Film category: 7532 books
La Dolce Morte
Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
With the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend to ignore horror cinema in general and the giallo specifically. Critics often deride...
Beyond Auteurism
New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain Since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 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...
by Ruth Doughty, Christine Etherington-Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and old-fashioned area of film studies that requires...
Theorizing Art Cinemas
Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The term “art cinema” has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d’art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what “art cinema” is. Turning the traditional, highbrow...
by William Hare
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
It is fitting that film noir, a genre shrouded in dark suspense, in many ways owes its existence to two loners who linked their talents and created Hollywood movie history. The film noir genre has entertained worldwide audiences for three generations.A slender, restless young man left his Los...
Film Tourism in Asia
Evolution, Transformation, and Trajectory
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book focuses on film tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular film or TV series. It is based on a unique, Asian perspective, encompassing case studies from around the pan-Asian region, including China, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia,...
Rashomon Effects
Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese...
by Bruce F. Kawin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. “Horror and the Horror Film” conveys a mature appreciation of horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
From reviews of the third edition:
"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology's consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as...
The Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
"Play it again, Sam" is the motto of cult film enthusiasts, who will watch their favorite movie over and over, "beyond all reason." What is the appeal of cult movies? Why do fans turn up in droves at midnight movies or sit through the same three-hanky classics from Hollywood's golden era? These are some...
Literature into Film
Theory and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: “The movie wasn’t as good as the book.” This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while...
Flickers of Film
Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo and The Artist or celebrating arcade games in Tron: Legacy and Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. To what extent is that a sincere lament for modes of artistic production...
by Zander Brietzke
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent limitations of representing three-dimensional...