Guides Reviews category: 501 books
Television Introductions
Narrated TV Program Openings since 1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Since the beginning of network television, many shows have been preceded by an announcement or theme song that served various purposes. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was common for announcers to declare that a program had been “brought to you by” a sponsor who paid for the privilege of introducing...
by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis....
Silent Cinema
Before the Pictures Got Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between...
Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934)
When Sin Ruled the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies.
Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none other: you will...
Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition)
Surviving and thriving at America's most important film festival.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Independent film at 7,500 feet! January in Utah - for 10 days, the normally sleepy mountain resort of Park City becomes the focus of the movie world as 50,000 people descent on the town to sample the year's finest independent films, do a little business, and partake in all that is the Sundance Film...
Cult Horror Movies
Discover the 33 Best Scary, Suspenseful, Gory, and Monstrous Cinema Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Bride of Frankenstein to House of Wax to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Brood—horror is a beloved and multifaceted genre, with no two classics truly alike. And almost all of them—great and not-so-great—inspire the kind of passion that only cult films truly reach. In this collection...
by D. Scott Apel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The iTunes Movie Guru (Emeritus) shares his selection of the 123 best unknown action, thriller, suspense and mystery movies available on demand and on DVD, excerpted from KILLER B’s Volumes 1 & 2.We live in an age of unprecedented access to movies. Too bad most of them suck. Netflix, iTunes,...
A Family At War
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to 'Till Death Us Do Part'
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Look … Look … Listen! You might learn somefink. This is the story of Till Death Us Do Part, the most controversial, most influential sitcom ever made for television. It is the story of a family at war – with each other, with the world, with religion, with royalty, with politics, with the...
by Jack Ketchum
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
From the author of The Girl Next Door and the co-author of The Woman, Turning Japanese offers an insight into films that "pushed the edge of the envelope" as reviewed by Jack Ketchum in Asian Cult Cinema Magazine. Several films by Katsuya Matsumura, Yahuharu Hasebe, Ran Masaki, and Takashi Miike are...
Beautiful Monsters
The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Aliens and Predator
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Beautiful Monsters is the story of the Alien and Predator film franchises. Each film is chronicled through analysis and extensive background information, and the themes and influences examined through articles. In addition all the spin-off books, comics and computer games...
Visto in sala. Storytelling attraverso il cinema.
Analisi non convenzionali per comprendere il cinema
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Quelle che vi apprestate a leggere non sono “recensioni” di film. Le storie cinematografiche sono un pretesto per affrontare i temi della narrazione sotto diversi punti di vista: l’articolazione di una storia, la creazione della suspense, le tematiche che riguardano i conflitti, le relazioni...
AS Film Studies
The Essential Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction gives students the confidence to tackle every part of the WJEC AS level Film Studies course. The authors, who have wide ranging experience as teachers, examiners and authors, introduce students step by step, to the skills involved in the study of film. The...
by Travis Yates
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
What happens when a latchkey kid grows up to be a film professor? He’s forced to reconcile film form and theory with the cheesy films he loved growing up.
A Latchkey Kid’s Take on Modern Cinema is a collection of film essays by Travis C. Yates, most of which originally appeared as regular...
Reefer Movie Madness
The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Reefer Movie Madness is the perfect follow-up to Halperin and Bloom’s big-selling Pot Culture. It’s the most extensive guide ever to movies for the stoner audience, a real market that has proven its mass appeal with the successful Harold and Kumar franchise and the Judd Apatow library (Pineapple...