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3D Cinema
Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of 3D cinema's unique visuality.
On Sunset Boulevard
The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classics as Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, and Sabrina. This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder's...
The Cinema of James Cameron
Bodies in Heroic Motion
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's engagement with the aesthetic of visual effects...
by Sean Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A concise study of the work of the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 1970s Considering the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, this book covers everything from the classic student film The Steamroller and the Violin,...
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Krzysztof Kieslowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe's most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when...
Ozu International
Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In Japan and much of Europe, Ozu is widely considered to be one of the finest film directors who ever lived. While Ozu has a strong reputation in the West, his films are not as well-known or widely appreciated in the U.S. as they are elsewhere. A notable exception to this trend is film critic Roger...
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier
A Post-Brechtian Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars von Trier identifies recurring formal elements in von Trier's oeuvre and discusses the formal complexity...
Darkness in the Bliss-Out
A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see...
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,...
Charles Urban
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent advocate...
Making Short Films, Third Edition
The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at colleges across the western world. A short film provides an opportunity for elliptical, poetic, condensed story telling. Shorts can take risks rarely seen...
Partners in Suspense
Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb...
Life Isn't Everything
Mike Nichols as Remembered by 148 of His Closest Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels.
The work of Mike Nichols pervades...
Self-Projection
The Director’s Image in Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would “resemble the person who made” them and be “even more personal” than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the...