Film category: 7532 books

Cover of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politicsbrings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film,...
Cover of Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions
by Warren Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place: How does it select its objects of study and its methods of inquiry? How does it make discoveries and explain filmic phenomena? And, How does it formulate...
Cover of Feminist Film Studies
by Karen Hollinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women’s representation and involvement in film, complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics...
Cover of Film Policy

Film Policy

International, National and Regional Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005

Film Policy is the first comprehensive overview of the workings of the international film industry. The authors examine film cultures and film policy across the world, explaining why Hollywood cinema dominates the global film market, and the effects of the rise of television and video on the international...
Cover of In the Scene: Jane Campion
by Ellen Cheshire
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

A comprehensive overview of  the director Jane Campion and her work. Campion is one of the few women film-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work. A true independent film-maker, she has attracted many ‘A’ List Hollywood actors to appear in her films. Who...
Cover of Making Asian American Film and Video

Making Asian American Film and Video

History, Institutions, Movements

by Jun Okada
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

The words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates...
Cover of Ludovico Einaudi Film Music: 17 Pieces for solo piano
by Ludovico Einaudi
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

Ludovico Einaudi's beautifully evocative music lends itself so perfectly to use in films that for many years directors have been using it to complement their images. 17 of the best examples of his music for film over the past two decades are included here in this Film Music collection, arranged for...
Cover of Introduction to Film
by Nick Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

Movie watching has never been so wide-ranging or so popular. The rise of Internet-based video on demand has transformed the way films are distributed and exhibited, with many previously unobtainable and obscure films becoming available for global audiences to view instantly. The second edition...
Cover of Authorship in Film Adaptation
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009

Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay...
Cover of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner
by Matthew Flisfeder
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century...
Cover of Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected historical documents and difficult-to-access films have offered new research materials. As Hong Kong film history comes into sharper focus,...
Cover of Film on Video

Film on Video

A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film

by Jonathan Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019

Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it was shot on motion-picture celluloid film.  Chapter by chapter, Jonathan Kemp introduces the...
Cover of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

A Queer Film Classic

by Julia Mendenhall
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014

A Queer Film Classic on Canadian director Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, her quirky and hopeful first feature film which made its premiere at Cannes and won its Prix de la jeunesse. Presented as a "videotaped confession," it tells the story of Polly Vandersma, an unpretentious...
Cover of Out of the Past

Out of the Past

Lacan and Film Noir

by Ben Tyrer
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with...
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