Film category: 7532 books
by William Guynn
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Historical film has been an important genre since the earliest silent films. The French Revolution, the American Civil War, the conquest of the New World, World War II--all have been repeatedly represented in film. But how do we distinguish between fictionalized spectacle and authentic historical...
The Problem Body
Projecting Disability on Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term “the problem...
by Gautam Chintamani
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Seldom has a contemporary film's dialogues fired the general imagination the way Pink's did. Seldom has a film challenged 'Bollywood's popular misogynistic tropes' like Pink did. Released in September 2016, the film began to trend immediately. Over the next few months, as it became a phenomenal box-office...
by Beverly Merrill Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically opposed political ideologies in order to facilitate debate and dialectical learning. Kelley explores 185...
Filmosophy - About Framptons Radically New Way of Understanding Cinema
About Framptons Radically New Way of Understanding Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: Film + Philosophy = Filmosophy, language: English, abstract: Because the times in film production change, a change in reception is also necessary. In Frampton's theory, film is no longer a photographic...
by Christina Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces students to alternative classics...
by Andrew Klevan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This bookprovides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between the work of philosophers, theorists and critics, and demonstrates the evaluation of form through the...
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
Cannes - A Festival Virgin's Guide (7th Edition)
Attending the Cannes Film Festival, for Filmmakers and Film Industry Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Each year in May over 200,000 people descend on the small Riviera resort town of Cannes to take part in all the glitz and glamour that is the Cannes Film Festival. The mere mention of the city instantly conjures up images of red carpets, paparazzi camera flashes, and celebrity parties. However,...
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful...
Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social...
Experimental Ethnography
The Work of Film in the Age of Video
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1999
Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology.
Russell provides detailed analyses...
by Robert Cettl
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Cinema from the Land Down Under laid bare in an anthology of little-known behind the scenes anecdotes from a century of movie-making.
Meticulously researched former SAR Research Fellow at the National Film and Sound Archive Robert Cettl, Australian Film Tales brings to e-book the exciting,...
Film Production Management
How to Budget, Organize and Successfully Shoot your Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This new and updated fourth edition of Film Production Management provides a step-by-step guide on how to budget, organize, and successfully shoot a film and get it onto the big screen. Whether you are a film student or film production professional just getting started in the industry, this book is...