...The Hollywood film industry at the end of World War II was very lightly regulated. Yet a variety of forms of regulation played a vital role in sustaining the intricate and profitable mechanisms of the studio system. The most obvious and visible of these was the self-censorship of motion picture...

... as a kind of reminder of what the white community appears to have lost or, perhaps, never had. ‘Oriental’ characters also appear in a number of Hollywood films. A variety of responses by a European film industry to Hollywood science fiction is noted and there are also clear similarities between...

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... Latent Image regional filmmaking media history film industry independent cinema horror film genre directors film production agency superhero films Marvel Agency is said to refer to the autonomy of an agent to enact choice within specific political, cultural and/or social conditions...

... NYPD Blue media history film industry independent cinema horror film genre film production mergers and acquisitions television Stephen King ‘Mention Laurel Entertainment, the Pittsburgh-based movie company, and one name comes to mind – George Romero,’ wrote journalist Ron Weiskind in October...

... Goaz Harry Graham Heather Horne Audrey Johnson Shelly Angelopoulos Theo Lumière and Company Moon Sarah Premonitions Following an Evil Deed Yimou Zhang Untitled Bacon Francis Beckett Samuel Kafka Franz Ophüls Max David Lynch Film industry studies Prequel Television Studies Television...

... Film industry studies Worldbuilding Media industries Transmedia multitexts Media studies The twenty-first-century media landscape is governed by transmedia franchises: massive entertainment juggernauts that expand across media platforms, encourage audience participation, and are owned and operated...

...Zoya Akhtar’s debut film, Luck By Chance (2009), has a self-reflexive plot revolving around the Hindi film industry. This chapter interrogates Akhtar’s often subversive take on some key themes in Bollywood film: the Bombay film industry, the popular Hindi film form, romance and success...

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...The chapter provides an overview of the history of the post-war Italian film industry from crisis to crisis, that is to say from the ground zero of 1945 (when the whole Italian film business had to be politically and economically reorganised, together with the rest of the war-torn country...

...This chapter discusses how the film industry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in the late 1930s turned to historical subject matter and the plight of the common people in response to both the Depression and the growing threat of fascism. The chapter also includes the study...

...This chapter discusses the film industry in the 1990s. The overseas market counted for half of the majors' theatrical income and generated an even greater percentage of revenue through home video and television. The development and exploitation of world markets, specifically the rich and densely...

..., and the union struggles throughout the 1930s had left indelible traces within the ranks of those opposed to unionisation within the film industry. If the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals was the explicitly right-wing manifestation of anti-Communism in Hollywood, its creation...

...’ played in the generational shift within the film industry. Hearts and Minds is at once starkly frank yet indirect in its propagandistic approach. It exhibits the degree to which the American intervention was driven by a long-standing, nationwide anti-Asian racism. It is considered today...

... Phantasm Phantasmagoria Speed Warren Front magazine Film Film Studies Horror Cult Film Horror-comedy British Cinema British Film Production European Cinema Film Industry Lad Culture Andrew Spicer begins the final chapter of his important study Typical Men: The Representation...

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... was the point at which practitioners abandoned the stage to embrace new-found confidence in the cinematic medium. Herbert Beerbohm Tree's own reflections on the production process suggest he was genuinely entranced with the American film industry. The approach of the King John film was in tune...

... within Italy's film industry. This chapter contextualises the New Neapolitan Cinema within the broader history of Neapolitan film production and examines some of the factors that have favoured filmmaking at the regional level. It also explores the mode of production employed by Neapolitan films...

... with trans-historical issues of gender inequality and sexual harassment in the Italian film industry. affective memory and codes Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti Mara Fofi Goffredo Bellumori Cinzia Bianco e Nero Carrano Patrizia Conor Bridget metoo quellavoltache wetogether Argento Asia Aspesi...

... in the film industry. As such, the chapter analyses the entanglement of systemic and informal aspects shaping women’s participation in filmmaking, adopting a trans-generational and materialistic perspective, which connects numerous, individual profiles with broader questions linking gender inequality...