Film category: 7532 books
Cinema e storia 2013
La Shoah nel cinema italiano
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Nel 2013 l'Italia non ha ancora un museo della Shoah. Nonostante i ripetuti proclami della politica, manca tuttora un'istituzione nazionale che, al pari di quel che avviene nel resto d'Europa, racconti attraverso la lente d'ingrandimento delle vicende italiane la storia dello sterminio degli ebrei...
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford,...
by Blain Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Lighting is at the heart of filmmaking. The image, the mood, and the visual impact of a film are, to a great extent, determined by the skill and sensitivity of the director of photography in using lighting. Motion Picture and Video Lighting explores technical, aesthetic, and practical aspects of...
by David Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film...
by Gerald Millerson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a distillation of many years' experience, with advice...
Music Editing for Film and Television
The Art and the Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Making music for the movies is a complicated, involved, and challenging process. Music Editing for Film and Television covers the practical skills needed to successfully hone your craft. Through an overview of the music editing process, this book will equip you with detailed techniques to solve musical...
Imagic Moments
Indigenous North American Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns,...
Music in Films on the Middle Ages
Authenticity vs. Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the tension in these films between the surviving evidence for medieval music and the idiomatic tradition of cinematic music....
Transnational Australian Cinema
Ethics in the Asian Diasporas
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
To date, there has been little sustained attention given to the historical cinema relations between Australia and Asia. This is a significant omission given Australia’s geo-political position and the place Asia has held in the national imaginary, oscillating between threat and opportunity. Many...
The Guide to Managing Postproduction for Film, TV, and Digital Distribution
Managing the Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The updated third edition of this popular book offers a clear and detailed overview of the postproduction process, showing readers how to manage each step in taking a film, TV, or media project from production to final delivery, from scheduling and budgeting through editing, sound, visual effects,...
Nollywood
The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world’s largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture’s most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves...
Picturing Cornwall
Landscape, Region and the Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall in films and television programmes, the book looks at amateur...
Hollywood by Hollywood
The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with...
by Bjorn Nordfjord
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Dagur Kari�s Noi the Albino (Noi albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino taps into perennial themes of escapism and existential angst, while its setting in the Westfjords of Iceland provided...