Film category: 7532 books
by Michel Chion
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives...
Music in the Horror Film
Listening to Fear
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film frequently...
The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen
Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial...
Magical Musical Tour
Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Winner of the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association's 2016 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in the category of Film/Television
The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached songs that may...
Celluloid Symphonies
Texts and Contexts in Film Music History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music—Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Howard Shore—and outlines...
by William Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
What is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.
Dancing with Hollywood
The inside story of how New Zealand movies became world-famous
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In the not-so-distant past, hardly anyone had heard of New Zealand, let alone its films. But today there has been a seismic shift. New Zealand film-makers and their films are now winning acclaim in Hollywood and with audiences around the world. Some earn huge global box office returns. Others are...
Film Noir
From Berlin to Sin City
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart,...
by Dudley Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
André Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. The journal that he founded in 1951, Cahiers du Cinéma, remains the most influential...
by James Roots
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
From the moment films were first produced, comedy has been a key feature of cinema. From just before the turn of the twentieth century until the early 1930s, audiences celebrated the brilliant humor of cinematic clowns who left their marks forever. We still remember—and laugh at—the hilarious...
by James Roots
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The silent film era featured some of the most revered names of on-screen comic performance, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Laurel & Hardy. Besides these giants of cinema, however, there are other silent era performers—both leading actors and supporting...
How Not to Make a Short Film
Secrets from a Sundance Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?
Wrong.
Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short...
Pittsburgh Film History
On Set in the Steel City
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Pittsburgh has been part of the film industry since the days of silent film. Yet, it was not until the 1951 classic Angels in the Outfield�set at Forbes Field�that the Steel City had its first major role on the silver screen. Greater Pittsburgh�s film and television industry has since produced...
The Silence of the Lambs
Critical Essays on a Cannibal, Clarice, and a Nice Chianti
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
One of only three films to-date to win Academy Awards in all five major categories, The Silence of the Lambs marked a sea change in horror films when it debuted, shifting the genre from teen slasher fare of the 1970s to the sophisticated psychological horror that characterizes acclaimed films today....