Film category: 7532 books
by Marek Haltof
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema fills the gap in film scholarship, presenting an extensive factual survey of Polish film. Through a chronology; an introductory essay; appendixes, a bibliography; and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors,...
Screening Transcendence
Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening Transcendence, film historian Robert Dassanowsky explores how Austrian filmmakers during the Austrofascist...
Slow Fade to Black
The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell’s richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period,...
The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking
From Preproduction to Festivals and Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In The Cheerful Subversive’s Guide to Independent Filmmaking, celebrated Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish offers a rich exploration of the process and culture of making low-budget, independent films. Once labelled a "cheerful subversive" by The New York Times, Mirvish...
The Utopia of Film
Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a "redeemed world." Situating the films...
Unsettling Scores
German Film, Music, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
"Hillman’s groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing." —Klaus Phillips, Hollins University
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology examines the use of classical music in film,...
Berlin Replayed
Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation.In Berlin Replayed, Brigitta...
Drive in Cinema
Essays on Film, Theory and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Drive in Cinema offers Žižek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilová, to independent filmmakers William Klein, Oliver...
Behind the Curtain
Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as composers, arrangers, assistants, and studio...
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist
Reading the Hollywood Reds
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held...
The Sound of Music Companion
The official companion to the world's most beloved musical
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The definitive book on the world's most beloved musical, The Sound of Music Companion charts the incredible and enduring story of Maria von Trapp and her story over the last hundred years - from Maria's birth in Vienna in 1905 to the 50th anniversary of the film's release in 2015. The book details...
by Alexander Medvedkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet...
by Robert Olson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Written by an author with over 30 years of working experience, this book takes a practical, thorough look at the duties and skills of art directors and production designers. It teaches readers how to analyze a script, develop concepts that meet the needs of a script, develop sketches and construction...
by Zach Sands
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Film Comedy and the American Dream is an examination of national identity in the era of the American superpower as projected in popular comedic films that center on issues of upward mobility. It is the story of what made audiences laugh and why, and what this says about the changing shape of the American...