This multinational, multidisciplinary collection of essays focuses on Hallmark Channel movies and Hallmark's position in the changing North American media landscape.This book covers the 'Countdown to Christmas' offerings, year-round productions, made-for-TV mysteries and romances, Hallmark's use of specific filming locations, and its relationship to viewer desires. Chapters examine Hallmark's position in a changing sociopolitical context and the tensions the company must navigate in creating more "progressive" content; they discuss issues of gender, race, sexuality, and place, as well as analyzing the extensive ranges and reactions of social media participants and interrogating the nature of Hallmark's popularity.Suitable for scholars and students of film and tv and popular culture studies, this is a multifaceted look at both Hallmark and its viewers at a particular moment of Hallmark's market dominance.
Combining the expertise of screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting.
This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.
This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens of film noir. 　
This book is the first dedicated edited collection that explores the virtualization of screen-making processes from pre-production to post-production, while attuning to the aesthetic, ideological and performative contexts upended by these integrated technologies.
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.
This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas' complex responses to the Cold War conflict.　 It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus.
