Cynthia Miller is the Film Review Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies and serves as President of the Literature/Film Association, as well as on the editorial advisory board for The Encyclopedia of Women and Popular Culture.
20 Ebooks por Cynthia J. Miller
Deborah A. Macey & Kathleen M. Ryan: Television and the Self
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely …
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Cynthia J. Miller: Too Bold for the Box Office
Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Undead in the West
In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes …
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Cynthia J. Miller & Julie Anne Taddeo: Steaming into a Victorian Future
A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often …
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Jakub Kazecki & Cynthia J. Miller: Border Visions
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and W …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Undead in the West II
The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: International Westerns
The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired film …
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Maja Bajac-Carter & Bob Batchelor: Heroines of Film and Television
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overl …
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Bob Batchelor & Norma Jones: Aging Heroes
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Horrors of War
Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Laughing Dead
Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to produ …
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Cynthia J. Miller: Silence of the Lambs
One of only three films to-date to win Academy Awards in all five major categories, The Silence of the Lambs marked a sea change in horror films when it debuted, shifting the genre from teen slasher …
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Cynthia J. Miller & James J. Ward: Urban Noir
Film noir has always been associated with urban landscapes, and no two cities have been represented more prominently in these films than New York and Los Angeles. In noir and neo-noir films since the …
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John A. Dowell & Cynthia J. Miller: Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema
When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and hide our eyes, or shriek ‘;What??! Play that again!!’? What about th …
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Douglas Brode & Shea T. Brode: American Civil War on Film and TV
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Fr …
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Van Riper A. Bowdoin Van Riper & Miller Cynthia J. Miller: Divine Horror
From Rosemary’s Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, c …
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Van Riper A. Bowdoin Van Riper & Miller Cynthia J. Miller: Terrifying Texts
From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve …
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Van Riper A. Bowdoin Van Riper & Miller Cynthia J. Miller: Elder Horror
As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either e …
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Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Dark Forces at Work
Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger …
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Ph.D. Anna H. Perrault Ph.D. & Miller Cynthia F. Miller: Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts
This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the …
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