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With pricing flexibility, the ability to capture data on viewers and the promise of attracting new subscribers, film premieres on streaming services are a no-brainer for studio executives.
Next month, Russia is sending a director and actor to film in space. What does this mean for filmmakers, astronauts, movie fans and the International Space Station?
The subject of a new biopic, Tammy Faye was a televangelist icon. But she also represented another side of the evangelical coin – one that was big-hearted, vulnerable and accepting.
Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
Nigerian filmmakers are looking at the past and remaking old Nollywood classics for a new generation.
As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled abroad – where many had their first encounters with the marine predators.
Local institutions and community bonds forged during the turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s helped a vulnerable neighborhood walloped by the pandemic endure.
In the war to secure exclusive content, the ability to invest in the acquisition or production of original content has become crucial ammunition.
The latest movie to take on this classic story sentimentalizes history in the name of inspiring religious devotion.
Some critics are complaining that sex scenes have vanished from cinema. But they’re still very much present – in all their awkward, perverse glory.
Soo Yong’s career, particularly when contrasted with Anna May Wong’s, shows how Hollywood and Chinese popular culture aimed to depict Chinese women amid shifting Chinese-American relationships.
Relying on familiar stereotypes and images can make us miss this critical opportunity to reshape the ways in which Asian women are viewed as individuals and artists.
Loudly proclaiming your dislikes isn’t snobbery. There can be a power and poetry to putrescence.
There are signs that home movie viewing could meet a resurgence of local movie-going that draws on entertainment conventions that preceded Hollywood’s rise.
An Italian media scholar raised on American TV assesses Netflix’s ambitious strategy to create original productions in Italy, Japan, Brazil and beyond – and distribute them globally.
Hollywood movies have long leaned into colonial representations of the tropics: imagined as romantic palm-fringed coasts full of abundance, but also scary places full of pestilence and primitiveness.
Hollywood loves a good monster battle, and where better to turn for inspiration than the animal kingdom? Traits from real animals can provide clues about the fighting prowess of Kong and Godzilla.
The French government, by prioritizing only “essential” sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic, is ignoring the importance of its culture and cultural assets.
Hollywood continues to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying barriers to access.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Associate Professor of Theatre, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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PhD Candidate, Humanities, York University, Canada
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University