance across media, historical periods and national borders, from early mass media to current digital media. Drawing on cases and examples from the US, Britain, Scandinavia and other countries, media resistance is discussed as a diverse phenomenon encompassing political, professional, networked and individual arguments and actions.

African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS

African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS
Author: L. Fuller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230616208

This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the population that is most vulnerable to the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS: African women.

Generation Multiplex

Generation Multiplex
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780292774902

When teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality—to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.

The Girls in the Back Room

The Girls in the Back Room
Author: Kelly Hankin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780816639281

The first comprehensive study of lesbian bars sheds light on this often overlooked aspect of gay subculture, focusing on the erotic, romantic, and social interactions that happen in such places. Simultaneous. (Social Science)

Diamonds in the Dark

Diamonds in the Dark
Author: Howard Good
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780810830479

Book on baseball films in American cinema