Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema write by Maria Fritsche. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.
Millennial Masculinity
Millennial Masculinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Millennial Masculinity write by Timothy Shary. This book was released on 2012-12-17. Millennial Masculinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cinema of the Coen Brothers write by Jeffrey Adams. This book was released on 2015-07-14. The Cinema of the Coen Brothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences and spawned a subculture of dedicated fans. Shunning fame and celebrity, Ethan and Joel Coen remain maverick filmmakers, producing and directing independent films outside the Hollywood mainstream in a unique style combining classic genres like film noir with black comedy to tell off-beat stories about America and the American Dream. This study surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998). Beginning with Blood Simple (1984), it examines major themes and generic constructs and offers diverse approaches to the Coens' enigmatic films. Pointing to the pulp fiction of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the study appreciates the postmodern aesthetics of the Coens' intertextual creativity.
Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men
Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men write by Peter H. Brothers. This book was released on 2009. Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here, for the first time in English print, is the inspiring story of a humble and soft-spoken man who became one of the most-prolific directors in the history of fantasy films. Raised in a primitive Japanese village by a Buddhist monk, Ishiro Honda fell in love with films at a young age and soon enrolled in film school with the intent of one day becoming a director. Called to enlist in the Imperial Japanese Army druing World War II, he returned with a knowledge of the futility of war and a dread of the atomic age. A dedicated craftsman who directed over 80 films during a remarkable 60-plus year career, Honda is undeservedly remembered mostly as the "greatest director" of the famous Japanese monster film series; however, he was in fact much more. Utelizing a wide-variety of source material never before assembled into one volume, Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men is an objective critical analysis and definitve study of a man whose fantasy films -- when seen in their original versions -- are "beautiful nightmares" of quality and subtext which transcend the visceral thrill of watching monsters destroying cities. Honda's admirers include George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg and his films are masterpieces of entertainment that have enthralled audiences for generations . . . and will for generations to come.
The Trouble with Men
The Trouble with Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trouble with Men write by Phil Powrie. This book was released on 2004. The Trouble with Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt into four sections -- stars, class and race, fathers and bodies -- areas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema, romantic comedy and beur cinema.
