Film category: 7532 books
by Bridget Baiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Crow is the ultimate cult movie, with a dedicated worldwide following, and two sequels, plus a fourth* *currently in production. Now, ten years after the original film’s release, the full story of this seemingly cursed production can finally be told...
In The Crow’s last days of...
Perpetual Carnival
Essays on Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both film and literature, Colin MacCabe...
Save the cat!
Manuale di sceneggiatura
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Save the cat! è il manuale di scrittura per il cinema che a Hollywood tutti hanno letto. Ti spiega come trasformare la tua storia in una sceneggiatura a prova di bomba. Ci trovi: – i quattro elementi per scrivere una logline perfetta – le sette leggi fisiche della sceneggiatura...
Knockout
The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective...
Sunday in Hell
Behind the Lens of the Greatest Cycling Film of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The Paris-Roubaix Classic. 273 kilometres of torment across the bone-crunching pavé of northern France.
In 1976 the celebrated Danish film director, Jørgen Leth, embarked on an ambitious project to capture the spirit of this spectacular and cruel one-day race. The resulting film, A Sunday in Hell,...
Book on Acting
Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The ability to improvise a skilled performance while speaking scripted and memorized lines is of paramount importance to actors working in today’s film and television productions, which often allow very little if any rehearsal time. Through his innovative Improvisation Technique, Stephen Book shows...
by James Rose
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless (dys)functional family on the furthest reaches of...
Indie Action
Recording a Feature Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Do you want to make a movie that looks professional?
Do you want to compete in independent film events and win?
Do not you have a lot of money and want to spend only on what is necessary to achieve it?
If this is what you want. Then I invite you to read this book that you will...
by William Whittington
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege because of the emergence of sound design.This in-depth study by William Whittington considers the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The pioneering story of Australia’s own Hollywood. Hollywood films and television programs are watched by a global audience. While many of these productions are still made in southern California, the last twenty years have seen new production centers emerge in the US, Canada and other locations...
by Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. This award-winning movie became the most popular ever produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and became emblematic of the bold new queer...
Hip Hop on Film
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 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...
Locating the Moving Image
New Approaches to Film and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new...
Constructing the Coens
From Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The films of Ethan and Joel Coen have been embraced by mainstream audiences, but also have been subject to intense scrutiny by critics and cinema scholars. Movies such as Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, and Raising Arizona represent the filmmakers’ postmodern tendencies, a subject many academics...