Film category: 7532 books
by SparkNotes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Spirited Away (SparkNotes Film Guide)
Making the reading experience fun!
SparkNotes Film Guides are one-stop guides to great works of film–masterpieces that are the foundations of filmmaking and film studies. Inside each guide you’ll find thorough, insightful overviews of films from a variety...
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Extreme Gewalt im Film - ästhetischer Genuß oder gefährliches Vorbild?
ästhetischer Genuß oder gefährliches Vorbild?
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Proseminar II - Aufbaukurs Film, 16 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gewaltdarstellungen sind schon lange fester Bestandteil...
by Frank Dersch
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,0, Universität Konstanz, Veranstaltung: Kurs: American Dreams - American Nightmares, 13 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Kino interessierte und interessiert sich immer...
A Thousand Cuts
The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection...
The Film Novelist
Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The Film Novelist is the first primer on writing film novels- whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over into script/novel writing, or a creative writing teacher looking for proven ways to launch new writers.
So, what is the difference between a screenplay...
Canadian Film
Perspectives on Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary...
6 Degrees of Film
The Future of Film in the Global Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book is intended for film buffs of all ages, and in fact anyone interested in learning more about the history of fi lm. 6 Degrees of Film will take you on a short trip through the history of the movies where you will learn about the surprising connections between the fi lms of the past and the...
The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition
The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects...
D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation
A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of thirteen essays...
Chick Flicks
Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those...
Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Magnificent Seven was a Western reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Despite such stars as Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, the film was not terribly successful when it premiered. However, in the years since, the film has become recognized as a classic of the genre....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been captured on film during periods of exurberance, devastation, division, and reconstruction. World Film...