Film category: 7532 books
by Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the bookexamines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about...
The Difficulty of Difference
Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally...
Adapting philosophy
Jean Baudrillard and *The Matrix Trilogy*
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position. Where previous work in the field has presented the trilogy as a simple ‘beginner’s guide’ to philosophy,...
L'Age D'Or
A Film By Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
L’AGE D’OR (1929), the second film by Surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ, remains as shocking now as on its debut with its images of sexual mania, violence, cruelty, filth, and wanton destruction. It also stands as the first-ever film to reference the writings of the Marquis...
Framing Female Lawyers
Women on Trial in Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career...
by James Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theory in jargon-free language. The book goes on to show this theory can be deployed to interpret Leo McCarey's notorious but undervalued film My Son John,...
by Peter William Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes.
Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the...
Portuguese Film, 1930-1960
The Staging of the New State Regime
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, sponsored by the National...
Exploring Teachers in Fiction and Film
Saviors, Scapegoats and Schoolmarms
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book about teachers as characters in popular media examines what can be learned from fictional teachers for the purposes of educating real teachers. Its aim is twofold: to examine the constructed figure of the teacher in film, television and text and to apply that examination in the context of...
Reel Asian
Asian Canada on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival fosters the exchange of cultural and artistic ideals between East and West, provides...
Acting for Film and TV -The Technique-
Learn the technique of the best Hollywood actors, and all you need to do to become one of them
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Interview with Mr. Arturi talking to young people about “The Content of the Book”
Mr. Arturi: In the book you will learn the technique that I and the great Hollywood actors mentioned in the cover of my book use to create a character for a movie and much, much more.
This technique...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research...
by Robert Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Classical music plays a key role in film soundtracks, creating iconic moments and bringing classic tracks to a wide audience, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Apocalypse Now. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the history of film music, the development of different...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas
British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized,...