Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan : (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock)

Alfred Hitchcock, or, the form and its historical mediation / Hitchcockian suspense / Hitchcock's objects / Spatial systems in North by northwest / A perfect place to die : theatre in Hitchcock's films / Punctum caecum, or, of insight and blindness / Hitchcockian sinthoms / The spectator who knew too much / The cipher of destiny / A father who is not quite dead / Notorious / The fourth side / The man behind his own retina / The skin and the straw

Republic Studios : between poverty row and the majors

rise and fall of Republic : a historical overview -- Film studies and Republic -- Influence, the motion picture, the B movie, and Republic -- sound serial and Republic's golden age -- Captain America : a case study -- serial : beyond the golden age -- Republic's cowboys -- the Three Mesquiteers, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers -- Republic's other films : series and non-series -- Republic legacy : summary and conclusion -- Epilogue : the later years -- Republic serials -- Republic's Three Mesquiteer series -- Gene Autry's Republic appearances -- Roy Roger's Republic appearances -- Other Republic series discussed.

Based on a true story : Latin American history at the movies

Latin American silhouettes

Latin American silhouettes.

Never read history again? The possibilities and perils of cinema as historical depiction / Columbus takes on the forces of darkness, or film and historical myth in 1492 : The Conquest of Paradise / Whose conquest is this, anyway? Aguirre, the Wrath of God / I, the Worst of All : the literary life of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz / The Mission and historical missions : film and the writing of history / Passion and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Argentina : María Luisa Bemberg's Camila / Recasting Cuban slavery : The Other Francisco and The Last Supper / Lucía : inventing women's history on film / Gabriela : an evocation of elite culture in early twentieth-century Latin America / Why Tita didn't marry the doctor, or Mexican history in Like Water for Chocolate / Depicting the past in Argentine films : family drama and historical debate in Miss Mary and The Official Story / Pixote : fiction and reality in Brazilian life

Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition

Media in transition

Media in transition.

Toward an aesthetics of transition / Web of paradox / Historicizing media in transition / Re-newing old technologies : astonishment, second nature, and the uncanny in technology from the previous turn-of-the-century / How users define new media : a history of the amusement phonograph / Books are dead, long live books / Help or hindrance? The history of the book and electronic media / Historical perspectives on the book and information technology / Potholes on the information superhighway : Congress as a publisher in nineteenth-century America / Prophetic peasants and bourgeois pamphleteers : the camisards represented in print, 1685-1710 / Redefining the home screen : technological convergence as trauma and business plan / Homer to home page : designing digital books / Forms of future / Stitch bitch : the patchwork girl / "Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal / Private uses of cyberspace : women, desire, and fan culture / Quentin Tarantino's Star wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Immersion in the virtual ornament : contemporary "movie ride" films / virtual window / Architectures of the senses : neo-baroque entertainment spectacles / Media technology and museum display : a century of accomodation and conflict

The world of King Arthur

Introduction: Who Was Arthur? -- Arthur, Myth and Reality Sources of Evidence An Outline History Background: Britons and Romans -- Prehistoric Britain Iron Age Roman Conquest of Britain Coming of Christianity Late Roman Britain Age of Arthur (Ad 400-600) -- Tyrants and the End of Roman Britain Historical Evidence Inscriptions Archaeological Evidence Peoples of Post-Roman Britain Britons Picts Irish Saxons Chronicles of the Britons -- Patrick and Gildas Welsh Annals History of the Britons Geoffrey of Monmouth Legends of the Britons -- Pseudo-Chronicles Welsh Tradition Breton Material French Romances Perceval-Grail Tradition Tristan Tradition Arthurian Tradition and the Medieval World Late Medieval English Tradition Monarchy, Chivalry and the Return of Arthur -- Plantagenets Tudors and the Stuarts Victorian Revival Quest for Camelot -- Historical Arthur Merlin and Myrddin In Search of the Holy Grail Conclusion: An Age of Arthur -- Modern Arthurian Fiction Arthurian Films and Television Arthurian Music Once and Future King Story of Arthur -- Isle of the Mighty Birth of Arthur Arthur, Leader of Battles Knights of the Round Table Beguiling of Merlin Lancelot and Guinevere Quest for the Holy Grail Tristan and Isolde Lady of Shalott Battle of Camlann Isle of Avalon

Cecil B. DeMille and American culture : the silent era

The Lasky Company and Highbrow Culture: Authorship versus Intertextuality -- The Consumption of Culture: Highbrow versus Lowbrow -- Texts and Intertexts: A Question of Authorship -- Geraldine Farrar: A Diva Comes to Hollywood -- Critical Discourses -- Film: The New Democratic Art -- Self-Theatricalization in Victorian Pictorial Dramaturgy: What's His Name -- Melodrama as a Middle-Class Sermon -- A Genteel Audience: Rewriting Domestic Melodrama -- Character versus Personality: What's His Name -- The Lower East Side as Spectacle: Class and Ethnicity in the Urban Landscape -- Representations of the City: Artificial or Romantic Realism -- Social Ills and Comic Relief: The Chimmie Fadden Series -- A Tour of the Lower East Side: Kindling -- Cinderella of the Slums: The Dream Girl -- The Screen as Display Window: Constructing the "New Woman" -- The "New Woman" as a Consumer -- Cinderella on the Lower East Side: The Golden Chance -- The "New Woman" versus the New Immigrant: The Cheat -- The Sentimental Heroine versus the "New Woman": The Heart of Nora Flynn -- The Historical Epic and Progressive Era Civic Pageantry: Joan the Woman -- A Usable Past: Civic Pageants as Historical Representation -- Representations and the Body Politic: Joan the Woman -- Discourse on Femininity: Joan of Are as a Symbol of Gender Conflict -- Critical Discourses: Gender and the Moral Lesson of History -- Set and Costume Design as Spectacle in a Consumer Culture: The Early Jazz Age Films -- DeMille's "Second Epoch."

New approaches to teaching folk and fairy tales

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on teaching folklore and fairy tales in higher education / Fantastic environments : mapping fairy tales, folklore, and the otherworld. Fairy tales, myth, and fantasy / Teaching fairy tales in folklore classes / At the bottom of a well : teaching the otherworld as a folktale environment / Sociopolitical and cultural approaches to teaching canonical fairy tales. The fairy-tale forest as memory site : romantic imagination, cultural construction, and a hybrid approach to teaching the Grimms' fairy tales and the environment / Grimms' fairy tales in a political context : teaching East German fairy-tale films / Teaching Charles Perrault's Histoires, ou, contes du temps passé in the literary and historical context of the Sun King's reign / Lessons from Shahrazad : teaching about cultural dialogism / Decoding fairy-tales semantics : analyses of translation issues, linguistics, and symbolisms. The significance of translation / Giambattista Basile's The tale of tales in the hands of the Brothers Grimm / Teaching Hans Christian Andersen's tales : a linguistic approach / Teaching symbolism in "Little Red Riding Hood" / Classical tales through the gendered lens : cinematic adaptations in the traditional classroom and online. Binary outlaws : queering the classical tale in François Ozon's Criminal lovers and Catherine Breillat's The sleeping beauty / Teaching "Gender in fairy tale films and cinematic folklore" online : negotiating between needs and wants / Intertextuality, creativity, and sexuality : group exercises in the fairy-tale/gender studies classroom

Women and film : both sides of the camera

The classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema: Is the gaze male? -- Patriarchy and the male gaze in Cukor's Camille (1936) -- Fetishism and the repression of motherhood in Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932) -- The struggle for control over the female discourse and female sexuality in Welles's Lady from Shanghai (1946) -- Forms of phallic domination in the contemporary Hollywood film: Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- The independent feminist film: The avant-gardes in Europe and the USA -- Silence as female resistance in Marguerite Duras's Nathalie Granger (1972) -- Female politics in the symbolic realm: Von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane (The German sisters) (1981) -- The American experimental woman's film: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of performers and Film about a woman who... (1972-4) -- The realist debate in the feminist film: a historical overview of theories and strategies in realism and the avant-garde theory film (1971-81) -- The avant-garde theory film: three case studies from Britain and the USA: Sigmund Freud's Dora (1979), Thriller (1979), Mulvey/Wollen's Amy! (1980) -- Mothers and daughters in two recent women's films: Mulvey/Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1976) and Michelle Citron's Daughter-rite (1978) -- The woman director in the Third World: Sara Gomez's One way or another (1974) -- The future of the independent feminist film: strategies, production, exhibition, and distribution in the USA -- Motherhood and patriarchal discourse.

Past imperfect : history according to the movies

A Henry Holt reference book

Henry Holt reference book.

The film in history : restaging the past

The ancient world in the cinema

The ancient world in the cinema