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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"genre films"”.
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Transnational Film Practices: Hollywood Remakes of South Korean Films and Preference on Genre Films
… of South Korean male melodramas and horror films to address transnational film practices within the context of the sudden acceptance of South Korean films in Hollywood. Such acceptance began with the 2006 remake, The Lake House . Despite the small number of South Korean films being remade in …
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
… hacking and surveillance have formed a ‘hacker’ genre in film and television that begins to emerge from the influences of 1970s films, forming between the 1980s and 1990s and continuing to develop through to the 2010s, grouping together computer hacking, surveillance and espionage as activities …
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Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999
… as forms. Specifically, I closely read Western films and masculine crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how cinematic forms constitute the potential to alter normative modes of masculinity. To launch this endeavor, I rely on a theoretical hybrid of Brinkema-Deleuze-Spinoza that foregrounds …
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An evaluation of the national cinema of Wales and whether this cinema constructs or represents a national identity
… broadcasting entities, including Channel Four Films, BBC Wales, S4C, or HTV/ITV Wales; a review of relevant literature regarding Welsh national cinema by Berry, Blandford, Ffrancon and others; the historical context of the Welsh film industry, was followed by an assignment of new aesthetic and …
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He Who Rules "Cinema" Rules Everything: Kalimán as Bridge Between 1960s and 1970s Mexican Cinema
… cinema, society, and culture. The two Kalimán films, El Hombre Increíble and El Siniestro Mundo de Humanón, occupy a unique liminal position in Mexican National Cinema, capturing the transformations that took place during the early 1970s until 1976, a time now known as the Prodigious Decade.1 …
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Once upon a time in the veld: South Africa westerns in context
… westerns have been one of the most popular film genres in South Africa but very few features have been produced locally. In addition, the few productions that exist have not received significant attention from researchers and scholars. Thus, this study aims to contribute to South African film …
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I testi della paura e dell'incubo
… growth that lasted almost twenty years. Genre films represent the backbone of the industry, and horror films, even though not the majority in numeric terms, become a significant section of the Italian production; Italian horror films establish and define new trends for the genre, largely …
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TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY
… produced very few examples of fantasy fiction genre films since its beginning in 1914 except for the 1970s Yeşilçam era. The first film ever to be made in Turkey by a Turkish filmmaker (Fuat Uzkınay) is credited as Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı (The Destruction of the Russian …
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A cinema of immanence: the films of Paul Verhoeven in Hollywood and beyond
Existing Anglo-American scholarship on the films of Paul Verhoeven is overwhelmingly concerned with the director’s Hollywood productions and tends to apply frameworks of analysis based on Cartesian dualist thought. Much of this scholarship consequently finds contradictions between the politically …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… of the Italian filoni; a body of popular genre film cycles (peplum mythological epics, horror films, giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film production between the late 1950s and mid 1980s. A disproportionate emphasis on …
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El antihéroe en el cine de la 'Otra Escuela de Barcelona': Arquetipos antiheroicos del cine popular barcelonés durante el franquismo
A través de este trabajo hemos realizado una aproximación a la figura del antihéroe en las películas de géneros populares realizadas desde mediados del franquismo hasta la llegada de la Transición por parte de un grupo de cineastas al que nos referimos como la ¿Otra Escuela de Barcelona¿. Para …