...Chapter Four of Visions of Invasion explains a different set of possibilities for technologies of visibility. The first two cases of the book examine how the manufacturing of alienhood in film coincides with the production of a settler colonial subjectivity to fit the U.S...

...Several South Korean film genres include films with principal characters who are deaf, for example, Like for Likes (romantic comedy), Bling Bling Sounds (high school melodrama), Glove (sport film) and Dogani, aka Silenced...

..., accompanists such as organists Rosa Rio and Alice Smyth-Jay and violinist Helen Ware describe composing motifs or themes for characters and events in silent films that they then used to create full scores for the motion pictures they accompanied. Industry insiders credited accompanist-composers who were deemed...

... that the expectation of racial veracity in realist film limits the artistic range of Black filmmaking, produces normative discourses about Black life, and appears to make Black lived experience and subjects knowable to (white) audiences. This chapter foreshadows the arguments made in chapters eight and nine that Peele...

...This chapter discusses the intersection of gay and black identity in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight. This sociological intersection is amplified by the film’s complex use of film genres such as the inner-city ghetto genre alongside an arthouse genre focusing on poetic modes of belonging...

...As the superhero blockbuster’s presence at the box office has swelled, a parallel cluster of small low-budget indie films such as Special (2006) and Defendor (2009) has emerged alongside large studio productions to take a deconstructivist approach to the mainstream...

..., again, includes his arguably affected public persona, the one we encounter in Terry Zwigoff’s documentary Crumb—fosters serious caution and self-qualification. Analyzing his collaborative work with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, the 1994 documentary film Crumb, and his rejected...

...The introduction establishes that despite directing popular and critically well received films, Delmer Daves has remained a neglected figure in the history of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’. He has been similarly underestimated in film criticism and analysis, including that of authors such as Andrew...

... Sanders Haywood Alford Robert Freeny’s Barn Dance Band Mississippi Sawyers LP Newton County Hill Billies Autry Gene Grand Old Opry pound supper Rodgers Jimmie “Mississippi Shuffle” George Gilmer Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folk life Ode to Billie Joe (film) Carlton Freeny...

...This chapter introduces the book's overarching interest in the consequences that stem from a lack of industrial, disciplinary, and archival attention paid to women's directorial labor, and interventions that can reinsert women into film histories, archives, and public consciousness. It connects...

...Though an in-depth case study of exploitation film director Stephanie Rothman, this book examines the problems and successes of the memorialization of women's directorial labor, connecting historical and contemporary patterns of gendered labor disparity in the film industry. This book...

... exposes how each filmmaker ultimately negotiates a particular nostalgia for Classical Hollywood Cinema while also maintaining a particular intrusiveness. critics Lucas George media Red Tails Tony Awards Almodóvar Pedro Boyd Todd CBS Chaplin Charlie East Side West Side Film Comment For Colored...

...This book examines the intricacies of the American film's stylistic remediation of comics. Stylistic remediation refers to the stylistic practice by films (both adaptations of comics and original properties), in which they have increasingly relied on the formal characteristics of comic books...

...This chapter examines the process of stylistic remediation at work in the adaptation of a comic book to a film and how it is used by a media conglomerate as a means to unite its transmedia properties. It uses Edgar Wright's adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic series, Scott Pilgrim vs...

... to the success of other titles in the franchise before describing the career trajectory of Miller from Sin City to The Spirit. In particular, it explores how Sin City and The Spirit remediated the stylistic devices of film noir. It shows...

..., their season-one episodes, and the accompanying DVD paratexts. It is argued that the assortment of tensions constituting the series is dialectical. Masters of Horror Showtime Garris Mick Karloff Boris Universal Films King Stephen Malone William Nicotero Greg Simpson Philip L American Psycho Fear...

...This chapter discusses how a neophyte Hollywood filmmaker (Anthony Mann) directing a veteran Hollywood filmmaker (Erich von Stroheim) led to tensions during production on the low-budget film noir, The Great Flamarion. Given another cursory assignment from Republic...

...The film noir Desperate is the focus of this chapter and was a career turning point for Anthony Mann, who co-wrote the story upon which it was based. The chapter utilizes research conducted at UCLA pertaining to the writing and production of this thriller about gangsters pursuing...

... the film partially translates to the screen in spite of being an M-G-M production. This emotionally wrenching film noir of a part time mail carrier (Farley Granger) stealing $30,000 from criminals in order to support his pregnant wife (Cathy O’Donnell) makes extraordinary uses of New York...

... as their north Mississippi milieu. The documentary is the result of film adaptations of Brown’s three short stories: “Boy and Dog,” “Wild Thing,” and “Samaritans.” Hawkins captured sincere and revealing comments from both Larry and his wife Mary Annie Brown, who offered genuine insights into what it was like...