Film category: 7532 books
by Laura Rascaroli
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing...
Black Space
Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues...
by William Luhr
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements.
Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed but remains notoriously...
AS Film Studies
The Essential Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction gives students the confidence to tackle every part of the WJEC AS level Film Studies course. The authors, who have wide ranging experience as teachers, examiners and authors, introduce students step by step, to the skills involved in the study of film. The...
by Gary D. Rhodes, Tom Weaver, Michael Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Cross and wooden stake in hand, Dr. Gary D. Rhodes re-enters the sepulcher of supernatural cinema, casting his lantern's light on Universal’s 1936 classic Dracula’s Daughter. With fellow tomb raiders Tom Weaver and Michael Lee, he discovers long-forgotten lore, presented herein with the film’s...
Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating,...
by Leonard Quart, Albert Auster
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society.
• Analyzes major political and social currents...
Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids
Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
During the 1990s, Austin achieved "overnight" success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez proved that locally made films with regional themes such as Slacker and El Mariachi could capture a national audience. Their success helped...
Australian Film Festivals
Audience, Place, and Exhibition Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This is thefirst book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia. Tracing the birth of film festivals in Australia in the 1950s through to their present abundance, it asks why film festivals have prospered as audience-driven...
by Douglas Gomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
The coming of sound to film was an event whose importance can hardly be overestimated; sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry but all of world cinema as well. As economic and film historian Douglas Gomery explains, the business of film became not only bigger but much more complex....
China's Cinema of Class
Audiences and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
China’s commercial film industry can be used as a map to understand how class is interwoven into the imaginations that inform and influence social change in Chinese society. Film consumption is important in this process, particularly for young adult urbanites that are China’s primary commercial...
Celluloid Vampires
Life After Death in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Mlis brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature,...
Contemporary American Independent Film
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios, the contributors trace the changing ideas and definitions of independent cinema, and the diversity...
Miracles and Sacrilege
Robert Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2008
Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini’s film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court...