Film category: 7532 books
Film After Film
(Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema’s most...
Dark Energy
Hitchcock's Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinema. He entered the film industry in 1920, and by 1925, he had directed his first feature-length film,...
An Army of Phantoms
American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment).
An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman....
Hollywood on Lake Michigan
100+ Years of Chicago and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today’s blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking. Among the Windy City’s unique honors in this history are the development...
Giant
Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology.
Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism,...
Pretty
Film and the Decorative Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, treating simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as the more provocative, political, and truly cinematic choice. Cinema may challenge traditional ideas of art, but its opposition to the decorative represents a long-standing Western aesthetic bias against...
A Cinema of Poetry
Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation...
by Luke Dormehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
From Nanook of the North to Exit Through the Gift Shop, an overview of nonfiction film history from the early pioneers to the directors dominating the field todayAs one of the most fascinating areas of filmmaking, documentaries have broken down societal taboos, changed legislation, strengthened and...
by D. Kulezic-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without music.
Get Started in Film Making
The Definitive Film Makers Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Make a Great Short Film is a jargon-free, straightforward guide for all budding film makers. Covering every aspect of making a film, from scriptwriting, casting and cameras to lighting, financing, filming and editing, this is the most comprehensive, user-friendly guide on the market.
This new...
by Howard Suber
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book...
American Horror Film
The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production,...
Flashbacks in Film
Memory & History
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The flashback is a crucial moment in a film narrative, one that captures the cinematic expression of memory, and history. This author’s wide-ranging account of this single device reveals it to be an important way of creating cinematic meaning.
Taking as her subject all of film history, the...
Inside the Film Factory
New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital...