Film category: 7532 books
by Rick Ouellette
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Roger and Me. March of the Penguins. Man on Wire. Paradise Lost. Grizzly Man. Gates of Heaven. Taxi to the Dark Side. Super-Size Me. Spellbound.
In recent decades, titles like this have raised the profile of documentaries like never before. The appeal of films that rely on the testimony of...
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
The Continuation of Metacinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of...
by Laura Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book explores the rich complexity of Japan’s film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames on the filmstrip, something that is generally...
Distribution Revolution
Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and...
Cinema in Democratizing Germany
Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during...
Word is Out
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of ordinary gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds; it was the first of its kind to do so, and played a role in the then-nascent struggle for gay rights (being released at the same time as Anita...
Filming Difference
Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Addressing representation and identity in a variety of production styles and genres, including experimental film and documentary, independent and mainstream film, and television drama, Filming Difference poses fundamental questions about the ways in which the art and craft of filmmaking force creative...
by David Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
There is no denying that Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films ever made. While many condemn it as misogynistic, others praise it for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. While its reputation as a cult film has undoubtedly...
Reading the Bromance
Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In the middle of this century’s first decade, “bromance” emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys with being coded as something other than “straight” male behavior, even as it insists that such...
In a Lonely Street
Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity...
Spectacular Passions
Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliché to develop...
by Dr. Samantha Colling
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film forms a study of Hollywood girl teen films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray...
Alexander Payne
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made seven feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies have garnered numerous accolades and awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay....
The Epic Film
Myth and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered...