Film category: 7532 books
Film as Cultural Artifact
Religious Criticism of World Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Film is popularly described as a mirror of culture. It plays a pivotal role in facilitating intercultural dialogue in our global village. World cinema helps us understand and appreciate each other’s cultural identity, and promotes harmony across different cultures in our pluralistic society. It...
Writing for Film
The Basics of Screenwriting
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In this introduction to screenwriting, author Darsie Bowden provides sage, real-world advice and instruction on the process of writing film screenplays. This text will help budding screenwriters to structure their dramas, refine their characterizations, and craft their language, while also introducing...
Far from Heaven, Safe, and Superstar
Three Screenplays
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Three acclaimed screenplays from one of today’s most provocative filmmakers, including the Oscar nominated screenplay Far from Heaven.
An award-winning auteur and a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement, Todd Haynes has achieved both critical acclaim and box office success with his original,...
China in the Mix
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-Socialist China. In this study,...
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science...
European Film and Television Co-production
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This volume offers an up-to-date analysis of film and television co-production in Europe. It brings together the voices of policy professionals, industry practitioners and media industry scholars to trace the contours of a complex practice that is of increasing significance in the global media landscape....
by Dale Angell
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the comprehensive roadmap to affordable postproduction workflow using Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, and Pro Tools. Illuminating workflow and the interrelationship of these software applications, it also focuses on cost saving and efficiency, aiding...
Woman with a Movie Camera
My Life as a Russian Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European,...
by Cyrus Manasseh
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Film Science, grade: N/A: Professional Lecture, University of Technology, Sydney (School of Design), course: MA Animation, language: English, abstract: This lecture 'Revising Animation Genres: Jan Svankmajer, Tim Burton and James Cameron and the Study...
The British Cinema Boom, 1909–1914
A Commercial History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This book examines why thousands of cinemas opened in Britain in the space of a few years before the start of the First World War. It explains how they were the product of an investment boom which observers characterised as economically irrational and irresponsible. Burrows profiles the main groups...
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!
A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1999
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering...
Film Rhythm after Sound
Technology, Music, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness of the first talkies. Film Rhythm after Sound analyzes this evolution via close examination of important prototypes of early sound filmmaking, as well as contemporary...
Veiled Desires
Intimate Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Ingrid Bergman’s engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary’s made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a “complete understanding”...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité...