Film category: 7532 books
Hollywood Harmony
Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music...
by Robert Schwartzwald
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
A Queer Film Classic on the 2005 film debut by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée (best known for Dallas Buyers Club and Wild), about a young gay man who struggles to find his sense of self amidst a "crazy" family of four brothers and a homophobic father who seeks to cure him. The film won...
by S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered his...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade. Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its...
The Back to the Future Quiz Book
The Film Quiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Are you a fan of the film Back To The Future Do you think you know all there is to know about the film. Containing questions about the plot, characters and actors, as well as facts about the making of the film. This fun quiz book will test you, your family and friends knowledge of this great film.
Film Directing Fundamentals
See Your Film Before Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader...
Nothing Happens
Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1996
Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce,...
by Simon Callow
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking.
A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account...
A Year of Movies
365 Films to Watch on the Date They Happened
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
While watching a movie, how many viewers notice some of the finer details of the film, such as the time of day during a scene—or even the date itself? For instance, does anyone remember what day detention is served by the high schoolers in The Breakfast Club or can guess when aliens first make their...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The 34 essays of this collection by leading international scholars reassess Truffaut's impact on cinema as they locate the unique quality of his thematic obsessions and his remarkable narrative techniques. Almost 30 years after his death, we are presented with strikingly original perspectives on his...
Street with No Name
A History of the Classic American Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force...
Counter-Archive
Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its...
Cassavetes Directs
John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael Ventura to write a unique film study—an on-set diary of the making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his expectations. He wanted "a daring book, a tough book". In Ventura’s words, "All I had to do for...