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Author | : Mikita Brottman |
Publisher | : Creation Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
A unique addition to the scant literature which,examines those films that have in one way or,another been associated with death. Starting with,the earliest Hollywood suicides and jinxed moviesto the death cult of James Dean, to links with,Charles Manson, Satanic churches, snuff culture,and mass murders, plus the mysterious death of,Bruce Lee, and the equally strange demise of his,son Brandon, HOLLYWOOD HEX discloses the dark,enigmatic connections between cinematic narratives,and human catastrophe, forming a psuchogeographic,study of this fascinating Dream factory.
Author | : Ian London |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2024-03-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501337769 |
Hollywood Online provides a historical account of motion picture websites from 1993 to 2008 and their marketing function as industrial advertisements for video and other media in the digital age. The Blair Witch Project is the most important example of online film promotion in cinema history. Over the last thirty years only a small number of major and independent distributors have converted internet-created buzz into box-office revenues with similar levels of success. Yet readings of how the film's internet campaign broke new ground in the summer of 1999 tend to minimize, overlook or ignore the significance of other online film promotions. Similarly, claims that Blair initiated a cycle of imitators have been repeated in film publications and academic studies for more than two decades. This book challenges three major narratives in studies about online film marketing: Hollywood's major studios and independents had no significant relationship to the internet in the 1990s; online film promotions only took off after 1999 because of Blair; and Hollywood cashed-in by initiating a cycle of imitators and scaling up corporate activities online. Hollywood Online tests these assumptions by exploring internet marketing up to and including the film's success online (Pre-Blair, 1993-9), then by examining the period immediately after Blair (Post-Blair, 2000-8) which broadly coincides with the rise and decline of DVD, as well as the emergence of the social media sites MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
Author | : Stephen Prince |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2004-02-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 081354257X |
In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological characteristics of contemporary horror films. In contrast to horror during the classical Hollywood period, contemporary horror features more graphic and prolonged visualizations of disturbing and horrific imagery, as well as other distinguishing characteristics. Princes introduction provides an overview of the genre, contextualizing the readings that follow. Stephen Prince is professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many film books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited Screening Violence, also in the Depth of Field Series.
Author | : Barbara Smith |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1926936655 |
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a “humorous or malicious deception,” and hex as “a magic spell.” In Hoaxes and Hexes, Barbara Smith explores these intriguing reflections of human nature, showing our curious desire to believe in the impossible and explain the inexplicable. Here are tales of swindlers, charlatans and imposters, among them the flamboyant 19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon-Gordon; David Walsh, author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a homemade submarine. The persistent power of hexes is recorded in stories of cursed places— including a strange haunting in the Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse—and weird coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning actresses. Whether you believe in the power of hoaxes or hexes or not, these bizarre stories show them to be a fascinating part of our history.
Author | : Neil Jackson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1628921145 |
"Brings together scholars from film and media studies for the definitive academic study of 'real death' on screen - from horror cinema, to pornography, to online 'shock videos'"--
Author | : M. Paryz |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-06-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137531282 |
This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, to works such as experimental films and television commercials, the contributors seek to account for the appeal and currency of the film Western today.
Author | : Michele Aaron |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-02-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0748677763 |
Exploring gender, race, nation and narration, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives and specific socio-cultural identities in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated to the popular, to the pol
Author | : Linda Hoy |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-09-28 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1846949076 |
Parallel worlds… time-travel… life-after-death. The Effect cuts through the whole caboodle with a razor-sharp edge, ripping up distinctions between science and the spiritual with page-turning clarity. If you thought mysticism was only for the devout or gullible, or found physics unfathomable, buckle up your seat belt and hold tight. Linda Hoy’s journey careers through quantum mechanics, high-energy physics and ancient wisdom with turbo-charged vigour. Can we predict the future? What happens when we die? Does life have a purpose? Does God exist? The Effect uses twenty-first-century science to validate what mystics and spiritual leaders have been telling us for centuries. It introduces us to groundmuts and dimension-hopping goldfish. It examines the increasingly-common phenomenon of near death experience. It turns what we think of as reality on its head. It makes us cry and laugh out loud. Prepare to be amazed. Best-selling children’s author, Linda Hoy cuts to the quick with her Quaker honesty and Yorkshire humour. With a penchant for live rock and alternative country music, Linda lives in Sheffield. ,
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Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780809388448 |
Wheeler Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues and television shows such as 'Captain Midnight' are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of 'I Love Lucy'.
Author | : Colleen McDannell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780195306569 |
The common admission that "everything I know about religion I learned from the movies" is true for believers as much as for unbelievers. And at the movies, Catholicism is the American religion. As an intensely visual faith with a well-defined ritual and authority structure, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Beginning with the silent era of film and ending with movies today, eleven prominent scholars explore how Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals are represented in cinema.