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| Author | : Mathew P. John |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2017-06-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1506421709 |
Film is popularly described as a mirror of culture. It plays a pivotal role in facilitating intercultural dialogue in our global village. World cinema helps us understand and appreciate each other’s cultural identity, and promotes harmony across different cultures in our pluralistic society. It introduces us to the life of “the other” in an entertaining yet engaging fashion, creating cultural bridges that foster a sense of unity in the midst of our diversity. This book argues that “cultural anthropology” and “theology” offer two distinct, yet intrinsically connected theoretical frameworks to formulate a more “holistic” reading of religion from world cinema. It proposes an integrated methodology for religious criticism of film in which we look at religion as a subsystem of culture and observe how religious experiences depicted on the screen are mediated through the personal bias of the auteur and the context in which the film is produced. It thus creates a renewed appreciation for the religious diversity in our world by providing a new way of observing and interpreting ethnographic information from world cinema.
| Author | : Johnson Cheu |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2013-01-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476600090 |
Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films have come to both mirror and influence our increasingly diverse society. This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, not only exploring race and gender, but also drawing on perspectives from newer areas of study, particularly sexuality/queer studies, critical whiteness studies, masculinity studies and disability studies. Covering a wide array of films, from Disney's early days and "Golden Age" to the Eisner era and current fare, these essays highlight the social impact and cultural significance of the entertainment giant. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
| Author | : Dan W. Clanton, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 640 |
| Release | : 2020-11-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 019046142X |
The study of the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture has blossomed in the past few decades, and the time seems ripe for a broadly-conceived work that assesses the current state of the field, offers examples of work in that field, and suggests future directions for further study. This Handbook includes a wide range of topics organized under several broad themes, including biblical characters (such as Adam, Eve, David and Jesus) and themes (like Creation, Hell, and Apocalyptic) in popular culture; the Bible in popular cultural genres (for example, film, comics, and Jazz); and "lived" examples (such as museums and theme parks). The Handbook concludes with a section taking stock of methodologies and the impact of the field on teaching and publishing. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture represents a major contribution to the field by some of its leading practitioners, and will be a key resource for the future development of the study of both the Bible and its role in American popular culture.
| Author | : Rhonda Hammer |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 696 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780820495262 |
This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
| Author | : Thomas Schatz |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780415281355 |
'Hollywood' as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions and a national (and increasingly global) 'way of seeing'. It is a complex social, cultural and industrial phenomenon and is arguably the single most important site of cultural production over the past century. This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic and political force, and as a complex historical entity.
| Author | : Harry M. Benshoff |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2024-01-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 042958878X |
This fully revised second edition textbook is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television. The methodologies covered in Film and Television Analysis include: ideological analysis, auteur theory, genre theory, semiotics and structuralism, psychoanalysis and apparatus theory, feminism, postmodernism, cultural studies (including reception and audience studies), and contemporary approaches to race, nation, gender, and sexuality. With each chapter focusing on a distinct methodology, students are introduced to the historical developments of each approach, along with its vocabulary, significant scholars, key concepts, and case studies. Features of the second edition include: new and updated case studies to accompany each chapter over 130 color images throughout questions for discussion at the end of each chapter suggestions for further reading a glossary of key terms Written in a reader-friendly manner, Film and Television Analysis is a vital textbook for students encountering these concepts for the first time.
| Author | : Mark W. MacWilliams |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2014-12-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317467000 |
Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they have become a powerful force in both the mediascape and the marketplace.This volume brings together an international group of scholars from many specialties to probe the richness and subtleties of these deceptively simple cultural forms. The contributors explore the historical, cultural, sociological, and religious dimensions of manga and anime, and examine specific sub-genres, artists, and stylistics. The book also addresses such topics as spirituality, the use of visual culture by Japanese new religious movements, Japanese Goth, nostalgia and Japanese pop, "cute" (kawali) subculture and comics for girls, and more. With illustrations throughout, it is a rich source for all scholars and fans of manga and anime as well as students of contemporary mass culture or Japanese culture and civilization.
| Author | : John Markert |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2011-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0810881349 |
Examines dramatic motion pictures and documentary films depicting the September 11 terrorist attacks and the events that followed.
| Author | : Genevieve Yue |
| Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0823289575 |
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation? Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art. This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.
| Author | : L. Hubner |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2011-04-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230305857 |
This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin social, academic and institutional practices, it examines the diverse forms of worth attributed to a range of international films in relation to taste, passion, morality and aesthetics.
