Film category: 7532 books

An in-depth critical re-appraisal and inside account of director Hal Ashby's final feature film 8 Million Ways to Die starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and Andy Garcia. Hal Ashby was one of the most renowned directors of the 1970s, helming such classics as Harold & Maude, The Last...

In 1973, Cabaret walked away with eight Academy Awards, including gold statues for director Bob Fosse and for its stars, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. Based on the long-running Broadway musical, with a memorable score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cabaret is a landmark film that broke new cinematic...

Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities. As museums and galleries devote increasing space to video installations which no longer presuppose a fixed viewer, urban...

The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of...

Classe 1953, è una delle rivelazioni più interessanti del cinema francese tra gli anni ’80 e gli anni ’90. I suoi film, quasi sempre ambientati nei quartieri popolari di Marsiglia, raccontano la vita dei lavoratori, le tensioni ma anche i benefici derivanti dalla presenza di una forte comunità...

Attraverso queste venti storie, raccontate senza fare critica né storia del cinema, Irene Bignardi ha costruito un itinerario veneziano molto personale vissuto tra calli e campi, chiese e palazzi, drammi e commedie. E fa rivivere, con una scrittura lieve e sapiente, l’allegria kitsch di Cappello...

UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) is the first classic of underground cinema, a ferocious assault of mutilation, madness and multiple manias set in the fractured framework of a nightmare. Ants, rotting donkeys, severed hands, and ocular destruction are just some of the film’s provocative motifs, drawn from...

Considering selected films representing three periods in history – World Wars I and II and their interim, the Vietnam War, and the major conflicts in the Middle East – The Hollywood War Film reflects on Hollywood’s representations of war and conflict, in order to map some cinematic discourses...

The conversation between Wim Wenders and Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008) took place on location in December 1983, while Mr. Wenders was shooting his first American Film, Paris Texas. America was a place of European immigrants, German immigrants, and a vast land stretching to California. Men and...

By the power of Greyskull! In their second big-screen collaboration after Shaun of the Dead (2004), with Hot Fuzz (2007) director and co-writer Edgar Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg took aim at the conventions of the Hollywood action movie, transplanting gratuitous slo-mo action sequences...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Innumerevoli sono stati i tentativi di rifare i capolavori del maestro del brivido, ma con scarsi risultati. L'Hitchcock's touch, quel quid indefinibile che determina la grandezza degli originali, sparisce sempre anche nei remake migliori. Emblematico il caso di tentativi addirittura filologici, come...

Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made...

Die Heldenreise ist der großartigste geistige Entwurf und die wirksamste Lebenshilfe der Menschheit — so etwas wie ihre in Geschichten gesammelte Weisheit. Das Abenteuer des Helden, der Kampf des Helden mit dem Drachen und die Befreiung des Schatzes der geraubten Seele, wird seit Urzeiten von allen...