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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Though the creative community of Reykjavík, Iceland, has earned a well-deserved reputation for its unique artistic output—most notably the popular music that has emerged from the city since the 1980s—Reykjavík’s filmmakers have received less attention than they merit. World Film Locations:...
America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010
A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009-10
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
*America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010Â *is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema.
Each of...
Film and Video Production in the Cloud
Concepts, Workflows, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
With cloud applications and services now widely available, film and video professionals have all the tools they need to work together on centralized platforms and effectively collaborate across separate desktop, web, and mobile devices. In Film and Video Production in the Cloud, veteran video production...
A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
All the References from African Swallows to Zoot
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This exhaustive reference identifies and explains the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the first original film by the British comedy troupe. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film—not just...
Hooked in Film
Substance Abuse on the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the harmful effects of drugs. Throughout the decades, images of drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and heroin...
Out Takes
Essays on Queer Theory and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 1999
This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the “politics of representation” has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In 1959, Russ Meyer revolutionized the American sex film industry with The Immoral Mr. Teas, which introduced humor and storytelling into a genre that had hitherto been lacking in them. This and the films that followed earned him the nickname "King of the Nudies", and established the recurring motif...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music...
The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films
Dark Parades
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Go behind the scenes with an insightful look at horror films-and the directors who create them
The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre’s most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation,...
Off the Planet
Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important—if often neglected—aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine ‘Other’ worlds that challenge and disturb the lived conditions of the ‘real’...
The End Of Cinema As We Know It
American Film in the Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering aboutthis prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films, some of which are not exactly "films"...
by Tomlinson Holman, Tomlinson Holman
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Sound for Film and Television, Third Edition provides a thorough introduction to the fascinating field of recording, editing, mixing, and exhibiting film and television sound. It strikes a fine balance between aesthetic and technical content, combining theory and practice to approach sound as both...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today’s transnational media industries by several decades, these connections were defined by...