Beginning Film Studies: Second Edition - Dix Andrew
The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies. -- .
Nalezeno 145 nabídek. (Zobrazuji 31 – )
The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies. -- .
Make sense of the world of cinema Want to pull back the curtain on film? This hands-on, friendly guide unravels the complexities of film and helps you put cinema into a...
Examines the multi-layered construction of film couples as a characteristic of Philippine stardom and cinema.
Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and television productions between 1994 and 2021
Examines the use of cinematography and mise en scne in contemporary Indonesian cinema.
A comprehensive history of the financing of British film production from the emergence of the industry until the end of the Second World War.
By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that Andre Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of...
Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran - Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi Takes an industrial approach to women’s documentary practices in Iran since the late 1990s with a...
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality - Juan A. Suarez Often described as an art of abstraction and subjective introspection, experimental film is also invested in exploring...
" Italian cinema experienced its peak of domestic and international popularity in the years between the 'economic miracle' of the late 1950s and the social and political turmoil...
The Money Behind the Screen maps the changing landscape of film finance in Britain during a transformative period for the film industry. It is the first book to document the...
This book argues that the intensive-image constitutes an important cinematic category that prompts a rethinking of Deleuze's taxonomy of images in his Cinema 1: The...
This monograph examines the figure of Ricardo Darn, the leading actor that drives Argentine cinema's box office success. It aims to fill a lacuna both in Hispanic and Anglophone...
The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated...
Geraldine Chaplin is the most distinguished actor among Charlie Chaplin's children. Through her collaborations with major international film directors, she has created a...
"Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch's thinking on art, goodness and existentialism Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated...
Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations by the internationally renowned production designer Hans Bacher, Sketchbook - Composition Studies for Film is a...
Australian International Pictures (1946 - 75) - Adrian Danks, Constantine Verevis Australian International Pictures examines the concept and definition of Australian film in...
"The primetime US television show Columbo was a global hit. As it reaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2021, it remains a cult favourite with fans. Analysis of Columbo reveals...
A study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books. The authors address the philosopher's readers who have neither understood why he has given film so much...
Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions and their complex...
Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and contemporary popular culture....
Argues that Kafkaesque cinema is a critical category that can enable us to consider the interconnections between historical events, politics and aesthetics in films across the...
The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has left a deep mark on the history of twentieth-century. His ghostly presence still looms large over China's new...
"This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender...
Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema - not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis - but as...
Examining films by Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and Sofia Coppola to highlight their use of cinematic time as a mode of philosophical thought, this book brings new and exciting...
Freak Scenes explores the increased licensing of indie music and representation of indie music cultures within American independent cinema since the 1980s. Indie music has,...
By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, MiklĂłs Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on Impossible Puzzle Films looks into the relation between complex storytelling and...
This fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production...