Published to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Erich Maria Remarque this is an account of the making of …
In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as “America’s sweetheart,” and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but …
The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book …
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This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters.Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies …
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's "Lost Highway", based on …
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, Film Art has been …
This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World …
This book is a study of the 'Great Movies', that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities - …
An accomplished young scientist solves one of the greatest mysteries of evolution: What caused the dramatic explosion of life half …
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film …
Uses primary documents from the annals of Art in Cinema, one of this country's most influential film societies, to reveal …
One of the twentieth century's most important filmmakers-indeed one of its most important and influential artists-Ingmar Bergman and his films …
How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of …
In this revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine …
With a career stretching from the chaos of war-torn Japan to the current power and prosperity of his country, the …
Film scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this new edition of Donald Richie's incomparable study, last updated in 1984. The introduction …
Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through …
This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how …
The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on …
The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film …
Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essaysin Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the …
Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western …
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences …
Inspiring biographies of women who make movies. With the success of Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman and the rise of the …
Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised …
This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy …
Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the …
Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international …
Through a detailed analysis of the films of Straub and Huillet, the works they adapted, and Objectivist poems and essays, …
