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Mr. Bounce
The spring in his step has got Mr. Bounce down--can a pair of heavy boots help lift his spirits?
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Selling Science Fiction Cinema
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and
helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the
golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid
rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing
government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and
sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These
conditions, the leading media scholar J. P. Telotte argues,
catalyzed the incredible rise of science fiction.
Though science fiction films had existed since the earliest days
of cinema, the SF genre as a whole continued to resist easy
definition through the 1950s. In grappling with this developing
genre, the industry began to consider new marketing approaches that
viewed films as fluid texts and audiences as ever-changing. Drawing
on trade reports, film reviews, pressbooks, trailers, and other
archival materials, Selling Science Fiction Cinema
reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and, in
the process, shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre
would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another
World , Forbidden Planet , and The Blob , as
well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the
shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market
to no-longer static audience expectations. Science fiction
transformed the way Hollywood does business, just as Hollywood
transformed the meaning of science fiction.
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Maisy goes to the movies
\"Maisy and her pals discover the magic of the big screen as they go to a movie theater for the first time\"-- From publisher's web site.
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The Role of the Romanian Film in Correcting Juvenile Delinquency during the Socialist Regime
Feature-length fiction movies were an important instrument of propaganda during Romania’s communist regime. As cinema was financed exclusively and controlled by the state between 1948 and 1989, motion pictures were used to convey socialist policies—of course, packaged as fictional drama—to make ideological or regulatory information more easily accepted by society. One of the messages intended to be conveyed in this way was that although the state was looking after the welfare of all citizens, especially the young, families often undermined this effort by neglecting their children, who would end up becoming delinquents. If, on one hand, rules and laws were effective means to control individuals’ actions, on the other hand, motion pictures proved to be a powerful tool to shape consciousness and to induce certain beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. Films dealing with certain cases of juvenile delinquency, or which brought before the public the stories of crimes, large or small, are also part of this line of prevention and the construction of civic behaviour. In this paper, to explore how the anti-crime message was constructed and what ideas were conveyed, I have set out to analyse three such film productions, from different periods of the communist regime, each of them featuring as a main character a young person who had slipped into deviant behaviour.
Journal Article
Three little words
A book about perseverance and determination featuring illustrations depicting Dory and the other characters from the Disney Pixar film Finding Dory.
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The wolf and the lion
Two cubs, a wolf and a lion, are rescued by a young woman, Alma, who hides them to ensure they are not separated.
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Welcome to Andy's room and beyond!
\"From laser battles and Wild West rescues to hide-and-seek adventures and bath-time parties, this book is packed with fun for little readers eager to expand their vocabulary with some of their favorite Pixar pals\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Fairy tales transformed? : twenty-first-century adaptations and the politics of wonder
Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder , accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a fairy-tale web of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century . Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres.
Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's Enchanted, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk , Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, Fables . She looks at the fairy-tale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as activist response in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of The Arabian Nights as media text in post-9/11 globalized culture.
Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
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The evolution of Claire
In this prequel to the \"Jurassic World\" movies, college freshman Claire Dearing interns at the soon-to-open Jurassic World theme park, where she falls in love with fellow student Justin and uncovers a sinister plot.
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Tech-noir film
From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works - including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, Tech-Noir Film will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre.
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