Film category: 7532 books
Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth
Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film’s creation.
Released in 2006, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth was hailed as a dark, thrilling masterpiece and announced the filmmaker as a major creative force,...
All That Hollywood Allows
Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position. Both a work of feminist film criticism and theory and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
From an adventurous balloon ride above the clouds to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.," "Up") has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In Disney•Pixar's original movie " Inside Out," he will take...
Animation in China
History, Aesthetics, Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown.
This...
The Healthy Edit
Creative Editing Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This updated and revised new edition of The Healthy Edit provides aspiring and working editors with creative editing strategies they can employ to enhance a film, while also overcoming common production problems. With decades of experience editing and film doctoring Hollywood features, author John...
by Tom Lazarus
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2001
Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that.
Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secrets-the tips, short cuts, tricks, and insider advice that will get your story down on paper, maximize...
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold
Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold...
Production Culture
Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors,...
Mean Streets and Raging Bulls
The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties...
Film Violence
History, Ideology, Genre
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
A concise and accessible introduction to the role of violence from the silent era to the present, this volume illustrates the breadth and depth of screen bloodshed in historical, cultural, and industrial contexts. After considering problems of definition, the book offers a systematic history of film...
Cinemachismo
Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men...
by Jennifer L. Creech
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women’s films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public...
Women, Pleasure, Film
What Lolas Want
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. Lola embodies a recognizable set of characteristics through which over time a select group of directors, actors, and audiences have responded...
The Enchanted Screen
The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks...