Film category: 7532 books

Based on the best-selling novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is director Sofia Coppola’s evocative debut feature of young love, sex, loss and family pressures in mid-1970s America. Acclaimed by both critics and audiences on release, the film is now viewed as a remarkable and bold feature...

Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds....

Everyone enjoys a good film. Many of us have seen our favourites over and again, can quote all the best lines and have a personal list of memorable movie moments. If your idea of a perfect evening is settling down to watch a movie the 500 questions in The Film Buff’s Quiz Book have been compiled...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Film Science, grade: 2,0, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: On the 20th December 2011 a new Hollywood film was released throughout North America. It was a remake, a film based on another one, starring...

James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce's writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readings of Joyce and film. Through a compelling combination of historical research and critical analysis, Cleo...

Un’analisi veloce, ma esauriente, del film di Mario Bava: 5 Bambole per la Luna di Agosto. Gli argomenti trattati sono: la Locandina, il Cast Tecnico, gli Interpreti, i Doppiatori Italiani, i Titoli Alternativi, le Date rilascio film, le Parole chiavi del film, la Trama, la Critica, la Critica di...

This book uncovers a unique post-war film production programme and explores how this first British government intervention into ‘visual education’ is relevant to film education today. In 1943 the Ministry of Education took the decision to sponsor production of an experimental programme of nonfiction...

Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of...

The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film provides a step-by-step guide for setting up distribution for your film. It is designed primarily for independent filmmakers who are distributing their first few films with budgets ranging from under $200,000 to a few million.It is divided into...

Film and music are the language of modern culture. What messages are being conveyed in the movies and songs we love? An Unexpected Journal explores the truths embedded within popular media. Contributors "Serenity and the Theodicy of Joss Whedon" by C.M. Alvarez: An exploration...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Professur für öffentliches Recht, insbesondere Völkerrecht und Europarecht), Veranstaltung: ISA-Seminar: Recht im Film, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Universität Trier (Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Film und Kino in der Weimarer Republik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als METROPOLIS am 10.01.1927 im Berliner Zoopalast Premiere hatte, konnte keiner ahnen welchen Einfluss...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 2,0, Universität Siegen, Veranstaltung: Die Wende in Literatur und Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein Mann, der während der Zeit des DDR-Regimes inhaftiert wird, den Fall der Mauer im Gefängnis...

Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. Sikov primes the eye and mind in the special techniques of film analysis. His...