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Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings....
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
Stan Lee, who was the head writer of Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, co-created such popular heroes as Spider-Man, Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and Daredevil. This book traces the ways in which American theologians and comic books of the era were not only both saying...
To Be Published July 8th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Transformations in Race and Media
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Reissuing works originally published between 1926 and 2001, Routledge Library Editions: Cinema offers a selection of scholarship covering the movies. Volumes range from film propaganda to the epic film genre, women in cinema to Soviet cinema, Chaplin to Disney, and touch on acting, screenwriting...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation...
To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on older films such as the Universal and the Hammer series films on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late ‘40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano,...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
