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“I Am On Show”

Murray Pomerance

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the "Techniques of the Moving Image" series and the Horizons of Cinema series, and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman and Adrienne L. McLean respectively, of the Screen Decades and Star Decades series. Pomerance has written, edited and co-edited several books, including Cinema, If You Please (2018), Moment of Action (2016), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013), The Horse who Drank the Sky: Film Experience beyond Narrative and Theory (2008), and two BFI Classics on Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Virtuoso : Film Performance and the Actor’s Magic

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...An awkwardly stimulating, possibly embarrassing moment, at some distance from virtuosity: Fred Astaire (l.), Nanette Fabray, and Jack Buchanan singing “That’s Entertainment!” in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, MGM, 1953). Digital frame...

Fantasy, Authorship and Genre

James Walters

Tom Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at King's College London, UK. He is co-editor, with James Bennett, of Film and Television After DVD (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Fantasy Film : A Critical Introduction

Berg, 2011

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...Who Made What In Chapter 1 I suggested that a series of creative decisions taken by Fritz Lang in the concluding moments of You Only Live Once effectively transform both the tone and narrative possibilities of the film, giving rise...

‘Now, what are we going to call you? Scum! . . . Scum! That’s commercial! It’s all they deserve!’: Jubilee, Punk and British Film in the Late 1970s

Claire Monk

Claire Monk

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Seventies British Cinema

British Film Institute, 2008

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...Introduction: British Punk Versus ‘Punk Cinema’ The brief yet resonant eruption of British punk rock from late 1975 (when the first trickle of punk bands appeared in London) to 1979 – rapidly followed by its less confrontational musical...

The Musical

Steve Neale

Steve Neale

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The Cinema Book

British Film Institute, 2007

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...The Hollywood musical is a product of the advent of sound, of the industry’s commitment to an ethos and to forms of entertainment represented, among other things, by the theatrical musical, by Broadway and by Tin Pan Alley, of its stake...

Musical Address: Expansion, Confinement and Kinaesthetic Contagion

Samantha Colling

Samantha Colling is Lecturer in Film and Media at Manchester School of Art and Research Degrees Development Tutor in the Arts and Humanities Graduate School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction In the previous chapter I explored how the spectacle of the body in sports performances invites particular kinaesthetic pleasures. The musical numbers in girl teen films rely on similar pleasures that bring the body in action...

From Homosocial to Heterosexual: The Musical’s two Projects

Rick Altman

Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA. His many books include ‘Film/Genre’ (BFI 1999) and ‘Silent Film Sound’ (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sound of Musicals

British Film Institute, 2010

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...This article takes a fresh look at the beginnings of Hollywood musicals. I argue that existing treatments of the musical are so attendant to endings and to synchronic analysis that the beginnings of musicals have been lost in the shuffle...

The Caves of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1950s French Cinema

Sébastien Layerle

Sébastien Layerle

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Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flâneur : Locations, Characters, History

British Film Institute, 2018

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...In the aftermath of World War Two, Saint-Germain-des-Prés was the Parisian neighbourhood that probably best represented modernity. An ebullient intellectual and artistic life fuelled by various feats and legends soon made it famous...

Live-Action Adaptations

Kyle Meikle

Kyle Meikle is Assistant Professor of Communication and English at the University of Baltimore, USA, and Film Reviews Editor for Adaptation. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Adaptations in the Franchise Era : 2001–16

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...When Queen Elsa (voiced by Tony Award winner Idina Menzel) resolves to ‘Let It Go’ in Disney’s Frozen (2013), she does so in grandly physical terms. Elsa, possessed of the ability to control ice and snow, tosses the glove that keeps her...

Changes in Pace

Ken Dancyger

Ken Dancyger is the author of numerous books on screenwriting, editing, and production. He conducts screenwriting forums and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. A past chair of Undergraduate studies in the Department of Film and Television at NYU, he is currently Professor of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Technique of Film and Video Editing : History, Theory, and Practice

Focal Press, 2013

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... Changes in Pace j Pace has been a critical editing tool since D.W. Griffith perfected the chase sequence. Although an existing dramatic climax was Griffith’s goal, the purpose of pace has proved far more diverse over time. The context...

When Are We Now? Walls and Memory in David Bowie’s Berlins

Tiffany Naiman

Tiffany Naiman

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...On his sixty-sixth birthday, following ten years without a release, David Bowie re-emerged with a new song and music video, ‘Where Are We Now?’ (The Next Day, 2013), which appeared in cyberspace unannounced and without fanfare. Within...