Film history, theory or criticism

Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, and ideas about race, ethnicity, and the nation during the American cinema's conversion to sound.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s.

With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson.

The Age of New Waves examines the origins of the concept of the "e;new wave"e; in 1950s France and the proliferation of new waves in world cinema over the past three decades.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound.

Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century.

Informed by the criticism of iconic filmmaker Pier Pasolini, The Cinema of Poetry offers spirited explorations of poetry's influence on classic films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrey Tarkovsky.

Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's "e;Also Sprach Zarathustra"e; in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in A Clockwork Orange, each excerpt vetted by Kubrick himself.

Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P.

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world?

Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated.

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein.

Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "e;I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things.

From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "e;religion of the cross.

The second edition of this classic study provides a reintroduction to some of the major films and theoretical considerations of film noir and gangster films in twentieth-century America.

This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels.

This book explores the retelling of the life of Moses in three 20th-century American narratives: Moses in Red, by Lincoln Steffens; Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Zora Neale Hurston; and Cecil B.

Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak.

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature.

In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E.

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema.

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema.

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documentary practices enabled by the proliferation of new digital imaging, lightweight and non-operator digital cameras, multiscreen and interactive interfaces, and web 2.

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documentary practices enabled by the proliferation of new digital imaging, lightweight and non-operator digital cameras, multiscreen and interactive interfaces, and web 2.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century.

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century.

Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics.

Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define.

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define.

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films?

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films?

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker.

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker.

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actorsAlfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "e;Actors are cattle,"e; a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since.

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actorsAlfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "e;Actors are cattle,"e; a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since.

Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors.

In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era.

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood.

Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

"e;Why don't you come up and see me sometime?

Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships between film and religion, aesthetics and ethics.