Film category: 7532 books
Women's Experimental Cinema
Critical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Women’s Experimental Cinema provides lively introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom worked as early as the 1950s and many of whom are still working today. In each essay in this collection, a leading film scholar considers a single filmmaker, supplying biographical...
Identity construction in David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive
It'll be just like in the movies - we'll pretend we were someone else
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,2, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), course: Border Crossings: Constructing Personal and Social Identity in Film, 13 entries in the bibliography,...
The British Horseracing Film
Representations of the ‘Sport of Kings’ in British Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly...
by Nico Reiher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, San Diego State University (Theater, Film and Media), course: History of Film Classics, language: English, abstract: George Miller's 1979 movie Mad Max has turned into a cult classic film. Given a rather straightforward...
Framed
Women in Law and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to condemn these women or exonerate them? What is...
Cut-Pieces
Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh....
by Kenneth MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek plays, to give a comprehensive account and critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it also offers profound insights into the nature of love and friendship whilst raising important philosophical...
by Sarah-Mai Dang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010)and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus...
Doubting Vision
Film and the Revelationist Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each other. In Doubting Vision, film scholar Malcolm Turvey argues that their work constitutes a distinct, hitherto neglected tradition, which he calls revelationism, and which...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”
Abhijit Naskar, one of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers, reveals to us the true power of filmmaking. With his sharp insight of the human mind, Naskar shows us the impact...
Governing Visions of the Real
The National Film Unit and Griersonian Documentary Film in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Governing Visions of the Real traces the emergence, development, and techniques of Griersonian documentary – named for pioneering Scottish film-maker John Grierson – in New Zealand throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Paying close attention to the productions of the National Film...
Screen Education
From Film Appreciation to Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas’ account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of...
by Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries...