Film category: 7532 books
Sayles Talk
New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
His name is synonymous with "independent film," and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented...
The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film
Viewing Experiences of Intimacy and Immersion
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing study argues that since 1990, the two media have turned toward inner German experiences of the Third Reich. From intimate...
by Stephanie Muir
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
A leading example of a resurgent Latin American cinema – 'la buena onda' – in the early twenty-first century, City of God was a huge international popular and critical success. A combination of intoxicating, Hollywood-style genre film-making and hard-hitting, social-realist subject matter, it...
Latino Image Makers in Hollywood
Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day’s Night to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, from the works...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
"Ravished Armenia" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people at the...
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America
Conversations with Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Since the late 1960s, films from Latin America have won widening audiences in North America and Europe. Until now, no single book has offered an introduction to the diverse personalities and practices that make up this important regional film movement. In Cinema and Social Change in Latin America, Julianne...
Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from being an ephemeral and short-lived genre, horror actually relates to many facets of American history from...
American History through Hollywood Film
From the Revolution to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
American History through Hollywood Film offers a new perspective on major issues in American history from the 1770s to the end of the twentieth century and explores how they have been represented in film. Melvyn Stokes examines how and why representation has changed over time, looking at the origins,...
World War I on Film
English Language Releases through 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolationist movement in the U.S. and a growing hatred of the “Hun,” contemporary films were mainly propaganda calling citizens to arms. The American film industry...
Popular Egyptian Cinema
Gender, Class, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines...
Sounding the Modern Woman
The Songstress in Chinese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the Modern Woman, Jean Ma shows how their rise to stardom attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity and the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries. The songstress—whether...
Feminist Film Theorists
Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood.
Examining the new and distinctive...
Anne Bancroft
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931--2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in the stage and film drama The...