Film category: 7532 books
Life is Beautiful, But Not for Jews
Another View of the Film by Benigni
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy Life is Beautiful enjoyed tremendous success everywhere it was shown. In addition to winning almost every possible film award, including three Oscars, lavish praise and film reviews, it grossed over a quarter of a billion dollars—the most profitable Italian movie...
by Cynthia Baron, Sharon Marie Carnicke
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers."
---Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University
Reframing...
American Film History
Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day.
Considers essential...
by Nick Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies. The rise of on demand internet-based video has transformed the way films are distributed and exhibited, with many previously...
The Struggle for Form
Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916–1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of...
by Lane Roth
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Semiotics offers a systematic approach to analysing the stylistic structure of film. When this study was originally published in 1983 this was a recent addition to the methods of film study and it presents an explanation of film semiotics with direct application to comparative film research. It takes...
The Skin of the Film
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The...
The Multisensory Film Experience
A cognitive model of experiential film aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The light and sound of the motion picture, once perceived, are a gateway to a multisensory experience of the spectator. Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing, The Multisensory Film Experience analyses temperature, pain, and balance in order to argue that it is...
by Robert Edgar, John Marland, Mr James Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots...
Reading the Silver Screen
A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.
No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked,...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
What is a Catguffin? Which type of cat would be more likely to rip your throat out in a movie - a Catzilla or a Pussilla? What is the difference between a Catagonist and a Heropuss? And what exactly was Jones the cat getting up to while the crew of the Nostromo were trying not to get killed by the...
Jazz and Cocktails
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began to compose...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology,...
Max Steiner
Composing, Casablanca, and the Golden Age of Film Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Max Steiner is one of the greatest—not to mention most prolific—composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The winner of three Academy Awards, Steiner’s credits include King Kong, The Informer, Gone with the Wind, Now, Voyager, Since You Went Away, Johnny Belinda, and The Caine Mutiny. Though...