Film category: 7532 books
Avant-Garde Film
Forms, Themes and Passions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in...
Live Fast, Die Young
The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
When it was released in 1955, the film Rebel Without a Cause had a revolutionary impact on moviemaking and youth culture, virtually giving birth to our concept of the American teenager. For the first time, Live Fast, Die Young tells the complete story of the explosive making of Rebel, a film that...
by Peter Gidal
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.
Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory...
Hollywood and the Culture Elite
How the Movies Became American
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their...
From Underground to Independent
Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence...
Film Propaganda and American Politics
An Analysis and Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding warfare;...
by Robert A. Rosenstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. In the third edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past...
by Parley Ann Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Relying on such diverse works as Frankenstein, Peyton Place, Beloved, and...
Heritage Film
Nation, Genre, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study explores the heritage film in light of questions...
Fashioning Bollywood
The Making and Meaning of Hindi Film Costume
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they...
by Robert Cettl
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
A n in-depth critical re-appraisal and inside account of director Hal Ashby's final feature film 8 Million Ways to Die starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and Andy Garcia.Hal Ashby was one of the most renowned directors of the 1970s, helming such classics as Harold & Maude, The Last...
The Charley Chase Talkies
1929-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, as...
Hollywood v. Hard Core
How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio production, the other an independently made "skin flick." At that moment, Jon Lewis asserts, the fate of the American film industry hung in the balance.
Spanning the 20th...
Purple Rain
Music on Film Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning champion Ghostbusters and making its star, Prince, a household name. By the end of the year, the film was a multiple-award winner, a trend setter...