Film category: 7532 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film is the most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history. Compiled by Wyndham Wise, the editor...
by Scott Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
For more than 100 years, the character of Sherlock Holmes has appeared in scores of films, as well as in a number of television series. For many people, the films made between 1939 and 1946, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as his companion Dr. Watson, remain the most popular. My...
Film and the City
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary...
Cinemas of the World
Film and Society from 1895 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
The cinema has been the pre-eminent popular art form of the 20th century. In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman examines the relationship between film and society in the modern world: film as entertainment medium, film as a reflection of national cultures and preoccupations, film as an instrument...
Film
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive,...
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema
Recasting Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots,...
How to Make Your Own Video or Short Film
All you need to know to make your ideas shine
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
New technologies now offer accessibility to the medium of video and film for virtually anyone who feels they have something to say. You might be: someone who wants to create a video to share online; someone who wants to record and document everyday events that happen around you; a charity worker wanting...
by Murray Leeder
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age – and some say ruined it, by ushering in the era of the slasher film. Considered a paradigm of low-budget ingenuity, its story of...
Celluloid Ceiling
Women Film Directors Breaking Through
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
An extensive overview of female film directors worldwide, showing how they are breaking through the 'Celluloid Ceiling', and succeeding in a still very male-dominated industry. The book contains exclusive interviews with women film directors, explores the impact of digital technology, and reaches...
Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations
Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
What happens to us when we 'see' a film? For the experience of what we see on screen draws as much upon the non-visual senses as it does on sight. In the first full-length analysis of the concept of embodied film theory, Paul Elliott charts the development of a 'cinema of sensations' - examining how...
Electric Pictures
A Guide to the Films, Film-Makers and Cinemas of Worthing and Shoreham
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written as part of the Worthing WOW festival celebrations, Electric Pictures commemorates 120 years of film in the Sussex coastal towns of Worthing and Shoreham, capturing the region’s rich cinematic legacy and its place in British film history.From film-making pioneers through to blockbuster films...
by Nora M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact...
Soundtrack Available
Essays on Film and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions,...