It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world, and if a person lives there long enough their home or street will probably be featured in a film or television show. The tourism industry in Tinseltown is huge business, with thousands of devoted fans each day flocking to see just where their favorite star's blockbuster was filmed. This work documents locations used in more than 335 motion pictures and 86 television series filmed in Los Angeles and San Diego. The locations were identified and verified after an extensive ...

Цель данной книги - проанализировать фильм режиссера Фернанду Мейреллеша (1955) и сценариста Дона ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States ...

Was ist eigentlich ein Dokumentarfilm? Wer ist ein Filmemacher? Wie funktioniert die österreichische Filmförderung und wie der Filmvertrieb? Was bedeutet „Erfolg", und ist „Erfolg" messbar? Zahlreiche Interviews mit Experten der österreichischen Filmbranche begleiten die Analyse zweier Fallbeispiele: „Alphabet" von Erwin Wagenhofer aus dem Jahr 2013 ist überdurchschnittlich zuschauerstark und steht exemplarisch für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg. Demgegenüber steht der künstlerische Erfolg von „Those ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States ...

Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations reexamines African cinema of the nationalist era within the context of contemporary major Euro-American film trends. It argues that that the aesthetic diversification of African cinema can be traced as far back as the nationalist era.

During the last year of the Roaring Twenties, when the use of sound in motion pictures was in its nascent stages, Director Henry King selected Tampa, Florida as the proving ground for an audacious and innovative cinematic experiment. His vision was to film an all-talking adaptation of Rida Johnson-Young’s novel, Out of the Night . This would be the first movie filmed entirely on location, utilizing the latest in sound technology. The end result would be Hell Harbor , a motion picture that defied the conventional norms of filmmaking, broke artistic ...

In An Accented Cinema , Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy's work. Although the experience of expatriation varies greatly from one person to the next, the films themselves exhibit stylistic similarities, from their open- and closed-form aesthetics to their nostalgic and memory-driven multilingual narratives, and from their emphasis ...

The turn of the twentieth century in New York City was characterized by radical transformation as the advent of consumer capitalism confronted established social hierarchies, culture, and conceptions of selfhood. The popular stage existed in a symbiotic relationship with the city and uniquely captured the contested terms of immigrant identity of the time. Street Scenes  focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theater and blackface comedy, Esther ...