Film category: 7532 books
The Film Appreciation Book
The Film Course You Always Wanted to Take
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This is a book for cinephiles, pure and simple. Author and filmmaker, Jim Piper, shares his vast knowledge of film and analyzes the most striking components of the best movies ever made. From directing to cinematography, from editing and music to symbolism and plot development, The Film Appreciation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound. Written by experts on British silent film and film music, the chapters provide an introduction to diverse aspects of early film sound:...
Designs on Film
A Century of Hollywood Art Direction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high-gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat? The modernist high-rise architecture, inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead? The lavish, opulent drawing rooms of Martin Scorsese's...
by Richard Ayoade
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio 'development' exec who doesn't trust his own judgement, or the...
LIFE Film Noir
75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
By incorporating and transforming foreign influences, film noir became a uniquely American art form. Though it was overlooked at first, this powerful genre would give Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum career-defining roles, fuel Joan Crawford's middle-age comeback, and set the stage for the work...
Hearst Over Hollywood
Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
Hollywood—crossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politics—was dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda to further his own desire...
Global Art Cinema
New Theories and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian...
Notions of Genre
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand...
by Sharon Badal
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Short films have come into their own, not least in part due to the incredible new ways to distribute them, including the Web, cell phones, new festivals devoted to shorts--even television and theatres. This is the ultimate guide for anyone who's made a short film and wonders what to do next. Whether...
Writing in Light
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early...
Going to Pieces
The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
John Carpenter’s Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film’s most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot—the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and...
British Film Design
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
British Film Design' is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema. It is about Dr No's hideaway, the ballet of The Red Shoes, the buffet of Brief Encounter, Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School … and a thousand other visions of British films. Moreover, 'British...
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should...