Film category: 7532 books
by Dermot Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award®-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts from the eagerly anticipated new adventure in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.
The...
by Daniel M. Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2014
As the title Jar Jar Binks Must Die indicates, Daniel M. Kimmel is not only a film critic with strong opinions, he's also a fan. In this collection of essays, he covers movies from Metropolis (1927), answering the absurd claim that the restoration of this silent classic negated its status as a science...
Film School
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An “entertaining” memoir of a very non-typical film student making his way through USC’s famously competitive program (Los Angeles Times).
When Midwestern journalist Steve Boman applied to the University of Southern California’s vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, the world’s oldest...
The Fall of Buster Keaton
His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18...
The New Wave
Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as...
Agnes Varda
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the "Mother of the New Wave" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment...
Concentrationary Cinema
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not...
Class, Crime and International Film Noir
Globalizing America's Dark Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation...
Otto Preminger
The Man Who Would Be King
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The first full-scale life of the controversial, greatly admired yet often underrated director/producer who was known as “Otto the Terrible.”
Nothing about Otto Preminger was small, trivial, or self-denying, from his privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of an improbably successful...
by Ricardo Belo
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Want to become a film maker?
This book allows you to understand and learn the basics in this complex niche. Technical specs made easy for you so you can start your own film!!
Easy to read and apply so you can be successful.
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's...
The Sound of Music Story
How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended...
The Movie Queen Quiz Book
A Trivia Test Dedicated to Fabulous Female Film Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Do you know
Which movie queens were the first mother and daughter to each receive an Oscar nomination in the same year? Which movie queens appeared in advertisements for products ranging from Coppertone tanning lotion to Depends undergarments? Which movie queen (and show-biz legend) delivered...