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This guide to Spanish film documents the film industry's interpretation of the isolating effects of the cultural traditionalism of the early twentieth century to the expanding international popularity of such films as Trueba's Belle Epoque, Aranda's...

This new book catalogues some 215 prominent film directors from both countries, giving accurate bio-filmographies and providing an in-depth reference source. Full attention is given to the propaganda cinema under dictators Franco and Salazar, to...

More than forty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains a symbol of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a popular culture icon. His legacy has impacted American popular culture beyond the scope of American film history. His image graces buttons,...

Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics, and other popular media together with what the public...

William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill...

This is the most definitive survey yet of Alice Faye's unique career in film, recording, broadcasting, and on stage. An annotated bibliography of book, magazine, and newspaper sources covers her life and career from 1933 through 1989. This volume also...

Quart here extends her previous writings on what she terms `the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking. Quart addresses American, Western European, and Eastern European directors, closing with Third World examples. Arguing...

In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass of flesh; the process of teleportation has turned it...

Basic Lighting Worktext for Film and Video guides the film and video student through a series of readings, exercises and projects designed to provide the fundamentals of light science. In addition to up-to-date descriptions of equipment and tips on how...

This manual introduces digital camerawork techniques used in television and video production. Written as a practical guide, the author's step-by-step instructions take you through everything you need to know, from camera controls, to editing, lighting...

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering...

Seventy years after Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City made its dazzling appearance, Neorealism continues to be the best-known and most beloved genre in Italian film history. Through frames, documents, publicity materials, texts, original...

Breaking Bad is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably closer to...

This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears...

This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology's investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933149059Author Eric SpitznagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 234g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764229Author Jacob NeiiendamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move seamlessly from commercial hits such as Out of Sight (1998) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486248Author Anthony PetkovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486743Author Nicanor LoretiFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 406g

Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical film, made in Georgia, is the best known film of the perestroika and glasnost years. With its outspoken and controversial reference to the Stalin era and Stalin's place in the Soviet psyche, 'Repentance' was originally...

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates there. This...

The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic...

Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our...

Hollywood has a complex relationship with local markets around the world. This critical yet accessible overview of Hollywood's local presence investigates the dynamic between the studios' film entertainment divisions and individual media markets -...

Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film's central character, it follows Leonard's chaotic and visceral quest to discover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210862Author Femi Okiremuete ShakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509545254Author David BuckinghamFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The 20th century was a time of rapid expansion in media industries, as well as of accelerating demands for equality and recognition for women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474441117Author Craig Ian MannFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an innovative exploration of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural logic.Book...

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s.About the AuthorSusan Cannon Harris is...

The American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri.About the AuthorJennifer J. Smith is an Assistant Professor...

Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York', Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Climates' and John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses', this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema...

This book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity and networks of protest.Book InformationISBN 9781474423410Author Matthew HoltmeierFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh...

Examines the history of early cinema in Scotland from its inception in 1896 until the 1930sThe popularity of cinema and cinema-going in Scotland was exceptional. By 1929 Glasgow had 127 cinemas, and by 1939 it claimed more cinema seats per capita than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474416399Author Lucy BoltonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher...

Considers the technological, economic and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industry.Book InformationISBN 9781474451086Author Mark McKennaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University...

Rachel Ritterbusch's Practical Approaches to Teaching Film is a collection of essays focusing on the use of film in settings ranging from an introductory film class to an upper-division Women's Studies course. Drawing on their experience in the...