Film category: 7532 books
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
The Making of Roger Rabbit
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over thirty Academy Awards, could stop what appeared...
The Medieval Filmscape
Reflections of Fear and Desire in a Cinematic Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book is an attempt at defining the genre of medieval film by describing its features and analyzing its effects and their significance, there being few works presently available that work toward such definition. There are three parts: the introduction enters the medieval film world, describing...
by Ryan Solcz
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: A-, University of Toronto, course: East German Film, language: English, abstract: This paper takes a closer look at DEFA's production, Der Schweigende Stern, and argues that this film can be classfied...
by Niamh Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film examines Mexican films of political conflict from the early studio Revolutionary films of the 1930-50s up to the campaigning Zapatista films of the 2000s. Mapping this evolution out for the first time, the author takes three key events under consideration:...
by Steve Choe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation. Correspondingly, recent film historians and theorists have taken up these discourses to theorize the moving image, both in analog and digital. But, many important...
Understanding Design in Film Production
Using Art, Light & Locations to Tell Your Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning.In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design, cinematography, lighting, and locations to create an effective...
Career Movies
American Business and the Success Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country's preoccupation with...
Refiguring Spain
Cinema/Media/Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1997
In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinderhas gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain’s national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues...
by Bill Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Have you ever wanted to make your own movies, documentaries, music videos, or vlogs? In this easy-to-read and magnificently illustrated volume, you will learn why movies move; how film and video cameras work; how to light and expose your shots to get the best results; how to create eye-pleasing compositions;...
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University...
Making Your First Feature Film
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his debut feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author describes the practical preproduction steps...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films’ preoccupation...
Film and Video Editing Theory
How Editing Creates Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible, introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing. In this book, Michael Frierson synthesizes the theories of the most prominent film editors and scholars, from Herbert Zettl, Sergei Eisenstein, and Noël Burch to the work...
Fantasy/Animation
Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated...