History & Criticism

Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in...

Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in...

First published in 2002, Marek Haltof's seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe's most distinguished-yet unjustly neglected-film cultures. Since then, seismic...

This book deals with the seldom-written topic featuring depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions of recent years. It especially covers wartime depictions, as well as the historical events that inspire the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660192Author Christoph LindnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 237mm *...

Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mama tambien. Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854891211Author Huw BeynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram Press

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject...

Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has ever reached. Yet despite dominating theater screens...

Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys...

The Anarchy of the Imagination colects the most important interviews, essays, and working notes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the most influential cultural figures to emerge from postwar Germany. Whether reflecting on his won work oir writing about...

Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" who were jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Finding himself blacklisted after his prison sentence and unable to...

These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun,...

Places Taiwanese cinema from the 1980s onwards in both national and transnational contexts. In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between art house and commercially viable films is heavily emphasised by both scholars and the local media. This...

Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been as closely involved in so many aspects of the film business, as Graham Greene. His experience included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. And twenty years before he wrote the scripts...

Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early...

Few media franchises can match The Matrix for enthusiasm of reception and subsequent proliferation. Who in 1999 could have imagined that the momentum of a single film would sustain two more major theatrical releases in a single year, a collection of nine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156309356Author EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street Books

Honorable mention, 2017 Best Monograph Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their...

This book tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation of filmmakers who made personal movies targeted primarily to a thirty-and-under youth audience. These filmmakers reinvented the content...

Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text is written in an informal style and includes anecdotes...

Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom, and the representation of race and ethnicity.Includes...

What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society's fear of the...

In 2002, director Richard Linklater and a crew began filming the "Untitled 12-Year Project." He cast four actors (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelei Linklater) in the role of a family and filmed them each year over the next dozen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764861Author Graeme HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library AssociationBeginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809775Author Godfrey CheshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocohontas to the Asian American Russell boy in Up, from...

Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long? Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364314Author Jacob LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm...

Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, two women...

This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films that identify his key themes and techniques, trace...

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based...

All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstrates, fundamentally miscontrues what are rich,...

In 2018, the critical and financial success of Crazy Rich Asians ignited new fires in Hollywood to create and back Asian-centric stories. Since then, the number of movies featuring Asian Americans, either in front or behind the camera, has boomed and...

A fat guy with a deep voice who drank a lot of sherry? An unreliable film-maker who always went over time and over budget? One of the most innovative storytellers of the century? He was all of this and more. Welles shocked Broadway with his all-black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804051Author Walter WangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever-we just can't see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307716798Author Shawn LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674435Author Caroline BainbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm...