Film category: 7532 books
by A K Chettiar
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
In 1937, a 26-year-old Indian aboard a ship sailing from New York to Dublin, decided to make a documentary on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Over the next few years he travelled some 100,000 miles collecting 50,000 feet of film footage, with the expectation and then the outbreak of the Second World War...
by Amitava Nag
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Soumitra Chatterjee became internationally famous with his debut in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar. In an era when Uttam Kumar ruled the minds and hearts of Bengali film audiences, Chatterjee carved a niche for himself, emerging as one of the finest actors, not only in India, but also in the world. Beyond...
Mandela
A Film and Historical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This official companion book to the epic major feature film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom retraces the life of Nelson Mandela, weaving together his own words and historic humanitarian efforts with cinematic narrative and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. It's a movie tie-in unlike any other: a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.
Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments...
Carceral Fantasies
Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before...
The Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals
Your All Access Pass to launching your film on the festival circuit
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
The first step-by-step "How To" guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird's eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker.
Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low Budgets Independent Film Producing
A Step-By-Step Guide to Low Budgets Independent Film Producing
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Complete guide for Producers for film and tv projects
by Eve Light Honthaner
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike. If you're a line producer, production manager, production supervisor, assistant director or production coordinator--the book has everything you'll need (including all the forms, contracts, releases and checklists) to set up and run...
Streaming
Movies, Media, and Instant Access
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Gone are the days when films could only be seen in theaters or rented at video stores: movies are now...
by David Puttnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
From David Puttnam—producer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studio—an insightful and provocative history that explains the personalities and events which shaped film's transformation...
by Robert Cettl
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality.Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with...
by Alex DV Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
This is a collection of film reviews. Among them is the following:
Death Wish 3 (1985)
SMALL SPOILERS: With quasi-police acceptance a vigilante (Charles Bronson) cleans up a rough neighbourhood. Oh boy, what a strange movie. It's scary this was made by adults as it depicts the world view of...
Blood, Guns, and Testosterone
Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably. In the beginning, men instinctively knew right from wrong. They rode to the rescue and saved the day in the nick of time to the admiration and gratitude of society. But over the decades, heroes have evolved from...
Framing Blackness
The African American Image in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans...