Film category: 7532 books
Film and Female Consciousness
Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential...
Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD
A Guide to the Best in Cinema Thrills
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Five stars! They don't make them like they used to do. And reading through this compendium of some of the best `mystery, suspense, film noir and detective movies on DVD' reminded me of that. In many cases, these films were made under the studio system, whereby the scripts were tailored to the actors'...
by Stephen Lee Naish
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing,...
Offbeat
British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Critics may sing from an over familiar hymn sheet of so-called ‘cult films’, but there remains an epoch of British cinema still awaiting discovery that is every bit as provocative and deserving of attention. And there could be no finer guide to these uncharted domains than OFFBEAT. This is the...
Editing and Montage in International Film and Video
Theory and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Editing and Montage in International Film and Video presents a theoretical and practical approach to the art of editing. In this book, Luís Fernando Morales Morante explores the international history, technology, theory, practical techniques, psychology, and cognitive effects of editing across a...
by Robert Cettl
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality.
Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with that...
Supercinema
Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here...
Old Borders, New Technologies
Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern...
Hollywood and the End of the Cold War
Signs of Cinematic Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the late 1940s until the early 1990s, the Cold War was perhaps the most critical and defining aspect of American culture, influencing television, music, and movies, among other forms of popular entertainment. Films in particular were at the center of the battle for the hearts and minds of the...
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood
Transforming Children's Literature into Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of ‘classic’ literary texts for children....
Searching for Wisdom In Movies
From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film. This book argues that philosophy and film can and should be used for the amelioration of life’s difficulties and the promotion...
by Larrie Dudenhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several “x-rays” of the superbody’s sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements. In short, these x-rays offer what we might describe as a metamorpho-physiological...
Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television
The Pulse of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the shifts in our emotional preferences, styles, and 'emotional regimes' in western societies from the 1920s to today, as viewed through the lens of film and television.
by Lee Gambin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film by Lee Gambin
Since Alfred Hitchcock gave us The Birds, the natural horror film (where animals or insects cause tremendous damage to the human population) has become a much-loved subgenre, but one seldom referenced. This book offers...