Films, cinema Books

Recollections Of A Scene Painter is a memoir written by E.T. Harvey and published in 1916. The book provides a detailed account of Harvey's experiences as a scene painter in the theatre industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Harvey...

""Our College Boys' Songs: A Collection of the Latest and Most Popular Songs"" is a book compiled by George W. Furniss in 1887. The book contains a collection of songs that were popular among college students at the time. The songs are arranged in...

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The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1867 is a publication by Ticknor and Fields Publisher that contains a collection of articles, essays, and stories. This edition of the magazine features contributions from various renowned writers of the time, including...

Move over, Creature Features! Step aside, Elvira! Down in front, Svengoolie! You've never seen a horror host show like Creepy Koffee Movie Time!Fueled by a surf rock house band and packed with beauties, burlesque and booze, this weekly movie party was...

Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was an American star of film, television, theatre, and radio. Born in Canada, she grew up in Los Angeles and was a professional dancer. She also studied acting and was discovered in a college production by a...

Lon Davis was one lucky young film buff. Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, he was able to spend quality time with some of the celebrated residents of the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles. His great-uncle, a screenwriter and...

Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was an American star of film, television, theatre, and radio. Born in Canada, she grew up in Los Angeles and was a professional dancer. She also studied acting and was discovered in a college production by a...

Lon Davis was one lucky young film buff. Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, he was able to spend quality time with some of the celebrated residents of the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles. His great-uncle, a screenwriter and...

The porkpie hat, the slap shoes, the deadpan expression – Buster Keaton is an icon of silent era comedies, but was also a masterful technician in exploring the possibilities of film, and remains one of cinema’s most enduring stars. His early...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,0, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung) (Medien und Theater), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das deutsche Fernsehen hat in intellektuellen Kreisen einen eher...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: sehr gut - gut, Universität Basel (Institut für Medienwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Fernsehen im digitalen Zeitalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: sehr gut, Universität Basel (Institut für Medienwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Empiriepraktikum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: Sehr Gut, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der österreichische Avantgarde- und Experimentalfilm gehört seit Jahrzehnten zu den lebendigsten Kunstsparten, die es auch...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,3, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg (Theologie und Ethik), Veranstaltung: Die Erinnerungskultur im zeitgenössischen Spielfilm, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 2,0, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Institut für Medien und Kommunikation), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode" - so lautet...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: "Merit", University of Reading (German Studies), course: MA (Res), language: English, abstract: This dissertation examines two DEFA films produced in the...

Dr. Limoncelli sets out to design a summer filmmakersworkshop for high school students. She constructs the curriculumwith the idea that learning to make their own visual stories willhelp students with their critical and creative thinking skills as...

"Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer" is an auteur analysis of the twelve feature films directed (mostly written and produced) by Holland-born Australian Rolf de Heer. From the children's story about the restoration of a Tiger Moth...

This book analyses American Western films of the 1945-65 period in light of French existentialist ideas about the outsider figure. It begins by examining processes of cultural exchange between the United States and France before going on to compare...

Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children's TV around the World presents the most comprehensive study to date of gender images on children's television. Conducted in 24 countries around the world, the study employed...

Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story: The Original Screenplay includes the movie synopsis, full script, and details about the production process from inception to now. The motion picture is set in Miami in 2001. It is about a 15-year-old boy who blackmails...

With this volume, Blur truly shifts into the 21st Century, collecting into book form the best of this award-winning cartoonist's tsunami of online essays and articles from 2005-2007. Whether rhapsodizing over a masterpiece like Guillermo del Toro's Pan's...

Do you have lots of movie ideas you want to try out? If you don't know where to start, test out your story ideas here in this companion to Character and Structure: An Unholy Alliance. With the easy to follow script planner, just fill in the blanks to try...

Athena, an Australian nurse working overseas, is raped and murdered. Her father, John, must decide whether to grant clemency to her murderer, who is facing execution by beheading. Margaret, an ex-school teacher on a career change as a junior Australian...

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In...

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that...

The Student Filmmaker Survival Guide familiarizes readers with the critical concepts and processes involved in the production of a film or television show. The handbook helps budding filmmakers better understand the operations of a film set, develop...

One of the Best Hollywood Directors Nobody KnowsIf you have seen The Towering Inferno, King Kong or The Death on the Nile, you are familiar with the directorial work of John Guillermin. But there are many other thoughtful gems...

The Young Screenwriter's Guide" is an introduction to screenwriting basics, designed to engage and educate young readers. The guide covers important topics such as the three-act structure, script elements, the Hero's Journey, and other key concepts in a...

Banacek was a critically acclaimed and popular with audiences TV series that ran from 1972 to 1974 on NBC television.  There were seventeen episodes, including a two-hour pilot.This book includes all seventeen telefilms in the series, including the...

John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew...

 Louis Hayward, Marine Corps Captain, Academy Award-winning director, and star on Broadway and in motion pictures, is best-known today for The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), but he appeared in dozens of films and stage roles, and he won other major...

"Hank was privy to it all and tells all with wit and insight." - - Eva Marie Saint Read the one-of-a-kind autobiography of the producer of Dangerous Liaisons, Hooper, The Great Gatsby, and assistant director of Kismet, Jailhouse Rock, Raintree County,...

Beverly Washburn was one of Hollywood's most familiar child actors during the 1950s and '60s, a consummate performer who excelled at both comedy and drama with equal ease. Renowned for her uncanny ability to cry on cue, she appeared in countless...

It's time the New horror elite had their say...Freddy? Jason? Michael Myers? Please! Since the waning days of the 20th century, a renegade band of directors have renounced the cartoon trappings of recent horror flicks and reclaimed the genre for a new...

Artisan, entrepreneur, and impresario, British filmmaker Ridley Scott accepts the profit motive as the only way to thrive in an industry where there is little patience for artistic flourishes or overblown expenses. Yet, while he may pay lip service to...

Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with...

A NEW KINETIC ART: This book presents a new approach to the conceptual basis of all visual art, and while it is about making movies -- the catch-all for video, film, computer graphics and anything else that may appear to move -- the thrust of this book...

This book celebrates the importance and influence of Daughters of the Dust and positions it within the discourses of Black Feminism, Womanism, the LA Rebellion, New Black Cinema, Great Migration, The Black Arts tradition, Oral History, African...

Men on the Screen articulates various different types of masculinities, arguing that Spanish cinema is a reflection of the great changes experienced by Spanish society during these years.

This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry,...