Film category: 7532 books
The British School Film
From Tom Brown to Harry Potter
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Through close textual and contextual analysis of British films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of public (fee-paying) and state schooling;...
Dreaming in the Rain
How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Vancouver is now North America’s third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Will Smith’s I, Robot, among others. But Vancouver has been hosting filmmakers for years, coming into its own in the early 1970s when Robert...
Evading the Issue
Hollywood and the Social Problem Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues ‘in an honest and truthful fashion’. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio’s claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy...
by Paul McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom.
Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis...
by Jonathan Bignell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at particular films, including The Piano and The English Patient, to discussions of the latest developments in film studies...
by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis....
Silent Cinema
Before the Pictures Got Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between...
Stage-Play and Screen-Play
The intermediality of theatre and cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined.
Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products...
Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema. Nearly 25 years later, the biblical epic was remade by William Wyler and received an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards, including one for Miklós Rózsa's...
Investing in Movies
Strategies for Investors and Producers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Investing in Movies: Strategies for Investors and Producers is a useful guide for investors and producers looking for an analytical framework to assess the opportunities and pitfalls of film investments. The book traces macroeconomic trends and the globalization of the business, as well as the impact...
The Movie Lovers' Club
How to Start Your Own Film Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Large screen TVs and full-line DVD services have liberated movie lovers from fear of parking and stale popcorn. Across the country, movie lovers are staying in and creating their own version of book clubs — but without the homework. The Movie Lovers’ Club — the only guide for movie nights with...
The Gangster Film
Fatal Success in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as a result of socio-cultural circumstances. From its origins in Progressive-era reforms to its use as an indictment of corporate greed, the gangster film...
They Live
A Novel Approach to Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick” (Hartford Advocate).
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Audiences can't get enough of fang fiction. Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Underworld, and the novels of Anne Rice and Darren Shan—against this glut of bloodsuckers, it takes an incredible film to make a name for itself. Directed by Tomas...