Film history, theory or criticism Books

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...

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...

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.

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic...

This title was first published in 1997:  This is the definitive English translation of the new Russian Civil Code (Parts 1 and 2), often referred to as "the second Russian Constitution". The Civil Code of the Russian Federation is the result of a...

Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise...

During the last two decades Spain has undergone an unprecedented transformation from being a country of emigrants to receiving a significant number of migrants from all around the world. This book focuses on the analysis of documentaries and fiction...

Das Moderne Musikdrama (1884) ist ein Buch des deutschen Musikwissenschaftlers Ludwig Nohl. In diesem Werk untersucht Nohl die Entstehung und Entwicklung des modernen Musikdramas, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Werke von Richard Wagner. Er beschreibt...

Das Buch ""Die Musikalischen Zeitschriften Seit Ihrer Entstehung Bis Zur Gegenwart"" aus dem Jahr 1884 wurde von Wilhelm Freystatter verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der Geschichte der musikalischen Zeitschriften seit ihrer...

In 2017 Japan celebrates 100 years of anime. 1917 indeed saw the first Japanese animated movies being released in Tokyo cinemas, reflecting years of imports of Western animated movies and knowledge. Yet even earlier local printed animation, inspired by...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend von einer raumzeitlichen Kartographie des fiktiven Windens und einer Betrachtung des Zeitreise-Modells, welches in...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, Note: 1,8, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Umweltverschmutzung, Klimawandel, Hungerkatastrophen, Massenflucht - das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Debatte um die ästhetische Chirurgie ist komplex und kann aus sehr unterschiedlichen Perspektiven...

Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You're familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown...

How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of discovery for subjects and audiences. This process, the act of documenting, exploring, and reflecting on our reality in all its created...

Skinner's Dress Suit is a novel written by Henry Irving Dodge and published in 1916. The story revolves around the character of Otis Skinner, a successful businessman who is invited to a high society party. Skinner, who is not accustomed to such events,...

Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a...

Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine 'Other' worlds that challenge...

First there was THE LAST COLORING BOOK, then THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT (not a sequel but an equal); groundbreaking collections that exploded the coloring book form and reconfigured it as a venue for film study and autobiography. Now, Jimmy...

Run, Holly, Run! is the funny, but harrowing true story of former child actress Kathy Coleman—who starred in the hit 1970s show "Land of the Lost." Kathy grew up fatherless in Southern California in the 1960s as the last child in a family...

This is a choice collection of 150 movie reviews of classic and contemporary timeless movies by international syndicated film critic Susan Granger. It includes films from the earliest days to today, from the Russian film, Battleship Potemkin (1925) and...

As the building blocks of moving pictures, photographs have played an integral role in cinema since the dawn of the medium-a relationship that has grown more complexly connected even as the underlying technologies continue to evolve. Moving Frames...

"Matt Pais deserves four stars for reintroducing us to many of the greatly talented but often unsung heroes of 1990s film. This is a terrific read."-RICHARD ROEPER"Even if you're drowning in pop culture nostalgia, Pais' book is a fun, insightful and...

WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU!  With British cinema at its lowest ebb--audience levels dwindling, attacks from censors and authorities, cuts in funding--could this once-proud area of the entertainment business be saved? ​"Dead or Alive" is...

William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's Golden Age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards, twelve nominations for his direction, and five nominations...

Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fearedited by Steffen Hantkewith essays by Stacey Abbott, Michael Arnzen, Blair Davis, David Scott Diffrient, Richard J. Hand, James Kendrick, Claire Sisco King, K. A. Laity, Jay McRoy, Lorena Russell, Philip L...

Listen to the accolades Laura has received:"I wouldn't buy a book by Laura Wagner if it was the last book on earth or if it was given to me free. This woman is a looney psycho who needs to get a grip on life or come down out of the clouds and start...

Introduction by Ingrid Pitt / 6Kind Comments for Uncle ForryInterviews Afterword by Iron Dave / 166Interviews: Modern Mythmakers author Michael McCarty / 10Artist Frank Dietz / 15Multi-Media artist and Forry's ''best pal'' Joe Moe / 18Michael Mallory -...

Film -- BiographyIn this collection of interviews, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James...

"Clothes make the man" (or woman). This is especially true in early Hollywood silent films where a character's appearance could show an immense number of different things about them. For example, Theda Bara's role in A Fool There Was (1915) was known...

Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with...

Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were...

"Egyptomania," the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry...

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

The Tennessee Historical Magazine V4 (1918) is a publication by the Tennessee Historical Society that provides a comprehensive look at the history of Tennessee. This book is a collection of articles and essays written by various historians and scholars...

"Erudite, passionate, and thorough"- Guillermo del Toro "Tim is the most eloquent and well-researched critic out there... Truly an essential - the pinnacle of his profession"- Gary Tooze, DVD Beaver As editor and chief critic of Video Watchdog...

Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who...

This is the first book on experimental cinemas of Latin American and Spain to offer a comprehensive look at old and new technologies, including Super 8, VHS, cell phones, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and more. From the militant films of the...

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous...

This book offers a pioneering critical history of Brazilian science fiction (SF) cinema, from its first appearances in the mid-twentieth century to the present. Though frequently overlooked by scholars, SF cinema from the Global South has reinvigorated...

Think you know zombies? Supervillain-cum-film critic Mr. Satanism plumbs the depths of this over-saturated genre, with over 100 brutally honest reviews of undead obscurities you never knew existed, including, er, gems like Dorm of the Dead (2006);...

Dragons? Wizards? Hobbits? Supervillain-cum-movie critic Mr. Satanism has had enough of all this magic and wonder, so he's back to take the piss out of fantasy films once and for all. Be they Arabian adventures, Arthurian fantasies, or...

Urdu language and narration, dialogues and songs used in hindi or bollywood films have given Indian films such a place that even today when people listen to these songs, they cannot remain without enjoyment. This book presents an interesting research and...

Urdu is a language that originated in India and has had a profound impact on every sphere of life. It is the charm of the sweetness and simplicity of this language that even those who are unfamiliar with this language are attached to it. A proof of this...

There are different ways to educate people. Of all of them, the film is unanimously recognized as the most influential. Acting or characterization is the name of this art, through which the emotions and feelings of different people are expressed. Like...

"Bioscope" (Read as 'Baascop' in Balochi language) by Author Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi is a unique book on the subject of cinema in Urdu, through which a discussion on films and their themes has been initiated. An attempt has been made to discuss various themes...