Films, cinema Books

Italian sword and sandal burst upon worldwide screens in 1957/8 with the release of Steve Reeves’ The Labors of Hercules/Hercules. Eight years and over 300 films later, peplum, as it was termed, died out as quickly as it had begun. Author Barry...

Beginning with the release of Mario Bava's THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in 1963, Italian filmmakers developed and perfected their own peculiar brand of mystery-thriller known as the giallo. Named after the yellow (giallo in Italian) covers of the...

Mad About Movies #9 features:TARZAN: Lord of RKO; THE WHISTLER: Mystery, Shadows and Suspense on the Cheap; FRED MacMURRAY: Hollywood's Invisible Legend; Get Your Kicks on ROUTE 66; THRILLER: Season One’s Best in Crime and Suspense; A...

British author Barry Atkinson (You’re Not Old Enough Son; Indie Horrors!) plunges us into a cinematic world dominated by the atomic bomb and presents us with a buffet of delights, from the rare to the unusual. Although the classics get a deserved...

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and...

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The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the...

The "organic" is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in...

This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt and open up new research and pedagogical avenues. It is designed to help scholars and students engage...

Digital video and film technologies are transforming classrooms across the world. Teaching the Screen looks beyond the buttons and knobs to explore ways of teaching video and film effectively in secondary classrooms. More and more young people have...

In the midst of a superhero takeover with groundbreaking films bringing comic books to the big screen on an unprecedented scale, one cinematic saga would forever alter the landscape of superhero movies and Hollywood ...Batman. Superman. Wonder Woman. As...

How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries--contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that...

We all have favorite films that make us cry, inspire us, and touch our souls in wonderful but inexplicable ways. The majority of these films share a common theme: a single story of hope and love that has been told and retold in a thousand different ways,...

The Best Advice For Actors is a compilation of inspiringquotes and power thoughts to help actors learn theircraft and progress on their journey to success.

Great British Films of the 1930s, the first in a series of books based on films made by decade, includes complete cast listings, story synopses, directorial credits, running times, and photographs.  A and B pictures alike are included, as well as...

THE SHARK IS ROARING:THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE  Jaws the Revenge is known as the film that killed off the Jaws franchise. But after 35 years, what is the legacy of this much-maligned aquatic horror?  The Shark Is Roaring: The Story of...

“All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice.” - Peter LorreIn the 1940s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a...

“All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice.” - Peter LorreIn the 1940s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a...

In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in theaters, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon spawning multiple sequels, a television series, and...

Imagine you’re a young movie producer trying to jump from small pictures into the international film market. Imagine a novice German director comes to you with a lousy script and barely enough money to pick up lunch. Now imagine that, for reasons...

In his previous exposé, Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2016), former movie publicist and film critic Nat Segaloff wrote about what visiting celebrities did when they thought nobody was watching. Here, in...

Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly...

David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is, it's hard to be self-effacing when you are the...

""Concerts of Antient Music: Under the Patronage of His Majesty"" is a book written by G. Wilding and originally published in 1829. The book details a series of concerts that were organized in London during the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring music...

Infamous filmmaker Uwe Boll tells the incredible story of his life and great success as a self-made man in Uwe Boll Raw: A Memoir, his first book in English.Born in Wermelskirchen, Germany in 1965 as the son of a chemical technician, Uwe Boll hardly had...

There are movie-goers, movie fans, and movie lovers. REEL CHANGE III is for all three. For the passively curious to the die-hard deep divers, REEL CHANGE offers looks into and behind the magic of what's on the big and little screen. There...

Phyllis Coates was a Texas beauty with grace and a drive to succeed. Her introduction to show business was at seven years old when she impersonated Shirley Temple on stage. As an adult, she had to change her original name (Gypsie Ann Stell) to break into...

This biography traces Josh Binney's unusual film and stage career, which ranged from praise for his direction in Boston of the play Pinocchio to imprisonment in Montana for movie investment fraud. Particular attention is paid to his work in the 1940s for...

محفوظ النزيل في السجن، خفيف الدم، والمسجون ظلماً في جريمة لم يقترفها، يعيش داخل السجن هانئاً مرتاح البال في سعادة ونعيم لا حدود لهما؛ مستمتعاً بخيرات السجن اللامحدودة، بل والأكثر من ذلك، يغدق على أهله البسطاء من تلك الخيرات التي لا توجد إلا في السجن فقط،...

Despite their wealth, fame, and power, celebrities are ultimately just flesh and blood like all of us. Their status or accomplishments are not a magical shield of protection when it comes to death. In fact, in some cases, celebrities are more...

Dagen Efter Födelsedagen är en film om 15-åriga Felicia och hennes jakt på en sexualdebut. Felicia övertalar sin motvilliga kusin Nathalie att bistå med råd och dåd, men ett sådant företag innebär både svåra frågor och faror.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Modulabschlussarbeit ist, zu untersuchen, inwiefern psychologisch-inhaltliche sowie...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,0, Universität Siegen, Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Medienwissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Produktplatzierungen haben im internationalen...

This is the first comprehensive study of magicrealism in cinema. Cinemagic realism deserves close examination because of its extensive presence and its power to combine aesthetic sophistication with political critique. The work traces magic realism from...

This handbook on Turkish cinema tries to provide a basis for those who are interested in Turkish cinema in general and for those who wish to do research in the field of Turkish cinema. It comprises two parts, a bibliography and a study on the history of...

Vampire - bis heute faszinieren diese Archetypen erotischer Bedrängnis das Publikum. Allen voran Graf Dracula. Bram Stokers Klassiker gilt vielen Lesern als Urbild des Vampirismus. Eine Furcht einflößende Gruselgeschichte, ein schwarzer Spiegel der...

Ethnographic Film, which combines documentary filming and anthropological research, originated in the late 19th century. Early on, anthropologists used film to record cultures. Documentary filmmakers in the early 20th century developed different...

There were over six million marriages in the United States during World War II, 1.7 million in 1944 alone. Six million love stories, each unique, each special, all of them taking place against a backdrop of terrible world conflict. Because of the war,...

Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give...

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer...

Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich...

Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an English-speaking audience to a large proportion of this region's cinema that...

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.featuring all your favorite stars. Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Old school, later night Cinema,...

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.Issue 2 is bumper packed with 96 pagesfeaturing all your favorite stars. Bruce Li, Cynthia Rothrock Jackie Chan,...

Bruce Lee Game of Death (Landscape Edition)This is a revised edition of the A4 Bruce Lee Game of Death Book.The revised version has some updated colour photographs in several sections and a different layout and a higher photographic resolution The Game...

This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience's point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium...

Discover the profound lessons and impact. the beloved animated series Adventure Time on modern adolescents, exploring a wide range of ethical, emotional, and social topics with respect and depth. Dive into the series examination of morality, friendship,...