Film category: 7532 books
Cinema at the End of Empire
A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined...
CinemaTexas Notes
The Early Days of Austin Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students...
Shaft vrs. Minority Report - Blackness and Whiteness in Hollywood Film
Blackness and Whiteness in Hollywood Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Siegen (Anglistics), course: Delirious New York - Hollywood Film, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: At least since political and social considerations of...
by Joan Titus
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film New Babylon (1928-29) and the many sound scores that followed, he was situated to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate the...
by Sarah Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut für Anglistik), course: Introduction to Crime Fiction, language: English, abstract: When researching for the topic of film noir, it is inevitable to stumble upon keywords like nihilism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre
With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology...
Hermeneutics of the Film World
A Ricœurian Method for Film Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing. Many recent works in film philosophy, adopting the approach identified with the term film as philosophy, have considered film as capable of doing philosophy. Focused on the basic relationship between...
by Thomas Graham
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“This absorbing tale, documenting the forgotten history of early moviemaking in St. Augustine, is a must-read for film enthusiasts.”—Janelle Blankenship , coeditor of European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition “Very few people have any idea that St. Augustine played any role in early film...
by Frauke Schulz
Language: German
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: German
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Veranstaltung: Schlüsselfilme 1945-1960, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit zum Seminar 'Schlüsselfilm 1945-1960'...
Silent Women
Pioneers of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics.
Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working...
FILM PAST FILM FUTURE
An Enquiry into Cinema and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2011
How does film engage the imagination? By the brilliance of the film-makers' imagination, yes, but also by making the viewer strive to connect images, and to respond to all the film's elements: acting, framing, lighting, music and so on, to what's shown and to what's implied. All this is illustrated with...
by rodney cannon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2014
The Best Selling Indie film making manuals. The books On Low Budget Film Making, On, Writing A Low Budget Screenplay and On Making A Found Footage Film all in one book.
Featuring dozen of interviews with a whole new generation of micro budget film makers along
with hands...
Looking Past the Screen
Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film...
American Film Cycles
Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres," mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that film cycles are an entity...