Film category: 7532 books
The Fruit Machine
Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2000
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism,...
The Rhapsodes
How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America’s most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four...
The Aesthetics of Shadow
Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion...
EIGA
Cinema in the Philippines During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nick Deocampo’s continuing film saga investigates on its third volume how World War II affected the growth of cinema in the Philippines (1942-1945). Revealed in the book is a vast wealth of information about Japanese wartime manipulation of motion pictures that would only lead to the inglorious...
by Mel Churcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The author uses her wide experience as an acting and voice coach an major movies to offer insights into the film acting process. She provides tasks, techniques and tips that are designed specifically for film: there's advice to make the first-time film actor feel at home on set, tips on the casting...
by HarperCollins Publishers India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Path-breaking films have phenomenal behind-the-scenes stories. Read about two of the most iconic movies of our times, and combine it with the journey of the woman, as actor and character, in Hindi cinema. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: In the 1980s, an unheralded Hindi movie, made on a budget of less than Rs...
Thinking on Screen
Film as Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a clear and engaging style, Thomas Wartenberg examines films’ ability to discuss, and even criticize ideas that have intrigued and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to...
by Steven Rybin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's...
Hedy Lamarr
The Most Beautiful Woman in Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer Fritz Mandl in Austria to try her luck in Hollywood, where...
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's The Dark Knight
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Christopher Nolan’s caped crusader trilogy—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—is considered by many to be one of the finest translations of comic book characters to the big screen. The second film in the series, The Dark Knight, was both a critical and commercial success,...
by Jeb Rosebrook, Stuart Rosebrook
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
"Junior Bonner is Jeb Rosebrook's masterpiece, subtly understated and richly rewarding. In 1972, it provided director Sam Peckinpah with a unique opportunity to return to his roots and deliver a portrayal of the modern American West. In this wonderfully written memoir, Rosebrook captures the...
Distributing Silent Film Serials
Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms. Specifically, he demonstrates that the...
Studios Before the System
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the...