Film category: 7532 books

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by film-makers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and film-makers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger...

The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years,...

Why write about Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971) as part of a series of books dedicated to the classics of the horror movie genre? Because, Rebekah Owens argues, just as Banquo in Polanski's film holds up a series of mirrors that reflect images of his successors that trace back to his own son Fleance,...

Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons...

The latent symbolism in film imagery can be psychoanalyzed just like the imagery in dreams. This work applies to film the psychoanalytic techniques of Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Joseph Campbell, Otto Rank and Rollo May, providing a fundamental understanding of film symbols...

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Essex (Film), course: Introduction to Film, language: English, abstract: 'The Black Narcissus' is a British film from 1974, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and based on the same-named novel by Rumer Godden....

The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that...

This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the early 1900s Nickelodeon to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, it combines a broad historical...

In questo breve saggio, Bruno di Marcello ci porta alla scoperta del ghost-movie, ovvero dei film di fantasmi. Lo fa non soltanto spiegandoci cosa si nasconde dietro l’attrazione del pubblico per le storie di spettri e case infestate, ma anche raccontandoci la sua esperienza di regista di genere...

La vita di Quentin Tarantino e la disanima di tutti i suoi film. Gli argomenti trattati sono: Biografia, Le origini, Anni ottanta, My Best Friend's Birthday, Le prime sceneggiature, Anni novanta, Le iene, Pulp Fiction, E.R., Killing Zoe, Mister Destiny e Four Rooms, Jackie Brown, Anni duemila, Kill...

This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of film images such as characters, objects, settings and character action. It also represents new ground for investigating empirical issues in film.

Citing China explores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. It does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers “cite” China on screen. Author...

Mirna è un film sfuggente e al tempo stesso denso e assoluto, in cui immergersi e andare alla deriva. Un racconto doppio che si incrocia e si accavalla, che avvolge lo spettatore e lo abbandona. Gioia e dolore occupano sempre lo stesso spazio. Sollievo e disperazione, stanchezza e frenesia, come...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: keine, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Veranstaltung: Die Darstellung von Linksterrorismus in Kinofilmen und Fernsehproduktionen, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...