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by Matthew B. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
American guerrillas fight small-scale battles that, despite their implications for large-scale American victories, often go untold. This book evaluates those stories to illumine the ways in which film and television have created, reinforced, and circulated an "American Guerrilla" fantasy—a...
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays...
The Migration of Musical Film
From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Movie musicals are among the most quintessentially American art forms, often celebrating mobility, self-expression, and the pursuit of one’s dreams. But like America itself, the Hollywood musical draws from many distinct ethnic traditions. In this illuminating new study, Desirée J. Garcia examines...
by Jason Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A complete look at the extensive, ageless, unparalleled filmography of Woody Allen. Writer, actor, director, comedian, author, and musician, Woody Allen is one of the most culturally and cinematically influential filmmakers of all time. His films - he has over 45 writing and directing credits to his...
Script Partners: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV
How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. Script Partners, Second Edition brings together the experience, knowledge, and winning techniques of Hollywood’s most productive partnerships—including Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern...
by Dr Anthony Paraskeva
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett's Film in 1964, on the cusp of his work as a director for stage and screen, coincides with a widespread revival of silent...
by Eva Karene Romero
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book is dedicated to the study of Paraguayan film, particularly small cinemas and movies which represent a socio-politically charged perspective that has until now been overlooked in Latin American Studies. Romero demonstrates that these films are critical to understanding the dynamics of politics...
History on Screen - Shaping National Identity in Mikhalkov's Cinema
Shaping National Identity in Mikhalkov's Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,4, University of St Andrews, language: English, abstract: With the dissolution of the Soviet state and the breakdown of Soviet ideologies the question about Russian national identity became a central issue in post-Soviet Russian culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself. After major quakes in countries as dissimilar as Japan, Chile, Iran and New Zealand, film-makers have...
The Shawshank Experience
Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art...
Wizard of Oz
An Over-the-Rainbow Celebration of the Worlds Favorite Movie
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musical, this new book The Wizard of Oz offers a rare glimpse into the creation of the classic film, its creator L. Frank Baum, the Academy Award-winning score, the leading lady, and the Oz phenomenon that continues to captivate...
Elvis, Marilyn, and the Space Aliens
Icons on Screen in Nevada
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and space aliens like the Transformers share a surprising connection along with James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Rocky Balboa. These beloved icons played active roles in movie and television projects set in the state of Nevada. Long time state film commissioner and movie...
Houses of Noir
Dark Visions from Thirteen Film Studios
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Film noir is a particularly American stylistic phenomenon (although named by French film critics) that permeated nearly every major, minor and independent Hollywood studio production from 1940 through the early 1960s. The author examines the best noir film from each studio and includes each studio’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century.
Features contributions from international...