Film category: 7532 books
The Art of Film Acting
A Guide For Actors and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to believable and honest emotions before the camera, and...
Directed by God
Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expansion of the settler community, Israeli society is becoming increasingly religious. Although the arrival...
Into the Past
The Cinema of Guy Maddin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around the world and is avidly discussed in the...
The Heist Film
Stealing with Style
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean's...
Film Trilogies
New Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Drawing on a wide range of examples, this book – the first devoted to the phenomenon of the film trilogy– provides a dynamic investigation of the ways in which the trilogy form engages key issues in contemporary discussions of film remaking, adaptation, sequelization and serialization.
Toy Story
How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), Pixar's first feature-length production and Hollywood's first completely computer-generated animated film, is an international cultural phenomenon. This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners who together explore the themes, compositional...
Projected Shadows
Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, of consciousness, of freedom...
by Sumita S. Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses...
Annotated Godfather
The Complete Screenplay with Commentary on Every Scene, Interviews, and Little-Known Facts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This fully authorized, annotated, and illustrated edition of the complete screenplay of The Godfather presents all the little-known details and behind-the-scenes intrigue surrounding the landmark film.
The Godfather is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made, from its brilliant...
by Federico Pacchioni, Dr Peter Bondanella
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni...
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre
Foreword by Ang Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor's craft, Lenore DeKoven...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
World Film Locations: Dublin aims to present a selective snapshot of the city through the medium of the movies made or set in it and allow the reader to inhabit these spaces, passing through a stimulating choice of words and pictures that inform and precipitate an imagined exploration.It is a collection...
Castaways of the Image Planet
Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies,...
Great Britons of Stage and Screen
In Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Although there are encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries of contemporary British film and theatre actors, most lack the intimacy of face-to-face interviews. Typically drawn from secondary sources, collections of interviews often repeat tired anecdotes about an actor’s film or stage roles,...