Film category: 7532 books
Reform Cinema in Iran
Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers...
International Politics and Film
Space, Vision, Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes—borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant others—the...
Every Night the Trees Disappear
Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in filming Heart of Glass. Now the mystery is clarified. Alan Greenberg peers into the heart of darkness of the great artist." -Roger Ebert Mesmerizing . . . as poetic and mysterious as the film itself.”-Jim Jarmusch This...
From the Third Eye
The Evergreen Review Film Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In this first collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication's important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring such legendary writers as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents writing on the films...
The Film Buff's Bucket List
The 50 Movies of the 2000s to See Before You Die
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
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Best movies, best films, best indies: Theaters around the world are dominated by comic book heroes, ice princesses, apocalyptic love-struck teens, and whatever masterpiece Pixar is rolling out. It’s clear that cinema is as healthy as ever. Oscar-worthy...
Shock Value
How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven ted Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre.
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin...
Film and the Working Class
The Feature Film in British and American Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film....
Britain's Forgotten Film Factory
The Story of Isleworth Studios
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation and ending with its Oscar-winning swansong, The African Queen, in the intervening years it was one of the most technically advanced...
Double-Takes
Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found a doubly successful life...
Keepers
The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a Moviegoing Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies
Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has written almost forty books on the subject,...
The Last Laugh
Strange Humors of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. In...
The Encyclopedia of British Film
Fourth edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2014
World Film Locations: Los Angeles is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. Brief but concise reviews of 50 carefully chosen film scenes explore how motion...
Kurosawa
Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s...