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by Gautam Basu Thakur
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial...
The International Film Business
A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The International Film Business examines the independent film sector as a business, and addresses the specific skills and knowledge it demands. It describes both the present state of the industry, the significant digital and social media developments that are continuing to take place, and what changes...
Law of Desire
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
“This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal
Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp...
Composing for the Cinema
The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission;...
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature
Time, Narrative, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Typically, studies of early cinema’s relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public’s attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the...
Japanese and Hong Kong Film Industries
Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical account of the complex interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong film industries from the 1930s...
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of...
Transcendence and Film
Cinematic Encounters with the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner...
by Alex DV Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This book is a collection of film reviews. Among them is the following:
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
A virgin (Dakota Johnson) falls in love with an emotionally distant billionaire (Jamie Dornan) with an interest in kinky BDSM. I've not read the book so I can only judge from the film...
Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson�s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The �songs� of the film�s title refer to Andersson�s artistic ruminations on the state...
Comic Book Film Style
Cinema at 24 Panels per Second
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers...
The Politics and Poetics of Black Film
Nothing But a Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality...
Finnish Cinema
A Transnational Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a small nation cinema, Finnish film culture has, even at its most nationalistic, always been attached to developments in other film producing nations in terms of production and distribution...