John Libbey Publishing imprint: 35 books
Off the Planet
Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important—if often neglected—aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following...
Fort Lee
The Film Town (1904-2004)
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
During the 1910s, motion pictures came to dominate every aspect of life in the suburban New Jersey community of Fort Lee. During the nickelodeon era, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett would ferry entire acting companies across the Hudson to pose against the Palisades. Theda Bara, "Fatty"...
Scaled for Success
The Internationalisation of the Mermaid
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonisation and, more recently, through the increasing globalisation...
John Coates
The Man Who Built the Snowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
John Coates is best known as the producer of The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Wind in the Willows, Willows in Winter, and Famous Fred, and as the man behind the Beatles film Yellow Submarine. This intimate biography takes the reader on a journey through Coates’s early life, his years as an army...
The Call of the Heart
John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master; John M Stahl (1886–1950) has been stuck in it for far too long. His strong association with melodrama and the womans film is a key to this neglect; those mainstays of...
Beyond the Screen
Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America, and around the world, early filmmakers entered the domains of...
Networks of Entertainment
Early Film Distribution 1895–1915
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
This collection of essays explores the complex issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. From regional distribution networks to international marketing strategies, from the analysis of distribution catalogs to case studies on individual distributors, these essays written...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
At the start of hostilities in World War I, when the United States was still neutral, American newsreel companies and newspapers sent a new kind of journalist, the film correspondent, to Europe to record the Great War. These pioneering cameramen, accustomed to carrying the Kodaks and Graflexes of...
Garsington Revisited
The Legend of Lady Ottoline Morrell Brought Up-to-Date
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Lady Ottoline Morrell was the foremost host of the Bloomsbury set, offering sustenance and friendship to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Duncan Grant and her lover Bertrand Russell, to name but a few. This book is a revised and updated edition of the author’s original biography...
Estonian Animation
Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Ever wonder why Estonian animation features so many carrots or why cows often perform pyramids? Well, neither question is answered in Chris Robinson’s new book, Estonian Animation. Robinson’s frank, humorous, and thoroughly researched book traces the history of Estonia’s acclaimed animation...
Animation
Art and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Animation—Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts. It provides information about key individuals in the fields of both independent and experimental animation, and introduces a variety of topics...
by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini, Rob King
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the "National" is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a performance...
Art in Motion, Revised Edition
Animation Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Art in Motion is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and limited animation,...