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  • The Major Film Theories

    An Introduction

    Series series Galaxy Books
    Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Slow Fade to Black

    by Thomas Cripps ...
    Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Concepts in Film Theory

    Concepts in Film Theory is a continuation of Dudley Andrew's classic, The Major Film Theories. In writing now about contemporary theory, Andrew focuses on the key concepts in film study -- perception, representation, signification, narrative structure, adaptation, evaluation, identification, figuration, and interpretation. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the current state of film theory, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • William Desmond Taylor

    A Dossier

    by Bruce Long ...
    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was a leading silent film director remembered as the victim of Hollywood's most sensational unsolved murder, which shook the nation and shattered the reputations of several top Hollywood stars. Until now, Taylor's film career and leadership role in the Hollywood film industry have been completely overshadowed by the scandal of his death. By ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Strains of Utopia

    Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music

    by Caryl Flinn ...
    When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Classical Hollywood Narrative

    The Paradigm Wars

    Edited by Jane M. Gaines ...
    Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm—the concept of classical Hollywood cinema—that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by neatly answering all of the enigmas it raises. It has been held to be a form so powerful that its aesthetic devices reinforce gender positions in society. In a variety of ways, the essays collected here ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Brink of Reality

    New Canadian Documentary Film and Video

    by Peter Steven ...
    In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so thoroughly, or provided as broad a view of the state of the art in the 1990s. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters

    Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films

    by Per Schelde ...
    Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The popular appeal of these characters is undeniable, but what is the meaning of this generation of creatures? What is the relationship of mad scientist ... Read more

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  • The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies

    Now in Paperback! Early in 1971, Five Fingers of Death premiered in a New York movie theater. This was America's first look at a Chinese martial arts movie. In Chicago that same year, Duel of the Iron Fist debuted. With the release of Bruce Lee's films, the market exploded. And thus began America's love affair with what is one of the most misunderstood and maligned film genres.The Encyclopedia ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Tales from the Casting Couch

    An Unprecedented Candid Collection of Stories, Essays, and Anecdotes by and about Legendary Hollywood Stars, Starlets, and Wanna-Bes

    In Hollywood, securing a coveted role in a big-budget film or landing a part in a prestigious feature sometimes doesn' t come down to who or what you know— but how far you' re willing to go. Tales from the Casting Couch is an anthology of little-known stories and anecdotes about actual casting sessions that propelled then-unknown actors to fame or established stars who secured themselves second ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skin Shows

    Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

    In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Candyman, Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • From Mouse to Mermaid

    The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture

    A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children’s classics as well as the Disney affiliates’ more recent attempts to capture adult ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violent Screen

    “Bestselling novelist and Baltimore Sun movie critic Stephen Hunter (Dirty White Boys) writes well and vividly about movies, which is reason enough to consider picking up this anthology of his reviews and essays, dating back to 1982. A self-professed gun enthusiast, Hunter seems particularly well attuned to the outlaw attitudes so prevalent in the post-Tarantino period of cinema we're currently ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cultures of Vision

    Images, Media, and the Imaginary

    by Ron Burnett ...
    "This is a very strong, thought-provoking [volume] . . . " —George MarcusAs home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images.Visit the author's World Wide Web site: (2/19/03: Link is no longer active)http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/burnett ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • David Lean

    A Biography

    The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Third Eye

    Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle

    Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of the ethnographic camera back onto itself, bringing the perspective of a third eye to bear on the invention ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • World War II Film and History

    The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films--including antiwar films--have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences the dominant image of trench warfare in World War I has been provided ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ministry of Illusion

    Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife

    German cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Entertaining the Third Reich

    Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema

    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. Like other Nazi artistic productions, Nazi film has long been regarded as kitsch rather than art, and therefore unworthy of critical textual analysis. By reading these ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Allegories of Contamination

    Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and theoretical study of these films and the Marxist filmmaker's complex, original concept of the cinematic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Best of Universal

    by Tony Thomas ...
    The fascinating story of Universal Studios from its beginning in 1912 to the present day. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Speed of Sound

    Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930

    by Scott Eyman ...
    From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself.Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine

    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film and images. Placing Deleuze’s two books on cinema—The Movement-Image and The Time-Image—in the context of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Refiguring Spain

    Cinema/Media/Representation

    Edited by Marsha Kinder ...
    In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain’s national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation, gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain’s peaceful political ... Read more

    $22.99 USD