Film history, theory or criticism Books

SECONDE EDITION : Index corrigé.Dans son histoire des Cahiers du cinéma parue en 1991, Antoine de Baecque constatait, à propos du mac-mahonisme : "une littérature sûrement trop pauvre par rapport à l'influence du groupe". Depuis trente ans, cette carence...

From the author of Films of the New French Extremity, The 1990 Teen Horror Cycle, and co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast: a collection of essays where West seamlessly blends the genres of the personal essay and film criticism, examining gender...

In 1984, a new vision of horror was unleashed upon terrified moviegoers-a razor-gloved bogeyman who slashed his way through the children of those who had murdered him years before. In doing so, this cinematic monster would not just invade the dreams of...

This book proposes an in-depth inquiry of five films (Bread and Chocolate, A Pain in the Ass, Queen of Hearts, The Mediterranean Forever, and Raging Bull), which deal with the Italian reality outside of Italy. The segment-by-segment examination of these...

A Year In The County: Threshold Tales is an exploration of the edgelands, borderlands and liminal places in film; of the places whether literal, in the mind, cultural or amongst the paranormal realm where the boundaries between worlds, ways of life, the...

For a brief period in the mid-1960s, the whole world went spy crazy. From Sri Lanka to Poland, from the US to India, cinemas were filled with the exploits of suave secret agents, glamorous femmes fatales and increasingly demented villains. The symbols...

International film actor Christopher Lee details his childhood, war years, friendships with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Robert Bloch and Boris Karloff, and, of course, his varied and interesting film career. Mr. Lee first published his autobiography in...

THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI By Jeremy Mark Robinson Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ’Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in...

In her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late 1940s, through being a director celebrated at the Cannes festival (Cléo de 5 à 7, 1962), to her...

Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Carroll...

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case...

This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films. Some chapters focus on Hindi films, but others bring insights from films made in other...

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation...

Like true love, Bigfoot doesn't really exist, but that hasn't stopped hordes of people from looking for him, trying to capture him on film, and, worst of all, making terrible movies about him. Now Mr. Satanism, the greatest genre movie critic in the...

This is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Veranstaltung: Seminar Dark Ages - Zukunftsvisionen im Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, wie...

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection brings together scholars working on literature, film, and photography with the aim of showcasing new research in a burgeoning field...

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s. It also explores underlying cultural dominants within the new nation, established at the end of 1949 with the...

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and...

This book examines the economic circumstances in which films were produced, distributed, exhibited, and consumed during the spoken era of film production until 1970. The periodisation covers the years between the onset of sound and the demise of the...

This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years 1956/57. It traces the mixed messages of this internationally visible act of cultural diplomacy in the middle of the...

How do James Bond's X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear? Is it really possible to launch oneself into the air and catch up with a plane that is free-falling towards...

In the late 1800s, a scientist working for Thomas Alva Edison invented an easy-to-use motion picture camera. Soon, people all over the world were using similar cameras to shoot “actuality” films, or films of people engaged in everyday...

APPLESEEDMASAMUNE SHIROWTHE MANGA AND THE ANIMEby Jeremy Mark RobinsonColor EditionThis is a study of the Appleseed manga by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), and the adaptations of Appleseed in animation. Shirow is a...

From Liz Taylor to Queen Latifah, a provocative examination of the afterlife of Cleopatra in popular culture

Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata. At the same time, film production has engendered new religious practices and has altered existing ones, from the cult...

Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was the first movie critic for the Nation (1927-33) as well as one of America's first full-time professional film critics. He was known during his lifetime for his prescience as he stood up for the future of sound cinema in...

The book focuses on the history and evolution of the national and transnational cinema from Iceland. The author analyses popular topics and narrative strategies in Icelandic films. The research covers local versions of black comedies, road movies, crime...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Medienpädagogik, Note: 2,1, Evangelische Hochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe, Veranstaltung: Medienpädagogik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll sich im Rahmen einer Filmanalyse...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Theaterwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist der Film THE HATEFUL 8 von Quentin Tarantino (USA 2015), der in...

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Art - Photography and Film, grade: 1, University of Kent, language: English, abstract: The thesis investigates the reasons and motivations behind our emotional and affective responses to the animated...

Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In...

How many times have you said, the book was better? And how many times was that actually true?            The cinema of the fantastic has benefitted from literary adaptations on a level unlike any other genre. With...

Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies...

"Author Garry Berman gives readers a history lesson in comparing and overlapping the mediums of radio artists and film comedies during the decade of the 1930s. In doing so, he has not only created a new format, he has brought in fresh perspectives of the...

“The Cannon Film Guide is the greatest book anyone could ever write about the greatest movie studio that ever was. And is.”—Mike McPadden, author of Teen Movie Hell and Heavy Metal Movies The Cannon Film Guide Volume I explores...

Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military...

La Circe (1804) ����� un poema epico scritto da Giovanni Battista Gelli. Il libro racconta la storia di Ulisse, l'eroe greco che cerca di tornare a casa dopo la guerra di Troia. Durante il suo viaggio, Ulisse si imbatte nella maga Circe, che lo trasforma...

Le livre ""Revue Du Lyonnais V3: Recueil Historique Et Litteraire (1867)"" publi����� par Savy Publisher est un recueil historique et litt�����raire de la r�����gion lyonnaise. Il s'agit du troisi�����me volume de la s�����rie ""Revue Du Lyonnais"". Le...

Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business...