Film category: 7532 books
Successful Scriptwriting
How to write and pitch winning scripts for movies, sitcoms, soaps, serials and variety shows
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
SUCCESSFUL SCRIPTWRITING
Let's start with "The End." The credits roll - we see "Screenplay by …" and there's your name. The show's a hit! It's Emmy/Oscar night, and you're seated up front. The nominations are revealed; your name is called. Your acceptance speech is memorable,...
by Steve Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The key to a project's ultimate success is good planning. This unique new book shows how to prepare for the myriad of steps required to execute production and post production of a video, film or multimedia project.
Cartwright explains in detail how to save money and time in production and post-production,...
Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers
Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative, you probably have a project that needs constant exposure, or a product to promote. But how do you rise above the noise?
In Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd, Richard Botto explains how...
by Patricia Aufderheide
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
From D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices...
Prison Movies
Cinema Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for...
by María del Mar Azcona
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative introduction to this important new genre.
Explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide
Guides readers through the genre’s central characteristics and conventions, as well...
Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses,...
Giraffes on Horseback Salad
Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This lushly illustrated graphic novel re-creates a lost Marx Brothers script written by modern art icon Salvador Dali.
Grab some popcorn and take a seat...The curtain is about to rise on a film like no other! But first, the real-life backstory: Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers...
Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film
Global Theories and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme...
by J.K. Rowling
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Le précédent film Les Animaux fantastiques se terminait sur la capture du puissant mage noir Gellert Grindelwald à New York grâce à Norbert Dragonneau. Mais, mettant sa menace à exécution, Grindelwald s’échappe de prison et s’attèle à recruter des partisans, dont la plupart ignorent...
Hitler in the Movies
Finding Der Führer on Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing...
Polish Film and the Holocaust
Politics and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and...
The Pedagogical Imagination
The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic’s identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful...