Film category: 7532 books
After the Silents
Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926–1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period,...
by Tony Lee Moral
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
After a decade of successful films that included Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock produced Marnie, an apparent artistic failure and an unquestionable commercial disappointment. Over the decades, however, the film’s reputation has undergone a reevaluation, and...
by Drew Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater...
Cinematography in the Weimar Republic
Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era. But in Weimar era German filmmaking, 1919-33, a short period of intense artistic activity and political...
Film and Video Intermediality
The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions "what is meant by video?†? and "what is meant by film?†? How are these two media (to be) understood? How can film and video be defined as distinct,...
Global Neorealism
The Transnational History of a Film Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated...
The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In Sight and Sound magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo placed at the top of the list, supplanting Citizen Kane. A favorite among critics, it also made the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies where it ranked in the top 10. Often regarded as Hitchcock's most personal...
by Matt Lawson, Laurence MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws without the ominous notes thatportend the shark’s attack! Musical accompaniment helps create atmosphere for the viewer, from subtle undertones to compositions...
Left of Hollywood
Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States....
Why We Fought
America's Wars in Film and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Film moves audiences like no other medium; both documentaries and feature films are especially remarkable for their ability to influence viewers. Best-selling author James Brady remarked that he joined the Marines to fight in Korea after seeing a John Wayne film, demonstrating how a motion picture...
Film and Reform
John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists.
This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement...
Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy—Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)—is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity, these three films marked the culmination of the director's career, as well as the zenith of one of...
Locating the Voice in Film
Critical Approaches and Global Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Where is the place of the voice in film? Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical accounts, based on classical narrative cinema, examine...
Ethnographic Film
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this...