Film category: 7532 books
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
Main Street Movies
The History of Local Film in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
"See yourself in the movies!"
Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without...
Girls Will Be Boys
Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library
Long listed for the 2017 Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions...
by James Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Introducing the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in film studies, this guide covers such ideas as authorship and genre, technological impacts and the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema’s emergence as a major art form that reflects and...
by Linda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the...
The Dimensions of Difference
Space, Time and Bodies in Womens Cinema and Continental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies. These are some of the most fundamental elements of cinema,...
Christophe Honoré
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
French filmmaker Christophe Honoré challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside of Europe has left him largely unknown to U.S. audiences. In Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction,...
by Emilie Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art,’ equal to literature, painting or music, and it revolutionized film-making and writing. Its contributors would put their words into...
Film and Ethics
Foreclosed Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Film & Ethics considers a range of films and texts of film criticism alongside disparate philosophical discourses of ethics by Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Lacanian psychoanalysts and postmodern theorists.
European Cinema and Television
Cultural Policy and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices,...
Global Cinematic Cities
New Landscapes of Film and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Piano Playbook: Film Music features superb new solo Piano arrangements of 45 inspiring film music pieces.
Song List:
- Le Moulin (from Amelie)
- Any Other Name (from American Beauty)
- Angela Undress (from American Beauty)
- Frank Lucas (from American Gangster)
- Theme (from Atonement)
-...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Alfred Hitchcock was once so famous he was the only film director whose name appeared on the cinema marquee above the title. He disparaged actors and loathed location shooting since both threatened the precise realisation of the film he had already made in his mind. Yet, in his Hollywood heyday he...
Pride and Panic
Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia’s anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both its creation and perception, to expose the intriguing dynamics of societal psychological conditions. Using specific...