Benshoff: 5 books
Sleaze Artists
Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore...
by Harry M. Benshoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today’s popular gothic media franchises.
Queer Images
A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Queer Images chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book of its kind, it explores the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen as well as the work of queer filmmakers and the...
Film and Television Analysis
An Introduction to Methods, Theories, and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Film and Television Analysis is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.
The methodologies covered include:
ideological analysis
auteur theory
genre theory
semiotics and structuralism
psychoanalysis...
by P J Benshoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Discover the story of the land of Myakka. This book takes you into shady hammocks of twisted oaks and up into aerial gardens, down the wild and scenic river, and across a variegated canvas of prairies, piney woods, and wetlandsall located in Myakka River State Park, the largest state park in Florida....