New PDF release: Film & Religion: An Introduction

How major-release motion pictures use faith to inform tales and bring messages concentrating on American major-release movies due to the fact that global struggle II, the authors express how motion pictures use non secular imagery, characters, and symbolism from basically Christian, but additionally, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. excellent for lecture room use, every one bankruptcy analyzes major contextual matters throughout the lens of opt for movies.

Download e-book for kindle: Film Noir FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Hollywood's by David J. Hogan

(FAQ). movie Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises a few 2 hundred noir thrillers representing two decades of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us just about brutal police officers and scheming dames, determined heist males and hardboiled deepest eyes, and the unfortunate blameless electorate that get of their means. those are intriguing videos with difficult men in trench coats and scorching tomatoes in form-fitting robes.

Download e-book for iPad: Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West by P. Goral

This booklet demonstrates how the 2 adversaries of the chilly warfare, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create specific and targeted German identities. of their pastime to assert legitimacy, the German cinematic illustration of the yankee West turned an enormous cultural weapon of mass dissemination throughout the chilly struggle.

New PDF release: Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the

Movie feedback, the chilly struggle, and the Blacklist examines the long term reception of numerous key American motion pictures published in the course of the postwar interval, targeting the 2 major serious lenses utilized in the translation of those motion pictures: propaganda and allegory. Produced in line with the hearings held through the home Committee on Un-American actions (HUAC) that ended in the Hollywood blacklist, those movies’ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was once usually muddled via the inherent problems in dramatizing villains outlined through their suggestions and trust structures instead of their activities.