Film category: 7532 books
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
For three years, Anne Billson wrote a film column for the Guardian newspaper which became obligatory reading for anyone interested in the world of cinema. She combines in-depth knowledge of her field with an eminently readable and unpretentious style and makes sometimes surprising and controversial...
The Big Lebowski
An Illustrated, Annotated History of the Greatest Cult Film of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Whether contending with nihilists, botching a kidnapping pay-off, watching as his beloved rug is micturated upon, or simply bowling and drinking Caucasians, the Dude—or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing—abides. As embodied by Jeff Bridges, the main character of the 1998...
Composing for the Red Screen
Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people heard...
The Invisible Art of Film Music
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response, scores have played a significant—if often unrealized—role in the viewer’s enjoyment.
In...
Music in the Shadows
Noir Musical Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue...
Sinatra in Hollywood
The Film Career of a Screen Icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Hollywood legend, Academy Award-winning actor, and recipient of the Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement in film, Frank Sinatra carved out one of the biggest careers in the history of Hollywood, yet paradoxically his screen legacy has been overshadowed by his extraordinary achievements as a...
Contemporary Film Music
Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that...
Mise-en-scène
Film Style and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as Imitation of Life and Lone Star, John...
by Bruce Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
With the advent of the Second World War a new mood was discernible in film drama - an atmosphere of disillusion and a sense of foreboding, a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art. These films, among them such classics as Double Indemnity,...
TLA Film, Video, and DVD Guide 2002-2003
The Discerning Film Lover's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The TLA Film, Video & DVD Guide 2002-2003 is the absolutely indispensible guide for the true lover of cinema. By focusing on independent and international films, and avoiding much of the made-for-TV/made-for-cable/made-for-video dreck, this guide offers more comprehensive coverage of the films...
Film is Like a Battleground
Sam Fuller's War Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era 16mm films, to explore...
Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
The Last Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood....
The reality of film
Theories of filmic reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The third part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 3 concludes the project by gathering together the 'Documents' that were produced during the academicisation of film studies in Australia in the...