Films, cinema Books

Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in...

Back in the era of black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies, "we didn't have special effects, or the money for 'em," says Peter Graves, one of the genre's most popular stars. "But in those days, an unlimited amount of money wouldn't have gotten us...

Although much has been written about the 1950s cult film The Searchers, Alan LeMay, the author of the novel upon which the movie is based, has received little attention. This welcome biography tells the engaging story of the career freelance writer...

Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, probably thousands; the best of these ribticklers make their merry way through theater, circus, film and television. The challenge to comedians has always been to...

Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the...

Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, several of them featuring such genre stars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr...

Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of...

Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld...

The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Several examine Meyer's emphasis on abstinence, considering how, why, and if the author's...

From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie...

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and...

Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's...

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film" per se. This book is especially timely, then, in...

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized...

Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area. Production...

From two distinguished academics, this book includes contributions from top scholars such as Richard Dyer, and brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema across the world.

Creator of the GoFaSt Model, author Greg Takoudes introduces a comprehensive study of the structural models of screenwriting and provides readers with an adaptive framework for writing successful scripts.With a new approach which reframes discussions and...

Taking essential media production processes, this book deconstructs them into the most basic components. Students will learn the concepts of media production - frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing - and be able to apply them to any medium...

Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking, an ideal book for the rapidly growing number of low-budget filmmakers, provides how-to information on the day-to-day techniques of actual low-budget production. Containing construction details describing how to replicate...

Shelley Cobb explores film adaptations directed by women (often working with women screenwriters, producers, and sometimes editors) that foreground the figure of the female author. Through analysis of the films themselves, and their reception and...

Masculinity and Film Performance is a lively and engaging study of the complex relationship between masculinity and performance on and off screen, focusing on the performance of "male angst" in American film and popular culture during the 1990s and 2000s...

This volume contains a set of stateoftheart essays by younger philosophers on various topics in the philosophy of action. Some of the essays are about the metaphysics of action and agency; some consider the nature of autonomy and free agency; some...

Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.Hired...

Born Robert Preston Meservey in the suburbs of Boston in 1918, Preston moved with his family to Los Angeles as a toddler. He caught the acting bug in high school and continued as an actor with a Shakespearean acting troupe and at the Pasadena Playhouse...

SAVING DISNEY DREAMSWhen Walt Disney took up residence in California, he did some of his first animation work in his uncle Robert's ramshackle garage. He soon moved to better quarters, the garage left behind, forgotten.Until, six decades later, Disney...

The Goofy Life of a Disney LegendDisney Legend Pinto Colvig, best known as the voice of Goofy, wrote a book in the 1940s primarily about his years working for Walt at the Disney Studio. The book was packed away and forgotten, until now. You've never read...

Cinema is one of the most influential forms of human culture. It has the power to unite people from all over the world and plays a major role in shaping our understanding of our society. World cinema is vast and diverse. It encompasses films from...

Ever wondered how those dazzling visuals and immersive stories come to life on the big screen? Brace yourself for a glimpse behind the curtain, where cutting-edge technology weaves its magic into the heart of film production. Get ready to explore the...

Zdjęcia ze szklanymi kulami dla początkujących, profesjonalistów i ciekawskich amatorów. Pola fotografii nie mogłyby być większe. Nie ma granic dla wyobraźni i myśli, tak jak nie ma granic dla kreatywności. Naturalne jest więc, że co...

1932 verschwindet Arnold plötzlich und erwacht im Jahr 2020. Jane nimmt sich seiner an, doch ihre Versuche, zu helfen, enden im Chaos. Nach absurd-komischen Verfolgungsjagden zieht er bei Konstantin ein, einem Frauenhelden und anarchistischen Künstler...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Parallelen zu alten Sagen lassen sich nicht nur in japanischen Verfilmungen, sondern auch in Manga-...

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Film Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, language: English, abstract: For new writers, an understanding of story structure is essential. Yet, today, this is almost impossible due to the enormous variety of...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Märchenfilme wurden in der bisherigen filmwissenschaftlichen Forschung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit wird sich mit den Formen des Fetischismus im film noir beschäftigen. Nach einer...

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Tubingen (Anglistik), course: Freak Culture - The Spectacle and the Gaze, language: English, abstract: Since the early...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Hispanistik, Note: 2,0, Universität Mannheim (Romanisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Balada triste de trompeta ist eine "exorcización de los monstruos del pasado". Dies sind die Worte...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Trauma und Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Filmkritik wird...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Theater- und Medienwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Proseminar Autoren und Genre, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, Concordia University Montreal, language: English, abstract: At the outset of this paper, I will examine the development of the film's aesthetic form, its...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen (Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zunächst bleibt der zentrale Begriff der hier vorliegenden...

In this book, the film historian Paul Sutton has assembled and preserved a fascinating international collection of hundreds of James Dean clippings that span eight decades and three continents, to illustrate the contemporary and continuing responses to...

"What is 'good' dialogue? Ask the question of a writer, reader, movie-goer or television binge-watcher, and you'll get a bunch of different responses. Good dialogue is quotable. Rapid-fire. Character-defining. Or even as one of my friends says: 'Good...