Film Studies


Film Art: An Introduction
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
What is Cinema? Volume I
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Making Movies
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory
Sculpting in Time
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
Film History: An Introduction
The Time-Image
Regardless of how successful the Fifth Generation and New Taiwan cinemas have been in the international film milieu, this (limited) recognition usually is based on two aspects: the formal or the exotic. Their works are praised as highly formally innovative (in other words, how well the have mastered the new-wave visual language of the West -- thus, our modernist language) or exotic (as revealing the mystery of an inscrutable Other). This may explain why in the United States, mainland, Hong Kong, ...more
Tonglin Lu, Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China

Though the actresses who played female boys were of all ages and performed in a vari- ety of acting styles, they were generally small, thin, white, and photogenic, and their performances combined boldness and vulnerability. Their femaleness al- lowed them to convey fragility and androgynous beauty. These performances demonstrate that cross-gender casting, which may seem like an inherently transgressive practice to twenty-first-century scholars, can also uphold conser- vative gender, class ...more
Laura Horak, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

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