Sports on film / by Boggs, Johnny D.

Subjects: “…Sports films History and criticism.…”
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Postmodernism and film : rethinking Hollywood's aesthestics / by Constable, Catherine

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Postmodernism and film : rethinking Hollywood's aesthetics / by Constable, Catherine

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Arab Americans in film : from Hollywood and Egyptian stereotypes to self-representation / by Mahdi, Waleed F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood's Portrayals of Arab Americans -- Images of Arab Americans in Egyptian Cinema -- Challenging Hollywood's Terrorism Syndrome -- Disrupting Egyptian Depictions of Arab Americans -- Re-Narrating the American Dream in Arab American Films -- Epilogue.…”
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The mind-game film : distributed agency, time travel and productive pathology / by Elsässer, T.

Table of Contents: “…On mind-game films as tipping points: the challenges of cinema in the new century -- Too late, too soon: body, time and agency -- The mind-game film -- Time travel films: an ethics of redemption, rescue and regret -- The new normal -- trauma as successfully failed communication (Nurse Betty / 2000) -- Saving Private Ryan: retrospection, survivors' guilt and affective memory -- Philip K. …”

Arab Americans in film : from Hollywood and Egyptian stereotypes to self-representation / by Mahdi, Waleed F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood's Portrayals of Arab Americans -- Images of Arab Americans in Egyptian Cinema -- Challenging Hollywood's Terrorism Syndrome -- Disrupting Egyptian Depictions of Arab Americans -- Re-Narrating the American Dream in Arab American Films -- Epilogue.…”
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Metacinema in contemporary Chinese film / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Documentarization and Amplified Realism in Jia Zhangke's Films; 6. Beyond Allegory; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.…”
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FILM HISTORY OF CHINESE MINORITIES. by SHUGUANG, RAO

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Chinese Fund For the Humanities and Social Science; Contents; Chapter 1: Chinese Minority-Themed Films Before 1949; Chapter 2: Minority-Themed Film Production in the Early Years of New China (1949-1955); Chapter 3: Minority-themed Film Production and the "Double-HundredPolicy" (1956-1959); Chapter 4: A Tumultuous Period in the Minority-Themed Film Industry (1960-1966); Chapter 5: Minority-Themed Films in the New Era (1977-1990); Chapter 6: The Minority-Themed Film Industry During the Transitional Period (1990-2000).…”
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Speculative satire in contemporary literature and film : rant against the regime / by Combe, Kirk

The Nazi past in contemporary German film : viewing experiences of intimacy and immersion / by Bangert, Axel

“…Screen cultures: German film and the visual…”
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The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film : power, culture and society / by Beasley, Chris, Brook, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural politics of popular film -- Frames -- Security: order and disorder -- War and order -- Disorder and fear -- Fearsome monsters -- Gender and intimate relationships -- Romance -- Bromance -- Against the grain? …”
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The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film : power, culture and society / by Beasley, Chris, Brook, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural politics of popular film -- Frames -- Security: order and disorder -- War and order -- Disorder and fear -- Fearsome monsters -- Gender and intimate relationships -- Romance -- Bromance -- Against the grain? …”
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Urban noir : New York and Los Angeles in shadow and light /

Table of Contents: “…the noir tradition, urban affect, and the monstrosity of Los Angeles in The wizard of gore / Michael Fuchs -- The dysfunctional city: urban malaise in Los Angeles during the 1940s through the lens of film noir / Janina Schupp -- Desperately seeking something wild: the New York neo-noir/screwball comedy fusion films of the mid-1980s / Thomas Prasch -- Cinematic representations of 1970s/1980s New York: the post-Giuliani/post-Bloomberg city seen through a backward lens / James J. …”

Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film by Fernández Carbajal, Alberto

Table of Contents: “…Interstitial queerness and the Ismaili diaspora in Ian Iqbal Rashid's poetry and films -- Queering Orientalism, Ottoman homoeroticism, and Turkishness in Ferzan Ozpetek's Hamam : The Turkish bath (1997) -- Negotiating Islamic gender -- Countermemories of desire : exploring gender, anti-racism, and homonormativity in Shamim Sarif's The world unseen (2001) and I can't think straight (2008) -- Between gang and family : queering ethnicity and British Muslim masculinities in Sally El Hosaini's My brother the Devil (2012) -- The good, the bad, and the ugly? …”
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The mirage of America in contemporary Italian literature and film / by Alfano, Barbara

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Stairways to heaven. Rebuilding the British film industry / by Macnab, Geoffrey, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Intro; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE, President of Film Distributors' Association; Preface; Introduction The Downing Street Summit; Chapter 1 Back to the 1980s; Chapter 2 The Video Revolution; Chapter 3 PolyGram Forever; Chapter 4 The Working Title Magic; Chapter 5 The Great British Lotto Bonanza; Chapter 6 The Life and Death of the Film Council; Chapter 7 Potter Gold; Chapter 8 The Name Is Still Bond; Chapter 9 An Uneasy Partnership -- British Film and TV; Chapter 10 A Taxing Business…”
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The fatal alliance : a century of war on film / by Thomson, David, 1941-

Subjects: “…War films History and criticism.…”

Living labor : fiction, film, and precarious work / by Entin, Joseph B.

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Maverick movies : New Line Cinema and the transformation of American film / by Herbert, Daniel, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : New Line Cinema and the shape of the modern movie business -- "Take a film where it will be most appreciated" : the first decade of New Line Cinema -- "So-called ancillary markets" : New Line takes the margins to the mainstream -- "Evolutions of identity" : New Line and the transformative 1990s -- "Upscale" Cinema : Fine Line Features and the indie boom of the 1990s -- One franchise to rule them all : New Line and The Lord of the Rings -- Conclusion : legends of the film industry.…”
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An investigative cinema : politics and modernization in Italian, French, and American film / by Cilento, Fabrizio

Table of Contents: “…The Ontology of Replay: The Zapruder Video and American Conspiracy Films --…”