University of California Press, 2003. — 202 p. — ISBN 0–520-23952-0. Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this...
Saqi Books, 2005. — 224 p. Abbas Kiarostami's films-Close-Up, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry (winner of the 1997 Palme d'Or at Cannes), and Ten-have taken their place alongside the masterworks of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami, the most influential filmmaker of post-revolutionary Iran, has produced a body of work that is as rooted in contemporary...
The University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 317 p. Tales of hypnotic crime Invisible corporate bodies Staging the hypnotic crime Bernheim, Caligary, Mabuse Broch and Kafka Epilogue Appendix A. Filmography
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 195 p. — ISBN: 9780253355188. In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by more than 250 filmmakers, and short and documentary films by another 900 filmmakers, this volume covers the film production in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine,...
THE University Press OF KENTUCKY 2006, - 518 p. Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment in the United States,...
University of California Press, 2007. – 201 p. — ISBN: 9780520941199. This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake. Instead, as Jonathan Auerbach argues, it was the human form in motion that most...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 234 p. — (Contemporary Film Directors). Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting projects that somehow transcend the grand follies...
I.B.Tauris , 2015 - 246 p. Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and stardom from six continents. Chapters look at the role...
Routledge, 2016. — 238 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138035317 A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the...
Routledge, 2016. — 476 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138035324 A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the...
Routledge, 2016. — 426 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138035331 A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the...
University of Texas Press, 2002. — 329 p. — (Texas Film and Media Studies Series ). The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady — these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 322 p. — (Global Cinema). Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship,...
Barnsley (UK): Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 154 p. — ISBN: 978-1-52674-214-8. It's a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. That's what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins – committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet. Within these covers are startling stories of scandals during a century when...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 368 p. — ASIN B0045JKDUE. The history of science fiction film now spans more than 100 years, during which time more than 1,000 science fiction films of various kinds have been made. Beginning with the work of pioneering French filmmaker Georges MZli_s at the dawn of the 20th century and moving through such silent films as Fritz Lang's classic...
Paris: Nathan, 1997. — 128 p. — ISBN: 2-09-190363-9. Panorama d'une cinématographie fortement engagée à travers ses institutions et ses oeuvres. Parmi d'autres auteurs, on y trouvera les noms de Sembène Ousmane, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Souleymane Cissé, Merzak Allouache, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Férid Boughedir. Données initiales. Les pionniers. Thèmes et formes de la revendication...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. — 272 p. Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare in the Movies proceeds chronologically, in the order that plays were written, allowing the reader to trace the development of Shakespeare as an author and an auteur and to see how the changing cultural climate of the Elizabethans flowered into film centuries...
University of Illinois Press, 2010. — 168 p. In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon , winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for Caché , The Piano Teacher , and his remake of his own disturbing Funny Games , Haneke has consistently...
University of Illinois Press, 2010. — 168 p. In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon , winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for Caché , The Piano Teacher , and his remake of his own disturbing Funny Games , Haneke has consistently...
Wallflower Press, 2002. — 144 p. — (Short Cuts). — ISBN10: 1903364272;ISBN13: 978-1903364277. Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that...
L.A. Weekly Books, 2002. — 272 p. My Chin Can Kill is a delightfully irreverent, yet oddly touching, epic of ambition and disappointment, fame and anonymity, and lots of fake blood. Told in Bruce's wry, sarcastic voice, it is a "Hollywood from the bleacher seats" look at his experiences in film and TV and at his status as a cult horror and sci-fi movie god. This man with the...
Ames: Culicidae Architectural Press, 2019. — 348 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-68315-017-6. "Close Watching: Fifteen Don’t-Miss Movies for the Film Aficionado, 1922-1983" is a film analysis textbook that contains fifteen essays on fifteen historically significant, artistically superior films released between 1922 and 1983. Written with college and university students (and possibly also...
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. — 541 p. This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredictable as the decade itself. Representative titles include Night of the Living Dead , The...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 204 p. — ISBN: 9780521834803. Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how the Mabo decision, where the founding doctrine of terra nullius was overruled, has destabilised the way Australians relate to the land. It asks...
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1963. — A study of the animated and projected pictures which preceded the invention of cinematography. A showman in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, who styles himself 'Master of the Motions', gives a performance with puppets of The ancient modem History ofHero and Leander. 'Do you play it according to the printed Book?' he is asked, and replies: 'By no...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 448 p. Using popular cinema from the United States, Britain, and France, Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946– 1959, examines postwar Western attitudes toward colonialism and race relations. Historians have written much about the high politics of decolonization but little about what ordinary citizens thought about losing their...
MIT, 2004. — 456 p. It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this highly original examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don't quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 275 p. Introduction Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World G. W. Pabst’s Hesiodic Myth of Sex in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Perversions of the Phaeacians Woman Trouble Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005) Soul Fuck Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 289 p. Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman antiquity. Shows how cinema explores, reinvents and celebrates the spectacle of ancient Rome. Films...
Copyright 2009 by The University Press of Kentucky, - 343 p. Hal Ashby (1929–1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema. After moving to California from a Mormon household in Utah, he created eccentric films that reflected the uncertain social climate of the 1970s. Whether it is his enduring cult classic Harold and...
Rutgers University Press, 2008. - 480 p. Timeline 1832–2007 The Invention of the Movies The Birth of an American Industry World Cinema: The Silent Era The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s and 1940s International Cinema through World War II Postwar Challenges to the Movies World Cinema in the 1950s The 1960s Explosion World Cinema 1970 to the Present The New Hollywood...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 185 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5013-2879-4 Animator Norman McLaren is best known for his experimental films using pioneering techniques and his work as founder of the animation department of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), but little mention is made of his Scottish heritage or his personal life. Nichola Dobson examines some of the key events and...
Amsterdam University Press, 2005. — 563 p. — (Film Culture in transition). Has European cinema, in the age of globalization, lost contact not only with the world at large, but with its own audiences? Between the thriving festival circuit and the obligatory late-night television slot, is there still a public or a public sphere for European films? Can the cinema be the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2005, - 485 p. In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe’s national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 434 p. In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite early exposure to the filmmaking process, Ireland did not develop a regular film industry until the late 1910s when James Mark Sullivan established the Film Company of Ireland. Since that time, Ireland...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 283 p. Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 409 p. "Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration...
New York - Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2006. — 312 p. — (Film and Culture Series). Mapping European Cinema in the 1990s The Dialectic of Landscape in Italian Popular Melodrama A Conspiracy of Cartographers? Yugoslavia’s Impossible Spaces Back-Projecting Germany Toward a Theory of European Space Notes Filmography Index ISBN 0-231-13716-8 (cloth : alk....
State University of New York Press, 2007. — 330 p. — (Horizons of Cinema). Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Korean cinema, the most productive and dynamic cinema in Asia. Examining the three dominant genres that have led Korean film to international acclaim — melodramas, big-budget action blockbusters, and youth films — the...
Hamlyn, 1977. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0600369269. Comprehensive overview of the horror movie genre. Fully illustrated with great photographs. They were giants in the night: two tall men in two tall hats who swung out and away from each other and came at me, striding from the colossal window. And if I hadn't screamed and ducked under the seat they would have trampled me into the...
My life as a Russian filmmaker. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Robert Rosen. — 1st ed. — University of Texas Press, 2006. Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films...
Manchester University Press 2003, - 257 p. One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural...
Thomson-Gale, 2007. — 393 p. — ISBN: 978-0-02-865792-9. This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history. Approximately 200 entries cover specific topics, including acting, censorship, editing, lighting and others. Also...
McFarland, 1990. — 685 p. — ISBN: 9780786434800. Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster are horror cinema icons, and the actors most deeply associated with the two roles also shared a unique friendship. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in dozens of black-and-white horror films, and over the years managed to collaborate on and co-star in eight movies. Through dozens of...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0231177976; ISBN13: 978-0231177979 — (Film and Culture) In Unspeakable Histories , William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality...
Routledge, 2016. — 688 p. — ISBN10: 0415688930. — ISBN13: 978-0415688932 The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged alphabetically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social, historical...
McFarland & Company, 2009. — 247 p. Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 315 p. In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Prószyński made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow. Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupt side of...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. 2009. — 272 p. This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre, and visual style, and looks at the ways in which a range of styles...
ABC CLIO 2006, - 312 p. Pop Culture Arab World! is the first volume to explore the full scope of Arab cultural life since World War II. The book reveals a homogeneous yet richly diverse culture across the Arab nations. In-depth chapters feature radio/TV (particularly the satellite revolution, which has fostered a shared Arab identity), the press (vibrant and controversial),...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 218 p. — (Global Cinema). From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight, the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western,...
Paris: Syros, 1984 (1992). — 192 p. — ISBN: 2-86738-070-7. Il est troublant de constater qu'après cent ans d'existence, le cinéma, s'il a provoqué l'édition d'un vaste appareil critique et d'une énorme littérature monographique, a peu fourni l'occasion d'ouvrages historiques synthétiques réellement à la portée de tous. Ce Guide du cinéma répond à ce besoin. Résolument...
Paris: Syros, 1985. — 222 p. — ISBN: 2-86738-071-5 Il est troublant de constater qu'après cent ans d'existence, le cinéma, s'il a provoqué l'édition d'un vaste appareil critique et d'une énorme littérature monographique, a peu fourni l'occasion d'ouvrages historiques synthétiques réellement à la portée de tous. Ce Guide du cinéma répond à ce besoin. Résolument didactique,...
Paris: Syros, 1988. — 272 p. — ISBN: 2-86738-080-4. Il est troublant de constater qu'après cent ans d'existence, le cinéma, s'il a provoqué l'édition d'un vaste appareil critique et d'une énorme littérature monographique, a peu fourni l'occasion d'ouvrages historiques synthétiques réellement à la portée de tous. Ce Guide du cinéma répond à ce besoin. Résolument didactique,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 300 p. — (Global Cinema). This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her...
Brickwall Publishing, 2016. — 291 p. The History of Image Gathering is an oral history. It traces the development of the art and technology of capturing real life images for TV News and “reality type” show production as described by the camera men and women who looked through their lenses from 1955-2015. The history is a first hand account of a generation’s incredible image...
Brickwall Publishing, 2016. — 291 p. The History of Image Gathering is an oral history. It traces the development of the art and technology of capturing real life images for TV News and “reality type” show production as described by the camera men and women who looked through their lenses from 1955-2015. The history is a first hand account of a generation’s incredible image...
Brickwall Publishing, 2016. — 291 p. The History of Image Gathering is an oral history. It traces the development of the art and technology of capturing real life images for TV News and “reality type” show production as described by the camera men and women who looked through their lenses from 1955-2015. The history is a first hand account of a generation’s incredible image...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 304 p. — (Global Cinema). Introduction: More than Film School — Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-Based Film Education Warrants Attention Audience Response in Film Education Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria Global Interchange: The Same, but Different...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 271 p. — (Global Cinema). Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Australia. Introduction: More Than Film School — Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-Based Film Education Warrants Attention...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 212 p. — ISBN: 9780719058714. Cinema provides entertainment, but it also, inevitably, communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. From its beginnings more than a century ago, European cinema has dealt in a variety of ways with the tension between these two functions: at the extremes, dictatorial regimes have sweetened...
Praeger, 1997. — 184 p. One hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representations of Dracula, from the early silent adaptations to recent popular dramas. Holte suggests that vampire films and Dracula adaptations have become an independent genre, the dark romance, with its own set of...
New York: Starlog Press, 1979. — 97 p. This photo guidebook could not have been assembled without the generous assistance of the science-fiction/fantasy collectors, and the special-effects artists themselves, who took the time to lend photographs from their collections and tell the stories behind them. The Model Shop The Ships Miniature Worlds in the Making Miniature Effects...
New York: Starlog Press, 1980. — 100 p. When I was growing up in the 1970s, Starlog Magazine felt, without exaggeration, like a godsend. There were other quality genre magazines out there too, of course (like Fantastic Films…), but few which had possessed the longevity, stability and depth of coverage readers could find in Starlog. In the pre-Internet age, Starlog magazine was...
New York: Starlog Press, 1982. — 98 p. The Sight and Sound of Future Tech Spirits of the Lost Ark Patching the Pandemonium of Dark's Shadow Show Flights of Dragons E.T.: The Little FX Movie That Made Good New Worlds Aborning The World of the Dark Crystal Ghosts and Goblins by the Score!
Trine Day, 2016 — 360 p. — ISBN10: 1634240774, ISBN13: 978-1634240772 Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most read essays, combining philosophy,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 261 p. — (Global Cinema). — ISBN: 978-1-137-50253-7. Introduction: War Trauma as Screen Memory Yugoslavia’s Wars, Cinema, and Screen Trauma Unsettling Empathies: Screen, Gender, and Traumatic Memory Happily Sick: Trauma, Nation, and Queer Affect Post-Yugoslav Heritage Cinema and the Futurity of Nostalgia Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Habitus of...
Routledge 2003, - 110 p. History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? The perfect introduction to this thought-provoking area, Jenkins' clear...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 246 p. Introduction: Temporalities of Adaptation “Now is the Time”: Shakespeare’s Medieval Temporalities in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran Dracula’s Times: Adapting the Middle Ages in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula Rethinking Anachronism for Medieval Film in Richard Donner’s Timeline Otherness Redoubled and Refracted: Intercultural Dialogues in...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012, - 413 p. Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice and theory. Epstein’s film criticism is among the most...
Thames & Hudson. 2011. 576 p. ISBN-10: 0500289476. ISBN-13: 978-0500289471 Cinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key periods, genres, and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema in the context of social and cultural developments that have taken place since its beginnings. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of...
Pyongyang: Korean Film export and import corporation, 1985. — 177 p. This picture album gives an outline of over 150 typical feature films produced in DPRK in over 40 years. The flower girl. An Jung Gun shoots Ito Hirobumi. Star of Korea. Mt. Paekdu. Flames spreading over the land. Rhododendron. My home village. Five guerrilla brothers. The song of Young communist leaguers. The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 224 p. Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s-1960s. Furthermore, Angelos...
Wallflower Press, 2013. — 183 p. The Cinema of Béla Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Béla Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács traces the development of Tarr's themes,...
University Of Chicago Press, 2008. — 432 p. — (Cinema and Modernity). — ISBN10: 9780226451657; ISBN13: 978-0226451657. Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s postwar...
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-02405-3 Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland’s literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments...
Wallflower Press, 2014. — 141 p.: ill. This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 305 p. — (Global Cinema). This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction of new cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in early twenty-first-century Asia. Hong Kong and Bollywood offers new answers to the field of inter-Asian cultural studies, which has been energized by the trends towards transnationalism and...
State University of New York Press, 2002. — 329 p. — (Horizons of Cinema). Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The...
The village voice film guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007. 335 p. For five decades, the Village Voice’s movie reviews have been uniquely attuned to New York City’s film culture. Written by and for cinephiles, the paper’s film section has filled the void left by the timidity and the complacency of mainstream movie reviewing. The Voice’s film pages recontextualized Hollywood and...
Panteon New York, 2008, - 277 p. NOBODY FORGETS THEIR FIRST TIME--AND FILM DIRECTORS ARE NO EXCEPTION. In these strikingly candid interviews, ten internationally acclaimed directors--Richard Linklater, Richard Kelly, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Shekhar Kapur, Émir Kusturica, Agnès Jaoui, Lukas Moodysson, Terry Gilliam, and Sam Mendes--talk about the struggles...
New York; London: New York University Press, 2003. — 289 p. Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it. Lyden contends that approaches which interpret films only ideologically or theologically miss the mark in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 244 p. — (Global Cinema). Introduction: Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits Refracted Visions: “Ethnic Cleansing” and the De-mythologization of Gender Visual Currencies: Documenting India’s Red Light Districts Discontinuous States: Palestinian and Israeli Border Imaginaries Diffracted Mediations: The Framing of Gender in the “War on Terror”...
University of California Press, 2006, - 405 p. A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English. In this new set of interviews, MacDonald engages filmmakers in detailed discussions of their films and of the personal experiences and political and theoretical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 744 p. This collection offers new approaches to theorizing Asian film in relation to the history, culture, geopolitics and economics of the continent. Bringing together original essays written by established and emerging scholars, this anthology transcends the limitations of national borders to do justice to the diverse ways in which the cinema...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 199 p. — (Global Cinema). Introduction: Global Melodrama Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood for Love and 2046 Border-Crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubble and Babel Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and The World. Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 204 p. Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in the history of cinema. The tale of a nineteenth-century arranged marriage between an unwed mother and a settler in colonial New Zealand, the film swept the world upon its release, winning awards for its performances, script, and direction, including prestigious Cannes...
Praeger 2007, - 191 p. Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film, literature, and fashion. In cinema in particular, some of the arts most fundamental aspects--stories, characters, and genres, for instance--assumed such a trite...
I.B. Tauris, 2002, - 273 p. Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe’s urban life and cinema, and shows how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book engages with diverse films, including ""Luna Park"", ""Run, Lola, Run"",...
Edmonton, AB: UBC Press, 2018. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 1771992247; ISBN13: 978-1771992244 Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of...
State University of New York Press, 2006. — 272 p. — (Horizons of Cinema). The Death of Classical Cinema Illustrations Introduction: Writing the History of Classical Cinema Dr. Mabuse, The Cliché: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Fascination and Rape: Marnie Staging the Death of the Director: Two Weeks in Another Town Conclusion: Or The Death of Cinema Is No Solution
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 292 p. — (Global Cinema). A Panel Discussion on Transnational Stardom John Wayne’s Japan: International Production, Global Trade, and John Wayne’s Diplomacy in The Barbarian and the Geisha Hanoi Jane Française: Transnational in Time Alain Delon, International Man of Mystery The Transnational Career of Geneviève Bujold Hong Kong’s It/Ip Man: The...
Noir Publishing, 2002. — 230 p. — ISBN: 0953656446. In a series of innovative articles leading critics and writers consider the social and cinematic issues which shaped the films of the decade. The volume considers film genres such as horror, the disaster movie, blaxploitation and Kung-Fu in order to discover the truth behind one of the most prolific, turbulent and challenging...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 440 p. Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guideto the film of Australia and New Zealand. With entries on many exceptional producers, directors, writers and actors,...
I. B. Tauris, London & New York, 2003. — 320 p. Language: English. Lúcia Nagib here presents the first comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid-1990s, which has become known as the "Renaissance of Brazilian cinema". Besides reflecting on the conditions that made possible this recent boom, this book elaborates on the new aesthetic tendencies of...
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, USA & England, 2006. 501 p. Language: English. It is the only reference guide that discuss the latest scholarship on history in film and on television and evaluates specific films and programs for quality, accuracy, and ideological biases. Coverage ranges from biopics (Gandhi), meticulous restagings (Apollo 13), and true crime (Bonnie and Clyde) to...
855 p. Silent Cinema (1895-1930): The Early Years; The Rise of Hollywood; The Silent Film; National Cinemas; The Silent Cinema Experience Sound Cinema (1930-1960): Sound; The Studio Years; Genre Cinema; Engaging withe Reality; National Cinemas; The Post-War World The Modern Cinema (1960-1995): Cinema in the Age of Television; American Movies; Extending the Boundaries; Cinemas...
Indiana University Press, 2005. — 216 p. Language: English. The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 358 p. — (100 Greatest...). — ISBN10: 1442208228, 13 978-1442208223. The term "cult film" may be difficult to define, but one thing is certain: A cult film is any movie that has developed a rabid following for one reason or another. From highly influential works of pop art like Eraserhead and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to trash...
Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford : The Scarecrow Press , Inc., 1995. — 492 p. — ISBN: 0-8108-4160-6. Early in 1971, Five Fingers of Death premiered in a New York movie theater. This was America's first look at a Chinese martial arts movie. In Chicago that same year, Duel of the Iron Fist debuted. With the release of Bruce Lee's films, the market exploded. And thus began America's...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 278 p. The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected here provide an up-to-date survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore...
Intellect Ltd, 2014. — 380 p. — ISBN13: 978-1783201853. A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact, and significance of film education in Britain, Europe, and the United States. Film schools, the authors show, have historically focused on the...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2003. — 268 p. — ISBN10: 0791457699; ISBN13: 978-0791457696 — (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) Focusing on films outside the horror genre, this book offers a unique account of the Frankenstein myth's popularity and endurance. Although the Frankenstein narrative has been a staple in horror films, it has also crossed over...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 248 p. From the 1970s onward, “exploitation cinema” as a concept has circulated inside and outside of East Asian nations and cultures in terms of aesthetics and marketing. However, crucial questions about how global networks of production and circulation alter the identity of an East Asian film as “mainstream” or as “exploitation” have yet to be...
Sofia: Sofia-Press, 1969. — 152 p. What is the Bulgarian cinema of today? Which period of time does it cover? What artists and films characterize it? In search of an exact answer to these questions, trying to establish the truest characteristics of one or another artist or to find the historical roots of a film, one has to go back to 1950. For on March 20, 1950 the first...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 228 p. Introduction: Filming the “other” Middle Ages Once, Present, and Future Kings: Kingdom of Heaven and the Multitemporality of Medieval Film Chahine’s Destiny: Prophetic Nostalgia and the other Middle Ages Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism, and Film Language in Youssef Chahine’s Saladin Samurai on Shifting Ground: Negotiating the...
Raymond Bellour. The analysis of film / Ed.by Constance Penly. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2000. 303 p. The Analysis of Film brings together Raymond Bellour’s acclaimed studies of classical Hollywood film. It is at once a book about the methods of close film analysis, the narrative structure of Hollywood film, Hitchcock’s work – The Birds, Marnie, Psycho, North by...
Scarecrow Press, 2014. — 760 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the long history of cinema in Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the nine Spanish-speaking countries. These films include Los tres berretines, Prisioneros de la tierra, La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde, La hora de los hornos, El chacal de Nahueltoro, La teta asustada, Abrir puertas y...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 195 p. — ISBN: 9780230600249. The book examines cinema in post-1989 Europe by looking at how the new post-Cold War cinematographic co-productions articulate the political and cultural objectives of a new Europe as they redefine a European identity.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 298 p. — ISBN: 978-1442278240. Compiling 'best of' lists is often a tricky business (there are bound to be objections to inclusions as well as omissions), but less so when the compiler explains the criteria used. In this case, Roots very clearly states his: 'It’s a book of films that made me laugh and that ought to make you laugh, too.'...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 245 p. Since the development of film as an artistic medium in the 1890s, there has been an inherent tension between still photographic images and moving cinematic images, from their form and function to the messages they convey and their impact on the beholder and on culture at large. This volume, one of the first book-length works to...
London: Spring Books, 1967. — 831 p. Review of cinema's beginnings with concentration on the few great film-making nations, America, Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Discussions also include new nations in the film like Japan and India.
Citadel Press, 1975. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0806505370, 0806502630. Jeff Rovin, a former columnist for magazines including OMNI and Analog, provides a pictorial history/overview of Science Fiction film upto the early 1970s. Science fiction is, at best, a very subjective label. It is easy enough to call a film like Fantastic Voyage or Marooned science fiction, but what of...
London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006. — 315 p. The book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of key films and recurring themes and tropes, such as the preponderance of images of childhood, and what these reveal about Iranian society.
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012. — 215 p. Schönherr Johannes. North Korean cinema, pages of history (In English) At the Pyongyang Film Festival. The Early Years. The Korean War (1950–1953). The Establishment of Juche. Kim Jong Il Enters the Scene. Shin Sang-ok Active in North Korea (1983–1986). Shin Sang-ok’s Influence on...
İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1987. — 175 s. 1895'te doğuşundan bu yana sinema, dünyanın her yerinde insanaları büyüleyen, mesaj veren, ağlatan bir sanat, tiyatronun yanında insanlığa ikinci bir ayna oldu. İşte Scognamillo da, sinemanın Türkiye'deki tarihine eğilerek, korunmamış, sahip çıkılmamış, kişisel çabalarla yaşatılmaya çalışılmış bir tarih okurun / seyircinin gözleri önüne...
İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1988. — 210 s. 1895'te doğuşundan bu yana sinema, dünyanın her yerinde insanaları büyüleyen, mesaj veren, ağlatan bir sanat, tiyatronun yanında insanlığa ikinci bir ayna oldu. İşte Scognamillo da, sinemanın Türkiye'deki tarihine eğilerek, korunmamış, sahip çıkılmamış, kişisel çabalarla yaşatılmaya çalışılmış bir tarih okurun / seyircinin gözleri önüne...
Leiden University Press, 2013. — 154 p. — (Iranian Studies from Leiden University Press) The contributors to this timely volume explore the philosophical underpinnings and cinematic techniques characteristic of contemporary Iranian film. Collectively, they demonstrate how the pervasive themes of Iranian cinema — such as martyrdom and war, traditional gender roles and their...
ABC CLIO 2005, - 369 p. Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Latin America! captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations. Written by contributors who are scholars and specialists in the cultures...
Jan Simons / Amsterdam University Press, 2003, - 203 p. Dogma 95, the avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by the Danish director Lars von Trier and three of his fellow directors, was launched in 1995 at an elite cinema conference in Pariswhen von Trier was called upon to speak about the future of film but instead showered the audience with pamphlets announcing the new...
The MIT Press, September 23, 2005. — 312 p. Language: English Although Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Jean Renoir do not pontificate about "eternal verities or analytical niceties," as Irving Singer remarks in Three Philosophical Filmmakers, each expresses, through his work, his particular vision of reality. In this study of these great directors, Singer examines the ways...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 433 p. Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the sixty years since the Second World War. With three chapters each devoted...
The MIT Press, 2013. — 376 p. — ISBN13: 978-0262528405 A behind-the-scenes history of computer graphics, featuring a cast of math nerds, avant-garde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game players, and studio executives. Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz...
Prentice Hall, 1993. — 564 p. — ISBN10: 0810933217; ISBN13: 9780810933217. Lively text and 768 illustrations, 120 in full color, cover commercial film, animation, documentaries, art cinema, and the avant-garde the world over, to present the entire history of film from a global perspective. Includes bibliography, filmography, glossary, notes, index, and 6 timelines.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. — 202 p. — ISBN10: 0520251229; ISBN13: 978-0520251229. In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 240 p. In this collection of essays by members of the National Society of Film Critics, the "B movie" is defined, classically, as "the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature." What B movies have become is a question the book answers only partially - movie fans will certainly debate whether newer films like Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 261 p. — (Global Cinema). Borderlands, Contact Zones, and Boundary Games: A Conversation with John T. Caldwell Analyzing Production from a Socio-material Perspective The “Cultural” of Production and Career Pacts of Embodiment: A Comparative Ethnography of Filmmakers’ Gestures Film Production as a Palimpsest Stress Aesthetics and Deprivation Payroll...
Routledge, 2002, - 431 p. Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today's most popular, original and influential cinematic voices. Each entry offers both an overview and critique of its subject's career and works, looking at the genres in which they work and their relationship to other film and filmmakers. It covers figures drawn from diverse cinematic...
2nd Revised edition. — London: I.B.Tauris, 1998. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1860641679; ISBN13: 978-1860641671 — (Cinema and society. Book 1) This is a new, substantially revised and enlarged edition of Richard Taylor's work on propaganda and film in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Taylor examines how each government used the cinema's potential for mass political propaganda, analyzing...
3rd edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 800 p. — ISBN10: 9780073386133 ISBN13: 978-0073386133. The third edition of Film History is thoroughly updated and includes the first comprehensive overviews of the impact of globalization and digital technology on the cinema. Any serious film scholar — professor, undergraduate, or graduate student — will want to read and keep Film History.
3rd edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 800 p. — ISBN10: 9780073386133 ISBN13: 978-0073386133. The third edition of Film History is thoroughly updated and includes the first comprehensive overviews of the impact of globalization and digital technology on the cinema. Any serious film scholar--professor, undergraduate, or graduate student--will want to read and keep Film History.
Yale University Press, 2005. — 382 p. Amadeus...Yankee Doodle Dandy...Swanee River...Rhapsody in Blue. Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatized the lives of composers. Movie biographies — or biopics — have depicted composers as diverse as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, and George Gershwin. In this enticing book, the first devoted entirely...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-95491-2, ISBN: 978-3-319-95492-9 This book provides the most comprehensive history and analysis of Australian animation published to date. Spanning from the 1910s to the present day, it explores a wide-range both of independent animation, and of large-scale commercial productions. Presented within a uniquely international...
Amsterdam University Press 2005, - 223 p. They obsess over the nuances of a Douglas Sirk or Ingmar Bergman film; they revel in books such as François Truffaut's Hitchcock; they happily subscribe to the Sundance Channel — they are the rare breed known as cinephiles. Though much has been made of the classic era of cinephilia from the 1950s to the 1970s, Cinephilia documents the...
Monograph. Editor: Thomas Elsaesser. — Amsterdam University Press, 2010. — 249 p. — (Film Culture In Transition). [from Introduction]: This book is about the emergence of the moving image, that is, an image that moves by itself. At some point, self-moving images acquired an intrinsic role in our media ecologies, circulating automatically in such ordinary settings as the mobile...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012, - 205 p. This innovative analysis of period film presents a new way to examine the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. Exploring the relationship between visual motifs and cultural representation, Figuring the Past is a selection of detailed case studies that explore three key figures — the house, the tableau, and...
Random House, 1976. — 536 p. — ISBN10: 0394732073; ISBN13: 978-0394732077. The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 — 262 p. — ISBN10: 1137563842; ISBN13: 978-1137563842. This volume showcases the ways in which new theoretical paradigms and cultural emphases can reinvigorate and enrich understanding of what Twin Peaks was and what it has become since it went off the air in 1991. Introduction: “It is Happening Again”: New Reflections on Twin Peaks The matter...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. — 356 p. Freedom of the Screen takes the reader through the history of film censorship in the United States. Between 1907 and 1980, many state and local governments in the USA empowered motion picture censor boards with the legal authority to keep any movie they considered obscene, indecent, or harmful from being shown. Although the...
Springer, 2014. — 152 p. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Asian studies, cultural industries, economic geography, and related areas of study. It discusses the results of a microscopic survey focusing on topics such as how animation studios form business relationships and how workers gain skills in the industry. The methodology was based on traditional...
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