Film category: 7532 books
Film Theory
Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo...
Strangers on a Train
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing who wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing...
Sundance to Sarajevo
Film Festivals and the World They Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema...
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse...
A Year of Hitchcock
52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense,...
Trash
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
“This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal
Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press'...
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You
The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up...
Mongolian Film Music
Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In 1936 the Mongolian socialist government decreed the establishment of a film industry with the principal aim of disseminating propaganda to the largely nomadic population. The government sent promising young rural Mongolian musicians to Soviet conservatoires to be trained formally as composers....
The Film Director Prepares
A Complete Guide to Directing for Film and Tv
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Insider author gives no-nonsense advice
• Required reading for film students, educators, anyone interested in film
From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman,...
by Andrew Spicer
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Film noir_literally 'black cinema'_is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Fascinating, incommensurable, and chaotic, Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicenter of India’s film...
by Jule Selbo
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo’s popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, how and why these genres...
Charles Urban
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent advocate...
by Mattias Frey, Greg Taylor, Cecilia Sayad
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have...