Film category: 7532 books
The Hollywood Trust
Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the studio system. These producer-distributor trade associations were forums for internal and external conflicts, as well as the true sources of influence...
Iranian Cinema in a Global Context
Policy, Politics, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Iranian films have been the subject of much critical and scholarly attention over the past several decades, and Iranian filmmakers are mainstays of international film festivals. Yet most of the attention has been focused on a small segment of Iranian film production: auteurist art cinema. Iranian...
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late ‘40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation...
by Melissa U. D. Goldsmith, Paige A. Willson, Anthony J. Fonseca
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Musicians, both fictional and real, have long been subjects of cinema. From biopics of composers Beethoven and Mozart to the rise (and often fall) of imaginary bands in The Commitments and Almost Famous, music of all types has inspired hundreds of films. The Encyclopedia of Musicians and Bands on...
Le Jour se Lève
French Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carnè, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Told in flashback, it recounts the story of a man who has committed a murder, and who awaits his fate as the police close in. Carnè shuttles between different registers, tones and textures...
Eric Rohmer
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of films...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change.
Presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating to all aspects of contemporary...
Cormac McCarthy and Performance
Page, Stage, Screen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Cormac McCarthy is renowned as the author of popular and acclaimed novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road. Throughout his career, however, McCarthy has also invested deeply in writing for film and theater, an engagement with other forms of storytelling that is often overlooked....
Scenarios
Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like uninvited guests, like burglars in the middle of the night. They are in your kitchen; something is stirring, you wake up at 3 a.m. and all of a sudden they...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of Iran, with particular attention to the major...
by Roy Armes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained...
Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development...
by Christian Metz, Dana Polan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept of enunciation to articulate how films "speak"...
War and Film in America
Historical and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
America’s chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across...