Films, cinema

Der Band "Film.

Now fully updated by Des Lyver to reflect the latest advances, the second edition of Basics of Video Lighting is a primer for anyone wishing to learn about lighting a video production.

Told in six parts, Things I Didnt Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and formsragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-pill-induced-consciousness.

Whether we stream them on our laptops, enjoy them in theatres or slide them into DVD players to watch on our TVs, movies are part of what it means to be socially connected in the twenty-first century.

Theodore Dreiser's dissection of the American dream, An American Tragedy, was hailed as the greatest novel of its generation.

For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre.

"e;No mere page-turner, this is a page-devourer, generating the kind of suspense that is usually the province of the playwright or novelist.

After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States.

With its rich political and literary history, Dublin is a sought after destination for cinematographers who have made use of the city's urban streetscapes and lush pastoral settings in many memorable films - among them Braveheart, The Italian Job and the 2006 musical drama Once.

A view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film.

Featuring the first extensive Hanna-Barbera discography ever published and over 140 photos and illustrations!

This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema.

Mapping out a diverse journey through documentary distribution, this book is a comprehensive global how-to reference guide, providing insights into the landscape of documentary distribution; targeting the right audiences to expand the reach of your documentary; and building a sustainable career.

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy faade, exposing the citys ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder.

Covering significant historical and cultural moments, public figures and celebrities, art and entertainment, and technology that influenced life during the decade, this book documents the 1950s through the lens of popular culture.

Conventional wisdom holds that John F.

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 Amantes, and Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon, and such actors as Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas.

Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examining the principles of media for the stage in a manner that is accessible for both beginning designers and advanced designers dabbling in projections for the first time.

Audiences never have a lukewarm opinion of a Subiela film.

The 1930s represented the strongest and most significant decade in Clark Gable's career.

From ancient Greek actors to all-male Elizabethan casts to the drag queens of today, cross-dressing performers have been around for nearly as long as live performance itself.

Maurice, James Ivory's 1987 adaptation of the E.

In diesem Buch wird Michael Hanekes Darstellung der Medien-Gewalt kontrastiert mit dem Werk anderer international anerkannter Filmemacher, die, so wie er, die Fernseh-Medien und das Video als zentrales, die Erzählung vorantreibendes Element, in ihren Filmen verwenden.

The history of Greek cinema is a rather obscure and unexamined affair.

The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery explores some of the key trends and films in the development of the road movie in Brazil.

Kaum ein filmisches Genre boomt in den letzten Jahren so sehr wie die Serie.

Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves.

Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface of 'Salo' (a controversial and scandalous film made in 1975), Gary Indiana argues that there's a deeply penetrating account of human behaviour which resonates as an account of fascism and as a picture of the corporate world we live in.

Film can be a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural practice through which acts and activism are performed.

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy.

Putting readers into the shoes of film and TV professionals, Adventures in the Lives of Others is a gripping insider's account of ethics, problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television.

With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das Cabinet des Dr.

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties.

This book explores representations of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Hindi films, in the socio-political context and in terms of how young audiences in India and the UK construct them.

Film theory: an introduction offers a highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students.

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons?

With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (19132001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day.

The camera's capacity to organize space within a frame produces the fundamental unit of movie making: the shot.

What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster?

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America.

Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "e;ableist"e; ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative.

Black Mirror is hands down the most relevant program of our time, if for no other reason than how often it can make you wonder if we re all living in an episode of it.

This volume will be a 'time capsule' of the first 10 years of Studies in Documentary Film (2007-2016), tracing not only the development of the journal but also of documentary studies in the same period.

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred.

Sarah Thomas's study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career and star persona.

Am I Trans Enough?

When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors.

Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others.