Film category: 7532 books
Opening Bazin
Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
With the full range of his voluminous writings finally viewable, André Bazin seems more deserving than ever to be considered the most influential of all writers on film. His brief career, 1943-58, helped bring about the leap from classical cinema to the modern art of Renoir, Welles, and neorealism....
Jean Epstein
Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. Until now no general introduction to this very influential filmmaker, thinker and writer was available in English. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory...
Costume Design in the Movies
An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
"An attractive and informed guide. It includes an extensively cross-referenced list of films on which leading couturiers worked, a superb collection of stills, and a brief history of costume on the screen." — George L. George, Millimeter
This handsome book, the first comprehensive...
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to illuminate Hollywood's fascinating...
Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film
A Panic-Free Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course. Preplanning the budget and schedule of any...
The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
A History and Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in...
The Big Picture
Filmmaking Lessons from a Life on the Set
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Film production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on the sets of critically praised films and commercial blockbusters for more than three decades?including seventeen years alongside director Woody Allen. In The Big Picture, he explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the vantage point of someone...
Making Tootsie
A Film Study with Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
“A perceptive and provocative work.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A stunning job of research, observation and reporting.”
—Larry Gelbart, co-writer of Tootsie and writer on TV’s “M*A*S*H*”
“This fluid, marvelously detailed book goes a long way toward explaining why Tootsie...
by Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Widely acclaimed as a horror movie actress, Fay Wray is best remembered for her performances in King Kong and four other classic 1930s film thrillers, Doctor X, The Most Dangerous Game, Mystery of the Wax Museum and The Vampire Bat. Yet Wray appeared in 77 feature films between 1925 and 1958, playing...
by Axel Nissen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Before she achieved immortality on the long-running situation comedy Bewitched, Agnes Moorehead had established a distinguished career as a character actress. After her screen debut in Citizen Kane (1941), Moorehead became one of the most familiar female faces on the silver screen. For moviegoers...
by Robert Niemi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This cinematic guide to war movies spans 800 years in its analysis of films from those set in the 13th century Scottish Wars of Independence (Braveheart) to those taking place during the 21st-century war in Afghanistan (Lone Survivor). World War II has produced the largest number of war movies and...
V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche
A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to literature, history, cinema, music, art, politics, and medicine....
Zona
A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From a writer whose mastery encompasses fiction, criticism, and the fertile realm between the two, comes a new book that confirms his reputation for the unexpected.
In Zona, Geoff Dyer attempts to unlock the mysteries of a film that has haunted him ever since he first saw it thirty years ago:...
Interstellar
Beyond Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In his sci-fi epic Interstellar, Christopher Nolan takes on the infinite canvas of space to deliver a cutting-edge, emotionally charged adventure that will amaze audiences of all ages. Interstellar: Beyond Time and Space documents the making of Nolan's latest masterpiece in fascinating detail and...