“…It starts with a wild question: In Hollywood, it might be, “What would happen if a shark swam into a resort and attacked a swimmer?” …”

“…Cashmore's answer takes him to the minstrel shows of the nineteenth century, the Hollywood film industry of the 1930s and today's hip-hop culture. …”

“…After more than twenty years in the film industry as a screenwriter, storyboard editor, and director of memorable films such as The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick turned his back on Hollywood and began a new career as the Dean of one of the country's most demanding and influential film schools. …”

“…Cable television offers a History and a Biography channel. Hollywood blockbusters depicting historical events are huge moneymakers. …”
Sumario

“…El lector podrá repasar el espacio del cine y la arquitectura con la compañía de las estrellas de Hollywood y destacables escritores de estética de todos los tiempos…”

“…Documental sobre la icónica actriz Audrey Hepburn, una de las mayores estrellas de Hollywood de la historia del cine. Una mirada a su faceta más íntima, la de una persona que dedicó gran parte de su vida a cuidar de los demás…”
Recurso relacionado

“…Analysing examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to internet viral films, and from Victorian cinema to the present, this volume brings technology into debates around cinema's forms, meanings and audiences…”
Sumario

“…Ya superados los cuarenta y con tres divorcios a sus espaldas, lucha por hacerse un hueco en Hollywood, donde trabaja en una película sobre Pie Grande. …”

“…"Cuando el fotógrafo Frank Spellman viaja a Cuba acompañando a la estrella de Hollywood Errol Flynn, no sospecha que una simple localización de exteriores para una película va a transformarse en una pesadilla tropical. …”

“…Screenwriters have always been Hollywood's stepchildren. Yet, popular impressions aside, screenwriters have been central to moviemaking since audiences got past the sheer novelty of seeing pictures that moved at all. …”

“…While there is a significant body of scholarship on the representation of the family in Hollywood cinema, this is the first book to analyse the depiction of Black and Asian British, Maghrebi French and Turkish German families from a comparative transnational perspective. …”

“…The house of Lanvin is currently experiencing a period of great acclaim, emerging as a darling of the press, Hollywood, and the larger fashion community. With the most modern of efforts, Alber Elbaz, the current design director, is drawing from the rich Lanvin tradition to create an award-winning collection that at once evokes, reveres, and reinvents the intentions of its founder…”

“…The authors use case studies drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from United States to Japan. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Goodbye cinema, hello cinephilia -- In defense of spoilers -- Potential perils of the director's cut -- Southern movies, actual and fanciful: a personal survey -- À la recherche de Luc Moullet: 25 propositions -- Bushwhacked cinema -- What dope does to movies -- Fever dreams in Bologna -- From playtime to the world: the expansion and depletion of space within global economies -- Kim Novak as midwestern independent -- Marilyn Monroe's brains -- A free man: white hunter, black heart -- Bit actors -- Rediscovering Charlie Chaplin -- Second thoughts on Stroheim -- Sweet and sour: Lubitsch and Wilder in old Hollywood -- Ritwik Ghatak: reinventing the cinema -- Introducing Pere Portabella -- Portabella and continuity -- Neglected filmmakers: Eduardo de Gregorio and Sara Driver -- Vietnam in fragments: William Klein in 1967-68: a radical reevaluation -- Movie heaven: defending your life -- The world as a circus: Tati's parade -- The sun also sets: the films of Nagisa Oshima -- Inside the vault [on Spione] -- Family plot -- "The doddering relics of a lost cause": John Ford's The sun shines bright -- Prisoners of war: Bitter victory -- Art of darkness: Wichita -- Cinema of the future: still lives: the films of Pedro Costa -- A few eruptions in The House of Lava -- Unsatisfied men: Beau travail -- Viridiana on DVD -- Doing the California split -- Mise en scène as miracle in Dreyer's Ordet -- David Holzman's Diary/My girlfriend's wedding: historical artifacts of the past and present -- Early long-take climaxes -- Wrinkles in time: Alone. …”

“…Almásy who later gained world-wide fame as the historical figure on whom the Hollywood movie "The English Patient" was based on, had undertaken several expeditions to various blank spots on the Sahara's map. …”

“…Like Paris in the twenties, or Hollywood in the thirties, during the time between the formation of the Rolling Stones and the demise of the Sex Pistols the King's Road had the attention of the world. …”

“…Vier Tage vor dem Höhepunkt des Sommers, dort, wo sich Louis Arthur Schongauer, einst düsterer Deutscher in Hollywood-Filmen, nach dem Tod seiner Frau zurückgezogen hat. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PN CINE MEXICANO: PRODUCCIÓN, SIGNIFICACIÓN Y USOS SOCIALES -- PÁGINA LEGAL -- PRESENTACIÓN -- LA GLOBALIZACIÓN DE LA LLORONA: ANÁLISIS CINEMATOGRÁFICO DE KILÓMETRO 31 -- RESUMEN -- INTRODUCCIÓN: UNA LLORONA GLOBAL -- LOS ELEMENTOS FORMALES DEL TERROR -- LOS ELEMENTOS ESTRUCTURALES DEL TERROR -- LOS ELEMENTOS IDEOLÓGICOS DEL TERROR -- EL ANÁLISIS CINEMATOGRÁFICO COMO ESTRATEGIA METODOLÓGICA -- ANÁLISIS DE UNA SECUENCIA: EL CLÍMAX -- CONCLUSIONES: NARRAR DESDE LA MEXICANIDAD -- FORMACIÓN DE PÚBLICOS DE CINE: EL CASO DEL GÉNERO DE TERROR -- INTRODUCCIÓN -- JUSTIFICACIÓN DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN -- DISCUSIÓN TEÓRICA -- MARCO HISTÓRICO-REFERENCIAL: CINE DE TERROR COMO GÉNERO -- METODOLOGÍA -- ANÁLISIS E INTERPRETACIÓN DE LOS DATOS -- CONCLUSIONES -- EL DISCURSO CINEMATOGRÁFICO SOBRE EL MEXICANO EN LAS INDUSTRIAS DE HOLLYWOOD -- INTRODUCCIÓN -- MARCO TEÓRICO -- MARCO HISTÓRICO-REFERENCIAL -- METODOLOGÍA -- ANÁLISIS E INTERPRETACIÓN DE DATOS -- CONCLUSIONES -- LA INFLUENCIA DE LA MEDIACIÓN SITUACIONAL EN LA RECEPCIÓN DE LA PELÍCULA EL INFIERNO -- INTRODUCCIÓN -- DISCUSIÓN TEÓRICA -- MARCO HISTÓRICO REFERENCIAL -- MARCO METODOLÓGICO -- RESULTADOS -- CONCLUSIONES -- REFERENCIAS -- CUADERNOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN COMUNICACIÓN…”